“But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.”

Between 1774 and 1791, civic and religious leaders from the thirteen Colonies debated and compromised behind closed doors and in the public arena. Their goal? To establish a new country and, with it, a new government. Their fierce discourse and dedication to the principles of equality and freedom guided them to our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.