It seems to have been imagined by some that the returning to the mass of the people was degrading the magistrate. This he thought was contrary to republican principles. In free Governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors & sovereigns. For the former therefore to return among the latter was not to degrade but to promote them- and it would be imposing an unreasonable burden on them, to keep them always in a State of servitude, and not allow them to become again one of the Masters.

After wrestling with Drupal themes and design and finally coming up with a layout that is somewhat attractive, the goal is to populate the site with some content.  Currently, we are working on the development of the Preamble.  You can find the Preamble information at http://www.usconlaw.com/content/preamble.

The goal of this project is to link the Constitution, its amendments and its primary source material in a flexible setting, enabling users to identify the pertinent primary source materials that lie behind any section of this governing document.  Instead of using a traditional methodology in which the Constitution is considered as a whole document and indexed, this project will use Drupal, an open source CMS, to attach the source material to specific articles and sections of the Constitution.   Source material will be tagged with selected terms from structured taxonomies