Publisher's Synopsis
The Founding Fathers Collectors Series contains a collection of the most powerful words in the history of the United States. The documents portrayed in this series were developed and shared with this country in the hopes to create a better union, a better nation. Our Founding Fathers were highly intelligent men that came from every walk of life. They chose to serve this country. Today we refer to some of these men as the Framers of the Constitution. However, the Founding Fathers began long before the Framers of the Constitution. Every document written before it, to include the writings of Thomas Paine, led the way to The Constitution being perfected and beyond. It took thirty - five years from the original Albany Congress till The Constitution of the United States was the final result and placed into effect in 1789. Through conventions and debates, our Founding Fathers established the threads this country was weaved from and still holds strong and true today. These documents were then and still are today, the basis on which this country survives and thrives.This series will contain the wording from many documents. Some everyone is familiar with, while others have rarely been spoken of. It does includes The Constitution of the United States of America, which was developed into the document it is today through many years of dedication. The diligence of a handful of men was nothing more than the preservation of this country and the willingness of those involved to protect the people's rights within it. Our country began with a hope and a dream. It started with thirteen original colonies. It soon became a clear necessity to expand on how our rights were to be protected. It soon became not about the rights of those thirteen original states, not about the rights of the country, and not about the rights of a government. It became about the rights of every individual citizen within it. It was a daunting task to create a document that would not only preserve the rights of the people, but would preserve those rights and thus preserve the country for hundreds of years to come. The founding of this country did not stop with the Constitution of the United States. Our Founding Fathers went on to pen the Bill of Rights, to elect the first president of the United States and to establish the first Supreme Court. A court designated whose very purpose was to preserve the rights given to the people within these documents. The Founding Fathers were ordinary people, representatives from the thirteen colonies, our original thirteen states. They saw the need for one government to be established thus aligning thirteen states and making possible not only the defense of our country, but for creating fair trade with other nations. They fought to abolish slavery, for our God-given equal rights, the inalienable rights that we still fight to maintain today.I sincerely hope that you enjoy this series and that you find the words contained within these documents to be as true and necessary today, as they were to our Founding Fathers.
