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Ravi Purohit-PUB 1250                                    2/16/05     The root in which I chose to write about is American Democracy. When the thirteen British colonies in North America declared their independence in 1776, they determined down that regimens are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. This meant that they wanted a government for the people, run by the people. This is one of the basic ideals upon which our nation was founded. The colonies infallible to have a written constitution to define and therefore more specifically limit government powers. After the Articles of Confederation failed to work in the 13 colonies, the U.S. Constitution was created in 1787.     One ideal found in the Preamble of the Constitution is the ideal that absolute major ity rules. In our government, the Congress uses majority rules to pass bills, through Congress and the President. As there are so many checks and balances, sometimes they dont even make it as bill. This is one of the ideals found in the Constitution. This separation of powers, within the three form branches, the legislative, executive, and judiciary branch has no supremacy over the others. This was designed to interdict any branch, from infringing individual liberties safeguarded by the Constitution. Our constitutional rights are very important. Without these rights, the coupled States would not be any different from other places of the world that do not have as many rights. Our rights secure our liberties and ensure umpire for all.     I believe the Constitution was such a great text file necessary for achieving American Democracy. This document was very concise in its verbalised powers. In the words of James Madison, If men were angels, no government woul d be necessary. This was from Federalist 51 and states the only way government wouldnt be necessary is if we all were perfect angels and we wouldnt need rules. The Declaration of Independence nitty-gritty to me that all men and women join freely together to make an tinge government for the U.S. This is basically said in the preamble by a famous quote "All men are created equal." The ideal of our government have remained true over 225 years.      The U.S. grants its citizens with the rights such as freedom of expression and freedom of religion, etc, which separates us from other countries. I think that all countries should be able to decide what government they want to have until they harm the fall in States of America in any way.