A collection of eighty documents that show how local government in colonial America was the cradle of American constitutionalism. Most of these documents, which began with the agreement of the settlers at Exeter, New Hampshire, on July 5, 1639, and concluded with Joseph Galloway`s Union Plan in 1774, „the immediate precursor of the articles of Confederation,“ were never accessible to the general reader or available in a single volume. Among the oldest documents of the Constitution are the political writings on the theory of natural rights and forms of government by John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and Montesquieu, as well as the English charters of freedom, including the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. James Madison, however, saw an important difference between these documents and the Constitution: „In Europe, the charters of freedom were granted by the authorities. America has led by example . . . charters of power granted by freedom. To declare war, to grant letters of marks and retaliation, and to regulate the capture of land and water; The Constitution was written in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by delegates from 12 states to replace the articles of Confederation with a new form of government. It created a federal system with a national government composed of three distinct powers, encompassing both reserved and simultaneous state powers. The president of the Constitutional Convention, the body that oversted the new government, was George Washington, although James Madison is known as the „father of the Constitution“ for his important contributions to the formation of the new government.
Governor Morris wrote the last language of the Constitution. The Constitution was compact – even though federalists and federalists were divided on whether states or people were agents of the Covenant. Where there are vacancies in the representation of a state in the Senate, the executive authority of such a state adopts an electoral act to fill these vacancies: provided that the legislative branch of a state authorizes the executive to make temporary appointments until the persons occupy the vacancies by election, as the legislative branch may lead. No performance law or ex post is passed. Section 1. The right of U.S. citizens to vote cannot be denied or reduced by the United States or a state because of their race, colour or former servitude. Section 1. After one year after the ratification of this article, the production, sale or transport of intoxicating spirits within the European Union, whose importation into the United States or to the entire territory subject to the jurisdiction for drinking purposes is prohibited.
Section 3. When the Speaker sends to the Pro Tempore Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written statement that he is not in a position to exercise the powers and duties of his office and until he sends them a written statement to the contrary, those powers and duties are exercised by the Vice-President as President-in-Office.
