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Bible (or the Bhagavad Gita). Because, the more you
read the provisions of our constitution, the more you
get
to
know
of
how
to
apply
its
provisions
to
present-day problems.” (Before Memory Fades-Fali S.
Nariman).
In
1776,
Philadelphia
America’s
to
Founders
draft
the
gathered
Declaration
in
of
Independence, which dissolved the political ties that
had bound the American people to Great Britain. A new
nation
was
thus
United
States
1887,
after
of
born,
free
America.
American
and
Eleven
Patriots
independent,
years
had
later,
won
the
in
the
independence on the battlefield, many of them who had
met earlier in Philadelphia, plus others, met there
again to draft a plan for governing the new nation,
the constitution of the United States. In 1789, after
the plan had been ratified, the new government was
established.
Together,
the
Declaration
and
the
Constitution are America’s founding documents. In the
Declaration the Founders outlined their moral vision
and the government it implied. Addressing ‘a candid
world’ the Founders’ immediate aim in the Declaration