Students will write a four-page essay using Peter Charles Hoffer’s For Ourselves and our Posterity.

Students will write a four-page essay using Peter Charles Hoffer’s For Ourselves and our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History explaining the significance or insignificance of the preamble of the Constitution and how its place in the American Constitutional life changed over time (15% of final grade). This assignment will allow the instructor to assess the writing and analytical abilities of the students early in the semester.