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Governance as architecture: power divided, limited, written down, and amendable — with the Bill of Rights guaranteeing individuals against the system itself.
The supreme law of the United States — establishing the structure and limits of federal power across three branches, followed by the Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) guaranteeing individual freedoms against government infringement.
Legitimate power derives from the consent of the governed — the oldest document in the library, and the premise the rest of the lineage keeps rediscovering.
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America — asserting that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that people have the right to alter or abolish government that becomes destructive of their unalienable rights.