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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Articles Four, Five and Six entrench concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments and of the states in relationship to the federal government. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it.
Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government. The majority of the seventeen later amendments expand individual civil rights. Others address issues related to federal authority or modify government processes and procedures. Amendments to the United States Constitution, unlike ones made to many constitutions world-wide, are appended to the end of the document. At seven articles and twenty-seven amendments, it is the shortest written constitution in force. All five pages of the original U.S. Constitution are written on parchment.
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The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At 3.8 million square miles (9.842 million km2) and with over 320 million people, the country is the world's third or fourth-largest by total area and the third most populous. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States are also extremely diverse, and the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife.
US or U.S. usually refers to the United States of America, a country in North America.
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A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is. When these principles are written down into a single document or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to embody a written constitution; if they are written down in a single comprehensive document, it is said to embody a codified constitution.
Constitutions concern different levels of organizations, from sovereign states to companies and unincorporated associations. A treaty which establishes an international organization is also its constitution, in that it would define how that organization is constituted. Within states, a constitution defines the principles upon which the state is based, the procedure in which laws are made and by whom. Some constitutions, especially codified constitutions, also act as limiters of state power, by establishing lines which a state's rulers cannot cross, such as fundamental rights. An example is the constitution of the United States of America.
National archives are the archives of a nation-state. The concept evolved in various nations at the dawn of modernity based on the impact of nationalism upon bureaucratic processes of paperwork retention.
From the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period archives generated by royal and clerical institutions retained proofs of political and genealogical claims as a "bastion of authenticity." The emerging Enlightenment concept of studying history as a science rather than as literature was influenced by Leopold von Ranke and brought archives into the limelight of serious historical study. In the late 18th Century, the storage of old records was divided. Business records in the archives courantes went the way of records management while documents of cultural import in the archives historiques formed the core of Western-conceived archives. As the popularity of archives increased as a function of substantiating historical narratives, national archives were purposed towards telling their respective nation's story. For example, the National Historical Archive of Spain as created excluded contemporary records in favor of documenting defunct institutions as a matter of national heritage. Historian Nicholas Dirks has said that national archives are the "primary site of state monumentality."
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through its war with England, they weren't of much use when it came to running a country. So, the founding fathers decided try their hand at nation-building, and they created the Constitution of the United States, which you may remember as the one that says We The People at the top. John will tell you how the convention came together, some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and why it's very lucky that the framers installed a somewhat reasonable process for making changes to the thing. You'll learn about Shays' Rebellion, the Fed...
More books at http://librivox.org and http://youtube.com/audiobooksfree Bringing you Librivox audiobooks for free on YouTube. Full text of the Constitution of the United States Audiobook. This free Constitution of the United States Audiobook produced by http://www.librivox.org, and all Librivox audiobook recordings are free, in the public domain. Feel free to download this Constitution of the United States Audiobook free audiobook here at the Constitution of the United States Audiobook audio Librivox page: http://librivox.org/the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america-1787/ "constitution of the united states" "us constitution" "the constitution of the united states" "united states constitution" "the us constitution" "constitution" "u.s. constitution" "the united states constitu...
Easily understand the basic concepts of the U.S. Constitution by mastering 5 Key Concepts. Understand Freedom, Liberty, Founding Principles and American History like never before. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS CONCEPTS 1-3. See second video with same name on this channel for Concepts 4 and 5. By CM Seibert
"Securing the Blessings of Liberty: An Examination of the United States Constitution" is a class on the Constitution by Richard Church. Class was presented by the Stevens Point, WI Campaign for Liberty Meetup Group and arranged by Corey Kealiher. http://ronpaul.meetup.com/680/ Richard is the Adams County, WI district coordinator for the WI Campaign For Liberty. This 1.5 hour class is part 1 of 4, which is an introduction and history of the Constitution. Filmed at the Portage County Public Library in Stevens Point, WI on 5/1/10. http://WisconsinC4L.com Filmed and edited by Chris Rye http://forlibertymovie.com
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-the-us-constitution-so-hard-to-amend-peter-paccone When it was ratified in 1789, the US Constitution didn’t just institute a government by the people – it provided a way for the people to alter the Constitution itself. And yet, of the nearly 11,000 amendments proposed in the centuries since, only 27 have succeeded as of 2016. Peter Paccone explains why the US Constitution is so hard to change. Lesson by Peter Paccone, animation by Augenblick Studios.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-wasn-t-the-bill-of-rights-originally-in-the-us-constitution-james-coll When you think of the US Constitution, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Free speech? The right to bear arms? These passages are cited so often that it's hard to imagine the document without them. But the list of freedoms known as the Bill of Rights was not in the original text and wasn't added for three years. Why not? James Coll goes back to the origins of the Constitution to find out. Lesson by James Coll, animation by Augenblick Studios.
This shows the history of the making of the US Constitution. I do not own the rights to this. I place it on youtube as a service to all who are as in love with that revered document as I am.
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. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Repre...
This lecture, given by Stanford history professor Jack Rakove, was one class of the Colonial and Revolutionary America History course which he taught in 2008. You can listen to the entire course on iTunes. [iTunes Link: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1948870601.01948870603.1945473162?i=1920048705] Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Prof. Jack Rakove's Bio: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/rakove Colonial and Revolutionary America History on iTunes U http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1948870601.01948870603.1945473162?i=1920048705 The Human Experience: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/ Stanford Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
In this Inside the Vaults video short, Chief of Reference at the National Archives Trevor Plante literally takes viewers inside the Archives vaults to see some of his favorite rarely-displayed documents. They include: • The original text of the "Virginia Plan," Edmund Randolph's proposal for a national government that included three co-equal branches: "supreme legislative, judiciary and executive"; • A printed copy of the Constitution with George Washington's handwritten annotations; • The final printed copy of the Constitution, which was delivered to the Constitutional Convention September 13, 1787, approved by vote on September 15, and then signed on September 17; and • The state of Pennsylvania's ratification copy of the Constitution — unlike the four-page version of the Constitution on...
In which John Green teaches you about the United States Constitution. During and after the American Revolutionary War, the government of the new country operated under the Articles of Confederation. While these Articles got the young nation through its war with England, they weren't of much use when it came to running a country. So, the founding fathers decided try their hand at nation-building, and they created the Constitution of the United States, which you may remember as the one that says We The People at the top. John will tell you how the convention came together, some of the compromises that had to be made to pass this thing, and why it's very lucky that the framers installed a somewhat reasonable process for making changes to the thing. You'll learn about Shays' Rebellion, the Fed...
More books at http://librivox.org and http://youtube.com/audiobooksfree Bringing you Librivox audiobooks for free on YouTube. Full text of the Constitution of the United States Audiobook. This free Constitution of the United States Audiobook produced by http://www.librivox.org, and all Librivox audiobook recordings are free, in the public domain. Feel free to download this Constitution of the United States Audiobook free audiobook here at the Constitution of the United States Audiobook audio Librivox page: http://librivox.org/the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america-1787/ "constitution of the united states" "us constitution" "the constitution of the united states" "united states constitution" "the us constitution" "constitution" "u.s. constitution" "the united states constitu...
Easily understand the basic concepts of the U.S. Constitution by mastering 5 Key Concepts. Understand Freedom, Liberty, Founding Principles and American History like never before. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS CONCEPTS 1-3. See second video with same name on this channel for Concepts 4 and 5. By CM Seibert
"Securing the Blessings of Liberty: An Examination of the United States Constitution" is a class on the Constitution by Richard Church. Class was presented by the Stevens Point, WI Campaign for Liberty Meetup Group and arranged by Corey Kealiher. http://ronpaul.meetup.com/680/ Richard is the Adams County, WI district coordinator for the WI Campaign For Liberty. This 1.5 hour class is part 1 of 4, which is an introduction and history of the Constitution. Filmed at the Portage County Public Library in Stevens Point, WI on 5/1/10. http://WisconsinC4L.com Filmed and edited by Chris Rye http://forlibertymovie.com
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-the-us-constitution-so-hard-to-amend-peter-paccone When it was ratified in 1789, the US Constitution didn’t just institute a government by the people – it provided a way for the people to alter the Constitution itself. And yet, of the nearly 11,000 amendments proposed in the centuries since, only 27 have succeeded as of 2016. Peter Paccone explains why the US Constitution is so hard to change. Lesson by Peter Paccone, animation by Augenblick Studios.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-wasn-t-the-bill-of-rights-originally-in-the-us-constitution-james-coll When you think of the US Constitution, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Free speech? The right to bear arms? These passages are cited so often that it's hard to imagine the document without them. But the list of freedoms known as the Bill of Rights was not in the original text and wasn't added for three years. Why not? James Coll goes back to the origins of the Constitution to find out. Lesson by James Coll, animation by Augenblick Studios.
This shows the history of the making of the US Constitution. I do not own the rights to this. I place it on youtube as a service to all who are as in love with that revered document as I am.
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. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Repre...
This lecture, given by Stanford history professor Jack Rakove, was one class of the Colonial and Revolutionary America History course which he taught in 2008. You can listen to the entire course on iTunes. [iTunes Link: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1948870601.01948870603.1945473162?i=1920048705] Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Prof. Jack Rakove's Bio: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/rakove Colonial and Revolutionary America History on iTunes U http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1948870601.01948870603.1945473162?i=1920048705 The Human Experience: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/ Stanford Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford
In this Inside the Vaults video short, Chief of Reference at the National Archives Trevor Plante literally takes viewers inside the Archives vaults to see some of his favorite rarely-displayed documents. They include: • The original text of the "Virginia Plan," Edmund Randolph's proposal for a national government that included three co-equal branches: "supreme legislative, judiciary and executive"; • A printed copy of the Constitution with George Washington's handwritten annotations; • The final printed copy of the Constitution, which was delivered to the Constitutional Convention September 13, 1787, approved by vote on September 15, and then signed on September 17; and • The state of Pennsylvania's ratification copy of the Constitution — unlike the four-page version of the Constitution on...
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