Cartoon #2 Rise It Will

1. This political cartoon represents the ratification of the Constitution. It shows that uniting under one constitution provides the nation with a strong base of pillars to support the new building. It conveys the vision of a solid base for the newly developed government based on ancient ideas of democracy, as the pillars appear to be ancient themselves.

2. The cartoonist is showing that the ratification of the constitution will help the American nation greatly. He supports the constitution and its ideas; this can be seen as he states that under the constitution agriculture will be divine, commerce will improve, education will improve, and that justice and the law will maintain peace.

3. This cartoon affected America History because it encouraged the passage of the Constitution and the same Constitution still runs today’s government. As the cartoon shows, Rhode Island was not in support of the Constitution for it did not even send delegates to the Constitutional Convention. However, even with out the support of every state, the Constitution was ratified as the majority agreed upon it. The constitution was developed through many compromises between different ideas that were combined. One important idea developed in the constitution was federalism. Even though today the federal government has more power than the state, the same constitution governs our nation and therefore this cartoon had a huge effect on our history as it helped to get the constitution passed.