The United States of America was
founded upon the principle that all are created equal. The nation’s very name – the United States – cohesively
represents the sound foundation upon which the future peoples of the Founding
Fathers procure and nurture a growth of democracy and expansion pertaining to
the rights of the people of America.
This nurturing is unmatched in comparison to the nations in the history
of humanity. For in recollection of the cosmopolitan
timeline, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, drafted a
revolutionary piece of literature that declared that from her national
conception, the United States would ensure the growth of democracy and
expansion of rights.
“When in
the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation. We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of Happiness.
From
her initial Declaration of Independence, the United States of America had held
true to the ideology expressed by Jefferson.
And in turn, she has upheld the national dedication to the growth of
democracy and expansion of the rights of the people. For the Patriots waged a revolutionary war
for many years against the strongest nation on the Earth, Great Britain, in
order to secure these principles. And
once they achieved freedom, they immediately ensured the values of these
principles through the drafting of the Constitution – a formal, national
affirmation that asserted through its First Amendment in the Bill of Rights
that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” At the beginning of the United States
historical timeline, democracy was key and the people’s rights expanded and
flourished due to the democratic legislative power. In fact, the mere ability for the legislative
power that composes one of the three branches in the United States Government
to be able to amend is a testimony to the dedication to democratic growth and
expansion of the peoples’ rights.
And
vitally, the United States Congress has used this ability, this power to amend,
in order to continue to ensure that the democracy grows and the rights of the
people expand. The Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Eighteenth Amendments attest to this continuation of
dedication. They provide freedoms and
rights that were before, unavailable; and thus, growth ensued. The Founding Fathers understood that change
would need to come. Necessarily, they
wisely created a democratic system that would continue to grow and expand the
rights of the people. And so,
still to this day, every July 4th, the citizens of the great United
States, revel under the starry, free sky, splattered by patriotic fireworks,
and celebrate, commemorate, and recollect their underlying appreciation for the
growth of democracy and expansion of rights.
Thus, in turn, these two actualized American Dreams can be said to be
the naturalized building blocks, the thematic concepts, that give the freedom
and structure for the United States of America and her holistic history to lead
among the nations of the world.
However,
for the United States of America to endure the burden that she has carried upon
her free body of land since her revolutionary inception, her Foreign Policy
would need to parallel the diplomatic decisions she devised and implemented at
home. The series of events that most
profoundly exhibit the United States‘ dedication to democracy and the expansion
of peoples’ rights is her Foreign Policy during the years leading up to the
Cold war and during the Cold War itself (approximately 1947-1991). During this time, the United States’ main
objective in relation to Foreign Policy was the containment of the expansion of
Communism (practically its total destruction) and the halting of the
Totalitarian Communist USSR’s power and influence. The dictionary, Merriam Webster, defines
Communism as “a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the
things that are used to make and transport products and there is no privately
owned property.” Thus, in other words,
Communism is the complete antithesis of a democracy and terminates the
expansion of the peoples’ rights. In
turn, for the United States to have had her Foreign Policy for half a decade be
the complete, undying devotion to the obliteration of Communism and Totalitarianism,
the United States was in fact upholding her constant historical theme – the
dedication to the growth of democracy and the expansion of peoples’
rights. Overall, from her creation in
the late eighteenth century to her era of conflict in the late twentieth
century, the United States has unremittingly devoted herself to the two
principles that act as her centered foundation.
In
total, the United States of America is known as the land of the free and the
home of the brave. Her very chromosomal
substance is composed of the Founding Fathers’ blood, sweat, and tears, their
DNA, and drive to grow democracy and expand peoples’ rights. From her creation to twenty short years ago,
it is evident that this drive to enforce and share with the world her DNA
pervades the international community.
And so, as the bald eagle perches upon the tall olive branch, the growth
of democracy and the expansion of peoples’ rights integrate themselves into the
history of the United States of America.
God Bless.
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