The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence - Hardcover

Fathers, Founding

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 168092057X ISBN 13: 9781680920574

Publisher: 12th Media Services, 2017

Synopsis

A great collection of the most important documents from the creation of the United States of America.

This book contains the following documents:

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States of America
• The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress Proposing 12 Amendments
• The Preamble to The Bill of Rights
• The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1-10
• Amendments 11-27

About this title

About the Author:

Within the large group known as "the Founding Fathers" of the United States of America, there are two key subsets, the Signers (who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776) and the Framers (who were delegates to the Federal Convention and took part in framing or drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States). Some historians have suggested a revised definition of the "Founding Fathers", including a significantly broader group of not only the Signers and the Framers but also all those who, whether as politicians or jurists or statesmen or soldiers or diplomats or ordinary citizens, took part in winning American independence and creating the United States of America. The eminent American historian Richard B. Morris, in his 1973 book Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries, identified the following seven figures as the key founding fathers: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

About this edition

• Publisher: 12th Media Services
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 168092057X
• ISBN 13: 9781680920574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 44
• Editor: Darnell Tony