How important is the Constitution of the United States in everyday life?
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BUSH SAYS "IT'S JUST A G.D. PIECE OF PAPER!"
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Most US states have their own constitutions, just like the American Constitution.  The Constitution defines the state or country as an entity and is the foundation of the laws of the country or state.  They usually define the basic rights of the citizens and the workings of the government.
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Come from Constitution
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Just to be accurate, the "Bill of Rights" are the first ten amendments to the US constitution. To pick the most important one is a tough question. Your environment and background would play an important role in that choice. Guess I'll go out on a limb and say the first:\n\nFreedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and to petition the government. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. \n\nI mean, if it wasnt for that "right", we might not be able to have this forum.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Bill_of_Rights#The_Amendments
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The Constitution and the Idea of Compromise\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/classroom/index3.html\n\nThe Constitution of the United States\n\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html\n\nhttp://www.awerty.addr.com/cons2.html\n\nhttp://www.usconstitution.net/constquick.html\n\nPREAMBLE\n\nWe, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.\n\nConstitution of the United States.\n\nhttp://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html\n\nThe U.S. Constitution is the oldest constitution still in effect in the world. Test your knowledge of this important document.\n\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/constitution/quiz/\n\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/spot/usconstitutionquizzes.html\n\nhttp://www.expertrating.com/quizzes/us-constitution-quiz.asp\n\nStudy Tool for the Constitution\n\nhttp://home.att.net/~standardsalert_topics/Const_Study_Tool_to_Amendment_XXVII.htm#_The_Constitution,_with\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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If you are referring to the U.S. Constitution, yes...
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You are right. As a matter of fact, the preamble of the Constitution mentions "blessings". Who else gives us blessings but God?\n\n"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." -The US Constitution
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"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"\n\nTranslation:  We're making this constitution for us and our children, in order to: \n1. create a new country \n2. figure out how we're going to pass laws \n3. defend ourselves and create a national army \n4. help people live in safety and health \n5. make sure we all keep certain freedoms\n\n"Freedom" is easy to create.  The problem is how to make it last, and the writers of the constitution did a pretty good job, more or less.
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I think it was James Madison's wife (may have been Abigail Adams) who suggested that the Constitution said a lot about the organization of the government, but did nothing to specifically protect people, so then he went on a mad tear to construct some of those "inalienable rights" aforementioned.  But he didn't just make them up.  At least one of the Amendments was based on the constitution of the Virginia colony. \n\nThe importance of the Bill of Rights is to address what the state can and can't do to individuals.  Most of the Constitution divides up powers and provides checks and balances, but the Bill of Rights specifically protects people from the bad habits of government.
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Read the constitution it's explained
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It is to briefly explain what Americans were fighting for and what they expected in the shaping of a better America, so that issues concerning everything around us, could be properly managed for "WE the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union and establish justice to ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity do ordain  to establish this Constitution for the United States of America.\nEach of the points stated in the preamble signfy what we as Americans stand for and believe in.
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the day our founding fathers wrote and signed the contitution of the United States. no other country in the world has survived on the same constitution as long as the us has. This is the greatest day in the greatest country in the world.
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The Amendments to the US Constitution; most State constitutions; state and federal laws.
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Well, the Supremacy Clause helps. As interpreted by all courts in the US, the Supremacy Clause (Article VI) basically says that all other laws are subordinate to the Constitution, and that no laws can contradict the Constitution.\n\nAlso, it's a fairly general document in most situations, rather than many of the reform laws that were very situation specific. The more generally applicable a set of rules are, the more they survive changing circumstances.\n\nThat's one reason why the Living Document theory of constitutional interpretation is so strong; trying to interpret the document only as it was Originally intended to be applied is useless when the world around it has changed so dramatically in the past couple of centuries.
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There wasn't anyone of any importance really that didn't favor State's rights over the rights of a Federal Gov't.\n\nDo you know the reason for the Constitution, what it does? Most people haven't read it since High School, if then. It only grants one right to the people, and is not about us, although it was designed to protect us against big Federal Gov't. The whole thing is laid out to limit the powers of the Federal Gov't. It is the only lawful authority the Federal Gov't has. Read the Consitution as the sight in Sources.\n\nDid you know that our Constitution almost didn't get signed into action? Do you know what our Forefathers feared most? They did not fear Britian or India or China or Spain or the Dutch, or all of them together. They feared that the Federal Gov't they were authorizing would gain more power than any one or all States. So they broke our Gov't into three branches, and spelled out the only authority of our Federal Gov't. \n\nBut it still almost didn't get signed. The only way they were able to get enough votes, was if they added the clause of seccession. If any state ever wanted to, they could withdraw from the Union.\n\nEveryone blames the South for the Civil War, but all they were trying to do was lawfully withdraw from the Union, along with some northern states. Lincoln went to war to settle the argument. There were a lot bigger issues at stake than slavery. It was about Federal control over the STates.\n\nThe Contitution got signed, but we didn't enforce it. There was nobody to police the police. And you can bet, when they added the Amendments to the Constitution, "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed," was there for one reason: politicians only fear two things: public opinion and guns.
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Neither.\n\nThe genius of the founding fathers of the United States was not that they knew everything, but that they understood that they could not know everything. With that humble attitude, they included in the Constitution a feature which allows future generations to update the Constitution to fit the changing times.\n\nLook at all the amendments which have been added to the Constitution. Every amendment is a slight change to the Constitution to keep it updated with the times. \n\nThe 18th and 21st amendments are a perfect example. The 18th amendment was the prohibition of alcohol because people at that time thought that alcohol would destroy the country.\n\nWhen the people finally realized that the prohibition of alcohol gave rise to an even greater threat (gangsters like Al Capone), they decided to undo the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment. That's the Constitution changing with the times.
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I think that that is true in general, and i happen to know the bill of rights and what the number 2 at mcdonalds is. But yea, on average, most people take the USA for granted and dont even bother to learn what upholds our rights.