Alyssa Sherwin

DE VA/US History

15 November 2019

The U.S. Constitution

This is our time. Our year for independence, our year to lead ourselves, our

year to break free. So what do we do? Let everyone run freely? Personally, I think we

should lay down some rules that allow freedom, but also controls a lot at the same

time. This country, without rules, will run down quickly. We need a strong country to

show England that we are now independent and do not need to rely on them to run

successfully as a country. The US Constitution, written in 1787, will help us with this

positive and equal government.

The Constitution put laws into place that will help create an equal

representation throughout all of the states. Each state has two votes for its senators

and an equal number of votes for their house of representatives. These votes will be

used in congress to decide major decisions affecting the country. This way, everyone

has the same amount of votes for their state. Us delegates have also devised a plan,

known as the federal system, for a stronger federal government with three branches

—executive, legislative, and judicial—along with a system of checks and balances to

ensure no single branch will have too much power.

Also, our new government system allows everyone to have basic human rights.

The Bill of Rights, which were added to the Constitution in 1791, were 10 changes

guaranteeing basic individual protections, such as freedom of speech and religion to

all citizens. Without this, the government may be able to restrict these, making it an

unjust country, which we do not want. The people of this country want it to be as free

as possible after separating from Britain. The U.S. Constitution encouraged more
citizen participation since it was going to be the first time people actually had a say on

who would lead them.

In 1791, Congress ratified the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, that gave the

citizens of the United States more freedoms, but also regulations to keep both the

people and the government in check. The first ten amendments included the freedom

of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, the

quartering of soldiers, the search and seizure, etc. The rest of the amendments

started getting adopted in 1795. All of these amendments were put into place four

years after the ratification of the Constitution in order to provide a law with the

protection of the federal government. States are now unable to pass any law that

violates these amendments so that everything is fair across all of the states.

Let us now ratify the constitution to become a better nation overall.