The U.S. Constitution, signed in September on the 17th 1787 at the Convention in Philidelphia. It was written to create America's National Government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for citizens. After devising a plan for a stronger federal government with three branches–executive, legislative and judicial, with the Bill of Rights 10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections, such as freedom of speech and religion. Following America's victory winning its independence from Britain in 1783, it came to the attention that the young republic needed a better central government. In 1786, Alexander Hamilton decided a constitutional convention was in order to discuss the matter. Confederation Congress, after advocating
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To me, the constitution means holding people back and in some ways is useless. Besides the basic laws that NEED to be enforced there are also useless things like 'No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.'. Take to mind the Third Amendment DOES allow soldiers to commandeer quarters in wartime. Officers were observant about making sure they AND their soldiers had multiple opportunities to loot. A complete prohibition against looting, from enemy civilians too, had to wait till the 20th century. To me, I personally think the United States needs a whole new constitution that could possibly save America. The constitution is ignored anyway. The 4th Amendment was developed to protect against any searches made without a good cause and the Patriot act came along which was made to ignore said amendment. Only afterwards it was plain to see it was invasion of privacy, and not just a out there response to terrorism, did it start to get disentagrated away, resulting it eventually being considered unconstitutional. While wiretapping still went
To me, the constitution means holding people back and in some ways is useless. Besides the basic laws that NEED to be enforced there are also useless things like 'No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.'. Take to mind the Third Amendment DOES allow soldiers to commandeer quarters in wartime. Officers were observant about making sure they AND their soldiers had multiple opportunities to loot. A complete prohibition against looting, from enemy civilians too, had to wait till the 20th century. To me, I personally think the United States needs a whole new constitution that could possibly save America. The constitution is ignored anyway. The 4th Amendment was developed to protect against any searches made without a good cause and the Patriot act came along which was made to ignore said amendment. Only afterwards it was plain to see it was invasion of privacy, and not just a out there response to terrorism, did it start to get disentagrated away, resulting it eventually being considered unconstitutional. While wiretapping still went