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FOUNDING DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY (1630) (John Winthrop’s model for the Shining City Set on a Hill to be known as America) THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE (1776) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1777) THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (1787) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS (1794-1992) THE PLEDGE OF ALEGENCE (1892-1954) PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES The Establishment of Thanksgiving The Preambles of the 50 State Constitutions
We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments. James Madison Attributed |
