Classroom Post 2

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

For the past two days, we learned about the different branches in our government and how they interact with each other. On Monday, we read three different plans for the Executive Branch by Edmund Randolph, William Paterson, and Alexander Hamilton. Using a chart, we marked down the differences between each plan, like how many people should be in the Executive Branch, what general powers they should have, term length, etc. It was cool to see which ideas made it through to be part of the Executive Branch as we know it today. Today, we received a packet describing the structure of our constitution and congress, and a packet describing the checks and balances between branches. We then got into groups and made diagrams showing either how the checks and balances worked or the three branches of government and some of their characteristics. My group chose to draw a tree with actually branches depicting the judicial and executive branches as well as the two part of congress.