Rebellion as It Really Is

The United States of America was founded on a Constitution that was supposed to preserve our freedoms and certain liberties. All Americans at that time wanted to keep America a free an independent nation with rights for its people. However there was two different groups, the Federalists lead by Alexander Hamilton and the Democratic-Republicans led by Thomas Jefferson, which thought this could be achieved in very different ways.

In the remarkably known movie, “Rebel without a Cause”, is one of the finest movies ever, depicting on teenagers and rebellion. The movie begins with the main character, Jim Starks, being drunk and taken into the police station. This girl, Judy was also in the station, complaining about her dad to one of the police officer and John, referred to as Plato, is also in the station talking to an officer about the crime he committed, killing puppies. So, Jim’s parents come to get him and they begin disputing, which is why Jim is drunk in the first place. He refers to his home as a “zoo” several times throughout the movie, because his parents are always arguing. His dad doesn’t stand up to his mother which irritates him.

They had been in love with the thought of liberty and believed foreseen rights for man would be good for man’s nature. Knowingly experiencing tyranny from the grand countries, the Fathers constructed the Constitution very carefully in order to avoid tyranny and a government for the people, by the people, and of the people would be developed. The First Amendment was created to ensure that the government would not and could not interfere with American citizens basic civil rights. Being that this Amendment was so important, many states refused to approve such documents as the Constitution until there were amendments that would protect people’s rights in the future. The Founding Fathers made the constitution to where eventually even in today’s days it would protect the rights of American citizens. There is always leeway with in the amendments to where not only does it protect the people of the past, but it protects the

The people are the basis for any power that the federal government preserves and must always protect those who empower them. The written Constitution they created was not to define the rights of the people, but to limit the powers the national government would hold over the people. The Constitution would create a National government that would create a strong federal government, while safeguarding the rights of the people, and conserving checks on power it holds. The framers did not believe in cataloging individual rights in the constitution. They believed it would be threatening to define the rights that the people hold. Alexander Hamilton specifically believed that the Constitution had no power to infringe on the natural rights that all people have. However, the Bill of Rights was created from a compromise and thus, created the first ten amendments to the Constitution. These rights listed protections from the National government. These rights have proven to be security against the federal governments use of an enumerated power that they might hold. It is important for this very reason to have a written Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. It does not define what rights the people hold, it defines what the government is entrusted to protect: the people. It is for this reason that I agree that the Bill of Rights was necessary to be written in the

In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson expresses unalienable rights as a ideal for the US government. It has been argued on National Public Radio that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are essential to America’s government(Doc B). Citizens need to be able to depend on unalienable rights without doubt that the government can take them away because they are rights citizens are born with. Sullivan believed the government should “place(s) liberty at the center of its concerns” in order to give the people the rights they deserve. This shows that unalienable rights are very important to the U.S. government in order to give the people the rights they deserve; however, it is not the most important one to the American society.

“The United States was founded on the principle that no one person or group should have too much control”. The Constitution was intentionally structured to allocate specific duties and establish a series of checks and balances among the federal

Inalienable means that you cannot, no matter how hard you try, separate someone from those rights. They become a part of you just for existing. They remain a part of you that no one can remove from the rest of you. Even if someone scares you they still have rights. Even if someone blows up a building they still have rights. They have the same rights as any criminal. The document goes on to say, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” So to make sure that we have those rights we create governments. Our government is supposed to protect everyones rights. It doesn’t say only those we like. It is the same for everyone. Continuing with the declaration, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.” We should abolish any government that separates you from your rights. If changes affected our rights America’s founders thought we should abolish them. Finally it says, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to

The Bill of Rights, written by Antifederalists, shows us how some Americans were fearful of a strong central government, how they wanted a limited government so it wasn’t too powerful, and how they protected basic individual rights. The Anti-federalists begged and argued for a new list that secured the rights they believed the original Constitution did not provide. There was a constant debate between whether or not to add the Bill of Rights, because some people thought that if they created it, all other rights were insignificant. Many Americans were fearful that the government was going to have too much power because of the Constitution, but they felt secure if they made a list of their official rights. Most of the people who wanted the Bill of Rights, were poor people, who felt they needed a say in the government.

Throughout the history of the United States there is no question that freedom from not only Britain, but themselves was of the utmost importance to many of the colonists. This was proven with numerous occurrences most notably, the Revolutionary War. However, in the aftermath of all of this was the question of government, and with the failing Articles of Confederation a convention was called, during which a debate over the rights of the citizens ensued. Federalists claimed all the powers of the new government were clearly listed. On the contrary the anti-federalists argued that this wasn’t the case and that it clearly be stated so the government could not violate them. Without the Bill of Rights the constitution offered no protection the citizens rights, this was a concern to not only the anti-federalists but many others. The Bill of Rights was specifically written as a check to the newly formed federal government, as previous experiences with Britain, and tyranny created concern in all of the colonists.

Sure it went into detail what the government can do, but it never said what the government couldn't do. Because the Americans recently broke their steel chains from the English monarchy, they wanted to make sure that their rights were not to be taken for granted. Thomas Jefferson once stated that “A Bill of Rights is what the people is entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse.” The farmers the took Jefferson’s advice and implemented the Bill of Rights into the Constitution. The founders believed that limiting the government’s power and ensuring that their liberties were secure was of utmost importance. This led to the government’s new job: to protect individual rights. Unfortunately, throughout the years, the government has become blinded with greed and have strayed from their true

The United States had only been out of the revolutionary war for a few years and the call for a new government was growing more urgent. The constitution was drafted and some drafters thought that certain guarantees were necessary. They proposed a Bill of Rights so that the new government would not be able to become as tyrannical as the British one. However a Bill of Rights was unnecessary. Anti-Federalists were worried the government would take away the people’s rights. However Congress only has the power to do what is said it can do in the constitution, and nowhere is it stated that they can restrict the rights of the people. As James Wilson puts it “In a government like the proposed one, there can be no necessity for a bill of rights. For..

The following principle is “that [all citizens] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” These rights are self-evident and presented as what enlightened humanity understands about being a human being and what this entails. These rights are not originated in America; however, it is the challenge of American politics to secure these rights. These inalienable rights are to be protected by the government, as claimed in the document “that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.” This insinuates these rights are to be protected by the government, which is one of the fundamental bases of American politics. These natural rights produce a legitimate government and disassemble a government founded on heredity, religion, race, etc. The government in turn gets its power from the

Our founding fathers had grand ideas of what this new world would and could be, they just had to all agree on how it would work. During the process of ratifying the United States Constitution, major concerns included discomfort with creating a strong, central government that would necessarily take away some states' rights, and with the lack of any guaranteed personal freedoms. It could not have been ratified at all if it had not been for the promise of adding the Bill of Rights. The right to display a real process of government was a central issue in American in 1787.

“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” (Thomas Jefferson). When America was granted their freedom no one thought that it would become the country it is today. However without the smart thinking of our forefathers we would never be the nation we are today. As a newly formed nation Thomas Jefferson advertised relocation to America via the declaration which stated America promised three important things, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those three promises have always remained true as America progressed and the

William Butler Yeats's poems "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming" each portray the theme of rebellion. However, rebellion is not always heroic and these two poems clash with one another to prove this point. "Easter 1916" contains text which presents rebellion as a positive action; whereas, "The Second Coming" makes the reader believe rebellion only leads to pure chaos and disorder until the end of time. In addition, Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" supports the idea of rebellion as a positive, honorable movement with examples throughout the text. Tales of rebelliousness and heroism have been used throughout history to inspire and give