The Misconceptions Of The Constitution Of 1787
The Constitution was signed at Independence Hall on September 17 in 1787; our copy of the Constitution, however, originates in Philadelphia within the National Constitution Center. The Constitution is an inspiring bases of which its means have advanced for the greater good of the citizens of the American Republic, which has been stated in the Declaration of Independence since 1776. “A great Chief Justice once said, ‘the Declaration is the promise, the Constitution, its fulfillment’,” and that couldn’t have been better put. To fully understand the Constitution and what it means in relation to contemporary problems, we should never stray from the fact that its “self-evident truths” that states that all men are “created equal”; that our freedom
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What people don’t realize is that the Bill of Rights wasn’t apart of the original Constitution from 1787, and not because the document thought that these “rights” weren’t important, but because, as Hamilton stated, “the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights.” Think of it this way, when Americans do business with one another, they usually seal the deal with a handshake, but the majority of the time, like good personal relationships, they believe that a good government is followed by a written down agreement after the handshakes. So after the Constitution had been put into effect in 1789, its signers followed up with the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights (though it does not have a title in the Constitution). Now, there are two things about the Bill of Rights that today’s citizens may not understand. One is that the first ten amendments were emphasizing the “States” rights that pertained more to the minority. The Bill of rights put limitations on the new federal government, but had no restrictions for the “States”. Like the Second Amendment, for example, and how it protected the local militias, and the majority of the other amendments protected the local juries. If you read closely, you will see that the phrase “the people” was stated the most in the majority of the amendments, showing true to the famous words “We the People,” and stating again the fact of Constitutions main goal of popular
What people don’t realize is that the Bill of Rights wasn’t apart of the original Constitution from 1787, and not because the document thought that these “rights” weren’t important, but because, as Hamilton stated, “the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights.” Think of it this way, when Americans do business with one another, they usually seal the deal with a handshake, but the majority of the time, like good personal relationships, they believe that a good government is followed by a written down agreement after the handshakes. So after the Constitution had been put into effect in 1789, its signers followed up with the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights (though it does not have a title in the Constitution). Now, there are two things about the Bill of Rights that today’s citizens may not understand. One is that the first ten amendments were emphasizing the “States” rights that pertained more to the minority. The Bill of rights put limitations on the new federal government, but had no restrictions for the “States”. Like the Second Amendment, for example, and how it protected the local militias, and the majority of the other amendments protected the local juries. If you read closely, you will see that the phrase “the people” was stated the most in the majority of the amendments, showing true to the famous words “We the People,” and stating again the fact of Constitutions main goal of popular