Objective:
Warm-up:
- How does our nation protect the common welfare while protecting natural rights? Should more importance be placed upon one or the other? Explain your answer.
- In a republican form of government, should representatives vote their consciences or the will of those they represent? Should they ever compromise? Why or why not?
- Does a written constitution ensure that government works for the good of people of the people? Why or why not?
- Were individual rights more secure under the Articles than they were under British rule? Why or why not?
- What ideas of the Declaration are reflected in the Constitution and Bill of Rights? Explain your answer.
- To what extent did the early state governments stay true to or move away from the principles of the Declaration of Independence? Support your answer.