The Framer’s Fault The constitution of United state of America was written in 1789. The constitution is the most important piece of legislature on how our system works. It contains all the rules, articles, and the Amendments that everyone in the Untied States should follow. It was written by the framers. The writing was clear according to that time especially they were alive to explain it to others. After a while, the constitution started to be misunderstood or taking for granted. “The framers of the American constitution were visionaries. They designed out constitution to endure. They sought not only to address the specific challenges facing the nation during their lifetimes, but to establish the foundational principles that would
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I argue otherwise, if it was not listed in the constitution, no one will have to follow it. A lot of people took advantage of that, therefore, the discrimination existed. Framers were afraid to list any right that might be incomplete and later be interpreted to deny rights not listed; but that is exactly what happened when they did not list the rights. By not writing a set of rules of what is right and what is not, it created a room for other people to assume what they think is right because the constitution did not say otherwise. For example, Jim Crow was set of laws that made for segregation between black and whites. It barred African Americans from sharing the same bathrooms, classes, buses, restaurants, and even mental hospitals. That led to the civil rights activists to used nonviolent protests which forced the government to announced the voting right act on 1965 and the civil rights on 1968 (civil rights movement). Many leaders of the African American community were involved in these protesting or had a great role during that period were Martin Luther King, Rosa Park, Malcolm X and many others, they risked their lives and some of them lost it fighting and believing in freedom and equality (civil rights movement). I think if these rights were already written in the constitution, it might not have led to the segregation that happened in the
I argue otherwise, if it was not listed in the constitution, no one will have to follow it. A lot of people took advantage of that, therefore, the discrimination existed. Framers were afraid to list any right that might be incomplete and later be interpreted to deny rights not listed; but that is exactly what happened when they did not list the rights. By not writing a set of rules of what is right and what is not, it created a room for other people to assume what they think is right because the constitution did not say otherwise. For example, Jim Crow was set of laws that made for segregation between black and whites. It barred African Americans from sharing the same bathrooms, classes, buses, restaurants, and even mental hospitals. That led to the civil rights activists to used nonviolent protests which forced the government to announced the voting right act on 1965 and the civil rights on 1968 (civil rights movement). Many leaders of the African American community were involved in these protesting or had a great role during that period were Martin Luther King, Rosa Park, Malcolm X and many others, they risked their lives and some of them lost it fighting and believing in freedom and equality (civil rights movement). I think if these rights were already written in the constitution, it might not have led to the segregation that happened in the