Indigenous Governance Database

United States of America Constitution

Year

Location: North America

Population: 314 million

Form of Government: Representative Democracy

Date of Constitution: 1789, amended most recently in 1992

Key Facts: the Constitution is not the original governing document for the U.S.; it was adopted when the Articles of Confederation proved unwieldy.

constitution
legal infrastructure
federal government
Native Nations
National
Resource Type
Constitutions and Constitutions Excerpts
Topics
Constitutions
Citation

United States of America. 1789. "The Constitution of the United States of America." Washington, D.C.

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