Unalienable Rights

For the last 227 years, the Constitution of the United States of America has protected the rights of individual citizens extremely well, resulting in many future nations basing theirs off of it. To me, the Constitution implies that everyone, regardless of one’s background, is subjected to the same laws and protections that are afforded by the document. The fact the Constitution protects one’s unalienable rights and the power of the government is consented-to by the people showcases the equality presented by the document which formed what a modern-day American knows as “government”. Unalienable rights, or the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are well-protected within the amendments to the US Constitution. Unalienable rights are rights that people should be guaranteed from birth. For example, in Amendment One, liberty is protected in the form of freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to peacefully assemble. In these situations, the government may not intervene. The rights to life and the pursuit of happiness are both exemplified in the Fourteenth Amendment where “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
For example, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide powers not delegated to the federal government, to the states and the people. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (US Const. amend. X). In addition to the Tenth Amendment, the Second Amendment also follows the principals of “consent of the governed” because, as outlined in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, if a government doesn’t follow its own laws which the people had consented to, the people have the right to alter or abolish the said