We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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 purpose of the update is to provide consistent learning material for grammar. There is nothing much to notice for a difference, meaning and sense being all the same as approved in 1789. Can you see the difference in the preamble above?
The Constitution is a “syntax bonanza”, that is, an exceptionally rich resource. We only cannot have language forms that are hundreds of years aged, to learn the language as it is today.
It has been about 230 years, since the Constitution was written, yet we can update the language form, especially if we want to learn the language.
All forms of grammar in my update are evidenced internally, that is, we can see them in US civics as written up until today. The ■Grammar Weblog has more.
Resources
Proofreading, transcription, and linguistic update: Teresa Pelka, 2017;
The civics linguistically updated text is under ■Creative Commons License 0, no rights reserved.
The Constitution, sources:
National Archives, ■The Constitution,
The Library of Congress, ■John Carter print,
US Senate, ■Constitution of the United States.
Downloads, original document facsimiles:
■Constitution Parchment Page 1, Constitution Parchment Page 2, Constitution Parchment Page 3, Constitution Parchment Page 4 ,
■John Carter Print Page 1, John Carter Print Page 2.
Amendments, sources:
National Archives, ■The Bill of Rights,
US Senate, ■Constitution of the United States.
Downloads, original document facsimiles:
BILL OF RIGHTS, AMENDMENT XI, AMENDMENT XII, AMENDMENT XIII, AMENDMENT XIV PAGE 1, AMENDMENT XIV PAGE2, AMENDMENT XV, AMENDMENT XVI, AMENDMENT XVII, AMENDMENT XVIII, AMENDMENT XIX, AMENDMENT XX PAGE 1, AMENDMENT XX PAGE 2, AMENDMENT XXI, AMENDMENT XXII, AMENDMENT XXIII, AMENDMENT XXIV, AMENDMENT XXV PAGE 1, AMENDMENT XXV PAGE 2, AMENDMENT XXVI, AMENDMENT XXVII PAGE 1, AMENDMENT XXVII PAGE 2, AMENDMENT XXVII PAGE 3.
