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Imagine a time before the airplane when a handful of inventors wanted to satisfy a desire to fly. They were trying various approaches to creating a flying machine. Many things were tried. Some were partially successful and some were failures with unintended results. Then new concepts were grasped that solved many of the shortcomings of what had come before and airplanes were the first truly successful flying machines. Designing the Constitution of the United States was such an endeavor. Americans sought a form of government that would provide security, stability, and protection of our inalienable rights. America's constitution was not the first. Earlier constitutions had some success. Indeed, England's constitution was the model of the day. But all had flaws that Americans wanted to avoid. The Constitution of the United States was designed with new political concepts which made it the most successful and most stable government foundation from its beginnings to this day. This portal is the place to assign categories and pages about our Constitution.

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