Founding Documents

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Founding Documents

• 1. Declaration of Independence
• National Creed vs. Legal Text
• 2. Articles of Confederation
• Sovereignty Liberty vs. Power Representation
• 3. Virginia Act Establishing Religious Freedom
• 4. Constitution
• Representation Liberty vs. Power Checks and
  Balances Bill of Rights
• 5. What the American Revolution Changed

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First Continental Congress, September 1774
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Second Continental Congress, April 1775
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Lexington, 18 April 1775
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SovereigntyLiberty vs. PowerExpress vs. Implied
PowersFears of Centralized PowerDemands for
RepresentationLimited Congressional DutiesAs
Problems Increase the Republic is Reconsidered
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13 Sovereign States Fiscal Chaos and
International Embarrassment
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Alexander Hamilton
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Shayss Rebellion, 1787
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James Madison
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Jeffersons letter to the Danbury Baptists

• . . . the whole of the American people which
  declared that their legislature should make no
  law respecting an establishment of religion, or
  the free exercise thereof thus building a wall
  of separation between church and state.

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Independence HallPhiladelphiaMay 1787
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What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That
was no part of the revolution it was only an
effect and consequence of it. The revolution was
in the minds of the people, and this was effected
from 1760 - 1775, in the course of fifteen years,
before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over
again. Out of this rabble arise a people who
would defy kings.
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George Robert Twelve Hewes