The Constitution starts with "We the People." But what does that mean? Learn more through interviews featured in CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal.

Decades ago, Schoolhouse Rock made it easy for an entire generation to memorize the preamble to the Constitution – that famous refrain that begins with “We the people. . .” Years later ...

News; Nation; We the People: The founders created a Constitution that could be changed, but not easily Jan. 30, 2022 Updated Mon., Jan. 31, 2022 at 12:22 p.m. An estimated 10,000 demonstrators ...

Leaders from the new states gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to amend the articles, but instead threw them out and drafted a new plan, the U.S. Constitution, of which the first three words “We ...

This Constitution Day, James Wilson’s Insistence That ‘We the People’ Are the Bedrock of ‘Lawful Government’ Resonates Anew. ... After all, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were ...

I don’t think we can ever know what the people in 1787 thought the Constitution should mean. Even if we knew what they thought, it has so little relevance to today. If we were truly originalists ...

The first three words in the Constitution are the most powerful: We the People. They declare that the Constitution derives its power not from a king or a Congress, but from the people themselves.