TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The cold, hard facts. The United States of America was formally created between 1787 and 1789. After years of rule by a tyrannical king, our Founding Fathers left the land of their birth and came to the New Land, declared their independence from King George III, won the Revolutionary War, and created a nation governed by a sacred document which would become the Law of the Land during the Constitutional Convention. Contained in the Constitution of the United States of America are a number of promises and guarantees, the most important of which are rights and freedoms for all individuals which do not infringe on the rights of the majority. America would become a nation controlled by the people who would elect representatives to serve their needs and wishes in the nation’s capital, regardless of their personal opinions. The Bill of Rights contains those initial rights, guarantees, and freedoms. It is clear by their actions during the Constitutional Convention and t...