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OCR Page 1 of 11SPEECH DELIVERED BY UNITED STATES SENATOR HARRY
S. TRUMAN OF MISSOURI AT LIBERTY,
MISSOURI, OCTOBER 11, 1937
It is a very great privilege to appear before the Clay
County Historical Society to talk to you a little while about
the Constitution. We cannot know too much about it, or talk too
much about it, yet it is a very simple, very flexible document.
It was written by a very remarkable gathering of men, at Phila-
delphia in 1787.
The country then consisted of thirteen independent States,
with a population of about 4,000,000 people. The largest city
in the country was Philadelphia with 42,000 people, New York had
33,000, Boston 18,000, Charleston, South Carolina 16,000 and
Richmond 3,700.
The framers of the Constitution couldn't possibly have
forseen a nation of 130,000,000 of people, extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf, yet the
instrument of Government which they drew, is as good today as
when it was drawn. The reason--simplicity and flexibility.
The Preamble is a masterpiece. (Read the Preamble)
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America".
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