Time Capsule Constitution Revised

Time Capsule Update
Svitak, Adora

For our class assigment we are going to be learning about the Constitution. As a preliminary assigment, we're going to be summarizing everything we know about constitutions and our Constitution. I know some of the history behind the Constitution's beginnings from our previous lessons. One impressive guest at the Constitutional Convention was Benjamin Franklin (much weather-beaten at this time). His diplomatic counterpart, John Adams, was away at the time. Amendments to the Constitution have been made over time, to allow things such as voting rights for women and African-Americans. The Constitution continues to be an influential ruling force in the way we act today. "Unconstitutional" is a common news term, meaning that something does not follow the Constitution, and is used especially frequently in political debates. I think (making my best guess, not something that we learned in class) that there are constitutions, or similarly formed documents, in other democratically governed countries but not all countries of the world. I would guess that our Constitution is modeled after British documents stating laws, since most of our founding fathers came from Britain, but I can't name a specific British document. Admittedly, I know little about the Constitution. This gives us all the more reason to launch ahead with our Constitution project.