Constitution Today Research Paper
Constitution Today
The Constitution of the United States of America is perhaps the greatest document of all time. It affects everyone in the United States, and because of it, the United States is different than other countries. It was written in 1787, and now is over two hundred years old, probably older than any people living in the United States now. However, it is still relevant to everyone in the United States today. Constitution helped solved many issues at the early ages of the country, and there are still many issues faced by the American society nowadays, one of them is equality. I will talk about this issue and how constitution address it in the paper.
Equality as a principle has been so central to Americans that people often forget that the word itself does not even appear in the Constitution. Throughout the history, inequality issues has been diminishing in American society, but it is still common in many fields. For example, gender inequality can be seen in many working and education fields. There is a notably gender segregation in degree choice, correlated with lower incomes for graduates with "feminine" degrees, such as education or nursing, and higher incomes for those with "masculine" degrees, such as engineering. Sex discrimination also exists in many places, such as a lot less female can get a higher position in their …show more content…
Although equality is a well-settled idea in constitution and on the surface of the laws, its meaning on a day to day level is still hotly contested. Formal equality as between races is stated in American constitution, but the data and report on the inequality of the American lived experience illustrate how much farther the idealized path of equality needs to go. News reports on police violence that tends to kill disproportionately men of color, and the statistics showing that the enduring poverty in this country are largely among communities of
The Constitution of the United States of America is perhaps the greatest document of all time. It affects everyone in the United States, and because of it, the United States is different than other countries. It was written in 1787, and now is over two hundred years old, probably older than any people living in the United States now. However, it is still relevant to everyone in the United States today. Constitution helped solved many issues at the early ages of the country, and there are still many issues faced by the American society nowadays, one of them is equality. I will talk about this issue and how constitution address it in the paper.
Equality as a principle has been so central to Americans that people often forget that the word itself does not even appear in the Constitution. Throughout the history, inequality issues has been diminishing in American society, but it is still common in many fields. For example, gender inequality can be seen in many working and education fields. There is a notably gender segregation in degree choice, correlated with lower incomes for graduates with "feminine" degrees, such as education or nursing, and higher incomes for those with "masculine" degrees, such as engineering. Sex discrimination also exists in many places, such as a lot less female can get a higher position in their …show more content…
Although equality is a well-settled idea in constitution and on the surface of the laws, its meaning on a day to day level is still hotly contested. Formal equality as between races is stated in American constitution, but the data and report on the inequality of the American lived experience illustrate how much farther the idealized path of equality needs to go. News reports on police violence that tends to kill disproportionately men of color, and the statistics showing that the enduring poverty in this country are largely among communities of