The U.S. Constitution 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 Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles. Courts have referred to it as reliable evidence of the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they hoped the Constitution would achieve.
Text of Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a
final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot
hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It
is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us —
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion — 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.
2024
United States Senate elections
The
2024 United States Senate elections will be held on November 5, 2024, with 33
of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections, the
winners of which will serve six-year terms in the United States Congress from
January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2031. Senators are divided into three groups, or
classes, whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every
two years. Class 1 senators were last elected in 2018, and will be up for
election again in 2024.
Elections
to the U.S. Senate will
be held on November 5, 2024, and 33 of the 100 seats are
up for regular election. Special elections may
be held to fill vacancies that occur in the 118th Congress.
Of the 33
regularly scheduled elections in 2024, 21 seats were held by Democrats and 10
seats were held by Republicans as of July 2020.
Those
elected to the U.S. Senate in the 33 regular elections on November 5, 2024,
will begin their six-year terms on January 3, 2025.
United
States Senate elections, 2024 - Ballotpedia
United States House of
Representatives elections, 2024
Elections to the U.S. House will
be held on November 5, 2024.
All 435 seats will be up for election
