Chris

The Constitution.

The Preamble is the beginning of the Constitution. It is important because it is telling all the people in the contry. It is the most impotant thing in the constitution, because it sends a mesage. It helps people to be fair to each other. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the NorthWest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Missippissi River.



The delelgates beleved that the new constitution needed a Bill of rights smailar to the English bill of rights.The delegates decided that the bill of rights would be added to the constitution. The bill of rights is the first ten Amendments to the constitution. The bill of rights protects the freedom fo speech and freedom of religion.