Learning Exercise
The Avalon Project
This assignment explores the early development of colonial era state constitutions.
Course: American Government
- Material:
- The Avalon Project
- Date last modified:
- November 11, 2008
- Created by:
- McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions
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Exercise
Create a chart examining similarities between documents
Use the Avalon Collection from Yale and click on Document Collection. Click on the American Constitutional Document then use the Constitution of New Jersey and Virginia to find similarities in those two documents and our current Constitution. Use the following terms in your 3 main columns, in order, Similar Phrase in Virginia Constitution, Similar Phrase in New Jersey Constitution, Constitutional Phrase.