In Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Woody Holton recounts how he introduces his students to the framing of the US Constitution by playing a game. Dividing the blackboard into three sections, he invites his students to shout out their favorite clauses of the Constitution. Holton enters the clauses in the columns and asks his students to label them. Clauses like freedom of religion and speech, freedom from illegal search and seizure, and the right to bear arms end up in the third column, which the students soon recognize as the Bill of Rights. In the first column are clauses taken over from the Articles of Confederation. The second column, which typically ends up with the single entry of “checks and balances,” is the Constitution without amendments. Students struggle to label the first and second columns correctly. When they finally do, they are struck by the fact that the most popular clauses of the Constitution are not in the original document.

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定型者和制图者：重新考虑美国建国的来源和意义

在不守规矩的美国人和宪法的起源，伍迪霍尔顿讲述了他如何通过玩游戏向他的学生介绍美国宪法的框架。他把黑板分成三个部分，邀请他的学生大声喊出他们最喜欢的宪法条款。霍尔顿在列中输入从句，并要求他的学生给它们贴上标签。诸如宗教和言论自由、免于非法搜查和扣押以及携带武器的权利等条款最终位于第三列，学生们很快将其视为《权利法案》。第一栏是从《邦联条例》中继承的条款。第二列通常以“制衡”的单一条目结尾，是未经修订的宪法。学生很难正确标注第一列和第二列。当他们最终这样做时，