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Things That Are Not In the U.S Constitution

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• The Air Force
• Congressional Districts
• The Electoral College
• Executive Order
• Executive Privilege
• Freedom of Expression
• (Absolute) Freedom of Speech and Press
• “From each according to his ability…”
• God
• Immigration
• Impeachment means removal from office
• Innocent until proven guilty
• It’s a free country
• Judicial Review
• Jury of Peers
• “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
• Marriage
• Martial Law
• No taxation without representation
• Number of Justices in the Supreme Court
• “Of the people, by the people, for the people”
• Paper Money
• Political Parties
• Primary Elections
• Qualifications for Judges
• The right to privacy
• The right to travel
• The right to vote
• The separation of church and state
• The Separation of Powers Clause
• Slavery
• “We hold these truths to be self-evident”
• Other topics

These links go to longer explanations at the original source.

Further Reading:

• The Magna Carta (1215)
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• The Albany Plan (1754)
• Declaration of Rights (1765)
• The Boston Port Act (1774)
• The Administration of Justice Act (1774)
• The Massacusetts Government Act (1774)
• The Quartering Act (1774)
• The Quebec Act (1774)
• Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774)
• Articles of Association (1774)
• Benjamin Franklin’s Articles of Confederation (1775)
• Common Sense (1776)
• Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
• Richard Henry Lee’s Independence Resolution (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Articles of Confederation (1778)
• The Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Report of the Annapolis Conference (1786)
• The Virginia Plan (1787)
• Charles Pinckney’s Plan (1787)
• The New Jersey Plan (1787)
• The British Plan (1787)
• August 6 Draft of the Constitution (1787)
• September 12 Draft of the Constitution (1787)
• Speech of Benjamin Franklin (1787)
• The United States Constitution (1787)
• The Letter of Transmittal (1787)
• Washington’s Letter to Congress (1787)
• Wilson’s 4th of July Address (1788)
• Madison Introduces the Bill of Rights (1789)
• Twelve Articles of Amendment (1789)
• Treaty Between the United States and Tripoli (1797)
• Jefferson’s Wall of Separation Letter (1802)
• The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
• The Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
• Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
• Confederate Constitution (1861)
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• The Pledge of Allegiance (1892)
• The American’s Creed (1917)
• The I Have a Dream Speech (1963)
• The Miranda Warning (1966)
• The Lemon Test (1971)
• Barack Obama’s Keynote Speech (2004)
• Virginia Joint Resolution 728 (2007)

The ratification documents of each of the original 13 states (plus Vermont) are also reproduced here:

• Delaware, December 7, 1787
• Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787
• New Jersey, December 18, 1787
• Georgia, January 2, 1788
• Connecticut, January 9, 1788
• Massachusetts, February 6, 1788
• Maryland, April 28, 1788
• South Carolina, May 23, 1788
• New Hampshire, June 21, 1788
• Virginia, June 26, 1788
• New York, July 26, 1788
• North Carolina, November 21, 1789
• Rhode Island, May 29, 1790
• Vermont, January 10, 1791
• Collated list

A list of current versions of each state’s constitution is available:

• State Constitutions

The following significant historical documents, not hosted on this site, may be of interest:

• The Federalist Papers
• Madison’s Notes on the Convention
• The Papers of George Washington
• The Papers of James Madison
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Other Significant Documents of the 18th century

The following resources are also available for research into historical American documents:

• The Avalon Project
• Library of Congress’s American Memory
• Our Documents - 100 great American documents
• NARA
• Matthew Weiler’s U.S. Historical Documents Archive
• University of Groningen (Netherlands)

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