During the creation of my constitution project, I had a struggle with finding out a theme for the question in it. How did African Americans get the right to vote. I thought that a timeline would best fitting with images and information on the side. I talked about the freedom summer, and the literacy tests, and historical figures. This project was fun to research and make.
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US Constitution Project Blog Post #1
For our US constitution project I chose the question “How did African Americans get the right to vote because I have an interest in racial justice, and so does everyone in my family. It really makes no sense how we have a bias because of skin color. I also wanted to learn about how hard people work to get what they want in the government. This is a major topic now. With the Black Lives Matter Movement I wanted to learn about how a lot of rights have to be fought for, like voting. There is a problem with racism in our government and I want to learn about past problems to see how they were solved.
The Electoral College
I believe that the electoral college is a bad system, if most of the people want a candidate, the opposing can still win because he won a big state. This is why many believe there vote doesn’t count. They could fix the electoral college by evening all of the electoral votes. If a candidate wins a state with a low population it can still help. It’s unfair how some states electoral votes are more valuable than others. People want to be able to vote for the president themselves, not let people decide for them.