Lincoln

Some of the difficulties that Lincoln faced in trying to pass the 13th Amendment were the people's fears of what would happen, and the discrimination against African Americans. There were over four million African Americans, and the people feared that they would start stealing jobs away and people would lose money. They were also concerned about voting, because there were a higher population of African Americans and the people were afraid they would be outvoted. Also, the Democrats thought that Abraham Lincoln was being a dictator. Abraham Lincoln was also a little dirty. He "lied" about his peace talks. He wanted peace to be contingent to the Amendment as well. Lincoln believed that the 13th Amendment was so important because he did not believe in slavery. Lincoln's main goal was to abolish slavery and have equal rights for every man.

Amendment Meme Pictures

This meme refers to the Fourth Amendment, stating that there shall be no unlawful search in a persons home without probable cause. Here, Nolan and I are sniffing candles. A cop cannot look at us and say "Hm, they are sniffing candles, that must mean they sniff up cocaine everyday. I'm going to go search their houses." There was no direct relation to the candles and drugs, also no evidence. Therefore, it would be an unlawful, illegal search.


This meme refers to the Fifth Amendment, which states your Miranda rights when you are accused and charged of a crime. Here, Molly was accused of relieving herself in the house, therefore charged with jail time in her crate. She was not happy, and howled loudly.

Petoria episode of Family Guy

Petoria was successful in becoming its own independent country in Quahog, RI thanks to Peter Griffin, founder of Petoria. Petoria is what is known as an oligarchy government. The definition of this is that few people have control over a country. In Petoria, Peter and Louis are the ones who have the complete control over Petoria. Due to his new "country" Peter enjoys the luxuries of certain things such as free drinks, taking over his neighbors pool, ect. Peter also commits and gets away with crimes such as urinating in public, stealing, and littering. Another luxury was that Peter made and followed his own laws and rules. However, consequences rose quickly. The United States sent out army troops to surround "Petoria" and have missiles and guns pointed at the house continuously as a means to make them give up and surrender. The United States also prohibited the people of Petoria from attending school, attending local market places, cut off their water supply and electricity. Peter had no army to fight back, and he quickly realized it, and realized how difficult it is running your own country and all of the responsibilities that come with it. With that, Peter quickly surrendered Petoria. 

The Ratification of the Constitution

In order for the Constitution to become a law, nine out of thirteen states had to ratify it. The people who wrote the Constitution knew that it would only have "real power" if all thirteen of the states were on board with it. This was a bitter battle of two years, and divided the people into Federalists and Antifederalists. The Federalists wanted a strong central government to hold the nation together. The Antifederalists thought that the Constitution gave too much power to the federal government. The Federalists feared too much democracy, and so they advocated limited popular election of federal officials. The Antifederalist however, feared that the Constitution took too much power away from the people. The Federalists believed that the states are ultimately subordinate to the federal government, while the Antifederalists believed that the states should hold more power than the federal government because the states are closer to the people. A large debate between the two groups was the Bill of Rights. The Federalists were against it while the Antifederalists were very much for it. Eventually, the Federalists agreed to having the Bill of Rights. Soon after there were enough states that had ratified the Constitution, and it went into effect in 1789. All is well that ends well.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/ratification.html