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The Plan: Creating a Constitution

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1 The Plan: Creating a Constitution
A Play in Three Acts Adapted from Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz

2 Characters of our Play *Roger Sherman- CT
James (Jemmy) Madison; Narrator- VIRGINIA Citizen One Citizen Two News Reporter George Washington- VIRGINIA Alexander Hamilton- NEW YORK Ben Franklin-PENNSLYVANIA Edmund Randolph- VIRGINIA Pierce Butler- SOUTH CAROLINA John Dickinson- DELAWARE Elbridge Gerry- MASSACHUSETTS William Paterson- NEW JERSEY Luther Martin- MARYLAND Governor Morris- PENNSLYVANIA Patrick Henry- VIRGINIA George Mason- VIRGINIA *Roger Sherman- CT

3 Scene I. Summer, 1787. Philadelphia, Inside Constitution Hall.
ACT II. The Convention Scene I. Summer, Philadelphia, Inside Constitution Hall.

4 Scene II: The New Jersey Plan, Constitution Hall.
ACT II. The Convention Scene II: The New Jersey Plan, Constitution Hall.

5 ACT II. The Convention Scene III. Drafting the Constitution
Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

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