Flaws of America

Flaws Along With Perfect Changes

Calista Bulacan

7^th Grade

Patriots Pen Essay

Mrs. Reagles Hour 2

"Tis’ done, we have become a nation," Benjamin Rush had quoted so long ago.  Men shaking hands and cheerful shouts arising from the stands.  Smiles stamped on faces, some fake and some real.  Worry was behind most smiles for they knew something some didn’t: mistakes were inevitable. 

Mistakes, the sweet sound of what can only make you better.  Not banning slavery though was quite fatal though and cost many lives to be lost, many people overworked, and many humans to be treated unfairly.  Moreover, the right for women to vote was omitted.  It could have been the simplest thing as forgetfulness, or merely not knowing any better.  Either way, this caused an abrupt stop in time while women fought for their rights.  The apex of the flaws comes to be unfairness.  If any given number of constituents vote for one person; if one of the people running in the election get s one more vote, he therefore wins all the votes for that states.  That contestant therefore will have replete votes, even if they weren’t for them.  I think they would’ve needed to change these to have successfully created a ‘perfect’ Constitution.

Yet, the constitution wasn’t all imperfections.  I mean, the Constitution is what made America what it is today.  Also, it set out a very basic guide for government that even in the present we follow.  Overlooking all the flaws, this document is what conjoined thirteen states into one family.  This action is why we can all get along today and have no civil wars. 

Thank you, founding fathers, for helping America get a kick start and progress forward to ensure the eventual future for our generations.  Even though the Constitution wasn’t unblemished, it  shaped the USA into quite the country.   We did become a nation though, a beautiful and strong country.  We will never be done perfecting, but we will forever be united.