Our Nations Constitution is defined as, “A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed.” This document originally came about in 1789, but then had been altered with twenty-plus amendments. With the creation of the Constitution itself, it confirmed the necessary and basic rights to be given to all American’s in the United States, previously from the war. Before the Constitution, the United States went by the Articles of the Confederation, but it failed as a result of the system being too weak. One factor of this was the Nation was not being given enough power from Congress. Therefore, the states often tended not to follow the laws and rules that the national government had pressed upon them because they were not truly enforced. Consequently, the Constitution was created in order to make a stronger Federal government. …show more content…
The first being that the government should be used to accomplish any major thing of in the society with the power automatically given to them, while the other side of the argument is that it should be used only for individual liberty among the people. The author believed that liberty came before power and that dependence on the people was the primary control. The reading continued hinting at that the Constitution was not written in stone, meaning it could easily be changed. The main reason this was started was to grant every citizen in the United States a Republican form of government, in hopes to strengthen the United States. Although the text can be interpreted in a multitude of ways, the history behind it is only one. In conclusion, I would like to close with a quote I found from the last page of the reading it states, “Is the Constitution simply a mirror in which one sees what they want to see?” and I think that that is a perfect example of how each person could view the Constitution differently, just like the author