Page 98 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

representation and authority to create laws was the first defined

branch.
One of the ambitions of this work is to enlighten the path our

Country took to freedom and the rule of law that defines and
defends our freedoms. This is finalized in our Constitution of the

United States. Though not flawless, particularly when abused by
those we have given the responsibility of governing; it is the most

powerful document of individual freedoms and limited government
in the world. The history of our Constitution dates back to the

Magna Carta and several documents throughout history, as
discussed previously in this work. The road to freedom was not

easy, nor is the perpetual maintenance of that road we now travel
on, several generations and over two centuries later.

The Constitution is presently comprised of seven Articles, and
has since seen twenty-seven amendments, the first ten being the

Bill of Rights. Of the articles, the first three Articles established the
unique form of government consisting of three branches, their

separation of powers, and laws governing these branches. The last
four Articles defined the principle of the federal form of

government.
The debate to ratification was carried out in the Federalist

Papers (supporting) and Anti-Federalist Papers (opposed), as
previously discussed. In addition to defining individual and states’

rights, our Constitution defines a new central – federal –

government. The Constitution Convention was held in Philadelphia
th
beginning May 15 1787; in the same [now renamed] Independence
Hall that the Declaration of Independence was unanimously passed

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