The PRIMARY sources for this week (that I read) were the Gettysburg Address, the Fed papers #10 and 51, the DEC of INDEPENDENCE, and the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Dec of Ind. I have read many times before, the document is SERIOUSLY a ONE-OF-A-KIND. There is just no repeating it. For the first time in Human History a country was separating from Britain and stating all the GRIEVANCES against their previous KING. What? Against their once RULER. NO WAY! This is REAL courage- standing up for what u believe against all ODDS.

THE Get. Address, although VERY short in comparison to Lincoln's Lyceum speech, is yet powerful- This was a turning point in the war- favorably to the cause of preserving the UNion- a point LINCOLN and GW strongly believed in.

"WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE, AND CHARITY TOWARDS ALL."

This is favorite quote, and I TRY to live by it. lol.

THe Emancipation in its great declaration of freedom for all those enslaved in the Confederate States, did not actually free any slaves at the time. But it was a significant step towards further achieving equality for all and true INDEPENDENCE for those living in the US. Furthermore it was a Declaration by the PRESIDENT himself, in plain out words that he did NOT support this system.

The Fed paper Number 10 I enjoyed reading because it raises a question that relates to a past forum we had, which included a convo on the electoral college. It calls for a system that consists of not State republics but a whole national republic. If there were state republics, this would separate the nations because the Citizens of different states have different interest. These factions could create conflicts between the states making it virtually impossible to unite. So this specific paper argued for a national gov. to avoid factions. However we are still divided, there are certain states that r republican and others that are democratic. And this means each state had different interests and favors different means of resolving prevalent modern issues.

Federalist paper Number 51 is also significant because it talks about the issue of how the constitution would guarantee a gov. that was not tyrannical. It discusses the means by which the constitution will help maintain the separate branches of gov. in order to maintain a balance of power.

All these documents were very significant and hold a lot of reason to the system we now run our government by.