47 pages 1 hour read

Heidi Schreck

What the Constitution Means to Me

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

1.

What does the Constitution mean to you? What does it represent symbolically and literally? What are three ways that the Constitution affects you on a personal level and why?

2.

Choose a contentious social issue, such as abortion rights, the death penalty, student loan debt, healthcare costs, etc. Structure a debate in which you argue both sides. For each side, find a statement, amendment, or clause in the Constitution that you think can be used to support that stance and why.

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Should the United States write and adopt a new positive-rights Constitution? Why or why not? What are three positive rights that you would include if you were a framer and why?