First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Third Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner,
nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but
upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the 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.
Article. I
Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of
the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by
the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the
most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
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The Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the order of the House of Representatives, of the 15th day of January,
1790, has applied his attention at as early a period as his other duties would permit, to the subject of Manufactures,
and particularly to the means of promoting such as will tend to render the United States independent on foreign nations,
for military and other essential supplies; and he thereupon respectfully submits the following report....
The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very questionable,
appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted.... There still are, nevertheless, respectable patrons of opinions
unfriendly to the encouragement of manufactures...It has been maintained, that agriculture is not only the most
productive, but the only productive species of industry. The reality of this suggestion, in either respect, has,
however, not been verified by any accurate detail of facts and calculations; and the general arguments which are adduced to prove it, are rather subtle and paradoxical, than solid or convincing....
The objections to the pursuit of manufactures in the United States, which next present themselves to discussion,
represent an impracticability of success, arising from three causes: scarcity of hands, dearness of labor, want of
capital....
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