Lesson 4 Creating the Constitution

Lesson 4 Creating the Constitution. Assume that you move to an island that has never been inhabited before now. Several thousand other people have also moved there in the past year. Everyone agrees that the island needs to have some rules and someone needs to be in charge. You must make a plan to choose the leaders in the fairest way possible. Consider the following questions as you make your plan:
a. Who should get to decide what the rules should be? Options include: only the people who have been there the longest and know the island well, only the most educated people, only those above a certain age, or everyone.
b. Should families vote as a unit, or can each person in the family get his or her own vote?
c. Should all families get one vote, regardless of their size? Or should families with six children
get more votes than families with two kids?