Upon the necessity of founding a basis for a country’s development, an establishment of a constitution was needed. A constitution is a system of fundamental principles according to a nation, in other words it reflects the people’s mentality. This can lead you to rationalize that with the metamorphic process of human beings, frame of minds also have their transformations. Is the alteration of minds the cause why the constitution’s ideas fall out of date? Constitutions adapts to the necessities of an era’s ideals and the way of thinking of the constitution’s authors. Through time, as society grows complex, human necessities change, therefore, a constitution needs to have the potential to adapt to the conditions of present and future generations. An example of this would be the United States of America’s Constitution because in 223 years it has shown that it was well designed due to the few number of amendments it has encounter.
To attain success one has to fall in many occasions. The United State of America’s Constitution is no exception. It was made in certain period to solve certain problems. Some solutions proposed by the government under the new constitution endured time, others became an issue within it. One example of a durable solution was the initiative that proposed the division of the power in the federal government to avoid it from becoming tyrannical. The power was divided into the executive, legislative and judicial branches. An illustration of a solution that was discrepant through time was the voting issue. Originally, the ones with the right to vote were the wealthy people, citizens of the United States of America. Then in the fifteenth amendment of 1870, voting rights are conceded to every person without discrimination. Although this amendment was imposed, many states denied African Americans the right to vote. As a way of preventing low income African Americans to vote, the poll tax was imposed. This tax was a payment which was sometimes a...