Founding Documents
The following three documents are the foundation for our Constitutional Republic – making the United States of America one of the most successful nations in the World. It is through them that a new kind of government was born and its principles were established along with the freedoms and rights of its citizens.
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The United States Constitution“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” This document outlines our limited form of government, a Republic. Power is divided between three branches so that no one person could gain total power..
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