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  2. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Constitution, chiefly authored by John Adams in 1780, contains in its Declaration of Rights the wording: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and ...

  3. Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    Also in the Atlantic Charter, an international commitment was made as the Allies thought about how to "win the peace" following victory in the Second World War. The US' commitment to non-interventionism in World War II ending with the 1941 Lend-Lease act, and later Pearl Harbor attacks , resulted in the mobilisation of the war state.

  4. Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    Rhode Island: March 12, 1804; South Carolina: May 15, 1804; Georgia: May 19, 1804; New Hampshire: June 15, 1804 Having been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states (13 of 17), the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment was completed and it became a part of the Constitution. [A] It was subsequently ratified by:

  5. 10 things you didn't know about the Constitution - AOL

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    1) The Constitution was not signed on July 4, 1776, but on September 17, 1787. The majority (55 percent) of people said that it was signed in 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

  6. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    The first and second article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason and adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776, speaks of happiness in the context of recognizably Lockean rights and is paradigmatic of the way in which "the fundamental natural rights of mankind" were expressed at the ...

  7. Preamble to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Although revolutionary in some ways, the Constitution maintained many common law concepts (such as habeas corpus, trial by jury, and sovereign immunity), [12] and courts deem that the Founders' perceptions of the legal system that the Constitution created (i.e., the interaction between what it changed and what it kept from the British legal ...

  8. Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    Second Bill of Rights, proposed by FDR in his 1944 State of the Union Address; The Free Software Definition is often called "the four freedoms" within the free software community in reference to the speech and fundamental principles. World War II Victory Medal (United States), which includes the Four Freedoms on its reverse.

  9. Category:Products introduced in 1944 - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Products introduced in 1944" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... This page was last edited on 13 October 2019, at 19:17 ...