Essay On American Freedom

America has been known as the final destination for billions of people for centuries now. We were one of the first countries to ever offer the freedom of religion. When we became a country, we created a constitution. What separated our’s from the rest of the world is that we included something called the “Bill of Rights.” The Bill of Rights is ten laws made that the government cannot amend. America also has the oldest unchanged constitution, although we’re the youngest country. This shows that we are a firm country who listens to our people. Our forefathers based this country on several ideas, but the foremost was the idea of freedom. The people of America came from countries like England and France, where they had no real type of freedom and were basically items of the state. When people came to the “new land,” they came for many freedoms, such as speech, religion, and a new life. When we became a country we wanted to avoid a monarchy, or a single ruler who dictated all the people of the country. So we set up a Democracy to help prevent this. This helped us gain more freedom because the leadership of our country was divided into three groups and several different …show more content…
By this question I mean asking how people think of the general nature of Americans. If someone were to ask me what the French were like, I would think of a thin man at average height who is very passionate and very angry. Or if someone were to ask about a Korean, most people think of a small, thin, arrogant man that tends to dislike America. So it’s sad to say, but when someone asks what an American is like, we are thought of as a people that are average in height, quite obese, and “stuck up,” so to speak. The thing that many countries will say about us (however) is that we are free. Many countries citizens wish they could say this. This is characteristic of America also makes it a “final