The History of Columbus Day: Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus Day) is a national holiday in the United States and other countries in the Americas that celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s journey and arrival in the Americas. Christopher Columbus first discovery of the new world (the Americas) occurred on October 12th, 1492, when he arrived on an island in the…
The History of Presidents Day: Presidents Day (Presidents’ Day), officially George Washington’s birthday at the federal governmental level, is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the third Monday of February. It is often celebrated to honor all those who served as presidents of the United States and, since 1879, has been the federal holiday honoring the Founding…
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure 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. Article. I. Section. 1.All legislative Powers herein granted…
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. Ten of the proposed 12 amendments were ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791. The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12)…
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, 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…
Three documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for 245 years and counting, and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States. Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United…