Plagiarism is not acceptable, please have all the work cited properly. MLA format, double space.

Here is the guideline:

Topic for this Assignment

• Pick a year or period from 1800-1877.
• You may pick a geographic area as well, such as a state, region, or the country as a whole.
• Pick one constitutional issue that was addressed in the original Constitution (i.e. including the Bill of Rights); such as: Individual Rights, Judicial Review, Commerce Clause, President’s War Powers, or relations between the States. This need not be one that was covered in our game.
• You can, but need not, focus on a Supreme Court case or Congressional Debate or important public statement/publication.

Within the context of your topic, answer all of the following questions:

• How did the later case/controversy/discussion consider the 18th century precedent?
• How did they reflect/reject the earlier debate?
• What was their view of the ‘Founding Fathers’?
• How does this discussion at a distance of twenty (or seventy) years tell us something about the nature of the constitutional process?

Topic & Thesis

Here are some examples of more plausible topic areas at an early stage in your research

• Second Bank of the United States
• Fugitive Slave laws
• Federal involvement with States’ debt
• Negro voting rights in the North
• Comparison of the Confederate States’ Constitution of 1861 with the U.S. Constitution regarding ratification and amendment

Then, you need to do some preliminary research so you can focus on a specific issue. You should think of this as a specific question to which your thesis is the answer.

This will enable you to: 1) write on something which is interesting, insightful, and (perhaps) novel, and 2) increase the chance that you can understand the historical literature covering your area (otherwise you will find there is WAY TOO MUCH to read). For example, there are many studies of the Fugitive Slave Acts or the Bank of the United States; so you need to find a particular and meaningful angle. After all, we are not looking for a re-hash of some other historian’s work.

Most papers include some background or context-setting material in their introduction, this is important, so the reader knows how to situate your particular issue. A major problem with over-broad topics is that they require too much context to support their coverage and there is, as a result, not enough space within the limited size of the assignment to say something substantive and interesting, rather than just background.

Once you have narrowed your topic sufficiently, e.g. “non-abolitionists in New England in the 1840s and 1850s,” you can then formulate a specific thesis. You might argue, for example, that the non-abolitionists advanced theories that limited the power of the federal government in order to preserve their own sense of liberty, or that the Constitutional Convention was regularly cited in the Boston newspapers’ coverage of slavery.

Please remember that your thesis must be historically significant, i.e. why do we care about your subject 150-200 years later. That means connecting it to larger historical questions about the nature of the Constitution or to some issue relevant to us in the 21^st century.

Format and Formal (grade affecting) Requirements

Your paper must be 1500-2000 words in length (~5-7 pages, excluding footnotes, bibliography, and appendices).Plagiarism is not acceptable. Make you

Your paper should consist of the following:

• An introduction (~1 page) including
  • A ‘hook’ to engage the reader’s interest
  • your clearly stated thesis
  • the historical context/background to your issue
  • a ‘road-map’ which tells the reader what to expect in the rest of your paper
• The body of your argument, including your discussion of supporting primary and secondary sources (~4-5 pages).
• A Conclusion (~1pages) which summarizes your evidence and recapitulates your argument.
• Comply with the Chicago Manual of Style or MLA for quotes and citations to all distinctive, non-standard information, footnotes, and bibliography.

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