When I walk into class on Tuesday, I'm intercepted by Mr. Boyle handing me an important looking document and telling me to find people who share my group number. Little did I know then that this would lead to a two class discussion and some fake tweeting.
As a group of three we read through the article from the Constitutional Convention regarding proportional or equal representation. Many of the founding fathers of our constitution found a way to make their opinions clear, and had a lot to say on the matter. David Brearly and William Paterson spoke strongly for equal representation, while James Wilson and Madison advocated for proportional representation. What impressed me most about reading this article was how many arguments they could find against each other; and this was only a small portion of what really went on at the Constitutional Convention. Once we'd jotted down some notes summarizing each of the arguments presented, we had to get cracking making a fake tweet focused around their arguments. Turns out this is the hardest part of the class, even though at first glance it seemed to be quite simple. Converting eighteenth century debates into this day and age? Nobody's ever asked me to do that before.
The next class, we dropped the next actual day, we got to learn about everyone else's arguments for or against bicamaralism and legislatures voting in the members of the government. Once we were done with that, we compared the arguments for each one - and determined which was really used in our government today. It's interesting to think about what our country would be like if they came to a different verdict, isn't it?
And this concludes the history recap for tonight.
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