John Jay
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Lesson Plans:
The
Preamble to the Constitution: How do you make a more perfect union?
- Before 1789, the young nation had been ruled by the Articles of
Confederation, written in 1781 in reaction to years of British rule.
By 1787, however, it was clear that a more perfect Union was required;
while protecting the independence of member states, the Articles of
Confederation did not describe the powers of a federal chief executive
or a judicial system. The creation of our Constitution and present
form of government was informed by these and other considerations
that arose during the years of the Confederation.
Constitution
Lesson Plans - This Web site provides a lesson plan and material
from a variety of electronic CQ Press sources to help instructors
and students observe Constitution Day. CQ Press resources include
primary sources, pro/con debates on important constitutional issues,
encyclopedia articles on the Constitution, expert commentary and analysis
by CQ writers, and more. In addition, this site provides links to
additional free sources available on the Web and links to CQ Press
books and online collections related to the Constitution.
Primary Source Documents:
The
Papers of John Jay - The Papers of John Jay is an image database
and indexing tool comprising some 13,000 documents (more than 30,000
page images) scanned chiefly from photocopies of original documents.
Most of the source material was assembled by Columbia University's
John Jay publication project staff during the 1960s and 1970s under
the direction of the late Professor Richard B. Morris.
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