Founding Documents: The Constitution
Civics 101
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The Amendment Clause of the Constitution of the United States
The preamble makes it clear that the power that is the people is then used to ordain the Constitution. That's why the President, the Congress, the Supreme Court, any federal and state officer takes an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. The amendment clause itself is a built-in acknowledgment that words and ideas of 1787 may not apply to 1887 or 1987. Those first three words, the most important words in the Constitution really, we, the people.
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