Wednesday, December 10, 2014

BLOG 12: WE THE PEOPLE

Our U.S. Constitution starts out with the famous words: "We the people of the United States..."

What did our Founding Fathers mean by this phrase?

55 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Founding Fathers meant that all the the American people are one. We all help each other and we all care about each other. Americans never leave a man behind.

Madeline Winters
Period 1

Anonymous said...

Amanda Flynn
The founding fathers meant that this is for all of the people, these rights are not only for the rich, not only for the poor, not only for the middle class but for everyone. They wanted to Make sure that everyone knew that it represented everyone so that no one would think that it was unfair. They meant that all of the people of the United states have these rights, not other people, just the people of the U.S., but everyone in the U.S. has the rights listed in it.

Anonymous said...

In the U.S. Constitution it starts with the famous words: "We the people of the United States...". Our founding fathers said this because the U.S. Constitution is for the American people, to show that we are together, and one country following the same rules.

Period: 2
Hannah Epifano

Anonymous said...

I think that the founding fathers meant everyone by the words "We the people of the United States..." Now the constitution applies to everyone. Everyone has rights in The United states. These rights are in the Bill of Rights. If the constitution wasn't meant for everyone then what would be the point of a constitution.

Kenny Schneider Period 1

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers meant all the people,of course that didn't count slaves,all of us as equals not just king and his subjects.They meant everyone,they meant equality and not just peasants to a king.They meant people who were free to make their choices,and people who didn't want to get bossed around.

Anonymous said...

By this they meant the at we re no longer apart of England and are no longer going to follow your rules. You are no longer our king. We left England so we can be our own free country, our free country known to us as the United states. We are U.S. citizens.
Period 1
Michaela Csvihinka

Anonymous said...

Manaia Friend
12/12/14
Period 3
When our founding fathers said, “We the people” they were referring to the fact that the things stated after that was coming from everyone. They all wanted the rights that were written in the document. In other words, it stood for all of them. All of the people. It represented them as a whole, and let the person reading it know that they were a group.

Anonymous said...

Sam Gertner Period 1
The Founding Fathers were saying that everyone is equal in the U.S. They wanted to say that everyone is part of forming the U.S. Government and everyone has a say in who represents and runs our country. They also wanted to say that the U.S. is a republic because when you say we the people, you are including every U.S. citizen and no person or group can run the country by themselves without the approval of the people.

Anonymous said...

When the Founding Fathers started our U.S. Constitution by saying," We the people of the United States..." They mean we are the people in the United States, and we live here. They mean everyone in the United States. Not just certain people. We the people means everyone. By saying this everyone gets treated equally because everyone that lives here is a part of the United States, and is equal.

Rachel Colegrove
Period 1

Anonymous said...

Samantha Sisson
Period 3

What our founding fathers meant by the phrase 'we the people' is that we are a united nation and our people are all equal to the government. They wanted to include everyone in the constitution.

Anonymous said...

The phrase "We the people of the United States..." By the Founding Fathers meant the people of the United States, the people that lived in the states.

Alexa Allan
Period 2

Anonymous said...

The starting words of the U.s. Constitution are, "We the people of the United States..." By writing this phrase, the Founding Fathers meant that this was an agreement within all U.S. citizens, not just the men who created the document.By saying this, it made it so that everyone agreed which the rules and laws stated in the document.
Emma McCarthy
Period 8

Anonymous said...

Anna Civitelli Period 1

I think the Founding Fathers did this because it shows that we all have rights. I think that because the bill of rights states that we have freedom of speech and i feel that "we the people" proves it.

Anonymous said...

We the peopl means everyone in the world or the U.S. not just a few people everyone because your someone and they count you and that's why they call it We The People starting off.

Joey Samonek Per3

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers mean that every decision made should be approved by the people because what makes up America are all of the people in it. Because of this, we should all get a say on the decisions that will impact us as the people.

Caitlin D. P:3

Anonymous said...


Tyler Gaughan per 8

The Founding Fathers' famous words "We the people of the United States" probably meant that every one in America, American citizens, or any one that lives in America, should be applied to this. Every one should help to build a perfect union, it's the responsabilaty of an American to at least help in some way in order to form a more perfect union.

Anonymous said...

Kayla Plunkett per. 8

The constitution starts out with the famous words: "We the people of the United States..." because the founding fathers wanted to address everyone. They were including everyone person and state in the constitution. They meant that we were a whole, and everyone was united. As well as being united, they may have been talking about former generations to come, so the power would be with them to.

Anonymous said...

Kayla Plunkett per. 8

The constitution starts out with the famous words: "We the people of the United States..." because the founding fathers wanted to address everyone. They were including everyone person and state in the constitution. They meant that we were a whole, and everyone was united. As well as being united, they may have been talking about upcoming generations, so the power would be with them too. (Sorry about my last comment I realized I made an error in my answer.)

Anonymous said...

The phrase that the Founding Fathers used to start of the constitution was to emphasize that the government is us. We are the government as American citizens, we have the ability to make it work, and give power to it. It was created by the people for the people, so we have to be united to make it work. The Founding Fathers also knew that for generations our government’s power would be in the hands of the people unlike what happened with England, where only the king held all the sovereignty.
P1
Michelle A.

Anonymous said...

The Founding Fathers meant that all the people gentry or poor all have the same rights under America and U.S Constitution. They meant that every person in the United States gives the rights of one man or woman to every man or woman under the U.S Constitution and that all the people are considered as equals to all the people of the United States of America.

Aidan McShane Period 8

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers were talking about America’s people. It starts with the phrase “we the people” because we have the power to help America, add things to the constitution, and protect each other, and so on. The fate of our future and our country’s future is in our hands, and it’s our job to make it a good one. –Victoria Yencik Period 3

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers meant everyone by we the people. I think it was not specified towards a certain group but everyone in the U.S. citizens or visitors, male or female.
-Tyler V

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers meant everyone by we the people. I think it was not specified towards a certain group but everyone in the U.S. citizens or visitors, male or female.
-Tyler V

Anonymous said...

What our Founding Fathers meant by, "We the people of the United States..." was that the citizens in the United States who are in favor of this new country. There is debate about wether, "We the people..." is aimed towards everyone one of all gender and race or just at the men of the new country. I believe, when it was written, it was coming from only the men of the constitution and aimed more towards them than anyone else.

Katherine Samonek
Period 1

Anonymous said...

Jake McCarthy pr.1

When the founding fathers said, " We the people of the United States..." They meant all white land owners. I believe this because back then only a certain kind of people were treated as equals and that was the white land owner. I believe they included females also, even though they didn't have as many rights as the white male, they were still citizens of America. The reason I believe they did not include slaves is because they often compared them to cattle, they were not treated as citizens they were treated as property.

Anonymous said...

When the Founding Fathers started the Constitution with "We the people of the United States..." what they meant was that no matter what origin, gender, or age we are the people and we will unite. When I say we are the people I mean that every U.S. citizen has the same rights. The simplest way to say that the Constitution applied to everyone was that famous phrase "We the people". This phrase stood for freedom and unity when the Constitution was first written and it still stands for freedom and unity today.
Melissa Period 1

Anonymous said...

I think that the founding fathers meant by this phrase is that the people who came over from their original homes to America are the people. Also I think what the founding fathers meant was he was representing who the people were. Also the founding fathers might have been saying that everyone in America has had a say in the U.S. Constitution and that it wasn't just the government it was all the people.

Sarah Townson period 2

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers meant that everyone outside of the nat. gov. would be included in the constitution no matter what type of person your are when they said "We the people".

Lucas Cuseo
Period 3

Anonymous said...

The constitution starts out with "We the people of the United States..." because it shows that it is for everyone in the United States. If you are black or white you still have to fallow the constitution. The constitution is made for everyone in the U.S. It shows that everyone in the U.S are equal.

Christina Moniz
period 3

Anonymous said...

"We the people of the United States..." means the citizens of the United States as one. I think our Founding Fathers mean this by the country living by the rules as one whole.
Cassi Stoica
Period 3

Anonymous said...

The phase "We the people of the United States.." means we the people are responsible for the maintaining of the U.S. I know this because after the Phrase "We the people" of the United States" it says: "In Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Tommy Brisch

Anonymous said...

The Founding Fathers said, "We the people of the United States..." because they wanted to truly enforce that the people of the Untied States are together as one and everyone needs to protect themselves, and others. Also, it shows how the Founding gFathers truly want every person form the United States to b thankful and caring of others and know that they are one.




Madison Samperi

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers mean that we are the people and that all of the rights are for us "the people". And that all of the rights apply to us, the people, and that it has been written by the people. So it doesn't evolve only one person or group of people but all of the people in America.



Sam K
Period 1

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers meant "We the people of the United States" have all rights to this documentand agree to terms on what it is saying. Also "We The People" is kind of sayng in what the citizens believe in, and what they will follow.




Zach Hernandez P.1

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers meant by "We the people of the United States" is that everyone in the U.S. agreed on the Constitution and were speaking together on it, they all had a say in it.

Melissa Santos
Period: 3

Anonymous said...

Megan O'Meara Period 3
Our founding Fathers start our constitution wight the phrase. "We the people of the United States...". When writing this they meant to include the people who were citizens of America. They did not include slaves in this statement.

Anonymous said...

By the phrase, "We the people of the United States...", I believe that the founding fathers meant every person of the U.S. was included and that every person must abide by the rules of the constitution.

Murray McCarthy

Anonymous said...

I think that our founding fathers meant that we are one country and we are independent. We are all united as one and that what I am about to say is not coming from just me it is coming form everyone. This quote gives us freedom and it signifies our country. It is who we are.
Maria Castro-Rodriguez
period 1

Anonymous said...

I think the reason the founding fathers started it with, "We the people of the United States..." is because they wanted to show power in our name, the United states to make the constitution stronger. It means all of the people that follow the rules and amendments.
Kaitlyn Reagan

Anonymous said...

Alyssa Noce
Period 2

I think the Founding Fathers meant by the phrase, "We the people of the United States" is Americans have the right to speak for are country and say what they believe. If someone thinks that there is a problem with what something someone in the government has said, they have the right to speak out and share their option.

Anonymous said...

By: " We the people of the United States…" the Framers meant that the U.S. is made by everyone in it, besides slaves. The people make America because we are a democracy, not a monarchy nor a dictatorship.
DJ Foley
Period 1

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers said this because they wanted our nation to be combined not sectioned. Like the poster that ben franklin made that said join or die. If we are sectioned then we can be conquered more easily if we work together than we can be stronger unlike the articles of the confederation.
lilly macfadyen-period 8

Anonymous said...

The phrase "we the people of the United States..." was created by our Founding Fathers. This phrase means that all the people in the United states are joined together. No one that is an American Citizen is excluded. Our Founding Fathers said this statement to say its not just the government its all the people. We have a right to be in the government and have a say in the government. This phrase is so well liked that its used over and over again in the Constitution. Its a very strong phrase because it shows that the people are joined together and united as one.

Bella Santos Per. 3

Anonymous said...

Our founding fathers mean when they say, "We the people", that us, as United States of America citizens, are all united together. That we are all one singular nation and will stick together as one.
Bella Migliaro

Anonymous said...

Michael Wisentaner. Our founding fathers mean when they say "we the people"that us, as United States of America citizens, are all united and together as one big nation and that we will stick together as one through anything.

Anonymous said...

The Founding Fathers meant by "We the people" because it is a democracy/republic. We are, overall, united by a single leader, who listens to representatives of the states. Those representatives listen to the citizens of their state, and carry the message. Whether it's through a vote, or social media that the representatives feel needs to be brought to the leaders attention, the representatives are the voice of the citizens. We don't have a direct way of speaking to the leader of our country, but smaller groups of people, those representatives, will do it for us so we do have a way of expressing what we feel needs to be corrected about our country.

Sabrina Rookasin P1

Anonymous said...

The Founding Fathers meant by "We the people" because it is a democracy/republic. We are, overall, united by a single leader, who listens to representatives of the states. Those representatives listen to the citizens of their state, and carry the message. Whether it's through a vote, or social media that the representatives feel needs to be brought to the leaders attention, the representatives are the voice of the citizens. We don't have a direct way of speaking to the leader of our country, but smaller groups of people, those representatives, will do it for us so we do have a way of expressing what we feel needs to be corrected about our country.

Sabrina Rookasin P1

Anonymous said...

Benny Gonzlez period 8

What the Founding Fathers meant by "We the people of the United States..." was that there was a debate on whether the constitution was aimed towards everyone or the men who created it. But it was definitely aimed at people who are in America and not people who are loyal to the British King.

Anonymous said...

Our Founding Fathers meant by the phrase, "We the people of the United States..." that the U.S. government is there to protect the U.S. citizens throughout the Constitution and that they would follow the amendments without protesting.
Meghan L.
Period 8

Anonymous said...

By saying "We the people of the United States..." The Founding Fathers ment that all the people in the U.S including women or blacks because they are people just like us.

Amanda Hanna
period 1

Anonymous said...

The foundng fathers say we the people, meaning everyone in the United states. We the people, our fathers wanted everyone to be included in having freedom of speech, etc.
Brett Cahill
p:3

Anonymous said...

"We the people of the united states" means that this country is not going to be communist and ran by a dictator. It is also showing that the people have some power too.

Brendan Andros, per. 3

Anonymous said...

Mike Kusick Period.8

The phrase "we the people" means that the people get some power. They get power because the founding fathers created the bill of rights. The bill of rights gives the people freedom of speech, religion, petition, assembly, and press. Also we have the miranda rights. Meaning we don't have to testify in court unless we want to. And we have the power to vote and select who we want running our government.

Anonymous said...

they meant that its not just one person running the united states its all the nation.

Anna Delaney
period 3

Anonymous said...

The founding fathers meant we the people meaning that everyone in the 13 colonies were In. It was talking about everyone. We the people is used to show that everyone has an equal right and have equal opportunities.

Max