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The current Illinois constitution was adopted on December 15, 1970. This is also the fourth constitution after 100 years of adopting the third constitution in 1870.
The US Constitution.
the constitution
The Constitution produced a document that has governed America for more than 200 years.
1787
As originally written and ratified, the Constitution of the United States consists of 4618 words (including signatures) arranged into seven articles. There have been 27 amendments to the original document. By convention, when the Constitution is amended, the text of the document is not deleted or altered, it simply ceases to have legal effect.
The English Bill of Rights
The Constitution.
In 1987, the constitution was 200 years old. It was signed in 1787.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to our constitution. They were introduced in 1789 and adopted in 1791. The Constitution itself was adopted two years earlier in 1787 and began the ratification process then. It replaced the Articles of Confederation.
It is not! It a document that was created over 200 years a go by the founding fathers, that was the guide to the laws in this land
Independence Hall in Philadelphia was the meeting place for the Second Continental Congress, which governed the new nation-to-be from 1775 to 1783, the whole Revolutionary War period. The details of the Declaration of Independence were hammered out here and was adopted by the Congress on July 4, 1776. Five years later, the Articles of Confederation were adopted. The document that was actually written in Independence Hall, however, was the U. S. Constitution in 1787.