A New Government

As my enterance through the threshold of Mr. Asrmstrong's classroom, he greets every student with a warm handshake and instructs our schedule for the day. We began our class by a continue of the debate Counting slaves as part of population with honorable Julia, the proposition, speaking of a higher population, a higher tax, another way to release the country from debt. Soon as the proposition agruement was over, honorable Sangwoo, the opposition declares it is injustice for that slaves are being treated with disrespect and like property. After the last opposition arguement, soon the rebuttals spoke their opinions for their victory. After the entire debate, Mr. Armstrong pointed out some achievements and areas needed to be improved. Some of the major achievements from South Carolina/ Proposition side were, an increase of population leads to a increase of tax, and leads to another way to set the country out of debt. The greatest mistake of the entire debate was honorable Sangwoo's statement of "You treat slaves as property, and you intend to count them as human?!" This meant that the Pennsylvannia, a nonslave community, also called the Society of Friends were agreeing to slavery and agreeing that enslaved Africans were property. After discussing the overall debate, Mr. Armstrong took the class to another subject we learned, The Division of the Federal Government. Most of the information studied during class which had been done previously as a homework assignment were easily interpreted. The chief topic of The Division of the Federal Government was changing a one single branch, the Legislative branch, with two additional more branches, the Executive branch, and Judicial. To achieve these additional branches, we learned that the Consitutional Convention, a group of delegates from each state, had met to create a stronger government which was not tyrannical, but was based upon the people. In the meeting, the delegates proposed the Virginia plan, and New Jersey plan, both offering ideas for the new central government. As the states took sides, a Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman proposes his idea for the government which all the states agreed to be the next government. After the new government was created, slavery was still a topic in Legislature if a enslaved man should be counted part of the population. Soon the three-fifths compromise is established which explains that only three-fifth of a slave would be admitted as human. As the clock ticks the last minute of the class, my classmate peers write their last sentence in their notebook and revise their work and pack up to leave for lunch.

Eddie M.