Constitution Be Followed As Originally Written Or Reinterpreted For Current Times?

Should the Constitution be Followed as Originally Written or Reinterpreted for Current Times? The constitution is a document where the rules for the United States are written. This is the most important document in American history because it tells a whole population what is right and what is wrong. There are arguments how the U.S. government should stop adding changes to the constitution and keep it as originally written. The constitution should be reinterpreted for current times because the founding fathers were not aware of the events that were going to happen in the future like freeing African Americans, banning gun stores, and giving the women the right to vote. The constitution can be changed little by little to fix the current problems we are dealing with in America. The founding fathers did state that all men should be treated equal, but the framers didn’t mean all men. Slavery was still happening after the constitution was written, the constitution was published in 1787 and slavery was abolished in 1865. African Americans counted only as three fifths of a person according to Article 1, Section 2, of the U.S. constitution. Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San
The 19th amendment (ratified in 1920).” In paragraph 20, Marshall also stated how the founding fathers could have not imagined a woman being appointed to the supreme court. As the years went by, women begin to feel left out of society and realized it was because of their sex. Women fought hard to convince the U.S. government to give them the right to vote. Once the women started risking their health, the government created and ratified the 19th amendment. After this change, women started to be treated equally to men. This proves the founding fathers were not concerned about women when writing the