Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

Thoughts on Government, John Adams
(http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s5.html)
Perhaps written to counter some elements of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, this short document, written early in 1776, was influential in the creation of the constitutions of the states and in the approval of the Declaration of Independence that summer by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

The Declaration of Independence
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DeclarInd.html)
(Primary Documents in American History, The Library of Congress)
Many historical documents are presented here, including the Lee Resolution and the Declaration of Independence, along with extensive links to other important historical documents.

United States Constitution
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html)
(Primary Documents in American History, the Library of Congress)
Many historical documents are presented here, including the U.S. Constitution and the documents of the Constitutional Convention and the Continental Congress, as well as papers from George Washington and James Madison. Includes extensive links.

1			What does John Adams, in Thoughts on Government, say is the aim and end of governments?
2			What is the relationship of the Lee Resolution to the Declaration of Independence?
3			What were the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation that eventually led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution?