> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://america-250.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# America's Docs

> The founding record without the noise. Read the Declaration, the Constitution, and the speeches that defined American liberty.

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          Est. 1776 · The Primary-Source Library
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          From the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution and the speeches that defined American liberty. Faithfully preserved, beautifully organized, and free for every citizen.
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        The founding record without the noise, organized so any citizen can read, cite, and understand it.
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">We hold these truths to be self-evident… the bold announcement of a free and independent people.</p>
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              1787
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">We the People of the United States… the supreme law that divides and balances power.</p>
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              1791
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">The first ten amendments: speech, faith, and assembly secured for every generation.</p>
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              1863
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">…a new birth of freedom. Two minutes that redefined the purpose of the nation.</p>
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              1803
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">The decision that established judicial review and the Court's power to interpret the Constitution.</p>
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                <p className="mt-2 text-[#15140f]/70">The unanimous ruling that struck down “separate but equal” in America's public schools.</p>
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            <p className="mt-1 max-w-2xl text-[#15140f]/65">The documents and laws that expanded equality and the vote.</p>
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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">Author, Declaration of Independence</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">Thomas Jefferson</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Distilled the Enlightenment into a single self-evident creed in 1776.</p>
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            <img src="https://mintcdn.com/america-250/i8bcjR5orgbusL2H/images/portrait-madison.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=i8bcjR5orgbusL2H&q=85&s=40d7f7af69005f1a0730cf455222de5a" alt="James Madison" noZoom className="absolute inset-0 m-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-top grayscale transition-all duration-500 group-hover:scale-[1.03] group-hover:grayscale-0" width="1600" height="1600" data-path="images/portrait-madison.jpg" />

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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">Father of the Constitution</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">James Madison</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Chief architect of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; co-author of the Federalist Papers.</p>
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            <img src="https://mintcdn.com/america-250/i8bcjR5orgbusL2H/images/portrait-hamilton.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=i8bcjR5orgbusL2H&q=85&s=fff59a81626bba6f564bc27793e7fd32" alt="Alexander Hamilton" noZoom className="absolute inset-0 m-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-top grayscale transition-all duration-500 group-hover:scale-[1.03] group-hover:grayscale-0" width="1600" height="1600" data-path="images/portrait-hamilton.jpg" />

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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">Champion of Ratification</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">Alexander Hamilton</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Drove the case for the Constitution, writing 51 of the 85 Federalist essays.</p>
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            <img src="https://mintcdn.com/america-250/i8bcjR5orgbusL2H/images/portrait-lincoln.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=i8bcjR5orgbusL2H&q=85&s=550d27a04dc346957a7c7cb149a28000" alt="Abraham Lincoln" noZoom className="absolute inset-0 m-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-top grayscale transition-all duration-500 group-hover:scale-[1.03] group-hover:grayscale-0" width="1600" height="1600" data-path="images/portrait-lincoln.jpg" />

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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">The Sixteenth President</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">Abraham Lincoln</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Redefined the nation's purpose at Gettysburg and freed the enslaved by proclamation.</p>
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            <img src="https://mintcdn.com/america-250/i8bcjR5orgbusL2H/images/portrait-stanton.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=i8bcjR5orgbusL2H&q=85&s=57bd67c8c66df3de8631d750ede404b6" alt="Elizabeth Cady Stanton" noZoom className="absolute inset-0 m-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-top grayscale transition-all duration-500 group-hover:scale-[1.03] group-hover:grayscale-0" width="1600" height="1600" data-path="images/portrait-stanton.jpg" />

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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">Author, Declaration of Sentiments</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Extended “all men are created equal” to women at Seneca Falls in 1848.</p>
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            <img src="https://mintcdn.com/america-250/i8bcjR5orgbusL2H/images/portrait-king.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=i8bcjR5orgbusL2H&q=85&s=cd1aff6b2fc9c5f90143b7cac0b40a6c" alt="Martin Luther King Jr." noZoom className="absolute inset-0 m-0 h-full w-full object-cover object-top grayscale transition-all duration-500 group-hover:scale-[1.03] group-hover:grayscale-0" width="1600" height="1600" data-path="images/portrait-king.jpg" />

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              <span className="hf-mono inline-block rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-2.5 py-1 text-[9px] font-medium uppercase tracking-[0.14em] text-[#f7f6f1]">Voice of the Movement</span>
              <h3 className="hf-display mt-2.5 text-lg font-bold text-[#f7f6f1] md:text-xl">Martin Luther King Jr.</h3>
              <p className="mt-1.5 hidden max-w-sm text-sm leading-snug text-[#f7f6f1]/85 md:block">Carried the founding promise to its fulfillment with “I Have a Dream.”</p>
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            Begin Here
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            Read the words

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            that made history.
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            The founding texts of the United States, faithful and free for all. Liberty begins with knowing what you stand for.
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          <a href="/founding/declaration-of-independence" className="w-full rounded-full bg-[#c31432] px-5 py-2.5 text-center text-sm font-medium text-[#f7f6f1] no-underline transition-transform hover:-translate-y-0.5 md:w-auto">Start with the Declaration</a>
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            The primary-source library of the United States. Faithful transcriptions of the documents that built a nation.
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            <p className="hf-mono text-[11px] uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-[#84806f]">Founding</p>

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              <li><a href="/founding/articles-of-confederation" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">Articles of Confederation</a></li>
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            <p className="hf-mono text-[11px] uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-[#84806f]">Liberty</p>

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              <li><a href="/amendments/overview" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">Amendments</a></li>
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            <p className="hf-mono text-[11px] uppercase tracking-[0.2em] text-[#84806f]">Voices</p>

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              <li><a href="/speeches/overview" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">Speeches</a></li>
              <li><a href="/speeches/gettysburg-address" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">Gettysburg Address</a></li>
              <li><a href="/speeches/i-have-a-dream" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">I Have a Dream</a></li>
              <li><a href="/supreme-court/overview" className="text-sm text-[#15140f]/70 no-underline transition-colors hover:text-[#c31432]">Supreme Court</a></li>
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        <p>Texts adapted from the U.S. National Archives, the Avalon Project, and the National Constitution Center.</p>
        <p className="hf-mono tracking-[0.18em] text-[#84806f]">E Pluribus Unum</p>
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