Dear Founding Fathers of the Constitution,
Your Constitution has been changed quite a bit since you had
last seen it. It’s heavily guarded, and is an immense part of our Country as it
stands today due to its significance. The changes to our and your Constitution
are at quite a large extent, and rules have changed a bit since you last saw
them, which I know you assumed there would be. Sculpting to our needs, your
constitution was and still is a living document that has kept our nation united
and strong.
Years and years after you all
died, a war broke between the South and North region, the Civil war. It occurred
over the disagreements involving slavery. Even though about half of the
citizens of our country disagreed with slavery, it was still legal until the
North states won, ending slavery. Then Civil War Amendments were added to the
Constitution. The thirteenth amendment ended slavery, the fourteenth amendment
protected those slaves whom were freed, and the fifteenth amendment was created
to protect blacks’ voting rights. Though our country went through a lot at that
stage, the Constitution kept us together and healed us in this way.
Over the years, more and more
amendments were created through basic passage of legislation by congress, an
action taken by a President, key decisions by a Supreme Court, or the
activities of a political party. There were twelve more amendments after the
fifteenth. The biggest milestones I feel were the nineteenth, twenty-second,
and the twenty-sixth amendments. Being a huge turning point of our country was
the nineteenth stating there is to be “no denial of suffrage based on sex,”
meaning women could now vote, not just men like in your day. Another amendment was
the twenty-second explains presidents can only serve two terms in congress. One
of the last amendments is the twenty-sixth, allowing voting at the age of
eighteen. In all there are twenty-seven amendments, which I can guarantee you
will increase as years pass.
The Constitution has been a
phenomenal part of strengthening our country while maintaining flexibility to
adapt to our needs as a whole. Your document has now become one of the most
important, heavily guarded pieces of history of our nation. I wonder if you
could’ve even imagined just how far it would come and how large of a binding
factor it is for our country.
Sincerely,
Hannah
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