Part B

How does the Constitution trick people into believing that they have power in the country yet give the government the most power?


From Article 4 in Sections 2-3, we see that the “Framers” say that states must respect the rules and regulations of every other state. The states are allowed to have their own laws, but they cannot go against the constitution. It is also stated that the government has the only rights in creating a new state and the Congress has the power over which of their new states becomes part of the union. In Section 4 we see that the “Framers” wanted people to know that the government still has most of the power. Federal Government is said to be the most powerful government. It protects states from all “enemies” and ensures that people have a representative government.

From this, we can contract that the “Framers” wanted people in every state to feel as though they have most of the power in how their lives were run. The states make their own rules and that’s ok and they will be respected, as long as they abide by the constitution. The government lets people deal with the prosecution of a criminal in their state and ensure that their laws are abided by, but should the government dislike the occurrences and find them unconstitutional, they are able to change what they disagree with. They give people rights, yet they still say that the Federal government no matter what, will be the most powerful government. They will create new states and decide who gets to join the union and should they feel that a state is “unworthy” they may deny them access to the union. This article shows how the government is afraid to give the people a lot of power because they want to ensure that the rich people stay in power and don’t lose their superiority. The government tricks the “lesser people,” saying that they can have rules and they can make up whatever type of laws they want for their state, but they MUST abide by the Governments “outlines.” This actually takes AWAY from the rights that the people have than adds to them.

Why is the “No religious test” rule placed in the Constitution?

The constitution states that there will be no test of religion required to be qualified to become part of office. This is placed in the constitution so that people in the state feel that it is safe to practice any religion within the United States and no one will be penalized for it, not even those running for office. The “Framers” of the constitution wanted to make the constitution seem as though it opened the state to everyone and everything no matter how different. Yet, they contradict themselves because they don’t count slaves as part of the population; they call them “Person[s] held to Service or Labor.” They constantly refer back to the Indians and treaties that were made with the “savages,” as though they don’t exist or don’t matter even though these “savages” were the 1st to reside in the land. They later state: “Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.”

We see that the “Framers” try and use religion in the constitution to make it “equal” for everyone, but obviously with the way they refer to slaves and Indians, they tried to use words that still give them the upper hand. They also say that the constitution was created “in the year of our Lord” meaning God. Although they say that religion won’t really matter, but then they “sneak” God into the constitution, although not a major part, still being biased and in a little way forcing Christianity into the lives of all who live under the constitution.