An Essay on what it means to be An American The United States of America is perhaps the greatest country in the world today. The US obtains a booming economy and by far one of the most ferocious military forces imaginable. The United States is also the ultimate land of opportunity with abundant freedoms and the longest lasting democratic government in the history of the world. One can clearly observe what makes the country so grand; however, the real question remains, what does it mean to be an American? The true spirit of an American citizen is represented by Manifest Destiny, the Bill of Rights, and overwhelming ingenuity. To begin, persons who are “American”, or citizens of the United States, must represent …show more content…
The Bill of Rights was initially installed into the US Constitution as a way of guaranteeing anti-federalists that the new and improved US Government would not impeach their rights as free citizens, and would officially become part of the US constitution on the 15th of December, 1791, after the ratification of the Bill of Rights by the Virginia’s legislature. The Bill of Rights contains 27 Amendments today, and represents the individual liberties promised to each and every citizen by the United States Government. These rights protect freedoms such as: owning a firearm, freedom of protest, the right for women to vote, and the illegalization of cruel and unusual punishments. It is these rights that make US citizens who they are. As an American citizen it is one’s duty to enjoy the freedoms presented, and remember honorably the lives that were lost to protect these …show more content…
Ingenuity can be defined as the quality of being clever, original, and inventive. The United States of America was created on the idea of ingenuity, and the idea that citizens have God given rights that shall not be impeached. This unalienable idea is the foundation of modern day America and greatly helped in the building of the foundation of the colonial United States. Men like, Henry Ford, who created the modern assembly line, greatly shaped the United States. Without this sense of ingenuity in the United States, the industrial revolution would have never happened, which would have infected a massive amount of countries around the world. When farming today, one may find it simple to succeed with ease do to revolutionary inventions that aid in the farming processes. All in all, without this infinite moral, the United States would have experienced far less advancement in technology and manufacturing as well as all other