Blog: Powerful Words

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"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.

Fifty-two words convey one of the most powerful messages our world has ever known. I wonder how many of us have ever stopped to think about our Constitution and what it means to the freedom of each American. Sure, we all know that the Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of our country. It is the framework for the organization of our government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.

Our Constitution created three branches of our national government, the legislature, consisting of the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court.

One of the most important parts of the Constitution is that it reserves all unenumerated powers to the respective states and the people.

Our forefathers intended to limit the powers of the Federal Government and they did it by way of the Constitution. That is a lesson that many of our leaders seem to have forgotten.

Our Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787 by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and ratified by conventions in each state in the name of "The People."

As legal documents go, it isn't extremely long or even complicated. It only has twenty-seven amendments; the first ten are called "The Bill of Rights."

All of us learned the preamble to the Constitution. How many of us have taken the time to read the entire Constitution? What does it mean to you? I'd love to read your comments of what the Constitution means to you.

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