How bout the American Declaration of Independance?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...
Not saying its constitutional, but it is an official government document. Of course, the Constitution violated the Articles of Confederation by saying that only 9 states need affirm, so past documents were apparently ignored when the Constitution was drawn up... |
