US Constitution

a key USA document, where the government imposed its power upon the previously free states of the Articles Of Confederation. (heh)

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

http://www.constitution.org/

Includes the Bill Of Rights, which I think is a bad name because it implies that it's listing the rights that government gives us.

Time to replace it with a Minimal Compact?

Federalist Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers

Anti-Federalist Papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalist_Papers

• see also Lysander Spooner