| rdfs:comment | - Disclaimer. British subjects are not supposed to understand this article. We know you think having 50 different sets of state laws is untidy. And that all-you-can-eat buffets are self-indulgent and unnecessary. A better article for you to read is here.
- Some conservatives believe that the Constitution should be followed strictly and should not be changed, as if its original version is infallible. This same dogmatic mentality is used with Christianity and the Bible. Liberals view the Constitution as a guideline which the Founding Fathers created on which the government should be based. It is in no way perfect or infallible. If the Constitution, and society at large can be improved, it should be improved. Society should be governed by the living, not by the dead.
- Below is the text of the Constitution of the United States of America.
- In the Book of Mormon, prophets predicted that America would be a nation wherein no kings would rule (2 Nephi 10:11-14). The people who would possess the land would be "free from bondage and from captivity, and from all other nations (Ether 2:12). The Gentiles were to be "established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father" (3 Nephi 21:4). This, so that the Book of Mormon could come forth and the Lord's church be established. "And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood" (Doctrine and Covenants 101:80; 109:54).
- The Constitution of the United States is a miscellaneous item which was cut from the final version of the Fallout 3 add-on, Point Lookout. It is one of the items displayed at the Capitol Preservation Society in Rivet City.
- The Constitution of the United States was a historical legal document from Earth history. This document was the supreme law of the United States of America. Laws pertaining to the Human rights of the accused were enumerated in this document. It was one of multiple legal authorities cited by Attorney-at-Law Samuel T. Cogley at Captain Kirk's general court martial in 2267. (TOS: "Court Martial" ) The Yangs of planet Omega IV were apparently descended from a parallel United States, and carried an original copy of the Constitution with them, which they considered the holiest of holy words.
- The Constitution of the United States — sometimes styled United States Constitution or, formally, the Constitution of the United States of America — was the foundational document of the government of the United States of America. It was a major point of contention during the American Civil War because it had legalised slavery in only the southernmost states of the country. The people of South Carolina felt the government of the United States had "frequently violate[d]" the Constitution, especially on the issue of slavery. Therefore, they laid out in the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union the specifics of their belief that the Federal Government had violated the Constitution, justifying their secession from the
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| abstract | - The Constitution of the United States is a miscellaneous item which was cut from the final version of the Fallout 3 add-on, Point Lookout. It is one of the items displayed at the Capitol Preservation Society in Rivet City. According to the error-ridden description in the Society's computer, the Constitution of the United States was drafted in 1786 and adopted a year later by the Constitutional Convention of Philly. This document defines the organization of the U.S. government and sets forth the rules and regulations, known as articles. In addition, there are modifications made the to the articles by ruling Presidents during their reigns known as amendments.
- Disclaimer. British subjects are not supposed to understand this article. We know you think having 50 different sets of state laws is untidy. And that all-you-can-eat buffets are self-indulgent and unnecessary. A better article for you to read is here.
- Some conservatives believe that the Constitution should be followed strictly and should not be changed, as if its original version is infallible. This same dogmatic mentality is used with Christianity and the Bible. Liberals view the Constitution as a guideline which the Founding Fathers created on which the government should be based. It is in no way perfect or infallible. If the Constitution, and society at large can be improved, it should be improved. Society should be governed by the living, not by the dead.
- Below is the text of the Constitution of the United States of America.
- The Constitution of the United States was a historical legal document from Earth history. This document was the supreme law of the United States of America. Laws pertaining to the Human rights of the accused were enumerated in this document. It was one of multiple legal authorities cited by Attorney-at-Law Samuel T. Cogley at Captain Kirk's general court martial in 2267. (TOS: "Court Martial" ) The Yangs of planet Omega IV were apparently descended from a parallel United States, and carried an original copy of the Constitution with them, which they considered the holiest of holy words. Captain James T. Kirk impressed their tribal elders with an impassioned, memorized recital of its preamble, explaining that while throughout the galaxy, many documents are equally good and as well-respected, none says its "thing of importance" in quite the same way. (TOS: "The Omega Glory" ) "The Omega Glory" made it clear that the war on Omega IV occurred generations ago, and post war the lifespan lengthened to about a thousand years. This placed the war well before 1200 AD, meaning that Omega IV had the United States, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Constitution several centuries before Earth.
- The Constitution of the United States — sometimes styled United States Constitution or, formally, the Constitution of the United States of America — was the foundational document of the government of the United States of America. It was a major point of contention during the American Civil War because it had legalised slavery in only the southernmost states of the country. The people of South Carolina felt the government of the United States had "frequently violate[d]" the Constitution, especially on the issue of slavery. Therefore, they laid out in the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union the specifics of their belief that the Federal Government had violated the Constitution, justifying their secession from the Union. (PROSE: Blood and Hope) The Constitution could be amended and some of those amendments had to do with personal civil liberties. Rapist and murderer Oswald Danes, for instance, once argued that the state of Kentucky was abridging his Fifth and Eighth Amendment rights by keeping him imprisoned after the state failed to execute him on Miracle Day. (TV: The New World)
- In the Book of Mormon, prophets predicted that America would be a nation wherein no kings would rule (2 Nephi 10:11-14). The people who would possess the land would be "free from bondage and from captivity, and from all other nations (Ether 2:12). The Gentiles were to be "established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father" (3 Nephi 21:4). This, so that the Book of Mormon could come forth and the Lord's church be established. "And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood" (Doctrine and Covenants 101:80; 109:54). The Prophet Joseph Smith said, "The constitution of the United States is a glorious standard. It is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun. We say that God is true; that the constitution of the United States is true; that the Bible is true; that the Book of Mormon is true; that the Book of Covenants is true; that Christ is true; that the ministering angels sent forth from God are true, and that we know that we have an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, whose builder and maker is God." Said the Prophet Ezra Taft Benson: ...we honor more than those who brought forth the Constitution. We honor the Lord who revealed it. God Himself has borne witness to the fact that He is pleased with the final product of the work of these great patriots. In a revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith on August 6, 1833, the Savior admonished: “I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land” (Doctrine and Covenants 98:6). I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed His stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. I testify that the God of heaven sent some of His choicest spirits to lay the foundation of this government, and He has sent other choice spirits—even you who read my words—to preserve it. Said the Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley: The Constitution under which we live, and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is our God-inspired national safeguard ensuring freedom and liberty, justice and equality before the law. And from Apostle Dallin H. Oaks: The United States Constitution was the first written constitution in the world. It has served Americans well, enhancing freedom and prosperity during the changed conditions of more than two hundred years. Frequently copied, it has become the United States’ most important export. After two centuries, every nation in the world except six have adopted written constitutions, and the U.S. Constitution was a model for all of them. No wonder modern revelation says that God established the U.S. Constitution and that it “should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles” (Doctrine and Covenants 101:77). George Washington was perhaps the first to use the word miracle in describing the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. In a 1788 letter to Lafayette, he said: It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states (which states you know are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances, and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well-founded objections.” The success of the convention was attributable in large part to the remarkable intelligence, wisdom, and unselfishness of the delegates. As James Madison wrote in the preface to his notes on the Constitutional Convention: There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.” Reverence for the United States Constitution is so great that sometimes individuals speak as if its every word and phrase had the same standing as scripture. Personally, I have never considered it necessary to defend every line of the Constitution as scriptural. For example, I find nothing scriptural in the compromise on slavery or the minimum age or years of citizenship for congressmen, senators, or the president. As President J. Reuben Clark said, we believe it must grow and develop to meet the changing needs of an advancing world. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention achieved the required balance between popular sovereignty and stability through a power of amendment that was ultimately available but deliberately slow. Only in this way could the government have the certainty of stability, the protection of minority rights, and the potential of change, all at the same time.
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