The US Constitution as an Inspiration to the Declaration of Freedom in Kosovo

The notion of freedom can mean different things to different people, it all depends on the level of freedom you have over your own life. It could be freedom of speech, religious freedom, freedom of the press or even freedom of economy. However you see it they all seem to describe a sense of personal freedom, which no doubt everybody wants, but only some seem to have. No other democratic society in the world allows personal freedoms to the degree of the United States of America. They have been able to establish a set of legal rules that systematically protects all forms of freedom. Freedom remains the lone basis for American society as we know it. Without freedom the great nation of America would have never been created. Just as how the United States is seen by the American population to symbolise freedom and independence, it also stands to mean the same thing to many other countries around the world. Having your own freedom and the ability to exercise your rights in your own country, is something that is synonymous with the Unites States.

America the land of the free, is a term used constantly to describe the United States and rightfully so. America’s basis for freedom can be traced back to the founding fathers as wells as two very important documents, the Declaration of Independence and of course the Constitution. The American founding fathers felt that the concept of great American freedom was of great importance, when deciding how the United States would be and function. The Declaration of Independence states that all of human kind are provided with the same essential rights, and that to protect those rights ‘governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed’, (Declaration of In...

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