"I just love them," said Alice.
The Red Knight took out a large document printed on heavy parchment. At the top was an eagle with outstretched wings, and Alice could read the first line. "We, the people of the United States, in order—" Borrowing Alice's scissors, he snipped the paper up in little bands and squares. These he first threw up in the air. Then he ran them through his fingers. Then he crumpled them up, threw them on the floor and jumped upon them.
"Change and exercise are good for the Constitution, you know," said the Comic Editor.
Alice looked calmly at the Comic Editor and set to work arranging the fragments. But the task was quite beyond her. "I'm afraid you'll have to do it yourself," she said.
"It's very simple," said the Red Knight. He took the pieces and deftly put them together, putting Article XII first and Article VII next, and so on. "Now, here's a sample of the way it should look," he said, and Alice noticed that the typography had changed very oddly. She read as follows:
We, the people of the UnIted States, In order to form a more perfect unIon, establIsh justIce, Insure domestIc tranquIlIty, provIde for the common defense, 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.
"It seems to be nothing but capital I's," said Alice. "The rest you can hardly read."
"That is the letter of the Constitution," said the Red Knight. "I have always been faithful to it, and always will be."
"But you can't make a Constitution out of a single letter," insisted Alice.