In Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's article, “An African American's Perspective on the Constitution,” he admits that the Founding Father's Constitution contained numerous imperfections. Marshall believes that it was the product of time and enormous courage that brought forward the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the individual's Lockean rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Marshall believed that the achievements that secured the rights of these individuals “belong to those who refused to accept obsolete notions” of life, liberty, and property. Therefore, Marshall emphasizes that the passage of time makes the modernization of the Constitution necessary. Thomas Jefferson even anticipated the future evolution of our society and replaced the words “pursuit of happiness” with “property” in the Declaration of Independence, having realized that one day our values ​​would be reshaped. As public support for federal involvement has increased over time, the Constitution has been amended to better represent our evolving society. Although current public opinion favors federal support to ensure access to health care, our government's design significantly lengthens the time needed to implement the modernization of the Constitution. As the importance of maintaining one's health has increased in America, the public has asked the government to provide healthcare, however, the constitutional prose recognizes the right to health but not the right to healthcare. The current growing debt that the federal government is accumulating to provide financing for programs like Medicaid is increasing the likelihood that the United States will one day default on its debt. America's early healthcare system, known for its exceptional... middle of paper... Society. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Pr., 1994. Faunce B.Med., Ph.D., Thomas. Whose health is yours: medical professionalism and the state of the market. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2007.Marshall, Thurgood. “An African American's Perspective on the Constitution” in Shafritz, [eds.] Jay M. and Lee S. Weinberg. Classics in American Government. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006. The Declaration of Independence in Wilson, James Q., John J. Dilulio, and Meena Bose. 2011 American Government: Institutions and Policies. Boston, Mass.: Wadsworth Pub. Co. Ruger, Jennifer Prah. Health and social justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.Wilson, James Q., John J. DiIulio, Jr., and with Meena Bose. American government: institutions and policies. 12th ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Wadsworth Publishing, 2011.