Question

how constitutions, a government's basic document, differ in the content and scope of the rights that are identified for their citizens and how these variations reflect different times and political cultures

Answer 1

The constitution is a document that specifies the broader set of rights, responsibilities and procedure to do each and every activities in the country or state. The formation of constitution is based upon the prevalent cultures, its inherent values and way of living a respectful life. Since each country or state has different cultural values, beliefs and morally high acceptable behaviors by and for the people, then constitution is also prepared to reflect the same premise and principal of the culture. The rights granted by a culture or society is also inherent in the constitution of that country, and it makes constitution to differ from each other as different cultures provide different rights and responsibilities and way of doing things.

These variations reflect different times and political culture in a way that constitutions also go for the amendments that is in line with the changing values of the culture and political parties identifying it as an opportunity to bring a change and work with different cultural driven interest groups. Besides, there are changes in the cultural values in terms of openness, coming up with different times as well as need of reinforcements as different times also reflect adding more power to different groups and it happens via amendments in constitution. It also brings variations that is time and political cultural specific.