Constitution, United States

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1. A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. It was drafted by the Constitutional Convention and later supplemented by the Bill of Rights and other amendments. (See Preamble to the Constitution.)

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Example Sentences

Constitution, United States frigate, captures L'Insurgente, 101; captures the Guerrière, 215; captures the Java, 216.

From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen

Constitution, United States frigate, sinks the Guerrière, 159.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Of those which had been authorized, the frigates Constitution, United States, and Constellation were under way and were eventually completed.

From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Ford, Henry Jones