The Constitution

In elementary school, one particularly cruel teacher had a favorite punishment that she loved laying on us at every opportunity: handwriting the U.S. Constitution in its entirety, including a few pages from our textbook with background information. Altogether, it was usually 15-20 pages handwritten, and took a few hours. Of the various reasons I received this punishment over the course of the year, a few come to mind: going to the water fountain when two people were there already (it was the first day of school and I didn't realize this was a rule so I was made an example of), flipping through the dictionary pages "too loudly," and getting up to get a pencil from my book bag.