What make this easy is that there is a historical relationship between all three of these subjects. A little more than a year after the Americans began the Revolutionary War, they drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and in 1789, the Constitution was ratified by all the original colonies. Thus there is a direct line from the war to the Declaration to the Constitution.
To begin your essay, give your reader this background information....
What make this easy is that there is a historical relationship between all three of these subjects. A little more than a year after the Americans began the Revolutionary War, they drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and in 1789, the Constitution was ratified by all the original colonies. Thus there is a direct line from the war to the Declaration to the Constitution.
To begin your essay, give your reader this background information. That is what every good introduction should provide for the reader. Then, while I do not know exactly what your essay is going to say, you will need a thesis statement that tells the reader what your main idea is, perhaps how important these documents were to American freedom or how important they have continued to be since the Revolutionary War. If your main idea is to teach your readers some American history, that would be fine, too, perhaps a statement about how the war and these documents are the beginnings of the United States.
As you get your essay organized, I think it would probably be best to tell your story in chronological order, first the beginning of the war, then the Declaration, and then the Constitution. That way, your reader will be able to follow along so much better. A body paragraph or a complete section on each of these topics would be great. And then all you need is a conclusion, to remind your reader what your main idea was and to give your reader a little review of what you had to say in your body paragraphs.
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