Unit 9 A More Perfect Union paraphrase答案(4页).doc

-Unit 9 A More Perfect Union1. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished.After heated debate and compromises, the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document. But the “three-fifths” clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution.  2.  But it also comes from my own story.My personal background and my success story, rising from rags to riches, also teaches me the importance of unity.  3.  But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its part-that out of many, we are truly one.Through my experience in the United States, I am deeply rooted with the idea that America is not a total of addling everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.  4.  Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.In spite of all predictions that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people were eager to unity and change.5.  Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.People were encouraged to judge me in terms of race and color, raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories even in some states which are more conservative and more racially biased.6.  We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.The week before the Democrats were to select delegates to the national convention in South Carolina, racial tension which seemed insubstantial in the past became more frequent and more intense.7.  On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.At one end of the wide range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run for presidency only because of the desires of native liberals in achieving racial harmony without making a great effort and I wanted to prove that black and white should have equal opportunity.8.  I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiate the black community.第 5 页-