The Constitution

 Looking at the effect of the options that there are from the rights that we have as promised by the constitution seemed rather interesting to me. As i studied Figure 2.4 on page 63 of the chapter i tried to see if there were any correlations between what was important to the colonists in its beginnings versus what has grown to be important to citizens later on. Between he years 1791 and 1992 there was a total of twenty seven amendments with a total of  forty individual rights involved. This was broken down in the chart in to five main groups. Criminal procedure, Participation, Equality, Structure, and Miscellaneous.
      Participation labeled eight of the Amendments, all being passed with in the first one hundred years of our history. Criminal Procedure labeled 13 Amendments splitting it 4 every hundred years. Equality had a low number of four Amendments, one of which was passed in the second hundred years.Structure dealt with Eight additions to the Amendments almost making even between the centuries five to four. And last but not least, Seven Miscellaneous Amendments ranging from involuntary quartering of soldiers to limiting congressional pay raises. During the years since the two hundred year mark there have been a total of two items passed, guaranteeing 18 year olds the right to vote in 1971, and limiting congressional pay raises in 1992.
    In my opinion it seems that as a group we are satisfied with criminal procedure as well as Equality when looking at the information shown in the chart... I ask this question to you.. Based on what things you hear and observe in society, do you think this  is correct for our day. Our we secure in the way that justice takes place on both sides of the criminal procedures? Are there things we can improve on or challenge? Another question is with activists for multiple causes and groups do you see a pattern in what our Future Amendments could include?