Our Founding Documents
America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy!
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH – The Speech and the Inspiration behind it
QUOTES FROM OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
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