Right from the beginning of it's creation the constitution
             of the United States has been a shaky document. The very basis
             for it being there was in fact illegal. The story of American
             politics starts with the Declaration of Independence. This
             document was brilliantly written by Thomas Jefferson and
             compacted all of the great ideas of enlightenment into one short
             easy to read paper. The declaration stated all of the ideals the
             new American nation would strive for. A constitution was needed
             as a way in which to fulfill those goals. The articles of
             confederacy were created as that constitution. However, they were
             weak, because no state wanted to give away any of their powers,
             and so the articles eventually failed. That is when the modern
             day constitution was starting to form. The Articles of
             Confederacy stated that in order to change any part of the
             document all thirteen states must agree to the change. Therefor
             a meeting was called so that they could amend the failing
             articles. However, representatives from two of the states did
             not show up. Even though not all states were represented the
             meeting started and the first vote was to totally throw away the
             Articles of Confederacy. The constitution wasn't formed yet and
             it was already a flawed document. Because not all states were
             represented when the articles required it, the constitution was
             an illegal document. The delegates working on the constitution
             new that they needed a stronger document, because the articles
             proved too weak, but it still needed to please all of the states.
             This was impossible. So what ended up happening was the new
             ducocument became more and more vague. The only way to create a
             document that would pass was to make a document which didn't
             really solve any problems but make each state believe that there
             problems would be fixed. This was accomplished by making it so
             that it wa...