Answer to Question #256375 in History for Sam

Question

According to historical data The Biak na Bato Constitution was barrowed from the newly liberated Country Cuba in short the Biak na Bato Constitution is a COPY PASTE Constitution, the word “Copy Paste” during the Spanish Era don’t actually exist during that time, now as a modern Filipino what are your insights that our founding fathers only copied a Constitution and did not make as our own original Constitution?

Answer 1

Answer

The Founding Fathers thought that it was necessary to have a constitution because they believed in the idea of limited government. The Founding Fathers believed that government should not be allowed to simply do whatever it wanted. Such a government would be able to tyrannize its people. Therefore, our founding fathers only copied a Constitution and did not make as our own original Constitution.