Limited Government
The Constitution doesn't grant power to the people — it limits the government. Every branch answers to a written rule, and We the People stand above them all.
E Pluribus Unum · Est. 1787
The oldest written constitution still governing a nation today. It is not a museum piece — it is your inheritance. Know it. Defend it. Pass it on.
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.
— Preamble to the United States Constitution, 1787
The Constitution doesn't grant power to the people — it limits the government. Every branch answers to a written rule, and We the People stand above them all.
Speech, press, religion, arms, due process, trial by jury — these aren't favors from the state. They are rights secured in the supreme law of the land.
Twenty-seven times, "We the People" amended our founding charter to live up to its ideals — abolishing slavery, extending the vote, and redefining liberty for new generations.
More than half of the world's constitutions drew inspiration from America's. The experiment at Philadelphia in 1787 changed the course of human history.
“If you would keep your freedom, you must keep your eyes open. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” — commonly attributed to John Philpot Curran
View the original engrossed Constitution and Bill of Rights in the National Archives.
The Library of Congress's authoritative case-by-case analysis of every clause.
Civic education from the federal judiciary on how the Constitution works in practice.
OurDocuments.gov's history of the first ten amendments and their ratification fight.