Above you said: Constitution for the United States of America and made a link.
However, have you ever seen the original Constitution?
Yes.
What is the title of the original Constitution?
There is no Title line on the original Constitution.
Is it not "The Constitution of the United States of America"?
No that is a label applied by news outlets of the day, and in speaking of it.
What is the distinction between of and for?
The "of" reference does not exist in the Constitution, "for" does.
I take the reference from the Preamble as the only identification of the document in the actual Constitution.
Incidentally, I looked for a picture of the original Constitution which also included the title, but I couldn't find one. Perhaps you or someone else out there knows where one is and can provide a url for such???
You will never find one for there is no "Title" line on the document.
Go here for a picture of the the Constituion as it really is.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/conmain.html
Sorry No TITLE line containing "of".
Perhaps James Madisons discription of the Operation of the Government under the Constitution may cause you to think abit more about what the individual citizen's relationship is intended to be by the founders with respect to the National govenment ordained & established under the Constitution.
I do believe you may have been taking the descriptions of the government established under the Articles of Conferederation as being applicable to the Constitution and the government established there under.
The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation and instituted a profound change in the intended operation of goverment.
James Madison, Federalist #39:
- "The difference between a federal and national government, as it relates to the OPERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT, is supposed to consist in this, that in the former the powers operate on the political bodies composing the Confederacy, in their political capacities; in the latter, on the individual citizens composing the nation, in their individual capacities. On trying the Constitution by this criterion, it falls under the NATIONAL, not the FEDERAL character;"
James Madison, Federalist #45:
- "The change relating to taxation may be regarded as the most important; and yet the present [Continental] sic Congress have as complete authority to REQUIRE of the States indefinite supplies of money for the common defense and general welfare, as the future [Constitutional] Congress will have to require them of individual citizens;
The Constitution was ratified with the above clearly stated intent foremost in knowledge and debates of the ratification assemblies and voters at large.