With the summary sentence for this your teacher needs ! before beginning the lessons on the u. s. constitution, he asked his students to write essays on what they already knew. now he has to correct those essays. read the first essay and write a corrected version. the two statements that make up the first paragraph of the following essay are correct. fix the rest. then write a summary sentence about the constitution. essay: the u. s. constitution was adopted on september 17, 1787 by the constitutional convention meeting in philadelphia, pennsylvania. after ratification by 11 states (only 9 were required), the new united states government began operation in march of 1789. the constitution establishes five branches of government that include the congress, the president, the courts, the military, and the postal service. the congress has two parts: a house of senators and the representatives. each calls for two members and two alternates from each state. the president is responsible for introducing and passing all new laws, but the representatives can veto them. the highest court is called the court of special appeals. the judges serve 10 year terms and are elected. unlike the judges, the president is appointed by the congress. the constitution can be changed by a process called altering it. the first ten alterations to the constitution are known together as the states’ rights acts. alterations to the constitution must be approved by half of the states. each branch of the government operates independently of the other. there is no system for separation of powers, which makes the government free of any checks and balances. judicial review of whether laws are constitutional is possible only when the president asks for it. summary sentence:

pacal the great: the throne was passed on to pacal through a female; as a result, he believed that he must legitimize his claim to the throne to add stability to his reign.

as a result, the daughter of ac kan's brother ruled until her son, pacal, reached an age old enough to assume the throne.

pacal the great became the king of the mayan city of palenque in a different way than most mayan kings.

pacal pointed out that ac kan had succeeded his mother as ruler, thereby establishing a precedent for the rule to pass through a female.  

he tried to justify that the way he gained the throne by connecting his mother with the divine mother and the mythological events that happened during the creation of the world.  

typically, the son of a male mayan ruler inherited the throne, but in 612 ce, king ac kan died and did not leave behind a male heir.

montezuma 1: even so, these wars of conquest failed to provide enough human sacrifices and because of this, he formed a triple alliance with cities in the valley of puebla-tlascala.  

in addition, montezuma realized that his government failed to the aztecs during the famine.

in order to appease him, montezuma increased the number of human sacrifices.

the aztec performed human sacrifices to their god huitzilopotchli because they believed he desired human blood.  

around 1440 ce, montezuma i became the fifth emperor of the aztecs and went on to rule for 28 years.  

soon after he assumed the throne, the aztecs were hit with a series of disasters, namely a plague of locusts, a flood, and a harsh frost  

huayna capac: huayna capac also fought to gain territories north of his empire in what is now ecuador.  

huayna capac significantly extended the inca empire to the south, into what is now argentina and chile.  

in 1493 ce, huayna capac became the eleventh ruler of the inca empire.  

huayna, therefore, wanted to gain his own lands and launched campaigns against tribes to the east and north of the empire.  

the inca empire reached its peak under the rule of huayna capac.

during this time the empire covered a vast territory including parts of present day colombia, peru, argentina, chile, bolivia, and ecuador.

during his reign, huayna heard about bearded men with pale skin that resembled the incan1 god viracocha and took this news as a bad omen.

huayna took this as another bad omen that predicted the destruction of the empire.

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