Land of the Free? What English Colonies Intended

    America, land of the free. America, where free speech isn’t safe, a right to protect yourself isn’t safe, schools aren’t safe, and every political party can make anything they want sound “constitutional.” England didn’t have a written constitution, so when the English were colonizing America after many years of monarchy changing tradition, people wanted a fix.

     History builds, history is important when taking value out of events rather than just names and dates because where we are coming from now as a culture has evolved over time, and looking back at how our world came about is an important tool in understanding the world around us. 

     When colonies were coming to America, their culture affected the way they felt about government, and the different cultures that came to America both fought and evolved, which affects how we feel about government still today.

     If you didn’t like the world around you, you came to America and made your own home and made that land yours. Now, it’s not the same, if you don’t like what’s going on around you, you move in an attempt to pick the better of two evils, or you deal with it. Because there’s always someone saying things aren’t going their way as much as they should, and the easiest way to make things “fair” was to empower someone who would enforce what a person might want.

     Originally, the constitution was to prevent power grabs, but over time, the constitution has become a suggestion. If you say something is unconstitutional over something that matters, someone out there will twist the written words to make it sound like whatever you want can be constitutional.

     King John, brother of King Richard the Lionhearted is why the Magna Carta was issued in Runnymede, England, 1215 to restrict the monarch’s power. The English Civil War (1642-51) was a fight between Cavaliers and Roundheads to limit the monarchical power. The English Bill of Rights (1689) was to establish fundamental rights; laws and taxes were no longer allowed to be created by a monarch alone, parliament had to consent.

Over the years politics keep getting out of hand and the people have to force the government to reign it back in, which lasts maybe a century or two if you’re lucky. No one wants the government to take away liberty, but people keep advocating to lose more and more free will in the name of peace. Is it worth it? Is there a way to have peace without bureaucracy?

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