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Ratification of the Constitution. Adam Lewandowski Nancy Thomas. Ratification. The students will examine the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists over ratification of the Constitution Chosen because: Defining moment in American History
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Ratification of the Constitution Adam Lewandowski Nancy Thomas
Ratification • The students will examine the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists over ratification of the Constitution • Chosen because: • Defining moment in American History • Sets a blueprint for sovereignty in a federalist system-blueprint open to succeeding generations • Relevant to today-we still argue this • The concepts as well as the writing skills impact the rest of the year. • To create informed, involved citizens
Lesson Plan Overview • Students previously covered the Constitutional Convention, the US Constitution, and the arguments over ratification. • This activity will be a warm up for a Document-Based Question (DBQ) essay on ratifying the Constitution.
Activity for Lesson Plan • Students will work in pairs, one document each. • Determine main point, then teach the other member. • Collaboratively answer the sourcing, close reading, contextualizing, and corroborating questions. • Each group answers one of the questions from above categories.
Primary Source One • Federalist Paper #72 • Author – Alexander Hamilton • Published in the New York Packet • March 1788 • http://www.conservativetruth.org/library/fed72.html With a positive duration of considerable extent, I connect the circumstance of re-eligibility. The first is necessary to give to the officer himself the inclination and the resolution to act his part well, and to the community time and leisure to observe the tendency of his measures, and thence to form an experimental estimate of their merits. The last is necessary to enable the people, when they see reason to approve of his conduct, to continue him in his station, in order to prolong the utility of his talents and virtues, and to secure to the government the advantage of permanency in a wise system of administration.
Primary Source Two • Mercy Otis Warren writing as “a Columbian Patriot” • Excerpt from Observations on the New Constitution 1788 • http://www.meguerianpages.us/Honors%20U.S.%20I%20Files/Unit%205%20(Constitution)%20Materials/Mercy%20Otis%20Warren%20opposes%20Constitution.pdf
Sourcing • Who is the author and what was his or her motive for writing the document? • Where did the source first appear? What was going on during this time period that made them write these documents?
Close Reading • What does each text say about term limits or rotation in office? How do you know? • What message is each author trying to get across to the reader? How do you know? • What tone does each author take and why?
Contextualizing • What events preceded the publication of these two documents? • Who was the specific audience or is there more than one? • What political climate did these two documents find themselves in? • What is at stake?
Corroborating • Where do the texts agree with each other? Where do they disagree? • What viewpoint does each document reflect? • What specific factual information not found in the documents, and from the time period, corroborates the point of view taken in each document?
Assessment • Formative Assessment • Pairs report out answers • Observe discussion • Summative Assessment • Constitution Ratification Document Based Question Essay • This is a take home assignment.
