Eleven years after America declared its independence from England the Constitution was adopted and signed into this great nation. This was not event our Founding Fathers took lightly as it took them 116 days to produce the final document that would not even be ratified for almost another year. Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson who insisted that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against any government. This man who was helped shape the freedoms that we take for granted today also had another unique belief in that the Constitution should be rewritten every nineteen years. I for one happen to think that he was one of the most forward think men in history and that he was right. Who among us in this world can
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It clearly cemented into our nation’s history the natural freedoms that our founding fathers felt should exist amongst all men. It was a freedom that to this very day inspires thousands of immigrants to flee their homelands with hope of a better tomorrow in America. Unfortunately they are rather generalized freedoms that allow people to hide behind its protection to do immoral things. In today’s society we a see these immoral acts all the time in the form of hate speech. The majority have heard of these instances from the Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas and the even more uncontrollable and damaging cyberbullying. As long as the people using hate speech do not use “threats of illegal conduct or incitement intended to and likely to produce imminent illegal conduct,” (Volokh) then they are protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Serving in the Marine Corps here in Oklahoma City, I have come across the Westboro Baptist Church while doing a funeral detail in Shawnee, OK. It was their right to be there and to say degrading things that hurt the family and infuriated everyone there that day who just wanted to honor the young man that died serving in the …show more content…
Taking into consideration the conditions that the Framers of the Constitution lived under prior to their most important work, it makes sense that they would include such a thing. However, today’s military has the funding, resources, and capabilities to build forward operating bases complete with an airstrip in less time than it takes to build the average house here in America. One could argue that this is only possible because the 3rd Amendment existed to begin with, but those capabilities will not go away if we excluded it from the Constitution
It clearly cemented into our nation’s history the natural freedoms that our founding fathers felt should exist amongst all men. It was a freedom that to this very day inspires thousands of immigrants to flee their homelands with hope of a better tomorrow in America. Unfortunately they are rather generalized freedoms that allow people to hide behind its protection to do immoral things. In today’s society we a see these immoral acts all the time in the form of hate speech. The majority have heard of these instances from the Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas and the even more uncontrollable and damaging cyberbullying. As long as the people using hate speech do not use “threats of illegal conduct or incitement intended to and likely to produce imminent illegal conduct,” (Volokh) then they are protected by the 1st Amendment of the Constitution. Serving in the Marine Corps here in Oklahoma City, I have come across the Westboro Baptist Church while doing a funeral detail in Shawnee, OK. It was their right to be there and to say degrading things that hurt the family and infuriated everyone there that day who just wanted to honor the young man that died serving in the …show more content…
Taking into consideration the conditions that the Framers of the Constitution lived under prior to their most important work, it makes sense that they would include such a thing. However, today’s military has the funding, resources, and capabilities to build forward operating bases complete with an airstrip in less time than it takes to build the average house here in America. One could argue that this is only possible because the 3rd Amendment existed to begin with, but those capabilities will not go away if we excluded it from the Constitution