Core+Ideals+of+U.S.+Society

=Mitchell H= In which of our national document(s) (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, etc…) can you find the core ideal? Equality is in article 4 of the constitution.

As a society today, or throughout our history, explain how have we moved toward and/or away from that ideal. Equality was based on whites back when it was made now there are all kinds of people and every one is treated the same thats how we have moved towards it. =Jacob M= Core Ideals of American Society

In which of our national document(s) (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, etc…) can you find the core ideal Individual rights? You can find it in the U.S. constitution, in the bill of rights. The bill of rights was almost all about our rights as citizens as U.S. citizens. It was a guide line of what the government could and couldn’t do to us.

As a society today, or throughout our history, explain how have we moved toward and/or away from that ideal. In America, we have gone towards and away from our individual rights as citizens. We started out with just 10 amendments called the bill of rights. And throughout the years up until now we get more and more rights. Like african americans went from being slaves to be equal, which is pretty awesome that this country did that! But eventually that changed for the worse. We eventually wanted security more than we wanted our rights. Ever since the terrorist attack of 9/11, we have given up more of our rights, and we put lots of faith in the government, thinking they could do everything for us. Well now we are doing the same thing that happened to the romans, and look what happened to them!! So we need to hold our ground and not give the government too much power, which is robbing us of our rights. Now we can barely keep our guns to defend ourselves, and they have fought a war in Iraq that some people don’t agree on at all. But they won’t let us pull out!! See what happened to our rights of war? Maybe we should be allowed to vote on war, I don’t know. But we need to keep our rights!!

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