Constitution of the United States of America

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later ratified by conventions in each state in the name of "the People"; it has since been amended twenty-seven times. The Constitution has a central place in American law and political culture.

United States Constitution in The Disunited States of America
In one alternate, the United States never adopted the Constitution. In the early 19th century, the Union ceased to exist.

United States Constitution in Southern Victory
In the Remembrance culture, the United States Constitution and the freedoms it protected were suborned by the United States' driving need to defeat the Confederate States. After the Great War, the country retreated some from the more authoritarian tendencies of Remembrance.

The Confederate Constitution was heavily based upon the US one, often quoting verbatim from the older document.

United States Constitution in "Must and Shall"
After the Great Rebellion, the United States Constitution was amended to prevent the descendents of the former rebels from enjoying full citizenship in the US.

United States Constitution in Worldwar
The Race did not fully appreciate the functionality of United States Constitution. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Fleetlord Atvar gloated that the US would collapse shortly after. Instead, the line of succession in the Constitution permitted Secretary of State Cordell Hull to take the oath of office (Vice President Henry Wallace had been killed in action the previous year).