Dependable Declararation

We can derive many of the ideals of the American Revolution from the Declaration of Independence. One of those ideals was that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"(Declaration of Independence). But I strongly disagree that the constitution fulfilled this ideal of the revolution, and actually in attempt to fulfill this ideal it resulted in betraying other ideals. The way this happened is that under the rule of Britain there were distinct classes, such as the nobility and peasants, and power was distributed unfairly. As we
fought for independence we swore to stray away from this class system and create equality: "all men are created equal". But we think of the word "men" today as entailing all races, religions, and genders, but in the constitution it was only going to protect white men. So in doing this it created classes of different power just as in Britain: white men with full rights and protections of the constitution, blacks in slavery, and women in between. So in the attempt for equality, the constitution actually created vast amounts of inequality, thus betraying an ideal of the revolution. luckily through the power of time came American innovators who saw this gap in power thus ratifying amendments in 1865 to end slavery, and the right for women to vote in 1920. Although they were recognized by the constitution as equal, I can still argue that a sense of inequality still exists today that began with the inconsistency between the equality of the revolution and the constitution. But again time brings progress, and I believe that the election of Obama further shows that now all men are equal. And also women in my eyes are respected as much as men in society and at work. So although the ideal of equality was not fulfilled at the time of the constitution, time has brought progress to in my eyes fulfill that ideal today.