The Constitution

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 was too vague to offend anybody but
             you could read into it. This made for a document that would be seriously
             flawed because people would be able to read into it too much. It could not
             work. The Constitution of the United States of America was too vague to
             work. The way the constitution was written it gave power to four parts: the
             congress, the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the states. Because it
             was so vague it did not really define which powers went where (with a few
             exceptions). It left too much room to read into and take power away from
             other branches and into your branch to give yourself more power. The
             constitution leaves all unmentioned powers to the states, representing the
             people. This seems like that would be allot of power, and it would be, except
             that the other three branches would read into there powers and eventually
             take almost all powers so that the remaining powers were little and
             unconsiquencial. Throughout the history of the constitution the three branches
             of the government would time and time again expand their powers. Each time
             taking more powers away from the states and unbalance the system so that
             the original ideals set...

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