Charters Of Freedom

Charters of Freedom: 

What we stand for ... and how we got there: 

• The Declaration of Independence
• U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights 
• The Magna Carta 
• Emancipation Proclamation 
• Links to Presidential Libraries, and more...

Federalist Papers

• Also:  Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, by James Madison
• Anti-Federalist Papers
• Documentary History of the Bill of Rights          

Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics:

• Includes U.S. state Constitutions and Web sites
• National Constitutions — the supreme laws of many of the most important countries, for comparative analysis
• Selected works on Tyranny
• Selected U.S. Supreme Court Decisions — includes commentaries on the rulings and the opinions 
• And much, much more ...

"In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ..."