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The Constitution of September 17, 1787 contains one Preamble and seven Articles. The phrase “this Constitutionâ€Â appears at least once in the Preamble and in each of the seven Articles. The phrase “this Constitution†appears twice in Article V and three times in Article VI for a total of eleven times in the entire Constitution of September 17, 1787 and the Preamble.
“This Constitution†is the May 25, 1787 Constitutional Convention’s Committee of Style’s way of explaining that the Constitution of September 17, 1787 is not the Federal Constitution, the no laws no taxes Constitution. In other words, “this Constitution†is of these entities: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers…” If you pay property taxes where you live, Article I Section 2 Clause 3 is the real source of that tax, so wouldn’t you like to swap “this Constitution†for the Federal Constitution.
“This Constitution,â€Â provides in Article VII that “The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.†Ratification is the confirmation of what was done by the delegates to the secret May 25, 1787 Constitutional Convention and all that was a revision of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777.
“This Constitution†began as a revision of the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, succeeded at that, but failed as a Constitution, as far as the people are concerned, when no Officers of government would adopt it. It has survived as the Constitution of the United States, because the United States is just another name for the territory and other property belonging to the only real government in America, the United States of America.
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