On Monday September 17th 1787, 39 members of the Constitutional Convention completed their work and signed their names to the document that would become the Constitution of the United States of America. This document would become the basis of the of a new government for the United States of America. The first 3 words of the US Constitution are "We the People". They are larger than the rest of the text and seem to jump off the page, this was to drive home the fact that the new government existed to serve the people of the United States and not the other way around. The US Constitution is the oldest single founding document for any democracy in the world today.
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