Abraham Lincoln once said, “Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” Two-hundred and thirty-nine years ago our Declaration of Independence and our freedom was established, along with these came what are know as the American ideals. These are recognized as equality, rights, liberty, democracy and opportunity. Today there is a constant debate of if whether or not present day Americans live up to those ideals. Present day Americans do live up to the ideals of our founding fathers in all five ways, we are only progressing towards the life they had set forward for us and Americans will only surpass any obstacle holding back any of these ideals.
As a nation our …show more content…
This is represented in America is many ways, our Statue of Liberty, the way we are free to conduct ourselves and how we get a choice in law. Our freedom is beyond any measure of excellence, as we look into other countries freedom we see how our sails above all. Freedom is what we fought for during the Revolutionary War, why so many people have died for this country, we had to earn in, it was not just giving to us with ease. When we think of being free we can do whatever we want within in the justified limits. The reason why there are limits are because we need rescissions otherwise the country would be going haywire and there would be a lot more crime and injustice. Laws that set the limits are just there to make sure we can maintain having all of the freedom that we have. Liberty is what gives us the right to democracy, the ability to have a cioce how gets to govern us and what laws we allow and do not. Democracy was one of the most important ideals of the founding fathers, their whole goal was to be separated from England and not have a ruler or a dictator. This is definitely the most achieved ideal of the five because we have stuck with the rules since the beginning when dealing with presidencies. And we have dealt with equality of voting rights, everyone over 18 years old can vote, of any race, background or
As a nation our …show more content…
This is represented in America is many ways, our Statue of Liberty, the way we are free to conduct ourselves and how we get a choice in law. Our freedom is beyond any measure of excellence, as we look into other countries freedom we see how our sails above all. Freedom is what we fought for during the Revolutionary War, why so many people have died for this country, we had to earn in, it was not just giving to us with ease. When we think of being free we can do whatever we want within in the justified limits. The reason why there are limits are because we need rescissions otherwise the country would be going haywire and there would be a lot more crime and injustice. Laws that set the limits are just there to make sure we can maintain having all of the freedom that we have. Liberty is what gives us the right to democracy, the ability to have a cioce how gets to govern us and what laws we allow and do not. Democracy was one of the most important ideals of the founding fathers, their whole goal was to be separated from England and not have a ruler or a dictator. This is definitely the most achieved ideal of the five because we have stuck with the rules since the beginning when dealing with presidencies. And we have dealt with equality of voting rights, everyone over 18 years old can vote, of any race, background or