Constitution

The United States Constitution is based on the self-interest view of human nature. It was created to provide people with a large number of freedoms. When the Founding Fathers sat down to write it, they carefully considered all the issues that they and their fellow countrymen had faced when they were still in England, before they came to America to have the freedoms they wanted (Billias, 2009). Because they knew what it was like to be oppressed, they also knew they could not operate the United States that way and have the people accept it. If they tried to turn the New World into what they had just left behind, it would be of no benefit to anyone involved (Pritchett, 1959). With that in mind, the Constitution was written to show that all men were created equal and that they had certain rights that were given to them simply...
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