Wednesday September 12th 2012

Yesterday, (September 11th) we discussed the preamble in class. we sat in groups like always and did a similar activity to what we did with the civic values. We went around to each line of the preamble and wrote about it. We wrote things like what it means to us and how we think its either working or not working in the US today. My favorite line in the preamble is "Secure the blessings of our liberty, to ourselves and our posterity" Posterity means "future generations" so its saying that we have to be thinking of our children and theirs because someday they will be living like we are today, but only if we "secure the blessings of our liberty" like it says. It was interesting to really look at what the Preamble was saying.

Today in class we were in groups again but we were separated by what article we had on the paper we were handed as we entered the class. My group was me, Sarah G, Camille, and Jess S. We were discussing an article on whether we should have one or two houses. There were three peoples opinions in the article. two said we should have two houses and one person said we should only have one. William Patterson said there should only be one house because the states already check up on each other so why do they need more supervision? James Wilson said that we should have two because "in order to control the Legislative authority, you must divide it" George Mason also said that we should have two houses because as people in the US we value our possessions and liberty so much that we never would trust just one house with it and we need two houses to look over it. It was sort of difficult to pick out what they were really saying sometimes, but once you understood, the proved some good points.