Founding Fathers Failures
In the 18th century, the Founding Fathers began to build the framework of the American government using promising tools including natural rights and the rule of law. By using these tools, the Founding Fathers were able to draft the Declaration of Independence, which officially severed all political ties with Great Britain and a promised to establish a just government. To fulfill this promise, the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution of the United States to ensure that America would be a country where no man could rise above the law. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the most powerful and abiding documents in America’s history, have time and time again proved to successfully govern and protect the people of the United States.
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This statement promised all men natural rights, which were not provided by King George III. A list of grievances described the abuses of King George III who was indirectly addressed as “he” and “the present king of Great Britain”. The amendments written in the Constitution correlate with the list of grievances, therefore correcting King George III’s abuses in the form of fulfilling the promises made in the Declaration of Independence. For example, one of the injustices listed by the Founding Fathers claimed “He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.” This grievance referred to a law passed by the British Parliament in 1775, which authorized the British navy to capture the ships of other countries trading with the American colonies. This law also forced those captured to fight for the British, despite the possibility of one fighting his own countrymen. In order to ensure the American government was void of such injustices, the fifth amendment required “due process of law” to be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen “life, liberty or property” and requires the government to compensate citizens when private property is taken for public
This statement promised all men natural rights, which were not provided by King George III. A list of grievances described the abuses of King George III who was indirectly addressed as “he” and “the present king of Great Britain”. The amendments written in the Constitution correlate with the list of grievances, therefore correcting King George III’s abuses in the form of fulfilling the promises made in the Declaration of Independence. For example, one of the injustices listed by the Founding Fathers claimed “He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.” This grievance referred to a law passed by the British Parliament in 1775, which authorized the British navy to capture the ships of other countries trading with the American colonies. This law also forced those captured to fight for the British, despite the possibility of one fighting his own countrymen. In order to ensure the American government was void of such injustices, the fifth amendment required “due process of law” to be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen “life, liberty or property” and requires the government to compensate citizens when private property is taken for public