The founding documents of the United States were created, but were never meant to be set and stone. Rather, such documents were set to be a contract between the federal government, state governments and its people, and is intended to be evolved as time moves on in order to best appeal to the consent of the governed. In court of law, whether as a defendant, prosecutor, judge, or juror, the Constitution will always be referred to in order to make a case. This is where the ideology of “consent of the governed” comes into place. Thomas Jefferson writes about definite rights that every person deserves in the Declaration of Independence, and that “...Governments are …show more content…
In this debate, broad constructionists and strict constructionists are are in argument. Because there is no specific mention of healthcare, or any understandable variation of it, explicitly stated in the document, strict constructionists argue that healthcare is most definitely not a Constitutional right. Broad constructionists argue that though healthcare is not written down specifically, it is