We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, established 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. The previous sentence is called the Preamble for the Constitution of the United States. The preamble is the first sentence and is the outline of the constitution. In this paper I intend to show what each part of the preamble means and what the writers of the Constitution intended to mean when it was written over 200 years ago.
I will start with the phrase "We the People". This phrase has a different meaning today than it did two hundred years ago when our forefathers wrote this phrase At that time in history, "We the People" did not include most of the American society. …
