Week Ten-The Constitution

Dear Daddy,

With the election still hanging over our heads, we need to be thinking of what this means to us. With the new members of the senate, and members of the House, they all will try to make laws to their own judgment. Our Constitution, the very thing that holds our country together will be tested.

Our Founding Fathers had different ideas than the people of today when they were forming the thing that would govern our country. They did not think of gay marriage, abortion, or other things that are in the world today. Now that they are gone, and the constitution does not say something about every issue people think it is outdated.

Some argue that we have to fit the constitution to the lives of the people today. They want the document to be interpreted loosely while others want to interpret it strictly, or use the original intent of the Framers. Just like with this health care thing. The House felt that we needed it, but it was considered unconstitutional to force anyone to buy anything. They use the example of car insurance. If you buy a car, you have to buy insurance. The one thing they leave out is that you don’t have to buy the car in the first place. They are forcing people to buy something which in and of itself is wrong. They think that they are doing this for the good of America, but it still does not make it right. Then there is the order of making a bill a law. With the Health Care Bill the House just voted on the Senate’s bill because they could not combine one to fit both of their needs. They went around the true order of things to get it slid in. The Constitution is barely there in some of the decisions that are being made now a days.

Supreme Court judges are supposed to be nonpartisan, but they all have their personal opinions that come into play when they are making decisions of court cases. People cannot interpret something and have it be okay. They will just end up giving themselves more and more power.

~Kenzie