Sunday, November 30, 2008

Virginia Resolution Text Analysis

Who is writing?
· The writers of the Virginia Resolution are the General Assembly of Virginia.

Who is the audience?
· The audience is all the people of the United States. This includes all the people in support of the Constitution and the people who want it ratified.

Who do the writers represent?
· The General Assembly represents the Unites States government. The writers represent what they want to see for the United States. The kind of change that they want to see. The writers represent the type of future they want for America.

What is being said, argued and/or represented?
· The General Assembly is defending the Constitution against the people who are against it. They feel that their citizens deserve to be happy. They want all of them to have freedom and for those liberties to be protected. They don’t want a law to be created saying that they can’t have something or that they don’t deserve something and should be taken away. The General Assembly is saying that the Alien Act and the Sedition Act should’ve never been created and that they go against everything the United States stands for.

What proof and/or justification is being used to legitimize the request?
· The proof being used to legitimize the request is the Alien Act and the Sedition Act. The General Assembly explains that the Alien Act was created to control a free government and its people. It would restrict what people could do. The General Assembly also explains that the Sedition Act was being used to create a power that was not stated or would be allowed in the Constitution.

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