Here are your topics for Reflection Paper #$1$: $($Based on the readings and lectures from Part One and Part Two.$)$ Select only ONE topic. Note that each topic has $3$ questions! TOPIC ONE: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PROMISE OF THE REVOLUTION $($Address all three questions in your response.$)1)$ Lepore posits that "The Constitution in Philadelphia acted as a check on the American Revolution, a halt to radicalism; if the $[$American$]$ Revolution had tilted the balance between government and liberty toward liberty, the Constitution shifted it toward government." $(121)$ How did it do this? Be very specific and make sure to support your analysis with information you learned from the text and lecture$\mathrm{.}2)$ Further, she states" "But in very many ways the Constitution also realized the promise of the American Revolution, and particularly the promise of representation." $(121)$ How did it do this? What ways did it not "realize the promise of the $[$America$]$ Revolution?" Of representation? Be very specific and make sure to support your analysis with information you learned from the text and lecture$\mathrm{.}3)$ AND NOW EXAMINE THE QUESTION: Can a political society really be governed by reflection and election, by reason and truth, rather than by accident and violence, by prejudice and deceit? Is there any arrangement of governmentany constitution by which its possible for a people to rule themselves justly and fairly, and as equals, through the exercise of judgment and care? Or are their efforts, no matter their constitutions fated to be corrupted, their judgment muddled by demagoguery, their reason abandoned for fury? $($p$.$ xiv$)$ COMMENT on how you see this in light of the events that led to the American Revolution. Be very specific and make sure to support your analysis with information you learned from the text and lecture.