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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
SECTION 1. All legislative Powers herein grant-ed shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. 1This text of the Constitution follows the engrossed copy signed by Gen. Washington and the deputies from 12 States.
The Constitution of the United States. All four pages of the document are on permanent display at the National Archives.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Download. The Constitution of the United States. All four pages of the document are on permanent display at the National Archives. Read a Transcript. The Constitution acted like a colossal merger, uniting a group of states with different interests, laws, and cultures.
1 This text of the Constitution follows the engrossed copy signed by Gen. Washington and the deputies from 12 States. The small superior figures preceding the paragraphs designate clauses, and were not in the original and have no reference to footnotes. The Constitution was adopted by a convention of the States on September 17, 1787, and was
WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our postefity, do ordain and esta-
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I. Section 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be ve sted in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Sen-ate and House of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed
Drafted in secret by delegates to the Constitutional Convention during the summer of 1787, this four-page document, signed on September 17, 1787, established the government of the United States.
Constitution of The United States