Week 4, Post 1.

("American Constitution" OR "US Constitution") +History -"Bill Of Rights"

+History of the +("U.S." OR US OR "United States" OR American) +Constitution

"Articles Of Confederation" AND "John Locke"
James Madison AND "Father Of The Constitution"

WEEK3, POST 3

My basic question is this: 

How the Constitution was created out of the failures of the Articles of Confederation using the ideas of John Locke and is it still relevant today?

Keywords:

Constitution

Bill of Rights

Law

Government

ordinace

physical makeup

the nature of something

establishing 

Created

made

thought

mandated

outcome

Failures

not working

default

deliquency

oversight

crash

Relevant

applicable

material

Basic LOG

Government > Law > Constitutional > Constitutions > United States > Constitution of the United States > Bill of Rights >

So far from using this, I've started with The Yahoo Directory, Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster.  I feel like I came up with some good word choices, like oversight, which I didn't think of before. The Yahoo Directory seemed to work well for helping to find a Ladder of Generalization as well as some helpful links to, mostly (obviously) government sites.

WEEK 3, POST 2.

The problem with my research topic is that Colorado doesn't have a sufficient Colonial History Museum. This is mostly due to the fact that Colorado isn't a Colonial state. The Colorado History Museum might be a place to start, but again, that really won't do much for me.

Another suggestion given to me was to actually go to the Capitol building to perhaps, interview or set up an interview with somebody about the constitutional impact on Colorado, or their thoughts... Maybe a senator, or something, but that probably would be an out of reach goal, especially considering that this is sort of a big election year (maybe). 

Another Idea, is The Government's website. I'm sure I'd be able to email somebody at some point about it.  Again, somebody that would be easily attainable.

WEEK 3, POST 1

At this point I'm not quite sure if I need to modify my topic. Of course that doesn't really mean anything. It just depends on what mindset I'm in. Some points it seems like I need more, other points it feels like I've already got too much, and I need to trim it down a bit. At the very least, I do know now that I am not going to focus much of my topic on the Bill Of Rights, specifically, because another student is doing that topic for his report. I don't wish to make things redundant.  Ironically, as I have written the first part of this a few days ago, and the second part, well.. now, the other student, Matt, who is doing the Bill Of Rights, has given me some suggestions as to help.  In actuality, his ideas are good, and might give more structure to the overall topic.  I think I need to work on setting up a formal outline pretty soon. 

In class Post

The following might work for my field research...

History Museum visual research

An interview with a Political Science teacher

An interview with someone familiar with the Topic from a history museum.

An interview with one of the founders.. no that won't work....

A Survey of people on weather or not they approve of the US constitution.