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The true nature of the Constitution has been revealed as John Quincy Adams said "Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people"

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Democracy and human rights cannot exist without the people's deep respect for these fundamental principles

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The Supreme Court is not always right, and judges who have served on the Supreme Court have also made mistakes although some of their decisions have proved correct through time, and many of them have created the conditions for new developments

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"We are under a constitution, but the Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is" said by former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes"

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In American society, the Supreme Court plays a special role in expanding and protecting individual liberties

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The letter James Madison sent to Thomas Jefferson in 1788 wrote: “Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contradict to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents"

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Thomas Jefferson, as well as many of the Founding Fathers of the United States were concerned about the power of the federal government. They demanded human rights law to limit the power of the government

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Right to life, right to freedom, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and other fundamental rights cannot be the results of voting and these rights are not dependent on any elections

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The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to remove certain topics from political controversy, placing them outside the claims of groups and public officials, and treating them as legal principles applied by the Court

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When drafting and passing the Bill of Rights, the legislators could not imagine what was wiretapping because they did not know anything about phones at that time. A "Constitution relates to life" is to take into account the development of society, so in fact, wiretapping is a violation of individual privacy rights

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An example of wiretapping occurred in Olmstead (1928). Initially, all of the judges agreed that the wiretapping took place outside a person's home, so it could not be concluded this was an infringement of privacy rights and beyond the scope of the 4th Amendment. Subsequently, the Court dismissed the original conclusion and stated that the wiretapping had to be re-investigated. The reason for this change was after some discussions, the Court acknowledged new technology could help someone interfere in a family's private life without having to enter their house

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According to the view "Constitution relates to life" means that the US Constitution must change and adapt to new political, social, and economic conditions in the country. Although when interpreting the Bill of Rights must stick to the words, its emphasis was more on the ideas than the meaning of the words

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The Ninth Amendment of the Bill of Rights passed in 1791 wrote: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people". This amendment only dealt with the rights provided at the time of its adoption, if there was no clear evidence of some rights' existence, it wouldn't be necessary to put these new rights into the Constitution

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All Americans acknowledge the rights mentioned in the Ten Amendments and the Constitution are very important and protected, but some people think what is contained in the Constitution has only that. Human rights are listed in the Constitution need to create more new rights

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The right to freedom of religion was clearly regulated, but it still raised the issue of the regulatory scope. This right not only applied to people who had beliefs and religions but also ensured the right to do as they pleased of dissidents and non-believer

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The process of enforcing human rights in reality is always adjusted. There was a time when the right to vote in the United States was only available to white men over 21 who had property. Until now, this right has been extended to nearly all U.S citizens over the age of 18, men and women, white and colored, own and without property

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In American society, there is always a balance between freedom and responsibility. Each right is associated with a corresponding obligation and sometimes the obligation belongs to a person exercising the right. For example, the residents' rights mean that police cannot enter a person's residence without a legal warranty

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These disparate people were bound together by the concept of American citizenship with a common belief that individual liberty was the fundamental essence of a liberal government. In the midst of bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln used to call the United States as "the last best hope of earth"

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The history of the United States is not only the history of a country located in North America, it's also the history of millions of immigrants brought here

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In addition to the indigenous peoples, which are commonly known as the Indians, the people of the United States include a wide variety of races and ethnicity from almost all countries in all continents and beliefs. Religions are also extremely diverse from indigenous beliefs to all the major religions around the world

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The traditional sources of building human rights greatly reflected the experience of America. Usually what makes a citizen of one country is mainly caused by common characteristics such as ancestry, ethnicity, religion, history...But the people of the United States have very little in common because this is a country with the most diversity in the modern world history

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Definitions of some human rights changed and appeared more new concepts, such as privacy rights, which were added to the terms used in the Constitution

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Among the amendments, the first thing was the right to freedom of expression, and this was considered the basic foundation of a liberal government. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo once said: "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom"

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The human rights outlined in the Bill of Rights included freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, right to bear arms, property rights, privacy rights, the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment, right to trial, equal protection under the law.....

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The Bill of Rights was a historical document in a particular space and time, so at this moment, the birth of a new Constitution took effect throughout the federation. The Bill of Rights went beyond its historical roots, and the concept of individual liberties could be viewed as a fundamental concept of any civil society

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Jefferson's view received great support, after that the state legislatures agreed to pass the amendments guaranteeing individual liberties in their first meeting. As a result, in 1791, the first Ten Amendments called The Bill of Rights was passed. Since then, the Bill of Rights became an integral part of the U.S Constitution

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When the debate reached its climax, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison (one of the delegates who drafted the Constitution) and referred to the bill of human rights: "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, what no just government should refuse or rest on inference"

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Although the final draft was elaborately written, the content of the Constitution only provided direction for the operation mechanism, not specifically mentioning any regulations on civil rights. Therefore, across the United States, there were many fierce criticisms on this issue

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On September 17/1787, 38 of 41 delegates from 13 states signed the final draft of the Constitution, they officially completed one of the most important legal documents in the history of the United States and the modern world

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Delegates from 13 states gathered in Philadelphia to draft a Constitution for a new unified nation - the United States of America in the summer of 1787