The United States Constitution which was completed on September 17, 1787 with its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later ratified by special conventions in each state is the supreme law of the United States of America. It created a federal government to operate that union, and also a federal union of sovereign states. It replaced the less defined union that had existed under the Articles of Confederation. The United States Constitution took …showed first 75 words of 871 total…

…showed last 75 words of 871 total…completed on December 15, 1791, when Virginia ratified the ten amendments that would become the Bill of Rights. This amendment was key an assuring the people of the United States of Americas rights. In conclusion the process that was developed by our forefathers who wrote the constitution show how well it was written in that they looked far enough ahead to see that changes could perhaps have to be placed on the constitution due to further circumstances.