“The Constitution is to the American people a possession for the ages.”
“In America, a new people had risen up without king, or princes, or nobles….By calm meditation and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which, in the union of freedom with strength and order, excelled every one known before; and which secured itself against violence and revolution by providing a peaceful method for every needed reform. In the happy morning of their existence as one of the powers of the world, they had chosen Justice as their guide.”
Written in 1886 By historian George Bancroft
Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)