Please review the following prompts.  You must answer a total of TWO prompts.  Please include the number of the prompt you are responding to in your submission.

Your must use references to historical developments and quotations from the provided documents to support your responses.  Every response should incorporate evidence in the form of quotations.

Expectations Your response to each essay should have a clear thesis.  Your thesis should be supported with SPECIFIC evidence from the historical contexts and documents discussed in course materials.  You should use quotations from the documents to support your position.  Your responses will be graded on the quality and development of your thesis and evidence.

Length Your response to EACH prompt should be 2 – 3 pages in length.

Prompts:

1. How was the Declaration a culmination of the colonial legal experience?

2. How was the supremacy clause used to elevate federal authority from 1788 to 1830?

3. In what ways did the early republic from 1788 to 1833 expose the tension between the state  and federal governments?

4. Taken together, what impact did Dartmouth College v. Woodward, McCulloch v. Maryland,  and Gibbons v. Ogden have on the understanding of federal power in the early republic?

5. Which of the following quotes best describes the American experience from 1788 to 1833?

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are  few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous  and indefinite. – James Madison – 1788

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen  everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. – John Jay  – 1788