Research Paper on:
US Constitution Reflections

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was critical that all people had the same opportunity to create a prosperous life, no matter how they differed from one another: all people were to be created equal, and  that meant economically, as well. Autocratic dictatorships were not what the countrys founders had envisioned for Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the  people is what was going to promote both individual and political strength. The decision-making process was to be a combined effort of government officials and the people who elected  them into office. By reallocating the political power and distributing it evenly among both government entities and the voting public, there was created a greater sense of fairness, accomplishment  and "political vision of liberty" (Shanker, 1997, PG). The idea of democracy, as our forefathers originally intended it to represent, was that of the ultimate evolution of human  life. The concept, which was just a seed when it was established in the United States over two hundred years ago, allowed for people to make their own destinies  -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would never be able to make them a reality. Democracy unleashed a joining  together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had not been before. Democracy truly had the ability to "empower"  (Shanker, 1997, PG) both the people and the government back in the seventeen hundreds, because at that time they were one and the same entity under the democratic process.  The people no longer felt suppressed and unimportant in matters that affected their very lives, and the government welcomed the variegated input received on every political issue. Democracy was