A framework for government.
There are 27 amendemnts in the Constituitons.
ratification of the amendment requires three fourths of the states to ratify.
There are 27 and the first 10 make up the bill of rights.
June 25, 1788 was the date that Virginia ratified the U. S. Constitution. New York ratified it on June 26, 1788.
The constitution is a document declaring certain rules and regulations set for the governing body by our ancestors this document however no longer keeps the governing body at bay from stealing, killing, enslaving or raping the masses of anything and everything we worked hard and died for including our freedom.
Article IV, Section. 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence."
The Supreme Cour recognized tha burning the American flag is an exrecise of our freedom of speech. In the case of the State of Texas vs Johnson. They said that he could not be arrested for it because under the 1st amendment of the constituiton it was considered symbolic speech and therefore protected.
there are three distinct types of delegated powers: expressed, implied, & , inherent. 1st the expressed power are delegated to the national government in so manny words spelled out expressly in the constitution. 2nd the limplied are not expressly stated in the constituiton but are reasonably suggested implied by the expressed powers. 3rd the inherent belongs to the national government because it is the national government of a sovereign state in the world community.