PEOPLE: Americans continue to find ways to work together as a United People in the United States
AGN.News Team
April 21, 2025
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – All over the world people are longing for unity and purpose. The challenges they face are many. The desire for change is great. The desire to have a prosperous family is always on their minds. People the world over want a life of prosperity and unity of purpose for themselves and their family. First, the nation has to work collectively to build such a life. This can’t be built alone. It requires a collective response to every challenge that arrives.
Building A Prosperous Nation
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America knew it was going to be a real challenge to create a “more perfect union” from a micro beginning. They were very clear and in agreement of one very important act – that this nation would become filled with people from all over the world with different views on nation building.
They knew it would take a lot of work over many, many years or even centuries of time plus a continuous work in progress to reach that original goal, creating “a more perfect union”. To help unify the population the Founders wrote a series of laws to help govern the newly found nation. It’s called the Constitution of the United States.
The Supreme Law of The Land
“We the people of the United States can and will work together to build a more perfect union.” This was a message that ran like thread across the fabric of America as builders of the homeland toiled and worked every day.
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation’s first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.
The Constitution’s first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, in which the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress (Article I); the executive, consisting of the president and subordinate officers (Article II); and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts (Article III).
Article IV, Article V, and Article VI embody concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments, the states in relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendment.
Article VII establishes the procedure subsequently used by the 13 states to ratify it. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world.
Migration and Immigration
Now, after more than 225 years of migration and immigration, America and Americans continues to find ways to come together to solve problems. Being a country where free speech is guaranteed in the United States Constitution allows for free expression, support for family heritage, customs, traditions, and community.
The Founders agreed on another fact. As these immigrants came into the country from far flung places over the oceans, they would bring their traditions and values with them. It would be future generations who would be the beneficiaries of the knowledge and experience of the teachers, educators, family heads, and schools to come.
Occupations and education may vary by people and places, but love of country, community, and family is an undisputed fact. Universally, while working together is a core principle of all Americans some gaps remain to narrow.
Americans are Unique and United
Americans are a very diverse people from all quarters of the world. From Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America they came as families, children, laborers, craftsmen, mothers, fathers, business owners, clergy, priests, athletes, domestic workers, farmers, artists, gardeners. and many more.
From Ireland they came. From Africa they came. From the Amazon jungles they came. From Brazil they came. From South Africa they came. From Palestine they came. From the Pacific Islands they came. From the jungles of Africa, they came. From Mexico they came. From Canada they came.
While America welcomed these new arrivals and immigrants, it has had to come to celebrate the life and culture of natives who lived here for thousands of years. These Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the lands that would become the United States of America.
Native Americans, having lived here for thousands of years, knew the value of the land and its environment. While many initially resisted changes, they knew they were outnumbered by the new arrivals. So, they along with the newcomers had to recognize the unity that would be required to build “a more perfect union”.
United Americans Worked Together
A close look at America reveals a population from virtually every country in the world. Many came voluntarily while others were forced to come. Once here, the reason became of little or no significance. What mattered was becoming a citizen of the United States and defending it indeed and practice.
Many joined the military to defend it against its enemies. Many used their skills to build skyscrapers like the Mohawk ironworkers in New York who help build the Empire State Building. Many came to build railroads across America. Many operated laundries to keep dusty and dirty garments clean. Many came to pick fruits and vegetables for our tables. Many picked cotton that made cloth. Many came to build our furniture, hotels, homes, stores, malls and infrastructure like roads and bridges.
These immigrants stood up for America and did everything they could, with hardships a plenty, to be included in the lists of … builders of the homeland, namely America!
Americans Are Stronger Together
One of the joys of most people in America is the understanding that Americans are stronger when we work together. That’s why when we look at the disease of intolerance, we see it as a sickness that hurts the persecutor as badly as the persecuted. Like a stone thrown in still waters, it creates a ripple that goes on and on across those otherwise still waters. Intolerance devalues the currency of unity.
Since Americans are united, regardless of where or why they came … there is an inescapable fact according to one historian … “We the people of the United States can and will work together to build a more perfect union.”
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