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These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freedom, have secured the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries and are considered instrumental to the founding and philosophy of the United States.

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American Life in Autobiography 016.92 L628a. American Autobiography 1945-1980. All give lists of American autobiographies. Search the FLP catalog to see if the FLP has a copy of the autobiography you seek. Make an author search on the online catalog; for example, FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Search the ACCESS PA and OCLC. Books shelved as biographies-and-autobiographies: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Bossypants by Tina Fey, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Educated b.

The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideals on which the United States was founded and the reasons for separation from Great Britain.

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The Constitution defines the framework of the Federal Government of the United States.

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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. It defines citizens’ and states’ rights in relation to the Government.

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The Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom

Located on the upper level of the National Archives museum, the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom is the permanent home of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights.

Designed by architect John Russell Pope as a shrine to American democracy, the ornate Rotunda with its soaring domed ceiling also features two murals by Barry Faulkner, depicting fictional scenes of the “presentations” of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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Through Founders Online, you can read and search through thousands of documents and records to and from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic. Their letters and journals are a kind of 'first draft' of the Charters of Freedom.