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Submitted by spanya on March 30, 2008
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The Constitution is a foundation of the United States. It represents freedom and rights of all people; and the government that answerable to them but strong enough to effect the proper purposes.
The US Constitution was made public on September 12, 1787. It was a direct effect of people of 13 colonies who wanted to be free from Britain and be independent. All 13 colonies were very different from each other, but they needed to stay together in order to grow and prosper. The work started in 1776 and the representatives from each colony worked on constitution, but the final decision was on citizens, who debated on the final “draw”. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote a series of articles in favor of the Constitution that became known as The Federalist Papers. In these papers they wrote about the “union”, “republican government” and “liberty”.
Just like a say “Rules are made to be broken”, the constitution’s laws have been ignored.
During the time when “constitution was born there were many slaves. With the 13th Amendment, slavery was made illegal. The 14th Amendment said that every person born in the United States was a full citizen. Even former slaves were full citizens. The 15th Amendment made sure that black people could vote. These changes protected many freedoms, or at least was meant to. In 1850 there were still some states where slavery was legal. Even after civil war, in 1960 the separation between blacks and whites was extreme, and no way were their rights equal. In September 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, where more than 80% of people affected by it were African-Americans, mother of our president, Barbara Bush commented: “…What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them…”....
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