Exhibitions

The Blessings of Liberty: The U.S. Constitution
 

Constitution of the United States of America. Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” — Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America 

Exhibition

The Blessings of Liberty: The U.S. Constitution examines the document upon which our country was founded: the United States Constitution. Written to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," the Constitution is short, simple, and often ambiguous. As the blueprint for our nation’s government, it represents a set of beliefs and a way of life. This exhibition seeks to explain the immense importance of a document that holds answers to challenging questions of government, cryptic though it may seem. 

The Blessings of Liberty features twelve panels charting the progress of former colonies to a united nation. Panel topics include: 

• Articles of Confederation
• The Union from 1781–1788
• The Constitutional Convention
• The Founders’s achievement
• Anti-Federalist arguments
• Ratification
• The Bill of Rights
• Washington, DC
• State and nation
• The Supreme Court

The Blessings of Liberty is an exhibition prepared for travel by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Exhibition Format
 

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Publicity Materials

Press release

The Blessings of Liberty press release.

Publicity image

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