Assignment for Tuesday, September 13

In Approaching Great Ideas (AGI), read James Madison, The Bill of Rights (pp. 65-68) and Marquis de Lafayette, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (pp. 71-74). Pay attention to the following while reading each document: What is the document's exigence? Who is its audience? What is its purpose? Which rhetorical appeals help the document achieve its purpose? Respond to these questions in the margins of the reading.