Устав Сједињених Америчких Држава — разлика између измена

Устав је до данас на снази, а састоји се из [[Преамбула|преамбуле]] и седам великих чланова или [[параграф]]а. Допуњен је са 27 [[амандман]]а,<ref>{{cite book |author= [United States Senate |author-link = United States Senate |title= The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation |chapter= Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America |url= http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/pdf/GPO-CONAN-1992-7.pdf |format= PDF |year= 1992 |publisher= U.S. Government Printing Office |page= 25 n.2 |isbn= 9780160632686}}</ref> да би се задовољиле потребе нације која се драстично променила од осамнаестог века.<ref name=senategov>{{cite web|title=Constitution Day |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/ConstitutionDay.htm |website=Senate.gov|publisher=United States Senate|accessdate=September 10, 2016}}</ref> Првих десет амандмана чини [[Повеља о правима (Сједињене Америчке Државе)|Повеља о правима]] ({{Јез-енгл|Bill of Rights}}).<ref>{{cite web |last= Ritchie |first= Donald |title= Bill of Rights |url= http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/term/bill-of-rights |work= Annenberg Classroom – Glossary |publisher= Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania |accessdate= September 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first= Gordon |last= Lloyd |title= Introduction to the Bill of Rights |url= http://teachingamericanhistory.org/bor/bor-intro/ |website= TeachingAmericanHistory.org |publisher=The Ashbrook Center at Ashland University |accessdate= September 21, 2014 }}</ref> Устав је увек био радо читан од стране обичних грађана због краткоће и ретке јасноће излагања.

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last1= Adler |first1= Mortimer |authorlink= Mortimer J. Adler |last2= Gorman |first2= William |lastauthoramp= yes |title= The American Testament: for the Institute for Philosophical Research and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies |publisher= Praeger |location= New York |year= 1975 |isbn= 978-0-275-34060-5 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Billias |first= George |authorlink= George Athan Billias |title= American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective |publisher= New York University Press |location= New York |year= 2009 |isbn= 978-0-8147-9107-3 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Bowen |first= Catherine |authorlink= Catherine Drinker Bowen |title= [[Miracle at Philadelphia|Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787]] |publisher= Little, Brown |location= New York |year= 2010 |origyear= First published 1966 |isbn= 978-0-316-10261-2 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Farber |first= Daniel |authorlink= Daniel A. Farber |title= Lincoln's Constitution |publisher= University of Chicago Press |location= Chicago |year= 2003 |isbn= 978-0-226-23793-0 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Maier |first= Pauline |authorlink= Pauline Maier |title= Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 |publisher= Simon & Schuster |location= New York |year= 2010 |isbn= 978-0-684-86854-7 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Qing Yu |first= Li |editor-last= Starr |editor-first= Joseph Barton |chapter= Dr. Sun Yat Sen and the U.S. Constitution |title= The United States Constitution: Its Birth, Growth, and Influence in Asia |publisher= Hong Kong University Press |location= Hong Kong |year= 1988 |isbn= 978-962-209-201-3 }}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |editor-last= Stacy |editor-first= Lee |title= Mexico and the United States |volume= vol. 2 |publisher= Marshall Cavendish |location= London |year= 2003 |isbn= 978-0-7614-7402-9}}

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= Wood |first= Gordon |authorlink= Gordon S. Wood |title= The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 |publisher= University of North Carolina Press |location= Chapel Hill |year= 1998 |isbn= 978-0-8078-4723-7 }}

* {{cite book |editor-last= Bailyn |editor-first= Bernard |title= The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle for Ratification |volume= Part Two: January to August 1788 |publisher= The Library of America |year= 1993 |isbnid=ISBN 0-940450-64-X}}

* {{cite book |editor-last= Kaminski |editor-first= John P. |title= Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, 1976- |volume= Published volumes 1–10, 13–23, forthcoming volumes 11–12, 24–29. Most recent volume: ''The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Vol. 23, Ratification by the States: New York, No. 5''|isbn= 978-0-87020-439-5 |location= Madison |publisher= The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, |url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ratification |editor2-first= Gaspare J. |editor2-last= Saladino |editor3-first= Richard |editor3-last= Leffler |editor4-first= Charles H. |editor4-last= Schoenleber |editor5-first= Margaret A. |editor5-last= Hogan |lastauthoramp= yes}}

* {{cite book |last= Klos |first= Stanley L. |authorlink= Stanley L. Klos |title= President Who? Forgotten Founders |publisher= Evisum |location= Pittsburgh, PA |page= 261 |year= 2004 |isbnid=ISBN 0-9752627-5-0|pages= 261 }}

* {{cite book |editor1-last= Kurland |editor1-first= Philip B. |editor2-last= Lerner |editor2-first= Ralph |lastauthoramp= yes |title= The Founders' Constitution |publisher= University of Chicago Press and the Liberty Fund |isbnid=ISBN 0-86597-279-6 |postscript= ;}} The work consists of "extracts from the leading works of political theory, history, law, and constitutional argument on which the Framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced".

* {{cite book |ref= harv |last= McDonald |first= Forrest |authorlink= Forrest McDonald |title= Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution |publisher= University Press of Kansas |location= Lawrence |year= 1985 |isbn= 978-0-7006-0311-4 }}