Value Of The Constitution Essay

The constitution was written in order to achieve a centralized government, after the Articles of Confederation did not achieve the desired outcome expected. It divided the government up into three branches, the Judicial to interpret the laws, Executive to enforce the laws, and Legislative to make the laws. The checks and balance system was created to make sure that no one branch became more powerful than the other. The constitution consists of twenty-seven amendments, the first ten of which are commonly known as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of rights demonstrates political liberty as in they protect people’s civil rights, such as the second amendment, which protects the right to bear and keep arms, and also the fourth amendment which prohibits illegal searches and seizures, without a warrant based on probable cause. The constitution demonstrates political equality in the fifteenth amendment, by allowing …show more content…
The ninth amendment protects all rights not mentioned in the Constitution awhile the tenth reinforces the principles of federalism and that the federal government can only possess powers given to it by the states or the people through the constitution. Popular sovereignty is clearly demonstrated in the constitution beginning with the preamble, “we the people...” In my personal opinion the Constitution promotes these value to a fair extent. I believe some of these principles, for example the popular sovereignty principle in the constitution, do not offer a clear understanding such as abortions and the choice of deciding to end one’s life, as in the die with dignity act, for examples as displayed in the ninth and tenth amendments of protecting all rights not mentioned in the