looking for questions to answers that bother me so
Document 5 on our path to the Founding of the American Republic was Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” But, Document 6 in our list, the Declaration of Independence, was America’s point of no return to our native England. Call it a “tipping point,” paradigm shift, crossing the Rubicon, or the die-is-cast…
The Signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states (all but Rhode Island, which declined to send delegates), endorsed the Constitution created during the four-month-long convention. Our Constitution did not spring…
A limited government of the people, by the people, for the people “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” Governmental authority and power are limited to the wall of consent given to them by the people those…
July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Goodbye King George. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. “We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our…
