The National Archives

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence

I wanted to make sure that the boys were able to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights, and let them know how important these documents are. It took Isaac a minutes to figure out the importance of that he was looking at, and Lukas started reading and realized that he has memorized the preamble to the Constitution. It was fun to see how he was able to relate and enjoy where we were and what were seeing.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Preamble to the U S Constitution