Martin Luther King

SPEECH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

The Declaration of Independence

The Bill of Rights

American Revolution

The Constitution of The United State

The scene,on August 28, 1963, in front of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, during a historic rally of more than 200,000 for civil rights for Black people in the US.

The scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by

Howard Chandler Christy.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress,

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson are "Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776", by Jen Leon Gerome Ferris.

In Congress, July 4 ,1776, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, when course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another

James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties. The House approved 17 amendments. Of these, the Senate approved 12, which were sent to the states for approval in August 1789.

General George Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,

during the Revolutionary War, by Percy Moran.

When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, the

colonies chose Washington to be the commander

in chief of the Continental Army to fight the

British. The war was long and difficult but the

colonists finally won independence in 1783.

When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in 1787, they created the structure of the federal government that we have today. They believed that the Constitution should be a “living document.” They wanted the Constitution to be flexible enough to meet the country’s needs. For that reason, the Constitution can be changed or “amended.” Changes to the Constitution are called amendments.