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America’s Founding Fathers were visionaries, revolutionists, scholars, debaters, military heroes, and Patriots.
They put their lives on the line, not only for their own freedom and their own pursuits of happiness, but also
to create a civil society on a land they deemed rich with abundant opportunity; positioned independent from
all other sovereign nations with a political system of self-governed persons who live free amongst one
another and equal to each other, under God. The men and women who birthed this nation over 200 years
ago designed the Constitution to endure the passage of time, deter anarchy and ensure a decent, civil and
orderly citizenry would flourish for generations.
The Constitution sets forth the laws of this land from which all other laws, statutes and court rulings arise.
If any law of any state or if any federal regulation violates or is incompatible with the Constitution, it is
rendered invalid and void and, if necessary, struck down by uncompromised and uncorrupted judges who
are considered by our founding documents to be the ultimate arbiters of truth.
To maintain checks and balances on corruption and abuses of power, the framers established three branches
of government – judiciary, legislative and executive. These three branches, collectively, established the
structure of America’s federal government; a government of limited powers, all of which, without exception,
are either specifically enumerated in the Constitution or they don’t exist as powers to act by the federal
government. Any power, in fact, not specifically and actually granted to the federal government by the
Constitution, is reserved as powers of the citizenry or for the states to benefit their own citizens.
The Constitution was created on Sept 17, 1787, ratified on June 21, 1788, and became effective on
March 4, 1789.
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