Unit 2: Selection Vocabulary 3

For a sense of the evolving nature of the Constitution, we need look no further than the first three words of the document’s preamble: ‘We the People.’

Through the amendment process, more and more Americans were eventually included in the Constitution’s definition of “We the People.”

But, in part because no one knew exactly which states would become the nine required to ratify the Constitution, Morris condensed the Preamble into the familiar words of today: “We the People of the United States.”

But according to Justice Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Constitution was “defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.”

The Constitution was not perfect, but rather perfectible—through the amendment process.

They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

But instead of improving with age, programming has degenerated
into mindless reality TV.

The difference for him, he says, is that he was not exploited and was in charge of his program.

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? This age-old question can easily be applied to the controversy surrounding reality television.

Have these shows corrupted our society?

At least the people viewers see reflect the wide diversity of people in our nation.