This activity is part of Module 3: Road to the Convention from the Constitution 101 Curriculum.
How did the post-independence experience of governing—of actually being in charge—influence the Founding generation and shape the U.S. Constitution? One way of framing this question is as follows: How did we get from the Declaration of Independence (and the American Revolution) to the U.S. Constitution?
- What changed?
- What remained the same?
- And how did this experience—and the debates of the period—shape the push to create a new national government in just a little over a decade?
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