ConstitutioneElisavg11

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

In class, I learned about the Constitution. While learning about it I realized that there are a lot of similarites to writing the constitution as there are to a projecft that I worked on in class. For this project we had to think of laws we would have if we landed on another planet. When I was planning the laws, I noticed that some actions that the representatives used to plan the constituion are similar but also different to the ones me and three other people used to plan our laws. All of the rules that my group and I thought of, took some thought and we didn't just write things that didn't make sense down, just like the representatives wrote the constituion. I also noticed that when we were making the laws for our planet that they were not random laws that had nothing to do with anybody or their property, for example neither of us made a law that said something crazy like, no trees are aloud to fall over, that is an example of a random law that nobody can help. We also had different laws in different catigories, like there were laws under justice, peace, freedom, etc. There are many other things that I noticed we had similar to the constitution and how it was written but it was also different. The way the constituion was written was different from the way that we wrote laws in some ways also. States voted for the representatives they wanted to have write the Constituion, while my group and I picked each other to work with. When the Constituion was written all of the representatives did not participate and not all of them put in their ideas, while in my group we all participated and presented our ideas and voted on which ones we liked the best. when we put the laws for our planet together, we didn't think as much of whether we would have a strong and powerful government, like the writers of the constiution had to because we were the only people on the planet and we didn't have to worry about other countries in the world having a more powerful government than us. When we thought of our rules we had expected that everyone must follow the rules we didn't think of what we would do if anyone broke the laws we had made, the representatives thought of this when writing the constiution. There are similarities to the actual rules that the constitution made and the laws that we made. A law that my group and I came up with is that all food and water must be divide evenly among the settlement.