1. Read the article ‘The Nature and Purpose a National Constitution’. There is a PDF attachment of this article below or you can also access it in the syllabus. According to the article, What is a Constitution? What is the purpose of a Constitution? What are some basic principles of a Constitution in terms of Democracy?
2. First, read over the attachment of the United States Constitution. Then briefly examine the attachments for the Canadian Constitution and the South African Constitution. What similarities and differences do you see when comparing the US Constitutions with the constitutions of Canada and South Africa? (I don’t expect you to read the entire constitutions of each countries, but what jumps out at you when comparing these? )
3. Watch the video from the syllabus, Yale University: Professor Steven Smiths The Sovereign State: Hobbes Leviathan, Part I . According to the lecture on Hobbes, what is the Sovereign and the role of the Sovereign?
