Freedom is one of are biggest things in United States of America. The United States of America is still true to freedom, they do make laws on some which isn't right but we still have alto of freedom and without it I don't know what we would be. The next founding principle is life.The right to life protects your ability to take all those actions done for the enjoyment of life.”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Mayflower Compact (Influence) The Mayflower Compact was written as a way of survival of the land. The Mayflower Compact was the foundation of the Constitution of the United States. The Mayflower Compact was written with some of the same values that the Constitution believes in today, honesty, respect, and religion. http://www.allabouthistory.org/mayflower-compact.htm Articles of Confederation (Summary) This is known as the first Constitution of the United Stated in 1777. The Article of Confederation gave congress power to handle issues that the states of the 13 colonies were not delegated.
What the Constitution Means to Me The Constitution lay outs the foundation for our government. It serves several purposes like outlining the basic structure of the government and their functions and responsibilities, setting the qualifications for office and the terms of office, defining the relationship between the national government and the local government, and setting the laws for the common good while protecting individual rights. Basically, it lists all things that define how our country works. The study of the Constitution gave me a better understanding and changed my perception of the government and my role as a citizen in general. It is through the inspection of the balancing forces between government and citizenship that I have come to appreciate both the brilliance and the gravity of the Constitution.
One of the most important things the Pledge of Allegiance means to me, is that all Americans will be shown justice, and fight for it. We will be treated equally, and we will have liberty. To many people from other parts of the world, the United States of America is the perfect country, mainly because the citizens have freedoms and are shown justice. The Pledge of Allegiance is important, and it sums up what the U.S.A. is all about. What the Pledge of Allegiance says makes a proud American, and it should be the same for
We should always remember our roots in what made this country into what it is today and try not to strafe too far from what gave us the laws and morals we have today. As John Locke said in The Second Treatise on Government (1690) Chapter II, of the State of Nature, “all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident, than those creatures of the same species and rank”. Perhaps the clearest example to illustrate the importance of the philosophy of originalism is to use the Twenty-seventh Amendment. The Twenty-seventh Amendment was proposed as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791, but failed to be ratified by the required number of states for two centuries, eventually being ratified in 1992. An original intent inquiry would ask what the framers understood the amendment to mean when it was written; an original meaning inquiry would ask what the plain meaning of the text was in 1992 when it was eventually ratified (KSSR, 120).
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are two fundamental documents which lead to the successful formation of the United States of America. These documents defined what the United States stood for and how it would be governed. They defended our rights as people and as a nation. Connected by the idea of independence and freedom these documents would build upon one another as the answer to Britain’s unjust political rule. Within the following paper I will portray the story of these two documents and discuss the effect it has on America today.
If the US Constitution were to be thoroughly analyzed, it would be discovered that the Constitution lacks essential components a true representative democracy. All three of the branches of government seem to be compromised as they fail to grant citizens political equality, fail to establish popular sovereignty and majority rule, fail to allow citizens to select all of their representatives in government, and fail to protect citizen’s individual freedoms. One must first analyze the Legislative Branch then the Executive Branch and finally the Judicial Branch and their descriptions in the Constitution to uncover their undemocratic ways. In Article One, Section Three of the US Constitution there is evidence for
Preamble of the Constitution In the constitution, the beginning of the document states what our founding fathers had wanted to uphold. It was a simple paragraph that gave a new meaning to what the United States was going to stand for. An issue with the preamble today is whether the six stated goals are still being used in our society today. Although some may be far more established, one of the things our country takes to heart is “establishing justice”. Whether it be through the people or the government, justice is always fought for and established in the united states.
Such as the Freedom of Speech, and Emancipation, the 1st and the 17th amendments are the best laws that the United States have ever come up with. The fact that people used to, not be able to practice their Religion or write about what they want to in the city newspaper, or it is illegal are mind boggling concepts. Also something that changed the United States even more is the 17th amendment, Emancipation, meaning that slavery is abolished. When Abraham Lincoln pronounced the Emancipation Proclamation, when he stated that slavery was not a part of the everyday part of the United States, the slave owners did not know what to do with the work that needed to be done on their farms. They had been getting free labor for their whole life.
Is the Constitution still Relevant? An ongoing argument over modern political and social issues centers on whether the U.S. Constitution is relevant in today’s world. With all the advancements in technology, communication, transportation, commerce, and in the medical field, some argue that the Founding Fathers could not have seen what would be necessary for the United States to stay the great nation that it already is, so I believe that the constitution is still relevant to a degree. For most, when forming the Constitution, the framers did not construct the constitution’s durability based on any advancement in technologies or society. They wrote the restrictive forces of the Constitution on something far more predictable, the meaning of freedom.