Following Directions

How important is it for one to follow directions?   There are many avenues that can be approached in order to find a generalized answer to this seemingly harmless question.   Today, I would like to delve into the founding document of instructions given and written to help govern this nation.   The Constitution of the United States is the basis for our freedoms that we take for granted daily.   Without this document everything that we know and love about America would cease to excist.   So how important is it that we follow the directions that our forefathers laid out for us?   What would the United States of America be like without this small sheet of paper?   To answer all of these questions mentioned above we will have to excavate into the Constitution itself - for to understand more about the Constitution will therefore give the knowledge required in order to answer the questions.
The United States Constitution defines the laws of the land as the Constitution itself and those laws or legal documents that are constitutionally passed through legislature. The role of upholding these laws and interpreting them in cases are assigned to the judicial branch. Our judicial system is to be one that follows common law, so ultimately laws do come from courts. Although the Supreme Court essentially has final say, the Constitution does not grant it the power of forming laws by a majority vote out of nine justices. These laws formed by court decisions should be based on the text of the Constitution and legislative laws and in times of ambiguity original intent of these legal texts should be used. The impact of these decisions has on society should not be from a new law formed but should be from having more clarity on application of the Constitution to laws.
Although there is much debate as to what should govern justices of the Supreme Court in their decisions, we cannot ignore that the Constitution clearly defines that it is the role of the justices to interpret the law and only... [continues]

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