The Dissections - Annotations...

About The Dissection

Each section below, dissects (or annotates, if you prefer) each of our nation's (these united States of America) most important documents —right from the Beginning at 1776.

The inclusion of Locke and de Vattel, presented as being studied by many of the signing representatives, present generally accepted views about government right up until 1776 —when all that changed with The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

To know the meaning of the words used, we use dictionaries in publication, available for common use just a few years prior to the writing and or signing of that document, law, etc. being studied.

For the major portions of these dissections (The Declaration..., The Articles..., The Treaty..., as well as the main body of and the first ten amendments of The Constitution...) we use two Dictionaries of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. The first is a two-volume set, published in 1756. The second also is a two-volume set, published in 1785.
- Why Samuel Johnson and not Noah Webster? Because Webster's first and second editions respectively were published about 1806 and 1826; some 20 to 50 years after the signing of several of the earliest documents.
- Additionally, The National Achieves digitized these dictionaries and they were the first ones found that met the criteria of prior to charter contract dates, they were published, and they were available for common-use at the time.

Using after-the-fact dictionaries discredits a research --because definitions change over time; thus the newer definitions unethically amend the content-meaning.

When completed, the PDF files will be available on the full length pages linked above.

the_declaration_dissection_--jun__07_-_2021.pdf
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the_constitution_with_all_amendments_dissection_-_08-04-2021.pdf
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the_constitution_for_confederacy_dissection_-_08-08-2021.pdf
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