The Constitution of the United States of America: 1787 (Annotated)
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The first three Articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judiciary, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The fourth and sixth Articles frame the doctrine of federalism, describing the relationship between State and State, and between the several States and the federal government. The fifth Article provides the procedure for amending the Constitution. The seventh Article provides the procedure for ratifying the Constitution.
The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven States.
The Documents that Shaped America. Proposed, Debated and Drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787. The meetings of the Convention took place at Independence Hall. The Constitutional Convention began its deliberations on May 25, 1787. All of the delegates were convinced that an effective central government with a wide range of enforceable powers must replace the weaker Congress established by the Articles of Confederation.
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The Constitution of the United States of America - Various Authors
The Constitution of the United States of America
1787
Fathers of the Constitution
ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land and is the central instrument of the United States government. Two hundred years, he has guided the development of the government and served as the foundation for economic growth and social development, political stability, personal freedom.
The United States Constitution is the oldest written constitution in the world in place, and has served on a number of different models of the world's oldest constitution in the world. It owes its simplicity and flexibility, the Constitution of sustainability. Originally designed in the 18th century to provide a framework for governing 4 million people in 13 very different states along the Atlantic coast of America, its main provisions were so well planned that only 27 amendments, which now serves the needs of more than 260 million Americans in 50 states, extending from the Atlantic and Pacific.
The road to the Constitution has been straight or easy. A draft document emerged in 1787, but only after intense debate and six years of experience with an earlier federal union. The 13 American colonies declared their independence from their homeland in 1776 A year earlier, war had broken out between the colonies and Great Britain, a war for independence that lasted for six bitter years. While still at war, the colonies - now calling themselves the United States of America - drafted a pact that bound them together as a nation. The compact, designated the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union,
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