Two hundred fifty years later, the founding documents still answer questions. Ask them one.
The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written national constitution still in operation. Most of the world's founding documents borrowed from it, argued with it, or improved on it. Tap a flag to see the lineage.
Each card cites the document and the scholarship documenting the influence.
The definitive study: David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard Univ. Press), tracing 100+ declarations descended from 1776.
The lesson inside these documents has no nationality: name your assumptions, sign your work, ship the v1, and build in the power to amend.
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