Statement of Process

First thing I did was read the library books. When I am finish with the reading part, I write my ten genres, glossary, reflection, Bibliography, and the statement of process. I acomplish the post by looking back at the books for information.

Bibliography

Morin,Isobel V. Our Changing Constitution. Connecticut: The Millbrook Press Brookfield,1998.

Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. The Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution. New York: Franklin Watts A Divisionof Grolier Publishing,1999.

Newman,Roger K. The Constitution and Its Amendments. New York: MacMillan Reference USA,1999.

Lawson,Don. The Changing Face of the Constitution. New York: Franklin Watts,1979.

Feinberg, Barbara Silberdick. The Articles of Confederation The First Constitution of the United States. Connecticut: Twenty-First Century Books A Division of the Millbrook Press,Inc.,2002.

Collier,Christopher and Collier,James L. Creating the Constitution. New York: Benchmark Books,1999.

Morris, Richard B. The Constitution. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company,1904.

Callahan, Kerry P. the Articles of Confederation. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group,Inc.,2003.

Bjornlund,Lydia. The U.S. Constitution Blueprint for Democracy. California: Lucent Books,Inc.,1999.

Weidner,Daniel. Creating the Constitution The People and Events that fromed the Nation. New Jersey: Enslow Publishers,Inc., 2002.

Hamilton,John. The constitution Government in Action!. Minnesota: ABDO Publishing Company,2005.

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Reflection

This project was fine. I had a little help with this project. It had a hard time with the poem. I like what they did with the country back then. I did the research with mostly books. I learned that the Constitution had more than thirteen members from the thirteen colonies but fifty seven members in the Constitution. I started the project with an essay. I didn't use the internet for information but for images.

Maps in 18th century

This is the map of the 13 colonies who ratify the Constitution. The Constitution was voted by the delegates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Then it was ratified by the 11 states. The Constitution is made out of three parts called the Preamble, the seven articles and the amendments.

The Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was ratify by the original 11 colonies.
Because of that reason, we are gratify with the outcome.

The Constitution protects the rights and freedom of its people.
It also provides separation of powers for checks and balances.

It continues to remain flexible and strong.
It continues to grow and last long.

Character Profile

After winning independence from England, the colonists created a central government. They wrote a document called the Article of Confederation. This Article of Confederation created a weak government and not functional. States have more power and the national government has little power even as to handle the basis needs to run a government properly. In this document, states can charged taxes from the sale from other colonies. States makes its own money and do not really want the "continental dollar", the printed dollar of the national government. No one is paying the national army. Trades between states became very complicated transaction.

For these reasons, colonial leaders came together again to fix the problem. They eventually wrote the United States Constitution. The Constitution was designed to make all states work together. It explains how one national government can unite the states. The Constitution contains the country's basic laws. It guides the people in running the country. It protects the rights and freedom of the people. This Constitution defines the United States as we know today and has become the model for the government around the world. It survives more than two hundred years.

Descriptive paragraph

After the 13 colonies won its independence from England, this new nation need a new strong government. The first Constitution was weak and did not work well. The state government had power and the Confederation government had little power that barely handle the basic things that a government needs to do. For example a group of army officers was angry and not getting paid a salary because Congress did not pay them for their services.

The 13 states ignored many of the laws that the confederation government passed. State charged on things for sale from another state.Each state makes its continental dollars printed by the nation government. Trades between states become very complicated and difficult. A group of political leaders sent to the convention to fix the Article of Confederation.

The delegates gathered in Philadelphia. They met secretly in the Independence hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. In February 1787, James Madison plan introduce the Virginia plan for the new government. In May, George Washington arrived. Then James Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman and other Delegates.

As the Constitution convention started the delegates chose George Washington to preside. One of the main problem of this government was how to Balance power between big states and little states. After so much debate,the delegates accepted an agreement called the Great Compromise.Congress would have two houses the Senate and the House Representative.

Another problem that needs solving was how slaves should be counted. This was settled by three-fifths compromise. The number of representatives of each state would be based on a count of all free people plus three-fifths of the slaves.

Finally on September 17, the convention finished its job. Most of the delegates signed the new Constitution, but few refused it. Those who supported the Constitution were called the Federalist and those who do not support were called Anti-Federalist. After almost a year of debate, eleven states ratified the Constitution. This Constitution became the law of the land.