BE PREPARED…Grab a papers from the tableTake out your HW (Section 3 Vocabulary)

Be ready to read the question on the next slide…

HOMEWORK TASK # 2 (GET IT DONE!) Chapter 7 Test (Tues.) – HELP SESSION THURS.

7:30AM Bill of Rights notes

Would you like to sign your name to the piece of

paper?

Effective today, 1/14/14…I will be able to use my cell phone during social

studies class.If so…come up and

sign it!

Why did you decide to sign or not sign the statement?

What does it mean that you signed or didn’t sign it?

Signing is a statement of your belief. It is a willingness to take a stand and risk your reputation.

When the delegates of the 1787 Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution, they were taking a stand and risking their own reputations.

Citizens today do the same thing when they sign a petition.

September 17, 1787 was the final day of the Constitutional

Convention, when 39 of the remaining men present in Philadelphia

chose to sign the document. Signing put their reputations

on the line. Their signatures gave weight to the document,

but it was the subsequent ratification contest that reallymattered.

The Constitution

has been signed

#PhillyBenStop

Tweeting Ben!

When was the last time you successfully changed anyone’s

mind about anything?Or even gotten a small group of people to agree on what movie to see?

Now try to imagine this. Fifty-five men getting together in Philadelphia one muggy summer in

1787, trying to create a nation. Now imagine that most of them were lawyers. Well, that’s what

it was like. And it would take 3 ½ months of quarreling and compromise. But somehow those

men managed to hammer out the framework for our nation’s Constitution. Pretty soon there

were some basic questions in the room about the very things they had fought so hard for.

Freedom and power. It wasn’t so long ago that colonists had won their freedom from the king

of England. So no one was in a hurry to hand over too much power to any government, even

their own. And wouldn’t a stronger central government mean weaker individual states?

Ultimately, those 55 delegates came up with a brilliant compromise. A balance between federal

power and states’ rights that still hangs delicately today. And as for how the government should

actually be set up, well, they settled on the remarkable idea of dividing it into three branches.

The legislative, executive, and the judiciary. When it was all over, these men forged a

document that defined a country, complete with built-in checks and balances designed to

keep everyone honest.But the document wasn’t perfect. For all its promise of freedom and

justice, it includedcompromises, like slavery, that would take years, even bloodshed, to

resolve. Some criticsfelt it also overlooked some crucial fundamental rights. The first 10

amendments, called theBill of Rights, took care of that. However imperfect the document, it

begins with three perfectwords. “We, the People.”

For over 200 years, presidents, lawyers, senators, judges, politicians, and protestors have been

examining the “We” in “We, the People.” Pulling at it, trying to get it to expand or contract, and

in doing so, shaping the character of our nation.

Read

along

The Preamble (Introduction) to the Constitution

Refer to pages 223-236 in your textbook. This is a copy of the Original Constitution.

After The Preamble (introduction) how many Articles does it contain?

Article VIIThe Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, the Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty second and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the second Page. Attest William Jackson Secretarydone in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names,…

Just because you signed the statement about being able to use cell phones during social studies class, doesn’t make it true.

There must be a process of ratification.

According to Article VII, how many states needed to vote in favor of ratification?

By signing, the delegates were deciding whether or not they believed the

Constitution shouldbe ratified by the people.

On the back of the Class Copy is a fictional

conversationbetween (Federalist) John Jay and (Anti-Federalist)

Elbridge GerryWhat is the strongest reason John Jay gave for signing the Constitution?

What is the strongest reason Elbridge Gerry gave for not signing the Constitution?

Which delegate do you agree with? Why?

There’s really no winner in the debate. If the Federalists hadn’t

prevailed, wewouldn’t have a Constitution.

But if the Anti-Federalists hadn’t dissented, the Constitutionwouldn’t have had a Bill of

Rights.

The Bill of Rights (added to The Constitution)

1. Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, & Petition

2. Right to Bear Arms 3. No Lodging of Troops in Private Homes 4. Search and Seizure 5. Rights of the Accused 6. Right to Speedy Trial by Jury 7. Jury Trial in Civil Cases 8. No Excessive Bail or Cruel/Unusual Punishment 9. Powers Reserved to the People 10. Powers Reserved to the State

Preamble

Articles (1. – 7.)

Amendments (1st ten = Bill of Rights)

Structure of The Constitution

Read pages 215-218 and complete the sheet.