Constitution, United States

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.)

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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In this battle the crews on both sides behaved with equal bravery, and left nothing to be desired in this respect; but from their rawness they of course showed far less skill than the crews of most of the American and some of the British ocean cruisers, such as the Constitution, United States, or Shannon, the Hornet, Wasp, or Reindeer, Lieut.

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