The last two days in class we learned a lot of different things about the government. On Monday we learned about a few plans (Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the Hamilton Plan). From these different plans we learned that in all of them you needed at least one person. In each one you had to have more than a year in office and also you weren’t allowed to run for re-election, this rings true for all the plans except in the Hamilton Plan, in which case you basically were in office until you died or something else happened to you. In the Virginia Plan the person with the power was able to execute national laws. In the New Jersey Plan one of the jobs that the person had was to direct all military operations. In the Hamilton Plan they could also execute national laws and they could make treaties and direct war and foreign affairs.

Today in class we got into groups and made a drawing that showed the different branches of government. Our drawing was a picture of a tree and had the three different branches (executive, legislative, and judicial branches). On each branch we had a fact or two about what that branch does, how many people are in that branch etc. I'm going to post a picture with it but as I'm writing it I'm still waiting for the person in my group to send me the picture...so I'm posting this and then the picture will go up when I get it.