The foundation for American freedom comes from both Thomas Jefferson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Thomas Jefferson said, “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” Jefferson was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer, and he was the foremost sp

From the examples above it is evident that freedom in the United States should be both personal and political liberty. These immigrants using intellectual, emotional, and spiritual liberties portrayed each of these goals. The government has done its part to server and protects those immigrants who have been pursuing these freedoms. By using such examples from Haizlip, Tam and Antin, The reader is able to see how they survived to fulfill these goals, and how they have completed the stitch work of today’s ethnic society. They are part of the foundation that all immigrants to America dream about, which is to have freedom.

Mary Antin shows intellectual freedom and personal liberty is evident in the reading of “The Promised Land.” She was born to an affluent Russian Jewish family in 1881, and nothing could stop her hope for a new and better life in America. Her dream was for an education that her father said was free, and it was something no thief could ever take away. The promise of an education was a safer promise then the assurance of bread or shelter. Mary was thrilled with the realization of what this freedom of education meant. It was given to them without restrictions, no matter how they were dressed, with no examinations, rulings, exclusions; no machinations, no fees, no questions asked. The doors stood open for every one of them. The smallest child showed them the way to the school. The function of government is to provide free education for all citizens. All children should have the right to attend public school, and a free access to information without government restriction.

Spiritual freedom is seen be Shirlee Taylor Haizlip thr

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