Instruction
Write a 1,500 to 3,000 word short story relating to a constitutional theme. The story itself can be about anything and be set in any genre you prefer.
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Constitutional themes:
- Limited government: Government may only do those things the people have given it the power to do.
- Republicanism: Ideology that stresses liberty and unalienable individual rights as central values, making people sovereign as a whole representative form of government organization.
- Checks and balances: The power of each branch of the federal government is designed in a way that it limits the power of the other branches so no one branch has too much power.
- Federalism: Power is divided between the national government and state governments.
- Separation of powers: The Constitution divides power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches
- Popular sovereignty: The principle that the people are the only source for all governmental power.
- Judicial Review: The Courts can decide if a government action is constitutional.
- Tyranny: In order to protect against tyranny, the Constitution ensures that no single institution would have excess power.
- Equality: The Constitution advocates that all people must be given equal treatment under the law.
- Civil Liberties: certain unalienable rights retained by (as opposed to privileges granted to) citizens of the United States under the Constitution.
- Civil Rights: Refers to positive actions of government that should create equal conditions for all Americans.
- First Amendment: The freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and the press.
- Second Amendment: The right to bare arms.
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