The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally inc
Page one of Jacob Shallus' officially engrossed copy of the Constitution signed in Philadelphia by delegates of the Constitutional Convention in 1787
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787, a 1940 portrait by Howard Chandler Christy depicting the signing of the Constitution in Philadelphia
"We the People" in its original edition
The signatures in the closing endorsement section of the United States Constitution
Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. Under Article Three, the judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court of the United Sta
Secretary of State James Madison, who won Marbury v. Madison, but lost judicial review
A nineteenth-century painting of a jury
Iva Toguri (pictured), known as Tokyo Rose, and Tomoya Kawakita were two Japanese Americans who were tried for treason after World War II.