Did we achieve a true democrac

I think that the constitution, mostly after it had been amended, but just in general was written to protect the people and the common mans interests. Although some of the bigger influences on how the constitution was to be written clearly had the opinion that the people were not smart enough to have influential power, such as in a democracy. This couldn’t be too strong of a stand point because every citizen in this country had experienced the same thing, they all went through the war with England and decided to side with the colonies because of their principles. Therein lies a strong case that links the consti

tution with our revolutionary political and religious beliefs. And these were all things that strongly stated as does the constitution that “all men are created equal”, saying that in retrospect no one should have more power than the next. With that you can also say that this must support a form of government that is the way the majority of people want it and now we have our democracy.

Although even I can agree that the new world initial knew none of the sense of these freedoms. Even after it had started to become apparent in some states that England’s current Government was far too overbearing we still oppressed other religious beliefs, varying from colony to colony, forcing safe havens like Maryland for Catholics and people like Roger Williams to flee the state of Massachusetts due to his beliefs. But as we grew as a nation and the colonies became closer and English oppression forced a new frame of mind we quickly knew that the only solution to all of this was simply democracy. It was almost impossible to ignore the fact that outside the parliament many colonies had already established governments in which the public voted on who would be in their respective legislatures. This was even the intention, although poorly represented, of the artic

Some topics in this essay:
Aaron Sawyer, United States…”, Roger Williams, Britain’s Government, Maryland Catholics, power held, form government, religious beliefs,