Jacquie's+Constitution

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When you here the word __Constitution__ what is the first thing you think of? When I hear that word, I think of freedom. Why? Well, because without the constitution we wouldn't have freedom. If we didn't have the Constitution then right now we would probably have a king ruling over us and bossing us around. Anyways, in class we had to pretend we landed on a planet with no rules or anything. So our groups had to make a bunch of rules for our new homes. My group had some differences and many similarities to the Constitution.=====

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One way my group is similar to the constutuion is that more than one person made the rules. Not just one leader made the laws, because that if one person made the laws it would not be fair. I like this procedure better because if only person made the rules they would only make it by their expectations and not the people who would have to live with it everyday. Anyways, the constitution was created by a group of men which were actually just ordinary farmers. Also, the group who made the rules for the planet were just ordinary school students.=====

I noticed that while my group was making the rules for our planet it didn't take long at all. In fact it only took about 2 days. But when researching about the constitution I realized that it took the delegates about 4 months to make the Constitution, which isn't a long time at all but is A LOT longer compared to how long it took my group to write our rules. If my group had 4 months to write our rules i think that they would be better and more prepared.

Our rules and the Constitution rules are nearly the same. We both made our countries free and independent. One rule of the Constitution is that you can speak freely about anyone. This is because the Bill of Rights protects Free Speech. Now Bill of Rights was passed because some people were afraid that the government would have too much power. They were afraid that some important things could be made illegal. They wanted to be sure to keep those things legal. This is sort of like one of my groups rules which is "you can talk about the leader in anyway you want but you cannot harm he or she." These laws are alike because they both give you the freedom to talk about the government in a bad or good way. This is a good law because if you are against a law or somthing then you have the right to speak up.

Another way our rules and the constitution are the same is that we both disabled slavery. In the constituition they did not have a law against slavery but the north wanted it to end. So when President Lincoln was elected, all the people from the south moved and made there own country called Confederate States of America. The USA did not agree that the states of the CSA could break away, so this is when the Civil War started. The USA won and slavery ended. With the 13th Amendment, slavery was made illegal. The 14th Amendment said that every person born in the United States was a full citizen. Even former slaves were full citizens. The 15th Amendment made sure that black people could vote. This is kind of like the rules in my group too. We had all agreed on having no slavery and we also committed that everyone has to stay in the country and cannot break it off and make it their own. This works out because as in the past they had a civil war about people moving and slavery. That was was very bad and many people died. So we wanted to make sure that was under control.

Now that we have discussed about the Constitution and my group rules, you see how they are alike and different. I think rules are very important in a country, state, town or even buildings because without rules there would be disasters everywhere. For example, say you went to a grocery store without any rules. People would probably steal things, bring there pets in, smoke inside, or maybe even rob the place. Imagine that. Look at how rules can save a peoples life, or someones job. This is why the Constitution is very important and this is why we are also free,