Problems are for Solving

For his birthday, Toby received a copy of the role-playing game (RPG) Sons of Liberty. In playing the game, one player has to take the side of the tories (no choice, sorry) and the others play characters from the time period like Thomas Paine and John Adams. About the game:

The game’s fast-paced card mechanics ensure high-action madness and revolutionary heroics. If you are playing Benjamin Franklin and you aren’t swinging an electrified kite over your head to clear the streets of redcoats, then you are playing it wrong.

That’s the kind of game it is.

The tory is guided by card draws, 1 through 10, and his solution/tactic is essentially related to which of the first 10 amendments he’s violating in the attack. So I thought I’d re-familiarize myself with the Bill of Rights by writing a short blog post about each, and how it’s worked out so far in our nation’s relatively brief history.

Here’s the preamble:

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution

More to follow! But I make no guarantees for regularity.

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