Constitution Of America Research Paper
It’s the middle of the 19th Century; the country is shattered and weak from a rebellious South that has succeeded from the Union. Destruction and anarchy reign in the nation as its citizens kill and slaughter each other over slavery and states rights. Nations look at the failed “Great Experiment” that the United States has become, as it seems that the short-lived United States is over. However, they never would have foreseen the boom of prosperity and wealth that was soon to follow all the chaos. A seemingly insignificant young boy wakes up on a frosty winter morning in a small, poor household in Cleveland, Ohio in the midst of this time period. He is forced to help provide for his family at a very young age, and he knows today will be another
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The people would elect the officials who would be in these branches of government. They knew that in order for a nation to be successful they must guarantee the rights of the people in order that they might be able to be successful. James Wilson said, in his oration at Philadelphia on July 4, 1788, celebrating the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, "A good constitution is the greatest blessing which a society can enjoy." The answer to the question of how the constitution led to the success of America is that the constitution created a fertile soil of freedom, which allowed people to do whatever they wanted with it. People throughout the U.S.’s history may have done nothing, planted no seed and fell into poverty and neediness. Or maybe they planted a seed of mediocrity and settled for something just to “get by”. But the most successful people utilized that fertile soil of freedom and planted the seeds of hard work and innovation, which eventually grew into abundance and prosperity.
The Constitution allows us to do whatever we want with our lives. It allows anyone, even the poor, to make a name for themselves by pure hard work and innovation. However words on a mere piece of paper will never be enough to ensure this continues in the future. It is the citizen’s obligation to check and monitor the government, in order to ensure it’s serving us and abiding by the Constitution. The founding fathers believed that the general public, made up of ordinary people, gives power to the government, and that the government is our creation not our
The people would elect the officials who would be in these branches of government. They knew that in order for a nation to be successful they must guarantee the rights of the people in order that they might be able to be successful. James Wilson said, in his oration at Philadelphia on July 4, 1788, celebrating the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, "A good constitution is the greatest blessing which a society can enjoy." The answer to the question of how the constitution led to the success of America is that the constitution created a fertile soil of freedom, which allowed people to do whatever they wanted with it. People throughout the U.S.’s history may have done nothing, planted no seed and fell into poverty and neediness. Or maybe they planted a seed of mediocrity and settled for something just to “get by”. But the most successful people utilized that fertile soil of freedom and planted the seeds of hard work and innovation, which eventually grew into abundance and prosperity.
The Constitution allows us to do whatever we want with our lives. It allows anyone, even the poor, to make a name for themselves by pure hard work and innovation. However words on a mere piece of paper will never be enough to ensure this continues in the future. It is the citizen’s obligation to check and monitor the government, in order to ensure it’s serving us and abiding by the Constitution. The founding fathers believed that the general public, made up of ordinary people, gives power to the government, and that the government is our creation not our