The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. This laconic sentence, in the last and ...

The states are listed (as in Article ... the Constitution is dated: “the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord” 1787, and “of the Independence of the United States of America ...

That is because elite privilege and authoritarianism are part of the DNA of the US Constitution ... The views expressed in ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution printed 237 years ago and sent to the states to be ratified was sold for $9 million at an auction Thursday evening in North Carolina.

But in the end, the articles would be thrown out altogether in favor of a new Constitution. That document, and the new government that emerged from it, would in large part owe their very survival ...

Earlier articles in this series have discussed the sections of the Constitution that formed the Congress and the executive. The Colonies had always had their own courts that dealt with their own ...