Bill Of Rights

In the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, the authors describe the people who are allowed to rule. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which is the law of the land in the United States. The Declaration of Independence is the document that the U.S. sent to Great Britain to declare their independence from them. The problem with these two documents is that they were written by and for the rich people of the time and hasn’t really evolved with time to accommodate the growing population of lower class citizens. Why would the writers make these documents that are supposed to be for all of the citizens of the U.S. make it almost just for the one percent of the U.S.? Are rich people the only people who
This is also why in the first elections of the U.S., only rich people were able to vote. George Washington, the very first president, didn’t even have to run for office, he just had to agree to be the first president. Even in present day America, if the people of a state vote for something like more school funding, the senators of that state can vote no even though a majority of the people wanted more government funding for the schools. While they may not be dictators like King George who only care about the “mother country”, the country is run by educated men. These educated men aren’t all bad because they haven’t ran the United States completely into the ground. They also haven’t “cut off trade with all parts of the world” for U.S. citizens (Jefferson 18). The leaders don’t wish to ruin any economy whether it is at home or across the ocean. They also don’t cut ties with the Bill of Rights which would leave the citizens without written rights. That would be a terrible idea because it would lead to a revolt like the one from colonial