I keep my working spaces clean, including clearing my desktop every evening before going to sleep. I try to keep files off my computer desktop too.

Working on my next book has me referring to and learning from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution so often, I decided to put them on my computer desktop. Many sites online carry their full texts, but I couldn’t find any with a file to download that looked clean and simple and that was easy to search.

No big deal, but I copied the texts into files and formatted them simply. You can see them in screen shots below. I’m not looking to show them off. I’m making it easy to refer to them, quote them, and read them.

I guard my working spaces from distraction. I’m pleased to find including these documents in my working spaces the opposite of distraction.

For documents about freedom, naturally I saved them in a format based in freedom, not coercion, so I used Libreoffice and saved them in a non-propriety, non-coercive format, though proprietary, coercive software like Office can read them.

Click their images below to download them or these links:

Declaration of Independence

Constitution

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