What does our constitution accomplish

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Assignment:

For this assignment, I would like you to answer each question below basing your answers on your reading and understanding of the Constitutional Text. There is no word count associated with this assignment, but in your answers for each question prove what you are saying with support from the text of the document.

1) What does our Constitution accomplish? What does its preamble announce as its objectives? Does any of its original provisions reveal an inconsistency with those aspirations?

2) How does the Constitution address the balance of power between the national government and the states?

3) How does the Constitution seek to protect the rights of individuals against the power of government?

4) How can constitutional change be accomplished?

5) Where would you find ambiguity in the language of the Constitution? Please identify at least one example. What terms in the Constitution create the greatest interpretive challenge?

6) What surprised you as you read the Constitution? What would you identify as the most significant changes in the document since its ratification?

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