Script for Me

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

These words started, what many believe to be, one of the greatest documents of all time. The Constitution was conceived by 55 delegates, at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, in Philadelphia. They were there to redo the old government or make a new one. What started out as reform turned into a revolution that would forever change America.

The old government, The Articles of Confederation, had become outdated, and didn’t provide enough stability for the newly formed nation. The Articles of Confederation gave absolute power to the states, and had no central government. America