Due Wednesday. Pretend that you are James Madison, the father of the Constitution. You have just written a publication entitled the Federalist Papers in order to get states and Americans to approve and ratify the Constitution. Create an advertisement in order persuade everyone to support the Constitution. Consider the process of Checks and Balances and how no branch amongst the three is more powerful than the other. Explain about the Bill of Rights. You can do this in the form of a cartoon, comic, or a persuasive essay.
See below:
Image of a man holding newspaper with the headline, CONSTITUTION TODAY
Within the newspaper is this blurb:
Are you afraid of a tyrant that will make you pay expensive taxes? Worried that the federal government is too weak to squash rebellions from unruly citizens like Daniel Shay? Angry that the Articles of Confederation would not be strong enough?
Fear not! The NEW U.S. Constitution is what we need. Here is why
a) THREE Branches of government (Judicial, Executive, and Legislative) and NOT ONE branch. They are all equal and 'check' each other. Therefore, if we happen to have a tyrant as a leader, the other Branches will impeach him. WE also vote for who will be in 2 of the branches.
b) We have a Bill of Rights!! Our rights of liberty are guaranteed to us as well as other rights that are mentioned (right to a trial, jury of peers, right to bear arms, etc)....
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