- Declaration of Independence (1776)
Thomas Jefferson drafted the statement , submitted drafts to Adams and Franklin who made some changes, and then presented the draft to the Congress. In the afternoon of July 4th, the Declaration was adopted.
The Declaration of Independence is the statement which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule
The Constitution's first three words—We the People—affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens.
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts.
