> the constitution isn't a founding document. There was that whole Articles of Confederation thing. This isn't a nitpick, this is simply irrational. The Articl

> the constitution isn't a founding document. There was that whole Articles of Confederation thing. This isn't a nitpick, this is simply irrational. The Articles of Confederation were the founding document of an institution called the "league of friendship," and although the Constitution inherits ideas from the Articles, they have no legal bearing on the latter. They're out of scope. Meanwhile, the Constitution literally constitutes the foundations of an institution called "the U.S. federal government" which, discounting some rather academic Theseus' Ship arguments, is what governs us, today. The constitution was no the first document written on this continent, but it is the last document in which we've invested our collective institution-reifying intention at the national level.