Do you think our country is being ran the way our forefathers planned it to be? If not, explain what you think they would change in today's government.
*All just a matter of opinion, no right or wrong answer.
2007-10-11 15:15:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Absolutely not!
First of all, gun control is a direct violation of the 2nd amendment.
Censorship is a direct violation of the 1st amendment. Let me also add that this censorship takes many forms, not all are called "censorship". Public decency laws (against verbal decency... I think people should be dressed when in public), banning of anything "controversial" in public, all sorts of things.
Detaining terror suspects without giving them a trial is a direct violation of the 6th amendment.
Just about everything the federal government does these days is direct violation of the 10th amendment.
I also believe the founding fathers did not want America to become a pseudo Socialist nation, which is what it is quickly becoming.
2007-10-11 15:24:07 · answer #1 · answered by William E. Roberts 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution is the longest living documented form of government in world history. Take away that and you take away American pride.
It is not just a piece of paper, man. History and war have been fought over this Constitution. We shouldn't change anything about it. While some politicians (from both parties) want to revise the Constitution, that alone will redefine American society.
It's a matter of preserving a document that has made this country one of the top nations in the world and significantly one of the most strongest.
"We the people..." This is why the U.S. is even here today.
2007-10-11 15:18:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The shape determines what the U. S. government can and can't do, greater desirable than it does something. that doesn't advise that all and sundry classes of people are taken care of the two under the form, even though it does mean that any time the government acts, regardless of who they're performing on everywhere interior the international, their movements might desire to conform with the form. An diagnosis of the similarities and transformations between the barriers on government action whilst coping with US voters as against unlawful immigrants in all fairness complicated and that i'm no longer an authority in that component of regulation.
2016-11-08 01:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think our forefathers never deamed of a day that atheism would become as popular and that Atheists would attack religion the way they do. In particular, they USE the Consitution as a weapon in this attack and if the forefathers saw this coming they probably would have done more to protect the freedom of religion. As it was written, religion must not be propped up or endorsed by the government, but that does not mean that religious artifacts should be banned from public places as the Atheists are succeeding in doing.
2007-10-11 15:26:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't you mean; How DOES the American Constitution hold up? As far as I know it's still the law of the land. Also our country is being RUN, not ran the way our forefathers INTENDED, not planned it to be. Our country is indeed functioning exactly as intended by our founding fathers. They established a Republic, represented by a bicameral assembly, who write legislation and vote whether or not to make those legislations laws.
2007-10-11 15:33:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think for the most part it's not.. The founders wanted a very limited federal branch, and today it's all up in our business. With illegal wiretaps and what not. And this whole "if you are doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" argument is silly. That is not the point of a free society. Here we are SUPPOSED to be innocent until proven guilty..
2007-10-11 18:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by Gecko Missed all his friends 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time has changed and the views of the forefathers had been distorted with the advances in technology resulting to liberal interpretations of the Constitution.
2007-10-11 15:20:27 · answer #7 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You ever see that movie Gladiator with Russell Crowe? There's a great line in it that goes;
"There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile."
That's kinda the way I see America. It was a great dream, but somewhere along the way it vanished.
2007-10-12 07:33:27 · answer #8 · answered by Sam S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know if this answers your questions but, in my opinion bush is the worst president we've had. our government has also been way better. our country should run wayyy better then it is now.........
p.s your cute ;)
2007-10-11 15:19:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋