CONSTITUTION

a system of fundamental principles or rules according to which a nation, state or group is governed. —Freedom Congress Glossary (approved 5-9-90)

short for the Constitution of the United States: the fundamental law of the United States, composed in 1787 by the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia and attended by representatives of each of the former Colonies. It went into effect March 4, 1789. See also Colonies in this glossary. Ages after they passed their Constitution, they found out they had to have these Bill of Rights. And they sort of looked it over and they changed the status of the president and they changed this and they changed that.

short for the Constitution of the United States: the fundamental law of the United States, composed in 1787 by the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia and attended by representatives of each of the former Colonies. It went into effect March 4, 1789. See also Colonies in this glossary. Ages after they passed their Constitution, they found out they had to have these Bill of Rights. And they sort of looked it over and they changed the status of the president and they changed this and they changed that.

a system of fundamental principles or rules according to which a nation, state or group is governed.a system of fundamental principles or rules according to which a nation, state or group is governed. Women are all free and the men are all free and everybody's all free and they've got a constitution they can't even read. -Definition of Control (4 July 1957)