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The United States Constitution – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The United States Constitution Today’s special event: March 16, 1751, is President James Madison‘s birthday. Advertisement The Constitution is presented in several ways on this site. This page presents the Constitution on one large HTML-enhanced page. Other pages present the Constitution as a series of individual pages, in plain text, in standard Palm DOC format,…
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Support USConstitution.net – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Support USConstitution.net Thank you for coming to USConstitution.net. If you want to help keep this site running, there are several ways to pitch in. Of course, nothing is required of you to use the site. The following are all 100% optional. You can buy a book at Amazon.com In November 2004, there was a funding…
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God in the State Constitutions – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
God in the State Constitutions Advertisement The subject of God in the Constitution arises from time to time, and this site deals with the topic specifically elsewhere. However, another question also arises: how is God referenced, if at all, in state constitutions? This list is not guaranteed to be exhaustive, but it attempts to be.…
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State Constitutions – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
State Constitutions Each state in the United States has its own constitution. Of course, all state constitutions are inferior (in a legal sense) to the United States Constitution, and when reading state constitutions, this must be kept in mind — a state constitution, for example, cannot validly authorize a state religion. However, many state constitutions…
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State Ratification Grid – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
State Ratification Grid This page presents a table showing each state on the vertical axis and each constitutional amendment on the horizontal axis. This chart will allow you to quickly see if your state ratified any one amendment or group of amendments. For ratification dates, see the Ratification Page. Colored cells with an “R” inside…
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The Declaration of Rights (Stamp Act) – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The Declaration of Rights (Stamp Act) Advertisement In 1764, the British Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which placed tariffs on sugar, coffee, and other goods imported into the New World. These taxes increased the burden on ordinary citizens at a time of recession in America. It was thought that the Sugar Act would give rise…
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Who is Steve Mount? – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Who is Steve Mount? Advertisement This site is increasingly being used as a source in research papers and by debate clubs and the like, and in simple Internet disagreements. As this site’s popularity grows, I have often been asked who writes the site, whose opinions are expressed, and what my credentials or qualifications are. I’m…
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The Declaration of Sentiments – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
The Declaration of Sentiments In 1840, Lucretia Mott attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England. Mott, a Quaker minister, was a strong abolitionist. She and the Hicksite Quakers refused to use materials produced with slave labor, including cotton and cane sugar. She worked as a teacher and at her school, met her husband, James…
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Savoy’s 20 Questions with Steve Mount – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Savoy’s 20 Questions with Steve Mount Advertisement [Editor’s note: this interview with the Webmaster of this site appeared in the online magazine Savoy in its December, 1998 edition. Savoy is now defunct. This page is a reproduction of that interview. The original is no longer avaliable on the Internet, so far as I can tell.]…
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Ratification Dates and Votes – The U.S. Constitution Online – USConstitution.net
Ratification Dates and Votes Advertisement Each of the original thirteen states in the United States was invited to ratify the Constitution created in Philadelphia in 1787. The Constitution specified that nine ratifications would be sufficient to consider the Constitution accepted. Some states ratified quickly, others had to hold several conventions to accept the Constitution —…