America Should Correct the Constitution
Over two hundred years ago a formal document was created to establish the basic rules of America’s government; what the writers did not know, however, was that the world has changed over the many years in between then and now. The Constitution was written in a formal language, which is difficult to understand today; furthermore, the document still allowed slavery to be legal. An idea brought up today, one that even Thomas Jefferson himself suggested, was that every generation the constitution was repaired to help go along with the modern world. If the idea is put into action it would spark a whole new meaning of the living document. For example, if the Constitution was updated every generation there
Over two hundred years ago a formal document was created to establish the basic rules of America’s government; what the writers did not know, however, was that the world has changed over the many years in between then and now. The Constitution was written in a formal language, which is difficult to understand today; furthermore, the document still allowed slavery to be legal. An idea brought up today, one that even Thomas Jefferson himself suggested, was that every generation the constitution was repaired to help go along with the modern world. If the idea is put into action it would spark a whole new meaning of the living document. For example, if the Constitution was updated every generation there