Contribution Quote by Michele Bachmann

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

— Michele Bachmann

“Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount…

— Anonymous

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to…

— Bob Edwards

I believe that the Constitution is an enduring document.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Let all Americans sit down and read this great document. Since the Constitution's ratification, it has been the framework for our great nation.

— Bob Latta

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

— David McCullough

“Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all”

— Benjamin Rush

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained…

— Robert Purvis

...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up…

— Robert E. Lee

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as…

— Gordon S. Wood

We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans…

— Paul Broun