Yes; the Main body of the Constitution was adopted in 1789; Wikipedia give a fairly decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite..._Bill_of_Rights

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Western Front
Artois: Marwitz takes over German Second Army from Gallwitz (until September 22, 1918) who goes to Fifth Army at Verdun.
Battle of Verdun: French offensive continues and succeeds in taking minor parts of Caurieres Wood and Bezon-Vaux.
German counter-attack near Verdun; they recover Les Chambrettes.
British prisoners taken to prisoner of war camps by German soldiers: http://imgur.com/ULBL8EY

Eastern Front
Fighting continues in the Tarnopol region; Romanians and Russians continue to fall back.
Dobruja: Bulgars break through, causing chaos; 1 st Cossack Division’s radio station with cipher code captured, new code from December 21 no more secret.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Strong Turkish cavalry attacks checked south of Falahiya (Kut).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Fighting at Kibata continues.

Political, etc.
Germany: A postcard from Chicago was flown in an aeroplane to New York, where it traveled by U-Boat to Germany, and it has now arrived in Berlin.
German government: “Germany will never give up Alsace and Lorraine while there is a German living.”
Germany reports it seized 60 million bushels of cereals in Romania to help alleviate food shortages in Germany.
France: General Nivelle, new French commander-in-chief: “Victory is certain: I give you assurance. Germany will learn it to her cost.”
Turkey: Government ends extra-territoriality agreements with Turkey due to her treatment of Armenians and Syrians.
Greece: Greek Government issue warrant for arrest of M. Venizelos on charge of high treason (see August 30th and September 29th, 1916 and June 26th, 1917). Athens Archbishop anathematises him on December 26.

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Western Front
Battle of Verdun: "First Offensive Battle of Verdun” ends (see October 24th, 1916 and August 20th, 1917). Fourth (French 126th Division) Zouaves recapture Les Chambrettes Farm, a fairly irrelevant success.
The standard Allied claim is: Battle of Verdun ends in a French victory. France suffered 315,000-542,000 casualties, Germans suffered 281,000-434,000 casualties. Which estimates are highly doubtful on the German side. Mangin thanks his XI Corps ‘We have the method and we have the leader [Nivelle] It gives us the certainty of success’.

Eastern Front
Romania: Surviving elements of the Romanian Army begins reorganization in order to defend the Siret (AKA Sereth) River from Central Power attacks. Mud slows German pursuit; Falkenhayn checked 30 miles west of Braila, but Braila and Galatz still threatened.
Dobruja: RNAS armored car unit leaves Tulcea by barge for transfer to Braila (8 cars arrive there on December 21).
Russian position between Kovel and Lutsk restored.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British move round Sanna-i-Yat and reach Tigris above Kut, severing Turkish lateral communications and commanding river upstream of Khadairi Bend.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: British government announces plans that it will end game preserves, as an effort to mitigate social class divisions.
Canada: Canada begins transferring 1000 miles of its own rails to France in order to facilitate movement of troops and supplies.
Italy: Italian Chamber declares solidarity with Allies.
United States: President Wilson issues Circular Note suggesting negotiations for peace (see 26th); note asks national objectives.
General Hugh L. Scott testifies to Congress that the U.S. will require 3 million trained soldiers to adequately defend the U.S.

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Eastern Front
Romania: German forces in Romani advance towards Brăila, Romania, capturing 1000 prisoners and large supplies of food and military equipment.
Dobruja: Russians in the Dobruja fall back towards Braila; eventually, the Austro-German advance from the west is checked 30 miles from Braila.

Political, etc.
Russia: Russia threatens to restrict German prisoners’ food unless Russian prisoners in Germany are allowed to receive food sent from Russia.
Germany: Postcard sent by Adolf Hitler while recovering from injuries in Munich, stating he is ready to go back to the front: http://imgur.com/tKzss7X
United Kingdom: British Government decide to:
A) institute National Service (see November 1st, 1917)
B) initiate imperial Conference (see March 20th, 1917)
C) recognise Government of M. Venizelos (see September 20th).
Lloyd George’s first speech as Prime Minister rejects peace talks without definite proposals ‘… we shall put our trust rather in an unbroken army than in broken faith’. British safe conduct for Austrian Ambassador from US.
British in Cairo meet a French request for £40,000 in gold to give Arabs.
Turkey: Halil Bey, the Ottoman Foreign Minister, says that Russian “dream” of capturing Constantinople is “fantasy.”
Greece: Greek Government protests re: Venizelist occupation of islands under Allies' “protection”.

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Western Front
Five Jasta 2 fighters (led by Richthofen) shoot or force down 5 DH2s. RFC observers engage 85 targets including destroying 3-gun anti-aircraft batteries, takes 741 photos.

Eastern Front
German Navy airships L-35 (Ehrlich) and L-38 (Dietrich) arrive at Wainoden for Operation Eisernes Kreuz (Iron Cross), a raid on Petrograd advocated since early 1915 by Grand-Admiral Prince Heinrich, C-in-C Baltic Fleet.
Romania: Russian 12th Cavalry Division reaches Odobesti 15 miles northwest of Focsani (after 450-mile ride without losing a single horse).
Galicia: Severe fighting west of Brody.

Southern Front
Fierce local encounters Cherna bend (Monastir).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turks evacuate El Arish (northern Sinai) and fall back 20 miles south-east of Magdhaba.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: British troopship Itonus is sunk by the German submarine SM U-38 off Malta, resulting in 5 crew deaths: http://imgur.com/0j816LL
East Africa: Germans retire from Nangadi (East Africa).

Political, etc.
Germany: Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg comes under sustained pressure from German Army and Navy for unlimited U-boat warfare without delay (December 20-26). Ludendorff urges immediate unrestricted U-boat war in view of Lloyd George reply.
German War Loan M 535,000,000.
United States: U.S. War Department orders 4000 Vickers machine guns for the cost of $5.5 million ($121 million today).
President Wilson's Peace Conference Note handed to Belligerents.

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Eastern Front
Romania: German advance on Brăila, Romania slows down due to overextended supply lines and resistance by Russian Cossacks.
Thousands of Romanian flee across the border into Russian Ukraine, which threatens to exacerbate the refugee problem.
Dobruja: Sakharov drives Bulgarians into Lake Babadagh south of Tulcea.
Russia: Fighting south of Dvinsk.
In the Carpathians, hand-to-hand combat occurs in dark tunnels as Russian troops attempt to attack Austro-Hungarian lines in the mountains.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Sinai: El Arish occupied by British forces (see November 15th). (1,600 Turks evacuated to Magdhaba on December 20). Royal Navy N arrives on December 22.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Two Royal Navy destroyers are sunk by collision; flotilla leader HMS Hoste and HMS Negro. At least 55 are killed.

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: V. Spitzmuller (Austria) unable to form Cabinet; Count Heinrich Clam-Martinitz appointed Austrian Premier (see 14th, and June 18th, 1917).
Russia: Germany and Russia both agree to give better treatment to their prisoners of war.
Germany: German newspaper “Tageblatt” says British demands for reparations after the war are “impossible.”
United States: President Wilson backs Germany’s peace move and suggests all the belligerent countries to state their terms.
Jewish groups in the U.S. raise $3 million at Carnegie Hall in order to aid Jewish people suffering in Europe due to the war.
Possibility of a peace in Europe causes another sell-off of stocks on Wall Street as 3.176 million shares are sold off.
Greece: Greek government protests that the Allied nations and Greek rebels are seizing Greek islands.
Allied response note demands control of communications and Venizelists‘ release. Similar conditions demanded on December 31 before blockade lifted.

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Western Front
Charles Mangin put in command of French Sixth Army, Joseph Micheler to head Reserve Army Group for 1917 spring offensive, Denis Duchene takes over latter’s Tenth Army.
Ruins of the Cathedral at Ypres: http://imgur.com/ZKywr9T* © IWM (Q 6213)

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Casin begins (until January 16, 1917): Fairly steady Austro-Hungarian advance until the Allies eventually check Archduke Joseph’s 4-division advance along three Carpathian valleys.
Dobruja: German and Bulgarian troops defeat Russian forces in Dobruja, Romania and capture 900 Russian prisoners.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British positions south of Kut consolidated; second air raid on Baghela; also on Beersheba.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British submarine HMS E.30 hits a mine in the North Sea and sinks with the death of all 30 crew: http://imgur.com/71cD6rd
Adriatic: Four Austrian destroyers raid Otranto Barrage (night December 22-23): only 1 drifter damaged but 2 French destroyers hit, 2 Italian damaged plus one in collisions.
Greece: British ships again shell mouth of Struma (Gulf of Orfano).

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar von und zu Czernin succeeds Baron Stephan Burian as Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs (see January 13th, 1915, and April 15th, 1918).
Germany: Henning von Holtzendorff memo urges unrestricted U-boat war, promises it can force England to peace table in 5 months I.e. before August 1 1917 and harvest if begun February 1.
France: French Chamber of Deputies approve new taxes on theatre and vaudeville tickets to cover the costs of war.
United Kingdom: Great Britain forms the following ministries: Food (see 26th); Shipping (see January 27th); Pensions.
New Shipping Ministry orders five types of standard merchant ship (3,000-8,000t) until April 1917.
King George V makes a speech proroguing Parliament, stating the war will go on until victory: http://imgur.com/JmOVLGh
It is decided to widen the role of the Air Board, under the presidency of Dickinson Pierson, Lord Cowdray, giving it limited executive powers. A section of the New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916, which brought the Board into being, laid down that "for the purpose of this Act the President of the Air Board shall be deemed to be a Minister appointed under this Act"
Switzerland: Swiss Note to Belligerents to support U.S.A. peace efforts.
Mexico: Forces under Mexican rebel Pancho Villa captures the city of Torreon after routing Mexican government forces.

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