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This document, more than 200 years old, is the framework by which
America is governed today. The words are rarely modified, but their
applicability changes throughout history.


The U.S. Constitution establishes a federal government in which each
branch operates independently of the others (separation of powers) but
in which the powers of each are restricted by the others and power is not
concentrated in any one branch (checks and balances).


Judicial The judicial branch can:
• Check the power of the legislative branch by declaring a law
unconstitutional.
• Check the power of the executive branch by declaring an action (such
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Executive The executive branch can:
• Check the power of the legislative branch by vetoing bills passed by
Congress.
• Check the power of the judicial branch by nominating new judges to
replace those who die or retire.


Judicial The judicial branch can:
• Check the power of the legislative branch by declaring a law
unconstitutional.
• Check the power of the executive branch by declaring an action (such
as an executive order) unconstitutional.
THE 27 AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
...

A summary of the first  27 amendments to the U.S.
Constitution

1st1st Amendment
Congress may not establish a religion, restrict free
speech or press freedom, or deprive citizens of rights
to assemble peacefully or petition the government


2nd Amendment
The government may not infringe on the rights of the
people to keep and bear arms.

3rd Amendment
Soldiers may not be quartered in any house without
the consent of the owner.

4th Amendment
Neither individuals nor their homes and property may
be searched or seized unless a legal warrant, based on
probable cause, is issued.

5th Amendment
An individual charged with a crime is entitled to due
legal process, cannot be tried twice for the same
offense, and cannot be compelled to testify against
him- or herself. The government cannot seize private
property without just compensation.

6th Amendment
An individual accused of a crime has the right to a
speedy trial by an impartial jury, to be informed of the
charges, to confront witnesses, and be assisted by
legal counsel.

7th Amendment
In civil litigation, parties are entitled to a jury trial, and
no fact established by a jury may be re-examined in
any higher court.

8th Amendment
The government may not impose excessive bail,
excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.

9th Amendment
The listing of specific rights in the Constitution does
not deny or disparage other rights retained by the
people.

10th Amendment
Powers not delegated to the U.S. Federal government
by the Constitution are reserved to state governments
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THE 27  AMENDMENTS OF THE
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The Constitutional Convention of 1787





On May 15, 1776, the convention meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia, and
acting as that state's de facto governing body instructed that Colony's
delegates at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to introduce a
resolution declaring "the United Colonies free and independent states."

That Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, adopted by the
Continental Congress on July 4, set the former Colonies on an irrevocable
course that created the United States of America. But the creation of the
United States of America did not occur all at once. Eleven years later,
another group of delegates journeyed to Philadelphia to write a constitution
for the new nation, a constitution that still defines its law and character.

The road from independence to constitutional government was one of the
great journeys in the history of democratic government, a road
characterized by experiment, by mistakes, but ultimately producing surely
the most influential national constitution ever written. Even before the
break with Great Britain, the American Colonies saw to the nurturing of
their future constitutional culture.

The lower houses of the Colonial assemblies were the most democratic
bodies in the English-speaking world, and dialogue with the mother country
sharpened the Americans' sense of constitutional issues. For a decade
before the outbreak of the Revolution, disputes over taxes, trials without
juries and other issues led to an outpouring of pamphlets, tracts, and
resolutions -- all making essentially a constitutional case against British
policy.

Declaring independence, the founders of American democracy understood,
entailed establishing the intellectual basis for self-government. On the
same day that the Williamsburg convention spoke for independence, the
delegates set to work on a declaration of rights and on a constitution for
Virginia. Virginia's 1776 Declaration of Rights soon was emulated in other
states and even influenced France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen (1789).

The early American state constitutions -- every state adopted one -- varied
in their specifics (for example, some created a unicameral legislature,
others opted for bicameralism). But they shared a basic commitment to
republican principles, principles that then seemed truly revolutionary in
most parts of the world -- consent of the governed, limited government,
inherent rights and popular control of government.

These early experiments in republican government carried significant flaws.
Recalling their experience as North American colonists with British royal
power (including Colonial governors and courts), drafters of the initial state
constitutions placed excessive trust in legislatures. Checks and balances
among branches of government were more theory than reality. Governors
typically were elected by (and thus dependent on) the legislative branches,
and judicial power largely was embryonic. Another flaw in the original
design was that constitutions were drafted by entities that also served as
legislative bodies, thus blurring the line between fundamental law and
ordinary law.

However, in 1780, Massachusetts took a great step forward in constitutional
design when its people elected a convention to write a constitution. That
document was voted on in a referendum.
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The Great Compromise and Other Compromises



On June 13, 1787, the Virginia Plan, with some revisions, was reported
out of the Committee of the Whole.

On June 15, 1787, William Paterson, speaking for the plan's opponents,
introduced the New Jersey Plan. Under this plan, each state would have
an equal vote in a unicameral Congress. Resolving themselves once again
into a Committee of the Whole, the delegates debated the merits of the
Virginia and New Jersey plans.

On June 19, 1787, the committee voted, seven states to three (with
Maryland divided), to stay with the Virginia Plan. The matter remained
unresolved, with votes settling into a pattern of six states
(Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia)
against Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with Maryland
divided. In late June, Connecticut's Oliver Ellsworth proposed a
compromise -- population to be the basis for representation in one
house, the states to have equality in the other.

In early July 1787, the convention voted on Connecticut's proposal for
state equality in the Senate, but the motion failed on an equal division
(with Georgia divided). The convention appeared to be deadlocked.
Looking for a way out of the predicament, South Carolina's Charles C.
Pinckney asked for the appointment of a grand committee. That
committee then ratified what has come to be called the Great
Compromise -- proportional representation in the lower house, states'
equality in the upper house. Even though the larger states preferred
representation based on population as the basic rule, some of their
delegates preferred compromise to risking a walk-out by small state
delegates. Virginia's George Mason said that he would "rather bury his
bones" in Philadelphia than see the convention dissolved without
agreement on a plan of government. On July 16, the convention voted
for the compromise, five states in favor, four opposed, one divided (with
New York not present).

Notwithstanding grumbling by some delegates from the larger states,
the most contentious issue now had been resolved, and the convention
could move on to other questions. Election of the executive proved a
thorny issue. The Virginia Plan had provided for an executive elected by
the legislature; this, however, would create a dependent executive
branch -- a defect of many of the state constitutions. Few delegates
were so bold as to suppose that direct election by the people was a wise
move.

Ultimately, the convention opted for a device -- an awkward one to the
modern mind -- of having an electoral college choose the president. Each
state was entitled, by whatever method it pleased, to select electors
equal in number to the number of that state's senators and
representatives. The electors would meet in their respective states and
vote for the president and vice president. The subsequent rise of political
parties, however, has ended the framers' notion that electors actually
would deliberate on their choices for national leadership.

On July 24, 1787, the convention appointed five members to a
Committee of Detail, whose job it was to draft an actual constitution
embodying the fundamental principles thus far approved by the whole
body. The committee's members seem to have assumed that they were
at liberty to make substantive changes of their own. The most important
of these was, in place of a general statement of Congress's powers, a
clear enumeration of its powers. Leading the list were the power to tax
and the power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce -- two of the
basic reasons that had brought the delegates to Philadelphia in the first
place.

Regional differences surfaced during the convention's latter weeks.
Southern states, dependent on the export of agricultural commodities,
wanted to forbid Congress from taxing exports, and they wanted to
protect slavery and the slave trade. In late August 1787, the convention
agreed to a ban on taxes on exports and a prohibition on interference
with the slave trade until the year 1808.

Slavery was the unwelcome guest at the convention's table. Nowhere
does the Constitution use the word "slave" or "slavery." In language
intended to compromise competing southern and northern views on
representation, the convention decided that, in apportioning
representatives, to the number of "free Persons" should be added
three-fifths of "all other Persons" -- that is, slaves. Some of the
delegates thought slavery a blot on the nation's moral conscience, but
they concluded, reluctantly, that a stronger stand on slavery would mean
rejection of the proposed Constitution in the southern states and thus
the prospect of the Union's dissolution. How to resolve the burning issue
of slavery was thus postponed, to be settled decades later by civil war
and reconstruction.

On September 8, 1787, a Committee on Style was appointed to polish the
Constitution's language and to arrange its articles. When that committee
reported, George Mason, the author of Virginia's 1776 Declaration of
Rights, argued that the federal document also should have a bill of rights
that would specify and protect the rights of individual citizens. Others
argued, however, that nothing in the Constitution would infringe the
rights guaranteed in the state constitutions. Mason's proposal was
rejected, although it would be revived during the ratification debates.

The convention was moving to its conclusion. On September 17, 1787,
Benjamin Franklin, at age 81 the convention's patriarch, pleaded with
those who had some reservations about the meeting's product to "doubt
a little of his own infallibility." Looking ahead to the ratification process,
the Constitution's proponents wanted a unanimous result. Of the 42
members (of the original 55) still present on September 17, all but three
signed the final document. As representatives from each state had
concurred in the result, Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania devised the
formula "Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States
present" on that date.
Amending the Constitution

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The framers of the Constitution purposely made it
difficult amend the document.  More than 10,000
amendments have been introduced in Congress, but it
has proposed only 33 and submitted them to the
states. Of these, only 27 have been ratified.

"Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most
sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a
delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis
of the most clear and convincing evidence that a
proposed amendment is necessary," Senator Ben
Nelson of Nebraska has said.

Article V sets out the procedures for amending the
Constitution. Amendments may be proposed by a
two-thirds vote of each house of Congress or by a
national convention called by Congress at the request
of two-thirds of the states. To become part of the
Constitution, amendments must be ratified (approved)
by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states or by
conventions in three-fourths of the states.

Only one amendment, the 21st, was ratified by state
conventions. All the others were ratified by state
legislatures.

Another constitutional approach to amendments
never has been used. The legislatures of two-thirds of
the states could call for a convention to propose
amendments, which would then require ratification by
three-fourths of the states.

The Constitution sets no time limit during which the
states must ratify a proposed amendment. But the
courts have held that amendments must be ratified
within a "reasonable time" and that Congress decides
what is reasonable, as it did when it allowed the
promulgation of the 27th Amendment on May 7, 1992
-- more than 202 years after it was proposed. Since
the early 1900s, most proposed amendments have
included a requirement that the necessary ratification
be obtained within seven years.
Visitors inspect original
pages of the U.S.
Constitution of 1787 in
the rotunda of the
National Archives
building in Washington,
D.C.
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