The Constitution is a merger uniting the original 13 states with different cultures and laws. Under America’s first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the states acted together only for specific purposes. The final Constitution of 1887 united all the states as members of a whole, vesting the power of the people in a Federal government.
The Constitution of the United States
By Michael Alan Prestwood
Author and Natural Philosopher
12 Dec 2020
Published 5 years ago.
Updated 2 years ago.
The Constitution of the United States
17 Sep 1787
The end.
When a source is corrected or expanded, it can be updated once at the tidbit level and reflected everywhere it appears.
Ideas here are not replaced when they evolve—they are refined, annotated, and revisited.