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Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Constitution of the Confederate States of America March 11, 1861 Preamble Article I Article II Article III Article IV Article V Article VI Article VII Preamble We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain...
read moreConstitution for the United States of America
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet Constitution for the United States of America1 We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of...
read moreThe Anti-Federalist Papers
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet The Anti-Federalist Papers ~1~ A Dangerous Plan of Benefit Only to the Aristocratick Combination ~2~ “We Have Been Told of Phantoms” ~3~ New Constitution Creates a National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign Influence; Dangers of Civil War and Despotism ~4~ Foreign Wars, Civil Wars, and Indian Wars – Three Bugbears ~5~ Scotland and England – A Case in Point ~6~ The Hobgoblins of Anarchy and Dissensions Among The States ~7~ Adoption of the Constitution Will Lead to Civil...
read moreThe Federalist Papers
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet Alexander Hamilton James Madison John Jay The Federalist The text of this version is primarily taken from the first collected 1788 “McLean edition”, but spelling and punctuation have been modernized, and some glaring errors — mainly printer’s lapses — have been corrected. The main heads have also been taken from that edition and a few later ones, except where the head was something like “The Same Subject Continued” we have repeated the previous heading and appended...
read moreArticles of Confederation
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Tweet The Articles of Confederation To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. I. The Stile of this Confederacy shall be “The United States of America”. II. Each state retains its...
read moreDeclaration of Independence, USA
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel...
read moreTHE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT Composed by William Bradford Adopted November 11, 1620 [This Compact, drawn up in the cabin of the Mayflower, was not a constitution, a document defining and limiting the functions of government. It was, however, the germ of popular government in America. Governor Bradford makes this reference to the circumstances under which the Compact was drawn up and signed: "This day, before we came to harbour, observing some not well affected to unity and concord, but gave some appearance of faction, it was thought good there...
read moreThe Magna Carta
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2012
Tweet Abuses by King John caused a revolt by nobles who compelled him to execute this recognition of rights for both noblemen and ordinary Englishmen. It established the principle that no one, including the king or a lawmaker, is above the law. The Magna Carta (The Great Charter) Preamble: John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and...
read moreThe Decalogue
Posted by admin on Feb 23, 2012
Tweet The Ten Commandments Here is a list of the ten commandments. Exodus is the book that tells of the formation of a national group from a collection of slave laborers in Egypt. Joseph led the children of Israel into Egypt to escape famine in Canaan. Moses led them out hundreds of years later to escape what had become bondage and abuse under the Pharaohs. A forty-year journey to the Promised Land included a stop at Mount Sinai where Moses received the Law: The Ten Commandments. These Commandments came at a time when the Israelites were...
read moreTexas Bill of Rights
Posted by admin on Feb 23, 2012
Tweet THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare: Sec. 1. FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE. Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States. Sec. 2. INHERENT POLITICAL POWER;...
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