Dbq Essay On We The People

In the Preamble to the United States Constitution we get the famous line, “We the People…” . Pilgrims from different countries came over. Looking for religious freedom, and the three G’s. God, Gold, and Glory. From the years of 1607- 1807 the nation has been shaped into ‘We the People’, from the people fighting for and gaining their rights, creating a democracy, and establishing justice equally under the law. The Americans set them self aside from other nations, proving to be an independant and a place of liberty.

Coming to the new world, settlers had no rights. But here they could start a new life, but only if britain was out of the way. So the settlers made colonies, and those colonists came together to gain there natural born rights. Fighting

Coming over here from the old world, they all came looking for religious freedom, glory and gold. Upon arriving the settlers of Plymouth made the first document to establish a new government. “ Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick”(Mayflower Compact). Though the settlers were still under the reign of KIng James, this was the first step into gaining future independance. Through a long, bloody war the Americans won. The colonists gained their independence they had been longing for. A document written by Thomas Jefferson called The Declaration of Independence made it so America was a new nation, separate from others. “...That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved…”(The Declaration of Independence). Other than independence the people gained there natural born rights; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. People ran in the new government and created laws that ran threw the legislative branch, enforced by the executive branch. The judiciary branch judged trials based on the new constitution. Thus from all of this came a democracy. As mentioned the judicial branch judges the trials based on the constitutions. Everyone is entitled to a fair and speedy trial, and looked down on equally under the law. This would not have happened if it weren't for John Adams trial for the Boston Massacre, and Washington's Judiciary Act. First, the Judiciary Act created by Washington established