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Three greatest Documents

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IMHO, these are:

1) Ten Commandments

2) US Constitution including the BoR.

3) Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
 

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IMHO, these are:

1) Ten Commandments

2) US Constitution including the BoR.

3) Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

1. Ten Commandments
2. My daughter's birth certificate (symbolic- as I didn't need one to have a kid) She was born 18 days ago.
3. Declaration of Independance
4. Constitution
5. Family secret recipe for 'Hawaiian Steak'.
 

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- Magna Carta
- Declaration of Independence
- US Constitution

Three statements of human rights.
 

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Tess - do you include the Bill of Rights in your list as part of the Constitution or do you consider it a separate document?
 

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I would say by default that the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution, by definition. It amended it. You can discuss it individually, sure, but if we just mention the Constitution, a living document, we'd be including all 27 amendments.
 

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Tess - do you include the Bill of Rights in your list as part of the Constitution or do you consider it a separate document?


All of the amendments are, by definition, part of the Constitution.

While I appreciate the academic discussion from time to time of the Bill of Rights as a separate document with a set purpose - which it was at one time - and now recognize the value of those 10 as clearly and (theoretically) unequivocally constraining government, I understand that our Constitution has been amended 27 times, the Amendments themselves are essentially just an index.
 
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