Pros And Cons Of Constitution Essay
Constitution Essay Prompt
A constitution is a document containing the basic laws for our country. It sets up the legislature (branch of government that passes laws), the judiciary (branch of government that interpret laws), and the executive (the branch of government that carries out and enforces the laws) (Henschen et al. 43). A federation is where a group of self-governing states agree to join together under a central government. A federal constitution is the legal document setting up a federation. There are two steps into proposing an amendment that are stated in the text as follows, “a two-thirds vote in the Senate and in the House of Representatives is required and if two-thirds of the state legislatures request that Congress call a …show more content…
Besides the first ten amendments to the constitution (Bill of Rights), there have only been seventeen proposed amendments have succeeded the amendment process and has become apart of our Constitution (Henschen et al. 43). An example of the lack of success in passing an amendment is banning flag burning. There is a lot of controversy with this particular topic about flag burning. The flag desecration amendment brings out what this country is supposed to stand for and also how much our political leaders are willing to defend the people’s voices and beliefs. “Considering an amendment that bans flag burning of the American flag is testing our political leaders’ willingness to defend what is arguably one of America’s most sacred principles – protecting political speech” (Fulton, “Burn the Flag or Burn the Constitution?”). Sandra Fulton thoroughly explains in her article “Burn the Flag or Burn the Constitution” the bigger problems that the banning of burning the flag amendment has brought. The banning flag burning amendment brought the citizens right to freedom of speech into question and also to what extent does the Congress have power of what they have to say about our government and what the citizens are allowed to say. “Those who would burn the flag destroy the symbol of freedom, but amending the Constitution would destroy part of freedom itself,” stated by
A constitution is a document containing the basic laws for our country. It sets up the legislature (branch of government that passes laws), the judiciary (branch of government that interpret laws), and the executive (the branch of government that carries out and enforces the laws) (Henschen et al. 43). A federation is where a group of self-governing states agree to join together under a central government. A federal constitution is the legal document setting up a federation. There are two steps into proposing an amendment that are stated in the text as follows, “a two-thirds vote in the Senate and in the House of Representatives is required and if two-thirds of the state legislatures request that Congress call a …show more content…
Besides the first ten amendments to the constitution (Bill of Rights), there have only been seventeen proposed amendments have succeeded the amendment process and has become apart of our Constitution (Henschen et al. 43). An example of the lack of success in passing an amendment is banning flag burning. There is a lot of controversy with this particular topic about flag burning. The flag desecration amendment brings out what this country is supposed to stand for and also how much our political leaders are willing to defend the people’s voices and beliefs. “Considering an amendment that bans flag burning of the American flag is testing our political leaders’ willingness to defend what is arguably one of America’s most sacred principles – protecting political speech” (Fulton, “Burn the Flag or Burn the Constitution?”). Sandra Fulton thoroughly explains in her article “Burn the Flag or Burn the Constitution” the bigger problems that the banning of burning the flag amendment has brought. The banning flag burning amendment brought the citizens right to freedom of speech into question and also to what extent does the Congress have power of what they have to say about our government and what the citizens are allowed to say. “Those who would burn the flag destroy the symbol of freedom, but amending the Constitution would destroy part of freedom itself,” stated by