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In this republic, our constitution has provided all citizens the right to bear arms. In establishing this country, the founders put together our Bill of Rights. As we all know, this bill contains our most precious rights as American citizens, and we can read the following in the bill of rights: “A well regulated Militia,
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America is a country that used to be known for its virtuous, moral, and wise citizens. To the founders of this country, it was considered necessary for all citizens and patriots to possess these fine qualities. They believed that if any society or people of a country lost their morals, the country itself would quickly
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By President Calvin Coolidge. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our
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When a country is established, its citizens have a new and special responsibility. Before their country was formed, they had ties to other countries, governments, and people. Founders who are establishing new countries must take care to sever the ties with their mother country. After a nation is newly born it must rely on its
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AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let
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“No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do
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On American Independence(1776) “No man had once a greater veneration for Englishmen than I entertained. They were dear to me as branches of the same parental trunk, and partakers of the same religion and laws; I still view with respect the remains of the Constitution as I would a lifeless bodywhich had once been animated
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There is almost no greater sentence than that of the preamble to our constitution: “WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain
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To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he
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As Americans, we have been given a splendid gift from the heroic Founders of our country. Their gift was that they established a nation of liberty. Their premiere concern was to shield freedom from the vices of tyranny, and to create laws and rights such that we should always have the tools to vanquish any
Shafts of Justice 