Before and after prompt

Before reading
Before I read about the founding fathers, I thought that they were just the most important men who attended the making of the Declaration of Independence and signed to be passed. They were important enough to be put on the bills we use today and represented the making of our country. The seven founding fathers (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and, Benjamin Franklin) all made a decision that changed history and created a soon to be great country called the United States states of America. Four of the founding fathers (George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams) became president of the country they created at one point after the country was created. These seven men were determined to break off from Britain to become a independent country and left a legacy that our country still looks too today because they showed  how strong our country would later be by standing up against the strongest empire at the time, Great Britain. To me, I thought that the founding fathers went into writing the constitution but couldn't make an agreement on major parts of the government which lead to them having to go back and reform some of the constitution to make it stronger than it once was. The founding fathers and the other people present for the making of the constitution had many differences and ideas and lead to arguments but, eventually they met in the middle and compromised to make the constitution how it was and started our country.

After reading
After reading the handout, I became more knowledgeable of they did for our country. The founding fathers were determined to become a nation a cut its ties with Britain though they know they knew the great risks that could happen. What they did was very daring because, they had little knowledge on how make a strong government to hold the country .Since it was a republican government and based on the people, "and the people don't always know what to do." John Locke wrote about how words were taken in different ways. This warned the founding fathers that the constitution would be taken in different ways. The founding fathers didn't listen at first, but a few years after the constitutional convention, they came back to it again and again to fix it's problems that John Locke warn them about.
During the making of our country, we were known for declaring things but wondered and questioned more. This was something that our founding fathers did work though, this enlightenment was a major foundation to our country unlike Europe where enlightenment was just a part of their history. This pushed us to learn new things on our own and new understandings lead to more questions which pushed us as a country to learn new things.
The founding fathers had determination to become our own independent country and be separated from Great Britain. The founding fathers left their legacy behind and we still follow them and respect them for what they did for us