Happy Constitution Day

On this day, 233 years ago, a most important and revolutionary document was signed... 

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.

The preamble starts off with perhaps the most important, and then controversial, words in history: we the people. 

We are not a ruled country. We elect representatives, and they are beholden to us, the people. We are united, but we are also residents of states, rather than one homogeneous nation. We are obligated under the constitution we are pledged to, as citizens, to see to the provisions of the preamble: justice, tranquility in our nation, defense of that nation to ensure the tranquility remains stable, seeing to the welfare of our fellow me, and above all... 

Liberty

We are a free people. And that is what we promise our children, as long as we call ourselves the United States of America. 

When was the last time you read the founding document we live under? Today is a good day for that.