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Kid president's video of the decloration of independence.

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Kid President’s Sleepover Under The Declaration of Independence!

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Bill of Rights ("I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" Parody) - @MrBettsClass

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Pilgrims Mayflower Compact Social Studies Video PBS LearningMedia

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The creation of the Mayflower Comapct arose from necessity as a change in course forced all parties aboard the ship to reach an acceptable compromise.

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A school house rock video on the three branches of goverment.

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Three Branches of Government School House Rock

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Legilative branch is one of the three branches of goverment it has Congres, Senate, and House of Representive And there job is to make laws. Another of the three branche is the Execuive Branch and it has the president, Vice President, and Cabinet they carry out laws. One of the three branches is the Judical Branch it has The Supreme Court and other fedral courts they evaluate laws.

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The Constition was made on September 17, 1787.The U.S. Constition established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens

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BY JULIA SHAW - Today is Constitution Day. It's not a federal holiday, and that's fitting. After all, for 225 years now, the Constitution has not taken a day off.

Ours is the longest lasting, most successful constitution in history. But, even this relatively short document contains a few clauses that even seasoned experts forget.
1. Slaves Aren't in the Constitution, but Pirates Are
When the 13th Amendment was ratified, not a single word of the Constitution needed to be deleted. The word "slave" or "slavery" never appears. In fact, the framers refused to use the words-opting instead for persons held to service or labor-to avoid legitimizing slavery and to emphasize that they were people, not objects.

The Constitution does not classify people according to race, not even in the oft-misunderstood Three-fifths Clause. Free blacks in the North and the South were counted on par with whites for purposes of apportionment. The three-fifths compromise was designed to prevent Southern states from magnifying their political power.

Pirates, however, are in the Constitution. Piracy has long been recognized as an international crime. The Define and Punish Clause (Article I, Section 8 Clause 10) empowers Congress to "define and punish" piracy and other felonies "committed on the high seas."
2. The Federal Government Isn't the Only One That's Limited
In this period of wild federal overreach, many states are eager to push back. That's a good thing. But the Constitution limits states as well.
Many of the limitations focus on economic powers: states cannot set up artificial barriers to trade by imposing certain taxes, pick winners and losers through contract law, or use Congress to hamper industries in rival states. It is Congress's duty to lift these barriers to competition and economic freedom. This was the purpose of the Commerce Clause.
3. The Constitution Encourages Swearing
Before entering office, the President swears to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." But he is not the only member of the federal government to take an oath. Article VI requires members of the legislative, executive, or judicial branches in both the state and federal government to swear to support the Constitution. The first law passed by the first Congress was "an Act to regulate the Time and Matter of administering certain Oaths."

Why is this significant? Because every government official in every level of government has a duty to uphold the Constitution-from the President and Congress to state governors and legislators.
4. "Rights" Appear Once in the Constitution
Most constitutions around the world enumerate rights: the right to work, to health care, and to ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development. In these constitutions, "rights" is just another word for free stuff government gives you.

But in the U.S. Constitution, the government doesn't distribute rights; it secures them. Therefore, the word "right" is barely mentioned in the Constitution. It appears once in the unamended document: The Patents Clause in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8:"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The Bill of Rights further secures rights by limiting the powers of the federal government.
5. A Republic, If You Can Keep It
The Guarantee Clause is perhaps the best-but least-known-clause. It guarantees states a republican form of government where citizens elect representatives who "refine and enlarge the public views" and uphold the rule of law.

More importantly, it protects the states from becoming pure democracies. In a pure democracy there are no intermediate institutions- political parties, representatives, or other constitutional mechanisms-to refine, enlarge, or channel the people's passions.

There are a few odd clauses and interesting phrases in the Constitution. But there are deeper, more serious constitutional issues to discuss as well: the meaning of the First Amendment, the limits of the Spending Clause, the extent of Congress's War Powers.

To have these debates and conversations, we need to read, study, and understand the Constitution's meaning. ConstitutionOnline.com-the only clause-by-clause examination of the Constitution and how it's been interpreted over the years-is the best place to begin. Let's start this Constitution Day.

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The Forgotten Constitution | Hawaii Reporter

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BY JULIA SHAW - Today is Constitution Day. It's not a federal holiday, and that's fitting. After all, for 225 years now, the Constitution has not taken a day off. Ours is the longest lasting, most successful constitution in history. But, even this relatively short document contains a few clauses that even seasoned experts forget.

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The Bill of Rights was made on December 15, 1791. It happened because the Constition didnt contain decloration of human rights so then the Bill of Rights was formed

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Insight Magazine

One of the 12 rare surviving copies of the Bill of Rights will be coming to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Each original colony and Congress was given their own original copy of the Bill of Rights, however, several of the rare copies were stolen, including Pennsylvania's.

The copy that Philadelphia will be receiving is originally owned by the New York Public Library, which has made a loan agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The library was given its copy of the document in 1896, as a donation from a library trustee who was also a collector. Due to preservation reasons, the document hasn't been displayed for years.

Philadelphia will begin displaying the rare document at the National Constitution Center in the fall of 2014. The document will only be on display for about three years.
Yalin Kaganovich
Insight Mag Correspondent

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Bill of Rights Is Coming Back to Philadelphia - Insight Magazine

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One of the 12 rare surviving copies of the Bill of Rights will be coming to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Each original colony and Congress was given their own original copy of the Bill of Rights, however, several of the rare copies were stolen, including Pennsylvania's.

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Congress picked a committee to write a delcoration explaining why the colonies wanted independence . They chose John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert Livingston of New York and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

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The Continental Congress adopted The Articles of Confedoration, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of The Articles of Confedoration by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.

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The Mayflower was made in the year 1620. Before landing there ship the Pilgrims decided to write a plan of goverment for their colony.

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Capt. Peter O'Brien (USN-Ret.), London Center for Policy Research

Last week (Nov. 21st) marked the 394th anniversary of the signing of one of the important documents in history: the Mayflower Compact.

The document is not quite what some think it; it is not a declaration of independence from England and the King. But it is critical in understanding what happened between 1620 and 1776.

The Pilgrims left England due to religious persecution, moving to Holland in 1606, where there was more tolerance. For several reasons, in particular a difficulty in mixing with Dutch culture, they decided to look for another place to live, and they settled on Virginia. Fortunately for us, the sea, the ship and the weather didn't cooperate and they landed in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Before they disembarked, they drafted a document - the Compact. The point of the Compact was simple: they had departed Amsterdam without a charter for land or trade, etc., once they reached the Americas, there was concern among the Pilgrims that some of them might decide they were free and unbound by any sense of commitment to the investors who had funded the voyage. As that was considered to be a dangerous precedent, they drew up the Compact.

The key line in the Compact is this:

"...do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony..."

They had written the first governing document in all of history written by the citizenry, for the citizenry; establishing both the ascendancy of the people over the government (the people establish the rules of the government, not the government) and thereby also limiting government to act within those 'just and equal laws.'

This set the stage for a long line of leading figures from New England in the 1600s and 1700s who championed concepts of popular, limited government.

But, the Massachusetts Charter (1691) superceded the Compact, limiting many rights and powers that had been held by the people, and ending elections for many leading colonial offices. That step might be said to be the first real 'sand in the gears' of colonial politics. That wasn't enough for England; in 1774 Parliament abrogated the Charter and issued the Massachusetts Government Act, stripping colonials of what little power remained, vesting all power in royal appointees. This led to the Suffolk Resolves (September 1774), which rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and called for a boycott of a wide range of British goods. The Boston Tea Party followed (16 December 1774) and then came the tumultuous year of 1775. The rest, as they say, is history. And at its root, the Compact. The Founding Fathers recognized the Compact as one of the intellectual wellsprings from which came the U.S. Constitution.

So, perhaps it's fitting as we celebrate Thanksgiving, that we remember this remarkable document by some 'ordinary' people, that we remember what the Pilgrims set in motion, and some of the things that we have to be truly thankful for: a limited government, which has only those powers specifically granted to it by the people; a nation in which the people are the masters, and the politicians and bureaucrats are servants; a government of laws, not men, where all are equally subject to the law, no matter what office they hold or what title they claim; and a participatory government, one in which decisions are best made slowly and with deliberation, mindful that men acting in haste often make bad decisions.

And we should also remember the seductive nature of power, and the hubris that grows in some of those in power that leads them to believe that they can act outside of the law, outside of the Constitution itself.

A Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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The Mayflower Compact: Let us give thanks for the Pilgrims' forgotten legacy - limited government

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Capt. Peter O'Brien (USN-Ret.), London Center for Policy Research Last week (Nov. 21st) marked the 394th anniversary of the signing of one of the important documents in history: the Mayflower Compact. The document is not quite what some think it; it is not a declaration of independence from England and the King.