Constituting the United States

The Constitution, 1 of 5

May 14, 2021

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Howard Chandler Christy, circa 1901, Public Domain via Library of Congress.

A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence…. A constitution is a thing antecedent to government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.
—Thomas Paine
Our Constitution…wasn’t a perfect document. It allowed f…

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