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Principles of Freedom


Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay between October 1787 and August 1788, The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Transcript of the Constitution of the United States (1787)
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.