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[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript by NATIONAL ARCHIVES] | [https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript by NATIONAL ARCHIVES] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
=====Historical Context: The Survival of the US Constitution===== | |||
[https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-survival-us-constitution by Steven Mintz History Resources] | |||
The United States has the oldest written national framework of government in the world. At the end of the twentieth century, there were about 159 other national constitutions in the world, and 101 had been adopted since 1970. While the United States has been governed by a single framework of government for over two centuries, France, in contrast, has had 10 separate and distinct constitutional orders (including five republics, two empires, a monarchy, and two dictatorships). The country of El Salvador has had 36 constitutions since 1824. | |||
