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Hughes 1 Ruben Hughes Mr. Buescher Gov., per. 6 January 22, 2013 Purpose of Government The United States government was built off of the greatness of the Preamble in the Constitution. The United States founding Fathers discovered the Preamble and everything they wrote down still stands valid today. The Preamble shaped the United States government into what it is today. The Preamble is what helped the United States Constitution form. The Preamble states what the United States are as a country and what we represent. Every American citizen from the time it was made, to the present, and to the future benefits from the Preamble. The magnificent Preamble states how the United States are based off such topics as promoting the General Welfare, establishing Justice, and insuring domestic Tranquility. The General Welfare is one of the “key” essentials to the United States Constitution. The General Welfare basically states independence of powers in government. What this does it limits the powers of each power of government. This was used to avoid having an overall supreme power of a government such as a dictatorship. For, example if the Executive branch had the most power over the Judicial and Legislative branch it would be a form of dictatorship. This would upset all the colonies at the time and they would have never signed the Constitution because the reason why they declared their independence from Britain was in order to escape a dictatorship. Another example, is how each governing branch all have Hughes 2 separate powers, but are all equal. Each governing branch must work together and one cannot exist without the other because they all go hand in hand. For example, if the executive branch wants to make a law it must go through the legislative branch then if the law is passed and someone breaks the law the judicial branch would judge them. The purpose of promoting General Welfare was to prevent any form of dictatorship. One can agree that this has been a very efficient way to prevent dictatorship in the United States. The United States never had any form of dictatorship after the Constitution was made. The only “head” of the United States is the President who can not do anything drastic unless clearing it with the Congress first. So, overall promoting the General Welfare has been very efficient in the United States. Establishing Justice was one of the major factors in the United States Constitution. By establishing Justice one can consider this the creation and formation of the judicial branch of government. The judicial branch is broken up into court systems with the Supreme Court being the highest ranking court dealing with federal ordeals. Some examples of the duties the Judicial branch deals with is when a law is broken a trial is made for the crime that was committed. The Judicial system does not only deal with crimes, but law suits as well. The Supreme Court typically attends to major federal affairs, so if a topic passes from a state court to a supreme court then it is a very serious matter. For example, the huge debate about gay marriage has finally reached the Supreme Court. The final decision of the Supreme Court is a very serious matter because this does not only affect the group Hughes 3 involved, but it becomes a federal law as well. This means that all states must obey these new set of laws. This is how the law system today was established in the United States Constitution. The establishment of Justice was a great addition to the United States Constitution, but is flawed. This is because although there is federal laws which affects all states; each state has their own laws as well. For example, marijuana is illegal according to federal laws, but was made legal in the states of Colorado and Washington according to those states individual state laws. This is a contradiction in laws. This is because if one is seen smoking marijuana in Colorado the police officer of that state is not permitted to arrest someone breaking the federal law, but an FBI agent who sees the same crime being done in that state is permitted to arrest the person. On one hand one side is not doing their job, but on the other hand one side is doing their job, but they are both right. This is a contradiction that one may consider to be fixed. One can suggest that this is irrational and that the federal law should stand over all states and those states should not be able to make a law that contradicts with the federal law. The Insurance of domestic Tranquility was put into the United States Constitution in order to protect its citizens. What this does is that it protects all United States citizens and its states from criminals among the land mainly from financial issues. For example, this was supposed to protect United States citizens from having their money stolen from banking. This also was to protect identity theft if occurred. This was also supposed to protect all the banks that hold people’s money. This was also supposed to control immigration. The congress and citizens Hughes 4 both have duties to ensure this tranquility for the better of the United States. For example, when one decides to be more smart with their financial issues and social security they are helping not only themselves, but the United States as well. They are helping the United States by showing what is promised to all citizens. Another example would be when one’s identity or money is stolen they can work with the police to get it back. The Insurance of domestic Tranquility probably worked for the time it was created. In today’s world however, things have changed a great deal. For example, in today’s society people have internet. People get there identity, social security, and money stolen everyday in the United States. The system is not a failure, but just needs improvements. What the founding father’s never thought of was the advancement in technology. However, no one can predict the advancement in technology so one can not simply blame the founding fathers. The future leaders of the United States should step up and help ensure the vision of this country that was seen by the founding fathers. So, overall it was good for the time it was created, but one can consider that it needs improvements in order to be efficient in today’s world. Overall, there are many more factors that went into the creation of the United States Constitution. Promoting General Welfare, establishing Justice, and insuring domestic tranquility is only a few parts of the creation of the Constitution. This was part of the Preamble not only to state what the United States stands for, but for what is promised to its citizens and states as well. Some of these “keys” of the Constitution need to be adjusted to fit today’s society, but the Constitution still has a lot of strong Hughes 5 meaning even today. The United States founding Father’s forgot to include the advancement in technology when they made the Constitution, but did not forget human behavior which never changes. The Constitution is not perfect, but it works for the American society. It may have flaws in its laws, but the people who made the Constitution are not perfect either. One must simply just realize that without the United States Constitution the United States would have never formed and instead of the fifty states we have today we would probably have multiple small countries. This is why the Constitution is still valid and has the same strong meaning it has today from when it was made. Hughes 6 Bibliography: Promote General Welfare: http://www.lawandliberty.org/genwel.htm Establishing Justice: http://www.jstor.org/discover Insuring Domestic Tranquility: http://reagan2020.us/platform/ensuring_domestic_tranquility.asp