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US Constitution
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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Articles Four, Five and Six entrench concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments and of the states in relationship to the federal government. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it. - [|Wikipedia]

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

U.S. government sources

 * [|Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States] : Annotated constitution, with descriptions of important cases (official publication of U.S. Senate)
 * [|Constitution and related resources] : Library of Congress
 * [|The National Archives Experience: High Resolution Downloads of the Charters of Freedom]

Non-governmental sources

 * [|Audio reading] of the Constitution in [|MP3] format provided by the [|University of Chicago Law School]
 * [|Mobile friendly] version of the Constitution
 * [|National Constitution Center]

Quotes
Have you even read the United States constitution? - Khizr Khan

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Recommended Listening
[|The Origin of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution] - The Bill of Rights Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution. How did they come into being? 12:00 This made perfect sense to Alexander Hamilton

[|Magna Carta & the American Constitution]
 [|LibraryOfCongress] For the Library's annual Constitution Day lecture, Akhil Reed Amar discussed Magna Carta and its historical connection to the U.S. Constitution. 