The 9th & 10th Amendments
September 17

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The Original Constitution
September 17

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,provide for the common defense, 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.”

The Bill Of Rights
September 16

“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”

I Have A Dream
September 15

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…”

The Emancipation Proclamation
September 15

“All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”

The Gettysburg Address
September 15

“And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”

The 19th Amendment
September 14

“The right… to vote shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex”

Seneca Falls Declaration
September 14

“To prove this, let facts be submitted
to a
candid world…”

Resolution of Congress
September 13

“That said Report… be transmitted to the several legislatures in Order to be submitted to a convention of Delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof”

Marbury v. Madison
September 12

“A law repugnant to the Constitution is void”