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…
I’m on a military base today, and some of the soldiers were joking around about what a “gangsta” George Washington would have said to England back when America declared its independence, on July 4th, 1776. Here is what they came up with….. Hey yo, England. This shit is ours now, and if you don’t like it, fuck you. Oh yeah,…