"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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."
- Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
"On September 17, 1787, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. . .
"After being signed in September of 1787, Congress sent printed copies of the Constitution to the state legislatures for ratification. . . By June 21, 1788, nine states had approved the Constitution, finally forming "a more perfect Union."
"No matter how much we argue about the details of its meaning today, in the opinion of many, the Constitution signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787 represents the greatest expression of statesmanship and compromise ever written. In just four hand-written pages, the Constitution gives us no less than the owners' manual to the greatest form of government the world has ever known."
The full text of the Constitution is easy to find on the web. I found an easy-to-use site here.
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