Post columnist Ian Rowe, founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, has his students begin the school day by reciting the Preamble to the Constitution. National Archives via AP, File In “Democracy in ...

Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in ...

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the ...

The U.S. Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, and established the framework for the U.S. government. It is the oldest written constitution still in use by any major government in the world.