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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, ____________________, 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.

• provide for the common defence

• to provide safety for citizens

• providing for defense against enemies

• provided for citizens' mutual security

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CCSS.L.8.1A

Name the founding document:

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.

• The Declaration of Independent

• Common Sense

• The Preamble to the Constitution

• The Bill of rights

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1C

CCSS.L.K.1D

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

• For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

• He is a tyrant who has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

• He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

• Having imposed Taxes on us without our Consent.

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CCSS.L.3.1G

Name the source:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble to the Constitution

• The Gettysburg Address

• I Have a Dream

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CCSS.L.9-10.2B

... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, ___________, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

Name the writer.

... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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CCSS.L.2.2C

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, __________________; we shall never surrender.”

• victory is ours in the mountains

• we shall fight in the hills

• our people shall not falter

• our children will know this truth

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

Who said these lines in his June 4, 1940, address to the British Parliament's House of Commons?

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

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CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.L.5.2D

What line comes next?

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. ___________________

• We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

• Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

• I have a dream today.

• Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1A

Who said these lines in his famous speech delivered on August 28, 1963?

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

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CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.5.2