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The United States Constitution – the Main Part of American Law

The most important part of all of the laws that are followed in the United States are the laws that are listed in the United States Constitution. Since it was first established on September 17, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia the United States Constitution has been used as the main guideline for what is used in the world of American law.

 

One of the main parts of the United States Constitution is that it is intended to be used as a guideline for what is used in the general context of what people in the United States can and cannot do. This is similar to the Magna Carta, the Old Testament and the Code of Hammurabi or the ideas developed by the French philosopher Montesquieu.

Another of the main parts of the United States Constitution involves the ideas of how there are more freedoms that are given to other people. Considered by many at first to be the “Great American Experiment,” the United States Constitution has been used to help give people freedoms and to give the government less control over what they can do in terms of controlling the people.

There are seven articles that are in the United States Constitution. The first three articles discuss the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the government. These articles describe what the branches can do and how the system of checks and balances are going to be used so that the country will not have one branch having more power over another.

The fourth article in the United States Constitution involves the rights and power that each individual state in the country is allowed. This is done with the purpose of there being laws in the local and state levels. This means that the United States Constitution have limits on what each state can do but will recognize the fact that all states will have freedoms to create their own laws.

The ratification process of laws and federal powers are also listed in other articles in the United States Constitution. The last features the individual amendments in the United States Constitution. The amendments themselves can be altered and some new amendments can be added or even removed (as was the case with the amendment regarding Prohibition in the 1920s) according to the ratification process.

The United States Constitution is more than just something that lists all of the laws that are offered to the general public. It is something that shows how much faith the United States government has towards the people in the country, as the people have more freedoms thanks to the United States Constitution.



 

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