CONSTITUTION OF THE ED STATES OF AMERICA We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Writer of American National Anthem Francis Scott Key(1779-1843) Oh! thus be it ever. when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free he wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door
LECTURE 28 The mAKINGOF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION Procedures: .Show the slides/pictures of the Statue of Liberty the poem by Emma Lazarus, and the figures about the Statue-to illustrate the deep-rooted meaning of freedom and democracy in the country;
Approaching the Maple Leaf Land 1. A bird's-eye View of Canada A. figures and facts B. Geography and economy C. Natural Wonders D. Traveling by Express from the East to the West
Warm-up Exercises and Preview Questions: 1. What is the symbol of the United States of America? What do you know about the Statue of Liberty? 2. Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch whose flame is imprisoned lightning