Throughout United States history, the freedoms of its citizens have continually been in jeopardy. To this day, tree "freedom" is nonexistent. Yes, William Blake and others in the Romantic movement were correct in asserting that the expectations and restraints of all social institutions not only limit an individual but hinder the growth of the entire human race. Social institutions try to conform a person's thoughts, beliefs, and freedoms; since the establishment of social institutions, free choice has been extinct. The Constitution of the United States prohibits a government and other organizations to limit one's innate rights-one of them being a person's thoughts. The US and other countries have fought the imprisonment of one's thoughts for hundreds of years; in the late 1940s, the US believed it had won the war against the imprisonment of one's thoughts as it ratified an amendment for women's suffrage.

Though making a watershed notion toward free choice through one's thoughts, social institutions, like schools, continue to teach children based on syllabi from the government and other accepted social institutions. In essence, children today are not being taught according to real-world experiences, but are being fed what social institutions have deemed "politically correct."

Corruption of social institutions has led the future of America to have extremely corrupted beliefs. Through the political scandal of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, one among many others, the children of the United States have been led to believe these kinds of actions to be acceptable. Children and citizens are no longer able to practice free choice in what they believe because their beliefs have been tainted by social institutions-they no longer know in what to believe.

In today's society, there is no freedom. Sure, we can buy a gun and shoot our neighbor; but we must worry about the stringent consequences. So, is this freedom? In prehistoric times, man was able to hunt whatever or whomever he wanted without worrying about having a hunting license or being chased by police. The more advanced our society becomes, the fewer freedoms we possess, if any already.

We live in an era with no true free choice; simply because social institutions force us to conform to its thoughts, beliefs, and freedoms.