The third of three documents critical to the founding of America: The U.S. Constitution--1789.
These are the Founding Fathers and this is where your Constitutional Rights were born. It established the Separation of Powers, the Separation of Church and State, The Bill of Rights and built on the social contract, pioneered by Hebrew Law, Roman Law, English Law. All of these documents created covenants between the government and the governed.
There are certain limits to the powers of the Central government, and these are judged constitutional or not by the Supreme Court. |
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That is why the court must be non-partisan: To preserve equality before the law, and to protect the rights of the least powerful in this nation.
The Constitution belongs to All Americans. It is not something that was drafted by an occupying army in a foreign land. It built upon millenia of civilizations working to build more just societies for the generations that would follow them. |
