A celebration and rediscovery of the origin and meaning of the United States Constitution and what has happened to it during the past 233 years, expressed in a simple straightforward language. HOME | THE EDITORS | THE FOUNDERS' PRINCIPLES | ENDORSEMENTS | ORDER HERE W. David Stedman W. David Stedman is the retired Chairman of Stedman Corporation. He was one of the founders of the National Center for America's Founding Documents and the National Foundation for the Study of Religion and Economics. He has served on the boards of the National Center for Constitutional Studies and the Center for Judicial Studies. David Stedman and LaVaughn G. Lewis are Co-Editors of this volume and also of Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty. He has been a frequent lecturer on topics relating to the Constitution and to America's free enterprise system, as well as the role of the "business statesman" in preserving that system. He holds earned degrees from Duke, Harvard, and Georgetown Universities. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Duke University. LaVaughn G. Lewis La Vaughn G. Lewis, a graduate of Pfeiffer University and former high school teacher, joined Stedman Corporation in 1959, became Assistant to the Chairman and later, Vice President of Stedman Foundation. Among other duties, she was researcher and writer for the Corporation's Government Affairs and Free Enterprise Education Program, creating radio messages, full-page magazine ads and was speechwriter for the Chairman. As Co-Editor of Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty and Our Ageless Constitution, her essays and writings appear throughout, including the title essay and The Story of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the essay on Page 51 exploring the spirit of 1776 and 1787. She coordinated the Our Ageless Constitution project with the scholars identified in Acknowledgements and collected the historical writings for Part VIII before such writings became available on the worldwide web. Edward B. Hagy, Jr. Edward B Hagy, Jr. has had many years of experience in advertising, graphic designs and art illustration. His work has been published and used in trade and consumer magazines, and book publishing. He undertook a great responsibility in designing the layout and detail of Our Ageless Constitution, for each layout and each illustration was to carry a special meaning with the subject at hand. Of special note is that each portrait of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution was done by him expressly for this book. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. This book is dedicated to all those citizens who understand that eternal viligance, and sometimes personal sacrifice, is still the price of freedom and that without the vigorous pursuit of this individual responsibility of citizenship, even Americans will not forever remain a free people. It is also dedicated to all those citizens who have not yet considered these things, in the hope that they will be inspired.