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Two Lincoln Speeches

In the midst of the war and doubt he barely snags re-election. Here's the Second Inaugural Address which is famous for being both profound and remarkably brief. And besting that by 435 fewer words is The Gettysburgh Address.

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The Declaration of Independence

Those pithy lines in the preamble that should still send electricity down our spine.

The West Wing's Jed Bartlet put the whole thing into evolutionary context:

'We hold these truths to be self-evident,' they said, 'that all men are created equal.'...strange as it may seem, that was the first time in history that anyone had ever bothered to write that down.

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U.S. Constitution

Not just for Constitutional Scholars any more! It's the OS our government and pretty amazingly intact since the v.1.0 release. It replaced the beta - the Articles of Confederation - which was the duct tape that held together the Colonies still catching their breath from the Revolution. A few major upgrades and bugs worked out in subsequent releases: abolition of slavery, voting rights and representation. An amazing kernal to build on.

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