Essay on Utopia - Constitution of the United States as a Utopian Propos

The Constitution of the United States as a Utopian Proposal Few people would take issue with the disputation that America faces monumental ch either last(predicate)enges both to its own head-being as well as to its self-imposed duty to be semen a more consummate union. Over the years, many speakers, authors, and dreamers have used the dirty facts of this nations (and its predecessors) patently unrepentant capitalism, paternalism, belligerence, and t kiboshency toward cultural assimilation to declargon the entire go-ahead bankrupt and to focus, not on where, exactly, the USA went wrong, but instead on what the truly ideal civilization would look like. They have created, in speech communication or on paper, entire realms of happiness and harmony, free of injustice, crime, and any another(prenominal) negative social vice. They have failed, however, in most cases, to free themselves from the entrap of the nature of the human animal and his uncanny ability to absolutely reverse accurate prediction or even adequate description. It is my suggestion that, bulge of the bulk of utopian proposals the world has seen, the Constitution of the United States does, in fact, come the closest to creating no place for the greatest number of people done its pragmatism, its admission to not knowing the nature of every man, and, most importantly, its allowal of renewal visions of Utopia. Of course, all one needs to do to get a glimpse of the monumental challenges the USA faces is open the closest almanac. Nearly half (49%) of all American marriages end in divorce. Some 700,000 high school students end up dropping out of school each year. There are nearly one million cases of child neglect and/or evil per year and 2,700,000 cases of violent crime. Around 8.5 million individuals... ...ough a total shift in the accepted social order. The framers of the Constitution were looking in the righteousness direction it is our legacy and responsibility to see that the essen ce of their vision is revise to accommodate the changes this nation has experienced since its founding and to provide the opportunity for every citizen to express, and possibly achieve, his or her own utopia. Works Cited Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward 2000 to 1887. internet text version copyright 1996 by Geoffrey Sauer. http//english-server.hss.cmu.edu/fiction/bellamy/contents.html Brunner, Borgna, ed. 1997 Information enthral Almanac. Boston Information Please, LLC. Constitution of the United States of America. http//www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html. Democratic Socialists of America. (1998). http//www.dsausa.org/dsa.html