We the People

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Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, kings, czars, sultans, emperors and other autocratic rulers dominated the Earth and virtually everyone who lived on it.  On September 17th of that year, a group of leaders assembled in Philadelphia to publicly propose the adoption of a written constitution for their new country. That document along with the Declaration of Independence would change the way the world saw and understood a country of the people, by the people and for the people.  Happy Constitution Day!

“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.” – September 17, 1787