Constitutional Compromise
Travel back in time to the writing of the U.S. Constitution and see how the compromises from our founding fathers could have gone differently.
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Constitutional Compromise challenges your students to find a way forward for a young nation as disagreements mount. They will engage in the ideas discussed at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and discover the compromises made by the 55 delegates.
Your students will hear from delegates as they cast their vision for the future of the United States, balance the interests of a diverse set of states, and navigate the interests of delegates who envision vastly different roles for the new government. In Constitutional Compromise, your students will:
Experience the main historical debates of the Constitutional Convention
Identify points from each side of a debate to build a compromise
Discover the modern relevance of each compromise and how they compare to historical outcomes
Not all compromises are (or were) the ideal outcomes. While based on real debates and historical arguments, Constitutional Compromise is not a historical reenactment. In the end, your students will discover what really happened in Philadelphia in 1787.
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