I am nervous about comps tomorrow, but...
I have realized that everything I have ever needed to know, I learned on Schoolhouse Rock, especially the one about the Preamble of the Constitution (professional historians may balk, but you have to let me think this for me to keep my sanity). Sing it with me!
The Preamble Song
Hey, do you know about the U.S.A.?
Do you know about the government?
Can you tell me about the Constitution?
Hey, learn about the U.S.A.
In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers did agree
To write a list of principles
For keepin' people free.
The U.S.A. was just startin' out.
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
The things that we should be.
And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it's been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.
We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
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.
In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers all sat down
And wrote a list of principles
That's known the world around.
The U.S.A. was just starting out
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
They wanted a land of liberty.
And the Preamble goes like this:
We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
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.
For the United States of America...
Enjoy!
2 comments:
Best advice I ever got and then expanded upon (you may have heard some or all of this): When you get your questions and sit down to answer them, you will read them once. You will read them twice. You will not know how to begin, because you will not understand the questions. You will not know whether to shit or go blind. You will panic. You will likely cry, at least on the inside. This may take the first hour out, and that fact will make you panic even worse. You will then regroup, answer the questions, and amaze yourself. You will want to expand your answers later into an article to submit to the AHR. Then still later you will read them again and wonder how you passed, but you will have passed.
Most importantly: don't think for a second that you won't panic. We all did. Even Boulton, even Veej probably. Well, not Veej. He's Superman.
And as long as ape does not kill ape, what does any of it really matter anyway?
honestly, it's the only way i can ever remember the words to the preable.
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