Asap! 50 points 2. does it matter that the founding fathers did not have the legal authority to tear up the articles of confederation and start over? how do illegitimate acts become legitimate? simply through the passage of time? or is there something else?

its as simple as overtime laws will change and new stuff happens

Yes,I think that it does matter.If they diddn't have permission and they were supposed to then they did something eligal

Proponents> americans who believed in manifest destiny wanted to admit texas to the union> supporters viewed the texas revolution in the spirit of the american revolution> southerners supported annexation b/c texas allowed slavery and its admission would boost south's political power-opponents> americans were concerned that the us would have to bear the substantial texas debt> northerners opposed annexation b/c it would spread slavery westward and increase slave states voting power in congress> a major argument in the congress was that the constitution said nothing about admitting an independent nation