During the revolution for its independence, the young nation of The United States of America realized that their confederate government wasn't working as well as they had hoped. A special session of Congress was called, and it was decided that a new constitution needed to be drafted. In 1789 C.E., the new constitution was ratified, and a new era in world government had come into being. A strong central government was put into place, and, unique to this new document, it was declared that it was written by the people, and for the people. Perhaps even more fundamentally new to the American Constitution, three years later a new section was amended to it; The Bill of Rights. This outlined the fundamental rights of all American citizens, which had heretofore been based exclusively on the whims of monarchs and religious leaders. Even after the eventual fall of the U.S. some five centuries later, this document still stands as one of the pinnacles of human freedom.