We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect ... Committee of Style actually drafted the near-final text of the Constitution, composed it at the last moment.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by ... Hamilton observed of the unamended constitutional text in The Federalist No. 84: “Here, in strictness ...

Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in ...