Sunday, October 16, 2011

Preamble of the US Constitution Extra Credit

We have taken a closer look this past week at the US Constitution's Preamble.  There are 6 "goals" that our founding fathers wanted to ensure for the future.  Take a look at each one and explain what they mean.   I am NOT looking for synonyms.  I am looking for what it means or examples (think about that sort activity we did in class last week.)  You must use complete sentences for credit.  NO LAST NAMES!  5 points for each goal answered correctly.  So that is a maximum of 30 pts. extra credit.  Reminder that I am closing my grade book on FRIDAY, October 21st at midnight!

28 comments:

  1. We the people of the United States: it means when every one comes to gether and isent being mean.
    To form a more perfect union: means that we shouldnt be mean. Means that we should be respectful.
    Establish Justice: means to put the bad people in jail.
    Domestic Tranquility: means to to be peaceful and not be ing mean to other people.
    Provide for Common Defence: to have someone or something to protect you.
    General Welfare: to have money to buy something you need. Ex clothes, food, transportation, and shelter.

    Jon G.
    P7

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  2. We the people of the United States: The people in the United States come together.
    To form a more perfect union: To be nice with every one.
    Establish Justice: To bring the truth to order.
    To Insure Domestic Tranquility: To be respectful to the public.
    Provide for the Common Defence: To be protected well.
    To Promote the General Welfare: To have Money for things why need to have like the army, housing, food, and tranportation.
    And to Secure the Blessings of our Liberty and our Posterity: To protect our happiness of our freedom and our Future.

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  3. We the people of the United States means:All the people of the United States of America no matter what color, religion, race, gender or wealth.

    To form a more perfect union means: To have a perfect country no unfair treatment of anybody.

    Establish justice means: To have all offenders and rule breakers caught and given the Menander rights and a trial jail or punishment if convicted guilty.

    Domestic tranquility means to have a peaceful country and states were no one is judged or classified.

    Provide for Common Defense means have a army ready in case of a attack or of and invasion.

    General Welfare to have a good economy and have money for our own country.

    Alex R
    P7

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  4. to form a more perfect union: make a better government
    Establish justice: make true statements
    to insure domestic traquility: to make sure common peace
    provide for common defense: give for public security
    to promote the general welfare:encourage normal defense
    and to secure the blesings of our liberty and our posterity: make the gifts of our freedom and our future

    Hannah W.

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  5. @Jon G. Good work. Welfare does not always mean money! You needed complete sentences to earn the full 30 points. 25 points.

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  6. @Tristan- Good work, but again, welfare does not just mean money- but you were closer to the right idea! You need to use complete sentences for full credit. 26 points!

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  7. Alex R- Really great start. You did not finish though :( Again, welfare does not equal money. Minus the complete sentences, you did great work. 22 points

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  8. @Hannah- Your "general welfare" does not make sense. You need to slow down and follow directions (Complete sentences!)18 pts.

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  9. We the people mean that everyone as a whole agrees to this.
    In order to form a more perfect union means that the colonist want to make a better country than England.
    Establish justice means that we want to make the country fair for everyone.
    Ensure domestic tranquility means that we want to be kind to everyone.
    Provide for the common defense means that we want to make a great army to avoid enemies.
    To promote general well-fair means to make the country a happy place to live.

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  10. We the people means to come together.
    To form a more perfect union means to develope and improve in our government.
    Establish justice means to make rules fair and punish the bad people.
    Domestic tranquility means to be respectful of others and make peace.
    Provide common defence means to have protection and to be safe.
    General welfare means to have money, and to make sure we are healthy and make things better.
    that is what i think it is.

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  11. I like Tristin's idea of that and Alex cause they both make scence to me and they both have different meanings of that.

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  12. We the people of the United States means when everyone comes together and agrees on the same ideas. To form a more perfect union means that we shouldn't be mean to each other. We need to be respectful. To establish justice means that people who do something wrong should be in jail.
    Domestic tranquility means to to be peaceful and not be mean to other people. To provide for common defense means to have someone or something to protect you and keep you safe. General welfare means to have money to buy something you need. It also means to make things better and make sure we healthy.

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  13. Last comment was from me, Remy 6th hour

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  14. @Dan- Nice work. Could use some work on your sentence structure though :) 25 points

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  15. @Rhyse- NO CREDIT- NO LAST NAMES. Redo please!

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  16. @Marciano- Well done! Much better with your sentence structure (except for the last line). 27 points!

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  17. @Remy- Great Job! You are getting much better at this! Keep it up! 29 points

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  18. The first one is we the people of the usa.
    It means the citiaens that live in the usa agree on an idea that they all think is right.
    to form a more perfect union means that the people wanted a better world to live. a better government. Establish justice means to make thing fair have fair trials. and arrest the peopple who commit crimes. promote general welfare means to fix the things that are broken. and to have money so we can buy things we NEED for ours and others health.
    provide for the common defense means to have an army protection. isure domestic tranquillty means to have peace at home. and to sucure the blessings of our self and poseterity means to have freedom. to ordaint and establish this constitution for the usa is like saying signing there names. and a few are not in order i forgot the placing of maybe like 2 or 3 are siwchted.

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  19. "We the people of the United States" means everybody that lives here is a part of the county. "In order to form a more perfect union" means to create a country of the people, by the people, and for the people.

    "To establish justice" means to create our own laws and enforce compliance with these laws.

    To "insure domestic tranquility" means to provide an environment within the borders of our country that is safe.

    To "provide for the common defence" means to provide an army for the Country to protect us from foreign enemies.

    To "promote the general welfare" means to create an environment where people can achieve unlimited health, happiness, prosperity, and well-being.

    To "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" means to protect freedom for now and future citizens.

    "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America" means to create and authorize our rules and rights.
    Aidan P7

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  20. -To Establish Justice means to have fair trials and laws
    -To insure domestic tranquility means to keep the community peaceful
    -To provide for the common defence means to protect our country, example:army/navy
    -To promote the general welfare means to make our country healthy and ffair and wealthy
    -To secure the blessings of ourselves and our posterity means to protect the people now and the next generations
    -And Do ordain and establish this constitution for the USA means to make our rights legal.
    Shealyn P 7

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  21. we the people: when we all come together
    perfect union:create a country made for us
    esablish justice:to make things fair for us
    domestic tranquility: to make it peaceful for were we live
    common defense: to protect us from enemies
    general wellfare:to keep us healthy and strong
    secure blessings: to give us independance and to our posterity

    Rhyse D
    P7

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  22. @Emily- Nice work. Please use complete sentences and capital letters next time. 20 points

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  23. @Aiden- AWESOME! I wish you would do more of this DURING CLASS! Keep it up! 30 points

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  24. @Shealyn- Not bad. I think you could use better sentence structure like Aiden's. Otherwise, good work. 25 points

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  25. @Rhyse- What happened to that sentence structure and capital letters? I think you know you can do a bit better! Overall, the concepts are there. 20 points

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  26. We the people of the United States: means all of the citizens of the united states.
    In order to form a more perfect union: We have to come together and tell each other our problems.
    Establish Justice: there has to be a balance between justice and freedom.
    Domestic tranquility: means to talk peacefully because tranquility means peaceful.
    Provide for the common defense: means we have to protect our country from our intruders.
    To secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity: Means we have to keep our country safe and secure.

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  27. @Dakota- I think you have a strong understanding! Nice work 28 pts.

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  28. We the people of the united states means: all of the people that live in the united states
    In order to for a more perfect union means: all of us together trying to form a perfect union
    Establish justice: to send the people who have disruped the peace to justice
    Domestic tranqility: make sure the people stay tranquil
    Provide common defence: to be able to bare arms
    To sucure the blessing to ourself and our prosparity:to keep us and out contry safe

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