Constitution 223 Years Old Today

Today is Constitution Day. Two-hundred twenty-three years ago today, a group of politicians in Philadelphia published a plan to create a federal government for the United States. Until that time the country had been governed by separate state governments and an extremely weak Congress. The Constitution, ratified and enacted during the next two years, established the government we know and love today. Politicians from all points on the ideological spectrum hail the Constitution as a beacon to be eternally followed and never compromised, but they rarely mention why. Why we need a government to adhere to a set of rules and why we need to vigilantly defend it/ Jeff Reznicek , UI Argonaut. More here .

Question: What’s the U.S. Constitution mean to you?