In 1787, the delegates from all 13 original colonies gathered in Philadelphia and came up with the idea of self-government, in other words the Constitution of the United States. In the constitution they set up a system called Checks and Balances. This system consisted of three strong branches of government the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branch. The Constitution had many flaws with it, for example it did not contain a Bill of Rights. It only specified what actions the government could or couldn't take in any circumstance. Also, most of the rights were only to be applied to white men only and not women or people of color. The absence of the Bill of Rights made it challenging for the Constitution to get ratified by the states. One reason …show more content…
Democracy implies the act of people being able to vote in fair elections and make political decisions. In the other hand Liberty means that no suppressing government is able to strip you of your rights. In other words, you are not bounded by your government and are able to express your opinions in the media or in your way of speech. The framers of the Constitution wanted to protect the people’s rights from an abusive government. Refereed in the Declaration of Independence as Unalienable rights, they were known as natural rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The first to fall in the category of liberty is freedom of speech, commonly we are entitled to the freedom to say what's on our minds. But to protect that right we had to, not only make it clear, but to emphasize the significance by placing it in the very first amendment. Along with freedom of religion, press, petition and assembly, they are free to be expressed in anyway without being influenced from the government. These are not only the building blocks of our free society, but also the main reasons of why so many immigrates risk they're lives trying to have a taste of what freedom is in