Top Secret!

I don't know if you caught on to this yet, but, I really really like the 17 hundreds.
I liked this picture a lot more than you probably will, but I still had to post it.

I like to think about the fact that the men who wrote the Constitution of the U.S. were just people too. Just because they graduated from college by the time kids now a days finish high school doesn't mean they weren't human.

I think the picture is  kinda cute. Not the guard of course. (I don't like guys with long hair) but the little boy and girl are really cute. Her head is like the size of the doorknob (in case you didn't notice).

Oh and by the way you might understand the picture better if you knew that it is during the Constitutional Convention and that all the members of the Convention were not allowed to tell anyone about what was going on inside the room.

It worked too. No one told. I would think with that many people, someone would have told something, and it would have spread. But maybe people kept their mouths shut better back then. I couldn't have stayed quiet that long I don't think. I would have had to tell people what I thought of the new Constitution. 



Well bey,

 ®achel™

From 5 to 12

I was looking at 'The U.S. Constitution for Dummies' and found this. 

I got a laugh at it and thought you might too. 

Well Bye,
®achel™ 

The Wisest Ever Yet

Day 355

"The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men."

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

 

 

 

Respect of the Constitution and Laws

Day 354

"If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws – the first growing out of the last. [...] A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government."

 ~Thomas Jefferson~ 

 

 

 

The First Monday in December

Day 337

"The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day."

~From Article I Section 4 in the US Constitution~ 

 

 

 

 

Every word!

Day 311

“Every word of the Constitution ultimately decides a question between power and liberty.”  

~James Madison~

 

 

 

Chains of the Constitution

Day 299

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." 

~Thomas Jefferson~

They deserve a place of honor

Day 296

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and  keystone under independence. To secure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good." 

~George Washington~

Citizens

Day 275

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
~Samuel Adams~

One...

Day 272

 

“One country, one constitution, one destiny.”

 ~Daniel Webster~

 

 

 

 

So different

Day 270

“It appears to me, then little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States (which States you know are also different from each other), in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices, should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.”
~George Washington~
To Lafayette, 7 February  1788

On John Dickinson

Day 260 

About John Dickinson

Form Benjamin Rush’s Sketches

“Few men wrote, spoke and acted more for their country from the years 1764 to the establishment of the federal government than Mr. Dickinson. He was alike eloquent at the bar, in a popular assembly, and in convention. Count {Thomas Cajetan} Wengierski, a Polish nobleman who travelled thro’ the United States soon after the peace, said he was the most learned man he had met with in America. He possessed the air of a camp and the ease of the court in his manners. He was opposed to the Declaration of Independence at the time it took place, but concurred in supporting it. During the was and for some year after it, he admired and preferred the British constitution. Towards the close of his life he became a decided and zealous Republican.”

Well Bye, 

®achel™

We the People...

Day 259

The Constitution of the United States 

Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for common defence, 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.

The U.S. Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Every Generation

Day 234

“But every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution, and bearing true faith and allegiance to it.
~Daniel Webster~

Well Bye,  
®achel™

Purchased at too Dear a Rate

Day 192

"The object is great which We have in View, and We must expect a great expense of blood to obtain it. But We should always remember that a free Constitution of civil Government cannot be purchased at too dear a rate as there is nothing, on this side (of) the New Jerusalem, of equal importance to Mankind."
~John Adams~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Our Constitution...

Day 181

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 

~Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Address 1801~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

In questions of power...

Day 177

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
~Thomas Jefferson~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Restrain the Government

Day 172

"The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." 

~Patrick Henry~

Well Bye, 

®achel™ 

Lasting Libertly

Day 161

"The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty."
~John Adams~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Article 1

Day 72

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

1777

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE THE DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED TO OUR NAMES SEND GREETING.

WHEREAS, the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia in the Words following, viz.
"Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia."


ARTICLE I. The stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."

The Articles of Confederation where written after the Declaration of Independence as a out line for out new government, before the Constitution was written in 1787. Many of the founding fathers thought that the Articles were all we needed and were not happy with the new Constitution. Over the next few days you can see what you think of them.

I'm posting them one article at a time in hopes that y'all will take the time to read them.

Well Bye,
®achel™