NEW
PUBLICATION
U.S.
Department of State: Electronic Journal The U.S. & NATO
: An Alliance of Purpose 
The NATO Alliance is today, as it has been since its
founding 55 years ago, a unique and invaluable organization.
It is, as NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has
said, "a place where North America and Europe come
together to discuss the most serious political issues on our
agenda. It is where the countries that share most profoundly
our common values agree on common action. And it is the
platform for the most effective militaries in the world to
defend our security, our values, and our interests, wherever
required, together."When the 26 members of the
Transatlantic Alliance meet June 28-29 in Istanbul, they will
continue the transformational dialogue begun two years before
in Prague and seek profound cooperation to meet the security
challenges of this age. This
issue of U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda examines the newly
expanded NATO Alliance through a range of perspectives in
articles, commentary, and references from national security
experts within the administration, the Congress, and the
public research and academic sectors.
About
America: The Constitution of the United States of America With
Explanatory Notes
 This
illustrated publication includes the complete text of the U.S.
Constitution (preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments), as
well an updated introduction and explanatory notes by J.W.
Peltason, author of Understanding the Constitution and
Government by the People. The introduction includes sections
explaining how the Constitution set up the U.S. federal
system, the background to the Constitutional Convention and
how the participants arrived at a final version of the
document, its ratification, and sections on the call for a
Bill of Rights and the need for additional amendments over the
years. |
