Superheroes of the Constitution: Action and Adventure Stories About Real-Life Heroes
By J. M. Bedell and Bill Greenhead
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J. M. Bedell
J. M. Bedell spent her childhood daydreaming in hayfields, talking to cows, and finding her heroes between the pages of books. She is a full-time writer of historical fiction and nonfiction for children. She received her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University in Minnesota. She lives with her husband and two Siberian huskies in Portland, Oregon. Visit her at JMBedell.com.
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Superheroes of the Constitution - J. M. Bedell
SUPERHEROES
OF THE
CONSTITUTION:
An Introduction
The Constitution of the United States of America was an experiment. No one knew whether it would fail or succeed. Could the people govern themselves without a king? Could thirteen separate colonies join and form a new nation? Could one Constitution set the rule of law for everyone and for all time? A lot of people said no.
But a whole lot more, including the ones you will meet in this book, said yes! And they set out to prove it. They risked their lives, the lives of their families, and everything they owned. None thought the cost too high, if, when the fight was over, they could live free.
The Constitution was designed to be the foundation for all law in the United States. It established how the government would function and what it could and could not do. It also recognized the rights of individuals and made sure no one could take those rights away.
There were times when the people wanted to change the Constitution. To do it, they had to get an amendment (correction) passed. That process wasn’t easy. But it was designed that way. If it were easy, then a small number of people could force their will onto others. It takes the will of a lot of people to pass an amendment through both houses of Congress and get it ratified (approved) by three-fourths of the states.
Less than one hundred years after the Constitution was written, it was tested to its limits. The Civil War was tearing the nation apart. President Abraham Lincoln wondered whether the nation could survive. On November 19, 1863, on the battlefield at Gettysburg, he said,
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal … [and] we here highly resolve … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The nation did survive. It grew and changed, and the Constitution grew and changed with it. The men and women in this book are superheroes. They rose to the challenge of building a free nation and faced the injustices of their time. Their sacrifices and the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands more are what continue to make the United States of America a more perfect union!
Since the Constitution was first written, it has been amended twenty-seven times.
THE
FREEDOM
LEAGUE:
Creating a New Nation
The story of our Constitution begins when our nation was made up of thirteen colonies. We lived under the rule of King George III of Great Britain and his parliament (government). In the mid-1700s, Great Britain tried to collect more money from the colonies. They did it by putting new taxes on things like paper, sugar, and tea.
The colonists got mad, and they refused to pay. One day in 1773, Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty organization boarded three ships in Boston Harbor. They threw 342 chests of tea overboard. The colonists celebrated what was later called the Boston Tea Party. But the king didn’t think