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The Writing of the Constitution
Title: The Writing of the Constitution
Category: History
Details: Words: 562 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Writing of the Constitution
The Writing of the Constitution
A constitution is the legal structure of our political system, establishing governmental bodies , determining how their members are selected , and prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions .
The nation’s founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to write a new constitution and to form a new government. George Washington was elected chairman of the convention.The founders were all very well-educated. Over half the …showed first 75 words of 562 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 562 total…of both houses of Congress followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states. In my opinion , two of the most important amendments to the constitution are the Fifteenth Amendment(1870): the right to vote shall not be denied because of race, and the Nineteenth Amendment (1920): the right to vote shall not be denied because of sex.
In the future , the constitution will continue to be changed and modified , hopefully for the good of the American People.
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