The Constitutional Democracy Of The United States

Since the ratification of the Constitution, more than 11,000 amendments have been proposed. The Constitution of the United States of America was Officially ratified in 1789. This makes the document over two-hundred years old. Since the time of its writing and eventual ratification, the document has been amended and interpreted in many ways. Whether it be prohibition to the abolition of slavery. The Constitution has been constantly updated over time. It has not laid stagnant with the time. The Constitution has remained the document off of which we have based our country for many years. A major question that has been posed is, why do we as a country still feel bound to this document written so many years ago? The reasons are fairly simple. The Constitution of the United States can and has been over many years amended, the laws and thoughts of a people can be expressed through the Constitution, and the constitution has functioned, with a few bumps in the road, fairly well over the last two-hundred years. The people of the United States should still stand behind this Constitution because it infact still serves us well today in many ways. A few being that it can be amended and “Fixed”, and another being that it does still protect our rights as citizens.

The United States Constitution is set up for democracy like the colonist wanted. The constitution prevents anarchy and protects your rights. As a citizen you are protected by the Bill of Rights. We are entitled to freedom of speech, religion, and have dual process. We have guaranteed rights, separated powers of government to prevent tyranny, and we elect our representatives under The United States Constitution. The United States Constitution is set up to keep up with changing times.

Taxes were passed by Parliament following the French and Indian War. To protect its colonies, the British were forced to fight against the French and the Native

King George the III and Parliament decided to make British Colonies pay for the war debt from the French and Indian War or also known as the Seven Year War.The taxes were paid on a printed material.

Parliament wanted to raise taxes to help pay for the cost of the French and Indian War.

The British felt that the war for the Colonists, so the British wanted to start taxing

The French and Indian War caused England to force tax rates higher, exclaimed in Document 3; The Stamp Act. The Stamp Act stated in part LIV that “monies shall arise by the several rates and duties hereby granted (…raising, collecting, recovering, answering, and paying)… shall be paid into the receipt of his Majesty’s exchequer”. This therefore angered the colonists in America and

The British needed to pay off the debt from the French and Indian War. Prime Minister George Grenville decided to tax the Americans because they were the most lightly taxed people throughout all of the territories and colonies the British controlled. In his opinion, the French and Indian War benefited the colonists because the French would no longer attack them. Therefore, the English

During 1763 after the French and Indian War (seven years war) Great British was in debt. The seven years war was an expensive war.The British parliament puts taxes on everything

Due to the economic toll taken on the country during the French and Indian War, Great Britain was prompted to impose taxes

Even though democracy was first invented in Greece, fully grew and developed in the United states. As we know democracy is the back bone for one country’s development. When the government is under the law, it is least likely abusing the country’s resources for individual use and participating in corruption. For example, Africa has different kind of good resources, but the continent is very back ward because of their corrupted and dictator governors. A constitution is a framework that legally describes the rules and procedures of a government and legally binds that government to a set of guides as it limits and empowers the government to act in the name of the people or the state. “America got a constitution

The result of the French and Indian war was fought mainly between France, Native American allies, and England. This war was fought on the North American continent for a reason and it was for having colonial authority. When the war ended, the British had won but now they faced a problem that was they now doubled their previous debt and had a large and expanding North American territory to defend. For them to make up all the money they lost in the war the British Parliament began taxing the citizens that lived Britain and in the colonies. Since the colonists were British citizens it made sense that they had to pay taxes to help pay for the war. The American colonists did not really do anything big to help the war efforts, and the British even

The British Parliament attempted to put several new taxes in place as a way to regain the money they had lost from the French

The Constitution does not represent a true democracy. A democracy is a form of government in which the majority rule has the utmost power. The power is supposed to be vested within the citizens of the nation which decide on policy. The constitution fails to grant power as it provides indirect representation through the people of the United States. Examples in presidential elections, checks and balances, popular public opinion, gender and racial equality, and gerrymandering, prove that the United States is in fact, not a true democracy.

The French and Indian war left Britain in debt. Since the war was mostly fought in North America and since they believed the war benefited the colonies more than Britain, they saw it reasonable to tax the colonists for the war. That led to some unpopular taxes, that included the stamp act a tea tax and