The Constitution For The United States of America is a contract or compact.

It constituted by the People of America for the benefit of the people. 

Who are the parties to the Constitution?

We the People of the United States of America are the creators, we ordained the federal and state governments.  An Assembly of We the People wrote the parchment for the United States of America.  The Assembly of We the People offered the document to the people of the several states for ratification. Upon the ratification of two or more states, the compact became active.

Remember what John Adams told us ?

“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think. . . . Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”

“The prospect now before us in America ought . . . to engage the attention of every person of learning to matters of power and right, that we may be neither led nor driven blindfolded to irretrievable destruction.”

The Declaration of Independence is the document that establishes who has dominion over Government and by what authority. 

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation”.