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Does The Government Effectively Protect
Individual Liberties?
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The government does effectively protect individual liberties. Citizens have the right to protest, citizens can use referendum, and the president can veto or pass a bill.
The constitution has powers that protect our rights as citizens. We as citizens have the rights to freedom of speech, which is our first amendment. The citizens in the ideal simulation openly protest the presidents I Chip. The citizens found the chip against nature’s plan. Citizens said if god wanted chips in our head he would of placed them in us himself, while president Young found the I chip to be an increase in our society an betters our government. These actions prove that the constitution protects our individual liberties.
The Constitution has amendments that give equal rights for us as people and those with power, such as the congress. The house of representative used referendum to decide on keeping the chip or restricting it. In the constitution the first amendment states “Congress shall make no law 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”. This law helped the House of Representative revise the bill and decide on whether or not to keep the chip.
The constititution Amendments also protects us from being cheated by the president. During the Ideal conference President Young stated that he would veto any bill that seeks to weaken the implementation of the Ichip. Thanks to Article 1, Section 7 it was hard for president Young to fore fill his goal. In this part of the constitution it states that “if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it with his objections to that House in which it shall originate, who shall enter objections at large on their journal and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass bill, it shall be sent together with objections to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law”. This stated law helped us get a fear chance of letting our voice be heard and protecting us from President Young.
To sum it all up, The Constitution does effectively protect our individual liberties. The constitution gives us equal rights, freedom of speech, and fair chances. Although some people may not obey by the amendments and may bend it a bit it still protects us where it counts.