the Constitution of the United States of America
The Constitution of the United States of America was signed and adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has been amended twenty-seven times since then (the first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights).
Articles of the Constitution
Preamble: Statement of purpose
Article One: Legislative Power
Article Two: Executive power
Article Three: Judicial power
Article Four: States’ powers and limits
Article Five: Amendments
Article Six: Federal power
Article Seven: Ratification
Preamble
“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.”
Article One
…establishes the Congress, the legislative branch, the first of the three branches of the government. The United States Congress is a body consisting of two co-equal houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Article Two
…establishes the second of the three branches of government, the Executive, and establishes the office of the President and the Vice-President.
Article Three
…establishes the last of the three branches of government, the Judiciary, and describes the court system including the Supreme Court.
Article Four
…outlines the relation between the states and the relation between the federal government.
Article Five
…details the method of amending, or changing, the Constitution.
Article Six
…sets the Constitution and all laws and treaties of the United States to be the supreme law of the country. It requires all officers of the United States and of the states to swear an oath of allegiance to the United States and the Constitution when taking office.
Article Seven
…details the method for ratification, or acceptance, of the Constitution: of the original 13 states in the United States, nine had to accept the Constitution before it would officially go into effect.
The United States Constitution online
Text of the US Constitution (PDF)
Text of the US Constitution (txt)
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the Constitution of the United States of America,
This wonderful document once had meaning, now?! The fearless leaders look for anyway to bypass it and find any loopholes to benefit their agenda. Something that once had worth is now almost worthless, especially if some president decides to dip into executive powers too much. Sad.
First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Absolutely right, Be informed. Another twenty or thirty years and the kids growing up today will regard this document merely as a historical exhibit in a museum, or archive.
Whether the Obama-clone/Gameshow host of that era will actually appear on daytime TV news and tell them that it has never had any validity in law, or has never even existed, remains to be seen.
This is what has already happened in the UK: Bill of Rights 1688/9.
While the late and great constitution had some lofty intentions, remember what Patrick Henry observed when he said, “I smell a rat.” The centralized government controlled exclusively by corporate money, is a direct result of the flawed experimental government many put their trust in. That trust has been betrayed and governmental authority will continue to trump liberty.
i’m confused why a document which allowed the current system is thought to be a “great document?” it enshrined rights for a select few who would be direct beneficiaries of change in power dynamic from royal to republican. the constitution was created by a newly free group of land-owning elite white males to facilitate their profit and control the populace.
Dear Friends, Just wanted to say what beautiful calligraphy… It’s a piece of art we should respect and honor through our actions in defending our rights and liberties. In the way that these visionary humans saw the future unfolding with it’s many paths and potential hazards. The future being what we in-vision in it’s unfolding. Join as “One” in the path to reclaiming the intent of this Republic… Survive- All…
@ Sam, Friend: that’s not the fact of the creation of this document. It wasn’t the wave of escapists, free thinkers, colonists-that brought forth this pact. It was pre-existing here in the Native Peoples who knew that “Life” had the gifts of inalienable rights and the benefits of working as one, despite differences that regional dispersal created. Thus this out weighed the negatives of religious and often racist persecution that was left behind in the hopes of a life without the oligarchies, unfair taxation and debtors incarceration. That’s just for starters. This is volumes of dialogue that we don’t have the space nor time for in this forum. Don’t take my word, do the work and research for your own edification. Survive-All…
otter, thanks for the thoughtful reply.
i’m not disagreeing that man has natural rights. i have them regardless of what’s printed in a book or document; we all have these rights. i’m disregarding the notion of patriotic purity of the document. men in the 1700′s are no different from men today; in that, if a bunch of dudes have nobody to tell them what to do, they’re going to create a system that benefits them primarily over others. i don’t trust the altruism of slave owners and other morally questionable men.
i like how you referred to it as a “piece of art,” and i do agree with that. it was a stroke of pure artistic genius to enshrine natural rights, but only fully to the stratified few. i’ve read the document many times. i’m not unfamiliar with teh history of the founding, yet i refuse to bow down in supplicant deference to the ramblings of a bunch of rich white guys.
@ Sam, It wasn’t long ago that I posted pointedly different input as regards the genesis of the assumed creation of the “Constitution”. Mentioning that it was here in a pre-existing peoples. I was referring to the actuality that “The Iroquois Confederacy” had law and guidelines made for alliance. This was translated by the colonists. The “Jefferson” version of this writing was a complete plagiarism. Really just a language translation of an existing peoples wisdom and efforts done long before first contact. ( It isn’t the writing it’s the people and their unending efforts to dismantle a system that worked. We need to turn around 180 degrees and take a step. Did the Native Peoples have this as a way of life? In some 230 years the U.S. has reduced and dismantled a system that worked for most of the “Woodland” period. ) The U.S. Constitution, is the Constitution of The Iroquois.( I am with you in your patriotism. ) The Fed needs to be audited, the “White Shoe Boys” with their make believe occult ceremonies are going to get their due. They are playing Halloween and don’t have a clue what true power of the Black nature is. Nor do they know how those who have true power are getting really pissed off at their mockery. ( It’s Big Bad Medicine they are going to take. ) Their Petro and Big Pharm. medicine dispersal plans will be the “Geritol” they need shoved into them. Basically, too little too late. For the withering they face. Transhumanism will never embody the Soul. When they go they had better hope they have a pinch of goodness which will allow them the coins they need to pay the boatman for their crossing. Their last Earthly thoughts being more greed and control, heaven and hell, and guess which will manifest for their disembodied state. It will be a long journey on the wheel of life before they surface as conscious sentient Beings again. The time of the Executive branch being nothing more than a front for the dissemination of falsehoods through a “Puppet” front minion need to, have to, come to an end. Eugenics, GMO, Fission, Sodium Fluoride in our water ( Just for starters… ), the dumb down mind set with Tesla’s patients in use which were to be locked away for 800 plus years; as humanity was not and is not capable of using them appropriately for mans betterment. All go to the volumes that humanity needs to consolidate in it’s daily awareness. The Federal to local militias are going to come to see that they are on the wrong side of Globalism. Military orders that are outside military law are lawful to disobey. ( Indeed they are by law and code to be disobeyed! ) Soon all will come to see that bashing in someone’s face turned out to be your partner’s nephew, neighbor’s cousin, that guy they beat to death was in fact doing nothing and He was your brother a thousand miles away. All hypothetical, yet all unfolding and destined to grow with a Fibonacci path of least resistance. The awakening is here, the New World Order will fail. History will repeat itself yet “We” learn, and hopefully change will block the sociopathic, even psychopathic, behind the scenes slow kill system. We need to boycott the TSA. Stop air travel, Demand your Fourth Amendment rights and don’t get radiated at beta test sites set up on roads via check points. Don’t even watch sports like football if the TSA is making you “Submit and Comply” to enter a stadium. Call the sponsors and tell them you are boycotting their products. ( I just called “National Geographic Magazine and said I’d cancel if “They continued to advertise for Merck and their bioweapon” Guardasil”. ) Don’t help fund Bill and Melinda Gates… aide my arse!!! Their “Foundation” has spread disease and death though “vaccines”. Sorry, ranting… Read between the lines… This can go on and on. HARRP, Vmads, Scan systems, Brown Shirt mentality… Nobama just put up ten new ads-bottom left corner “Homeland Security” ( Nine of them have persons of color accusing Whites- the new terrorist threat in America. See “Attack watch.com ” … Survive-All… Spread the Word… Awareness is Preparedness…