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Our Constitution was finished in September of 1787. But it had to be ratified by the individual states through popular conventions. The people of the states, rather than the state governments, had to approve the new document. Supporters of the Constitution had to appeal directly to the American people. It was not easy as the Colonists were reluctant to give more power to a central government controlled by an established political elite.

The Revolution promised power is in the local community and the hands of the common folk. Now the writers of the Constitution wanted to change all that. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay used the widespread and widely read newspapers of the day to distribute a series of short essays known as the Federalist Papers to influence America to accept and ratify a Constitution.

The essays covered a broad range of topics, including presidential authority, taxation and representation, and the division of power between the national and state governments.In the end, the newspaper plan worked. The Liberty Bell rang so long, it finally cracked. Americans were persuaded to support the Constitution, but the Liberty Bell could not ring in the Bill of Rights, which guaranteed the sought after freedom and individual liberty for all.

The Federalist Papers are now considered the first – and most important internationally – discussions of federal government.

The Federalist Papers serve as a model of political reasoning, and so can readily be ascribed to the reason the Colonists were influenced and prepared to ratify a Constitution for the United States of America.

No other set of essays created such an international clamor for independence and a new kind of power in that eighteenth century. No man could believe or envision that Power actually emanates from the bottom up. Power is by the will of the people and is granted by Providence. That is what happened. The Natural law then, would soon be an Organic law in a written Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of all men created equal.

The sentiment swept the nation then and such is the sentiment which was later so historically and strongly expressed by President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

We are again at that same crossroad where sovereignty and liberty intersect. The basis for our Constitution is inherent in its Federalist Papers. But who knows of them? Our Constitution, after months of work, finished in September 1787 and is a document that cannot by any standard be ratified by the individual state unless their populations wants them to do so.

The Constitution FOR the United States of America is ordained and established in its Preamble by the People OF the United States.

Its Federalist Papers (number 39) established two things:

• A country to be known as the United States of America (U.S.A.).
• A national government for that country to be known as the United States (US).

All American citizens are Sovereign citizens OF the United States of America – the Country. They live under the Common Laws of the country (Nation) known as the United States of America (U.S.A.)

The United States, as such, is only a national government (US) representative of the union of all states, known as these United States (U.S.A.); and is not to be confused with the nation (country) known as the United States of America.
The only sovereignty delegated to the national government (US) is that of foreign commerce and treaties.

It is this area where the States granted international powers to the federal government, albeit with the checks and balances accorded the separation of powers among the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial departments.

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Getting an ebook on Kindle is important to a number of authors today, but getting the formatting just right, putting the pieces all together, can be troublesome. A guest post by Paul Gram goes over a couple of tips regarding this topic.

Formatting Mistakes Authors Make With Their Kindle Ebooks
By Paul Gram

Let's face it, whether you are writing a physical hard cover book or a Kindle ebook, you put your blood, sweat, and tears into your work right? It takes a long time and lots of very hard work to write a good book but unfortunately, many people are doing it wrong and costing themselves lots of sales and money because of this.

Many authors are killing their book sales because of formatting errors and issues on the Amazon Kindle.

Just the other day, I was searching customer reviews on Amazon and I found hundreds of negative reviews from people who bought Kindle ebooks but complained about the formatting. Many times, these people actually liked the content of the book itself, but they were so put off by the formatting that they left a bad review. This is happening with everyone from major authors down to the first time author getting their feet wet in publishing ebooks.

If you are writing an ebook for the Kindle, you would be smart to avoid formatting issues and mistakes. The top two formatting complaints on Amazon are:

1. No clickable/linked Table of Contents
2. Bad formatting in regards to paragraph line spacing

Many authors put their books on the Kindle without a Table of Contents that is clickable. This is a huge mistake and will most likely cause you to get negative reviews and decreased sales. You should never have an ebook that does not have a linked Table of Contents. When your reader wants to go to a specific and certain chapter, you need to make it quick and easy for them to get there or else they will get frustrated.

In regards to bad formatting and line spacing, this is also a very big problem with many books on the Kindle (unless you do it the right way). I have seen lots of formatting issues when it comes to line spacing. For example, not all of the paragraphs or sentences are evenly spaced apart. Another big one that is common is either having no space between paragraphs or way too much space. The other line spacing format issue that I see all of the time is where each chapter starts. The start of a chapter should begin at the top of a Kindle page but many authors don't do this (most don't know how to) and so some chapters start in the middle of the page, some at the bottom, and all of them are all over the place and look awful.

Like I said above, you work hard and spend lots of time writing a quality book, the last thing you should do is ruin it with bad formatting. The bottom line is that for every book you have on the Kindle, make sure there are no line spacing issues, formatting errors, and double check to also ensure that you have a Table of Contents that is clickable and properly linked to each chapter of your book so readers can click on the chapter of their choice and get there quickly and easily.

Paul Gram created the #1 Kindle Template on the Internet which automatically gives your Kindle ebook proper formatting, line spacing, and a clickable and linked Table of Contents. Visit our Ebooktemplates101.com website to check out our ebook template today.

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