The Constitution of the United States?

Question

"The Constitution of the United States, agreed between 1787 and 1791, was a revolutionary document for its time." to what extent do u agree with this claim??

well i don't get what this question means so can u please explain this to me

Answer 1

The constitution was a good law because it survived until this date.

Answer 2

Giving full credit where credit is due to the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States was and still is the most revolutionary document of all time! Nothing before or since even comes close. With out bogging down in details, the Constitution asserts and codifies into Law that Power originates with the People. That We The People have the right to form a more perfect Union, the right to establish justice and domestic tranquility. That We the People have the right to provide for our common defense, general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. At no time ever before had anyone since the Greeks even suggested such and even they didn't go this far! The Neo-Cons like to run on and on about this being a Christian Nation founded of Christian Principles but sorry, wrong answer! The Scriptures clearly establish the so-called 'Divine Right of Kings' but Our Constitution sweeps all that away in its Preamble! Revolutionary? Oh hell yea!

Answer 3

It was revolutionary to the extent it both established order AND kept the aristocracy or even the new government to be formed later from having all the power. The people had had rights before (see Magna Carta et seq) but only at the pleasure of some ruler(s). The Constitution was revolutionary not only for the bill of rights, but for limiting the powers of the sovereign to those enumerated in the document.

It has failed to remain true to its authors, its spirit, and its purpose not because it changed, but because the Supremes have interpreted it in a manner wholly inconsisent with its own content. The most egregious (and not coincidentally, the most harmful) example of this is the glorious case of Wickard v. Filburn. The Constitution gave Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. In Wickard v. Filburn, the Supremes said this included the power to regulate things that were neither interstate nor commerce. Since then, there has been about one case where the commerce power was not sufficient to allow Congress to do whatever the heck it wanted (when the thing or power wanted was not an enumerated power).

To sum up:
Revolutionary because of Bill of Rights? Yes, but more than that.
Revolutionary because of doctrine of limited enumerated powers? Yes, much more so than because of Bill of Rights.
Technically still the law of the land, but SCOTUS has effectively gutted it and made it a malleable standard to be applied when they feel like it. Government can pretty much do what it wants without the judiciary stepping in or stopping it.

Answer 4

I must say that you ask very good questions.

I beleive that it is still a revalutionary documant even for today. When was there another document that was designed to give the people the power? When was the last time that that was done in history?

They had at the time some of the Most eduated minds of all time, that studied the forms of government that didn't work or they didn't want to have. So they set about modeling the government after the first few hunderd years of Rome. They had a "Democratic Republic".

That is what we are Supposed to have.

I like the questions you ask because they cause one to think about the subject before answering. Hope this helps. :)

Answer 5

not really. The declaration of independence is the revolutionary document, claiming that the people have the right to remove a tyrannical government. This position was defended at the point of a gun by the Colonialists. These facts make some government officials in the US nervous for some reason.

The constitution is more mundane, like a company charter

The bill of rights is revolutionary, in that it supposedly gives common people "rights" that the government can't take away. Nice THEORY. but in practice has proved feckless, mostly a paper tiger. The government simply finds ways to nullify, water down, ignore or evade your "rights" and does what it wants anyway

Answer 6

I agree 100% with this claim. The Constitution created a new form of government never before seen on the earth. At the time the Constitution was penned, the world was basically divided into empires, with the British empire being the largest at the time.

Answer 7

The Constitution is and continues to be a hipocritcal wonder. It lists the rights of people and our government specifically, without fail it intervenes in everything. However, the constitution said every man was equal, but the U.S was one of the last countries to abolish slavery. We continue to prosecute Mexicans for crossing our border illegally or not when no one realizes that America acquired its size by doing just that. The constitution says that every man may have the right to do with his land what ever he wills, however, the government sometimes neglects this. Even though the constition may be hipocritical, it is a monumental piece of evidence that humanity tried to better itself.

Answer 8

What was revolutionary was that for the first time a document by "We the People" limited government power and not a king or commander and chief.

Answer 9

revolutionary for it's time?
yeah
big war, boston tea party, english, french, and indians, I'd say it was a capstone to a pretty stirring time.