We The People

We The People

Amends. XI-XXVII Amends. XI-XXVII:

Odds and ends

Editor’s note: This is the fifth consecutive Sunday in which The Tribune-Demo-crat publishes, unedited, portions of the U.S. Constitution. With today’s installment, we have published the document in its entirety.
March 17, 2006
‘Reconstruction Amendments’ ‘Reconstruction Amendments’

Foundation laid for civil rights

Constitutional amendments XI through XXVII are important, but for the most part they don’t hold the individual importance of the first 10, the Bill of Rights.
March 17, 2006
A more perfect union "Bill" assures rights of states, individuals The U.S. Constitution is the most important document that Americans possess, and the Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments - is the most vital part of it to individual citizens.
March 10, 2006
The Bill of Rihts Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

March 10, 2006
Article II & III - The President Article II: The president

Section 1

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

March 3, 2006
Article IV: States, citizens Editor’s note: This is the third consecutive Sunday in which The Tribune-Democrat publishes, unedited, portions of the U.S. Constitution. We will continue over the next few Sundays until we have published the document in its entirety.

Article IV

Section 1
March 3, 2006
Breaking down state boundaries Equal rights, privileges, protections

After establishing the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government in the first three articles, the U.S. Constitution’s framers turned to rights of the states and individual citizens in Article IV.
March 3, 2006
Power-hungry executive branch The U.S. Constitution: It is the law of the land, a document every federal official takes an oath to defend and uphold.
February 24, 2006
The words we live by Many view July 4, 1776, as the date this country was born. That was indeed an important date, when the great Declaration of Independence publicly severed our ties with England.
February 17, 2006
Article 1: The legislature The basic text of the Constitution was drafted by the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
February 17, 2006