Benjamin Franklin once said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." This book is for anyone who wants to read and or study the original intent of the constitution and the declaration of independence. This edition includes the full, amended constitution with annotations. If you want to interpret the constitution, then you must interpret it as the way it was written and originally intended to accomplish. Too many times, has the power of the political parties and politicians, made attempts to undermine the historic document of itself, trying to say that it is old and not progressive. This copy of the constitution and declaration of independence by Historical Contexts will show you the true meaning of the interpretation and what it was meant to accomplish, with a foreward and afterward. This is the constitution and declaration itself, with no changes. This copy includes commentary that is meant to describe the original intent of the constitution and the bill of rights as its original meaning and intention. It is the original text.