To celebrate our Independence Day than to peruse and refamiliarize ourselves with it founding documents, the documents that spell out what it means to be an American? So, to that end --
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
I do this, y'all, because I talk to so many citizens with opinions on our country past, present and future, who know very little about its history or what we have stood for, the promises of this country, etc. What good are opinions not based on knowledge? With the easy availability of these documents to us, there is no good reason for not knowing what they say, and that they are indeed, made living and breathing documents, by us.
May our joy in fireworks only be exceeded by an explosion of understanding.
Happy Independence Day, America!
