United States Constitution

The United States Constitution can be considered a very controversial topic in regards to our government. The Constitution is used to divide power between the federal government and the states. It is used also to protect the individual liberties of the American citizens. In the article The Ratification Referendum by Sanford Levinson, he discusses how the U.S constitution is flawed in many ways. He argues that Americans should have the opportunity to vote on whether congress should draft a new…

The Constitution is the foundation for the rights we have today. It is hard to believe that it has stood the test of time and continues to be as valid today as the day it was ratified. This is not because the men who created this important document could see into the future or had all the answers to America’s unseen problems; this is because the Constitution has the ability to be altered. These particular alterations are called amendments. The Constitution, before any amendments, was not totally…

articles and essays, that was written in attempt to influence the people to ratify the newly, revised Constitution. These articles were together written by; Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, under the alisa called “Publius”. The publication of the first article was published in the New York newspapers on October 27,1787; it was deemed as a success in New York, and then across all thirteen states. After the failure of the Article of Confederations, these articles provided a…

expressed that they support the Constitution, and the values symbolized in it, but they frequently fight about the government’s power when it comes to criminal justice, moral regulatory, the economic regulatory powers and its war powers (Lentz, T.,2013).” Liberals are very easily angered when someone accuses them or suggests that they do not understand or support the Constitution. Unfortunately, Liberals have stopped believing in the principles of the Constitution but the reasons why are not…

pretty time consuming since you have to think about the pros and cons as well as how it will benefit everyone as a whole. Getting an amendment ratified can be just as hard or even harder since you have to get a certain number of favored votes from state and congress. Individuals may run into problems they have not thought of while they were creating their amendment or they may realize that it isn’t the greatest thing that they thought would be beneficial after all. But overall, whether or not…

two-hundred years ago, the first experiment into a true democratic state began in the United States of America, with the signing of the Constitution. The United States had just won a war against the oppressive British Empire, and a new nation was born out of the independence. The Constitution was written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, which was convened from May 25th, of 1787, until the Constitution was signed on September 17th, 1787. This was the first time that…

prevent the tyranny of the majority, and protect the rights of the minorities. The constitution of The United States, and The Federalist Papers both outline how a proper republic should be established, with strategies to limit the impact of factions, and create majority and minority rights. Michael Parenti wrote “The Constitution as an Elitist Document”, in which he argues against some of the points made in the Constitution and in the Federalist Papers. John Roche writes “The Founding…

that the Articles needed to be completely thrown out and a new form of government needed to be created, which turned out to be the Constitution. However, not everyone had the same ideas or wants for the new government. In the articles A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and A Constitution for the Few by Michael Parenti, both argue that the Constitution was created by the privileged and for the benefit of the privileged. Jack Rakove in The Philadelphia Story: The Founding…

The Federalists paper one states that were believed in having a strong central government and wanted to evenly divide power among different branches of government. In writing the first Federalist paper Alexander Hamilton, the main author of the federalist papers shows the importance of the creation of the Constitution by stating that, “Nothing less than the existence of the union…the fate of an empire, in many respects,…

While the ideal example of a democracy places the decisions of government in citizen’s hands, the United States rarely does as such. For example, the Supreme Court, while influenced by public approval and public opinion, isolates itself from the media and public in two specific ways. Its Justices, appointed by the president, are indirect methods for people to get what they want from the highest branch of the Judiciary Branch. Similar to the method and processes used to elect a president…