The Importance Of Civil War Amendments

On October 17, 1878, a written document called the U.S Constitution was signed. The U.S Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. But, back in 1878 it was signed off to replace the previous document, this document was called the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation were too weak and not every state agreed with its laws. Now, the strong U.S Constitution has twenty-seven amendments written in it, where every citizen must follow each amendment. An amendment is a change in a legal document made by changing, altering or omitting a specific term. If an amendment is to be written in the U.S Constitution, it first must be voted by at least two-thirds of Congress. This includes the Senate and House of Representatives
The Civil War Rights were written in the 1860’s, shortly after the Civil War ended. All these amendments helped prevent any cruel act that happened during the Civil War. This category of amendments is important to me seeing that it projects equality and fairness amongst everyone, no matter the race or nationality. It seems that our lives without these amendments equality would be much worse that it already is. One amendment that is part of the Civil War Rights category and prohibits slavery is amendment thirteen. Amendment thirteen is an example of why the Civil War Rights amendments are important to the Constitution, in the possibility that slavery would still exist without
All of these amendments have to do with at least one of the following: voting, presidential terms and elections. These amendments are important to in the view that they supply information on how many terms a president can be president for, how voting works and much more. Life without these amendments would be very complicated. This is my opinion on behalf that we wouldn’t pick our president like we do today and this candidate could be president for as long as he/she wants being there are no rights that would contradict it. This is not fair to the people of the United States, showing that they would not be able to vote for their next leader. Amendments that are similar to this are, amendments twenty- two and twenty-five. The twenty second amendment explains how many terms and years a president can serve. On the other hand, amendment twenty-five displays that if something were to happen to the president, who would be able to take over for him or