User:Americanfreedom24/Why is the Consitution important to our freedom?

I was wondering a while ago, why the []Constitution was important to our freedom.

I looked on the internet for facts about the Constitution. I found the first amendment. I decided to show you so you'd know what it means.

[]Freedom of religion means you can believe what ever you want to believe. Nobody can tell you what you can and can’t believe. Around the 1600's, England's queen was forcing you to be a specific religion. Anybody who wasn't, was killed. Our founders knew about this and didn't want it to happen in America, so they wrote it into the Constitution.

[] Freedom of speech means we are allowed to say whatever we want. Nobody can tell us we aren't allowed to say something.

[]Freedom of the press gives newspapers the freedom to write whatever they want. Freedom of the press also applies to the internet and books. Really all written documents.

[]Freedom to assemble is sometimes used interchangeably with freedom of association, which means you are allowed to protest.

[]The freedom to petition gives us the right to send in complaints or criticisms to government officials as an individual or as a group.

Now we ask again: why is the Constitution important to our freedom? I asked a few random people what the Constitution is. Four people out of the five I asked told me it was laws for the people of America. It is laws, but not for the people, it’s for the government. The []Constitution limits the Government's powers so all Americans can be as independent as possible without the government controlling them. You are allowed to choose who you would like to have represent you in Congress. If anybody might want to take away any of those freedoms or tell anybody that they can’t do one of those things, we the people should be able to step in and show them the Constitution which should keep them from doing it.

A lot of the amendments were written in because our founding fathers had had some things that they thought were unfair happen to them and their people. They wanted to make sure you would never have to go through what they did. For example, during the time of the Revolutionary war, the British soldiers would force the Americans to let them stay in their houses for however long they wanted. The third amendment was written in so this couldn’t happen.

The Constitution is merely a document to make sure that nobody can tell you that you aren’t allowed to, or have to do things. It makes sure we are allowed to do things like protest, write things in a newspaper or speak out against one of our leaders. The Constitution is one of the things that separates []America, a []republic, from a []monarchy. It gives the people the power, not the []government which makes you and me free, because we are not being controlled and can make our own laws and choices.