Preamble To The U.S. 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 defense, 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."

Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801

[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.

Documents

The Founding Fathers of the United States did not create freedom. They freely acknowledged that freedom and the rights freedom guarantees are endowed to each of us by our Creator. What they did do for us is document their acknowledgement of those rights and codify those rights in the basic laws of our country. They did this to provide the strongest foundation for our infant country.

Unfortunately, less than 1 in 100 people in our country today have ever read anything beyond the Preamble To The Constitution or the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence. Maybe a few more have heard of the Right to Free Speech or the Freedom of Religion, but how many of those have actually read the full amendments that guarantee those rights?

It is our duty as citizens of the United States of America to read and understand the basic documents that founded this great country. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we re-publish the powerful, legal documents that make up our birthright as Americans. If you have never read these documents in their entirety, we encourage you to do so before joining our grassroots effort. If you have read them previously, take an hour or two and re-read them.

If you are interested in exploring our founding documents in more detail, here’s a link to the online version of The Federalist Papers.

John Adams, 1765

Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.