Our Founding Documents

America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy!

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The First Prayer in Congress – September 7, 1774

A Note on the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH – The Speech and the Inspiration behind it

QUOTES FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS

THE CONSTITUTION, THE BIBLE, AND AMERICA

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT (1620)

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)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS (1791)

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS (1794-1992)

OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM (1814)

THE PLEDGE OF ALEGENCE (1892-1954)

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESSES

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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