What Does the Constitution Mean to Me? What is the Constitution? The Constitution is a document that has a set of laws which help the country stay in order. It was written and signed on September 17th, 1787. It established America’s national government, guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens and established fundamental laws for the United States. The United States founding fathers decided to create it because they wanted a balanced government with three branches called executive, legislative
believe and assume that the First Amendment requires a “wall of separation between Church and State.” This is challenged today, but it is not actually a part of the Constitution or any of the Amendments it did not exist until the twentieth century. In fact, separation of church and state is a phrase that Thomas Jefferson and used to understand the function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In the letter to the danbury
United States Constitution has 27 Amendments and the first 10 Amendments are called The Bill of Rights are that Thomas Jefferson wrote. The first 10 Amendments were established to protect the individuals’ rights and freedom from all the states. One of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest influence was George Mason when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. The 1st Amendment protect the freedom of religion, speech, and press. This means that you are allowed to exercise any type of religion in this country
The constitution is a living, breathing document. It is considered a living document because it was made so that it could be changed in the future so that it could evolve with the country. There a multiple ways the constitution can be changed. These changes prove that it is a living document. One way the constitution can be changed is The Elastic Clause. This allows congress to make laws to help them do their job. One example of Elastic Clause is the Escobedo vs. Illinois case. Escobedo was arrested
and religion reasons. Europe people were a bad land when they get in to harvest seasons, so they looking for a new land bigger and good soil, which was America. Newspaper in Europe and litters from immigrant family encourage people to come to the new land. The united Stated decided to establish the roll for these people came to live. It was very hard for the new immigrants to lift their families and homeland. However, they will come to new land for social, economic, and religion. The first Amendment
play a large role in the governing. The Constitution of the United States, was a document that laid down the basic principles that the United States was born on, which was created by the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. It sets up a federal government with three separate branches of power. However, the Constitution has been questioned by many people. The Bill of Rights came out later on after the Constitution, it is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Is the Bill of Rights necessary? Sure
rights. Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty .Fearing centralization of power in the national government, the Antifederalists set about a strong propaganda campaign, pointing to the absence of guarantees of freedoms in the constitution. The First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting
twenty-seven amendments to the US Constitution giving all US citizens a variety of rights. You may ask, but why is this important? Is there a reason we should even know about them? Truth is, yes, we do have to know them for privacy reasons, government issues, protection, and within others. In the next couple paragraphs, ten out of the twenty-seven amendments will mentioned in specific detail for a better understanding. Being a US citizen has its perks, but knowing the amendments of the Constitution is something
Matthew Miller Mr. Jordan Computer science 28/9/15 The US Constitution The U.S. Constitution established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by George Washington. While you might think “wow that is just a piece of paper why is it so important”. Well it is what prevents racial discrimination and tries to prevent murder
fundamental for our everyday lives. Civil liberties are our natural rights, such as freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness, which the government cannot change by making new laws. In today’s society both of these terms have a different approach. Civil rights are considered to be our natural rights. Civil rights means that people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race, gender, or religion. Although civil rights are supposed to be guaranteed by law, this took many years