A Government with limited powers

The U.S. Constitution establishes a government with limited powers. What evidence can you find of these limits? How do you think the limit you have found works? What do you think it is preventing?

2- What changes do you think the president needs added or taken away?

3- Are their countries that have a better constitution than America?

4- What actions recommended to the colonies in a speech given by Canassatego (Onondaga Tribe) in 1744, later printed by Benjamin Franklin, were adopted by the colonies in the Second Constitutional Convention? How is that reflected in the iconography of the Great Seal of the United States?

5- Why do you think they chose to write “more perfect” rather than simply “perfect.” What might that tell us about their expectations for the government they sought to create? What change to the constitution would you recommend to make it “more perfect”?