Happy 225th, U.S. Constitution

It remains what it has always been:  misunderstood, misrepresented, misused - and the only thing standing between us and chaos.

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.  

Full original transcript here.

Background here.

Teaching resources here.

And the one book you must read to have any understanding of how our constitution and our nation came to be, the history book that reads like a thriller.