Government: Constitution
Independence National Historical Park
"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Lev. XXV, v. x. By order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania [sic] for the State House in Philada."
- Liberty Bell Inscription
Independence Hall and the related historical buildings which make up the park witnessed an exciting time - when the 18th century delegates to the Second Continental Congress argued over the next step in the dangerous game of rebellion and then issued the Declaration of Independence. Eleven years later, secret deliberations and hard compromises resulted in a new frame of government to hold the country together - the Constitution of the United States.
Millions of 20th century visitors explore the ideas and challenges of the past - so remote in time but so important to how we think today - and who we will be in the 21st century - when they visit Independence National Historical Park.
Signers of the Constitution
Historic Places Commemorating
The Signers of the Constitution
- Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
- Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
- Fire Island National Seashore
- Hamilton Grange National Memorial
- Independence National Historical Park
- Manzanar National Historic Site
- William Howard Taft
Related Links: - A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- Independence National Historic Park Historic Handbook Series
- John Marshall and the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Supreme Court
- Selected Works of Thomas Paine
- Teaching With Historic Places: Politics and Government
- The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
- The Federalist Papers
- The Constitution as a Clue to an Ecological of Human Society
- The U.S. Constitution: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study
- The Declaration of Independence at the National Archives
- Teaching With Historic Places: Politics and Government