Original US Constitution

The original U.S. constitution was established with the intention to create a whole national government and protect the natural and legal rights of the citizens of the United States. Ratified in 1791, the first seven amendments (in addition to the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights) of the Constitution broadly summarizes an American’s rights as well as the powers of the federal and state systems. With the Constitution, every American citizen is entitled to equality… at least the ones who are seen as citizens. Unfortunately, the original U.S. constitution shouldn’t be considered a “democratic” document due to this exact reason. The phrase “We The People” was only permitted to those who, in the eyes of the founding fathers, met the qualifications

as if the being a part of The People was a membership. For the average white female, poor white male, enslaved or freed African American, that wasn’t the case.
However, in defense the Constitution had set up many regulations that helped those who could benefit from it; such as the rich white male who owned land and white women (excluding the fact that they didn’t have the right to vote).

The first amendment of the Bill of Rights gave them the freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and press. Every recognized citizen was allowed and entitled to their opinions in addition to Congress being restricted from creating any law regarding religion. The third and fourth amendments were written to secure a person’s privacy. A soldier, whether or not the country was in a time of war, had to ask for permission from the owner of any home to reside there. In legal cases, a person’s property and belongings was safe from violation unless a warrant is issued, with plausible reasons, to be allowed to do so. In accordance with the second amendment, a person had the natural right to bear arms. In other words, every recognized citizen should have the right to carry a weapon on their person or in their home. All in all, the context of the Constitution was meant to insure the security of all American citizens, again the ones who were considered citizens. Around the eighteenth century most people, most of them being rich white male landowners, would, and have, turned the other cheek to anything brought up from the Constitution that didn’t benefit them in any way. Admittedly their selfish desires to benefit themselves instead of the rest of the American population greatly helped in implanting the fortification of America’s rights. Yet when you think deeper about it, the reassurance of achieving your rights is

meaningless
In the beginning of the formation of the national government, the U.S. constitution at the times, based on today’s perspective, wasn’t a good representation of the standards of America in history. In fact, it excluded the voting rights of white women and poor white males; in addition to the basic rights of African American males and females, freed or enslaved. Even with the Constitution protecting the rights of the citizens of the United States, it opposed everything it was written for. If the definition of democracy were to be defined from the contexts of the Constitution, then that wouldn’t be the true meaning of democracy. Democracy is defined by the interdependence and compromises negotiated by the people’s representatives and all of the people themselves. The structure of our democracy could only stand for so long if it was still built on the fragile foundation of the old Constitution. If the structure was to continue to be supported by a foundation created from principles that are fallacious, eventually all the beliefs and systems of democracy would become nugatory.