Source Documents

Among the documents in­stru­men­tal to ex­plain­ing and de­fin­ing the United States of America’s form of gov­ern­ance is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Each was pub­lish­ed in a “ver­sion 1.0” form in the 1700’s CE in the English language.

The United States has a publicly funded National Archives where you can find much more information.

FoundingDocuments.org

FoundingDocuments.org is a project of Andrew C. Bairns­father who began it for many reasons.

Original­ly not meant to be specific to any coun­try, or even any org­an­i­za­tion which (attempts to) organ­ize it­self with written rules.

Past

The first version of the web­site didn’t go public for technical issues.

Given the ex­plo­sion of mo­bile de­vices, back-burner ideas were re­viewed and a de­cision was made to im­mediate­ly pub­lish these im­portant docu­ments as vCards for easy search­ing, read­ing, editing, and sharing.

The second ver­sion of the web­site went out a bit too far on a limb by rely­ing on security patches from a web host not very con­cern­ed with security or data portability.

Present & Future

And now here we are. Back to static web­pages…for now.

As time goes on, more …