The Preamble

What is meant by the following phrase?

We the people of the United States

• All of the citizens, and not just the leaders, of the United States

• See that our country is good and want to join together to make it even better

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

In order to form a more perfect union

• All of the citizens, and not just the leaders, of the United States

• See that our country is good and want to join together to make it even better

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Establish justice

• Create a rule of law that is fair to everyone

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Ensure domestic tranquility

• Create a rule of law that is fair to everyone

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Provide for the common defense

• Create a rule of law that is fair to everyone

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Promote the general welfare

• Create a rule of law that is fair to everyone

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity

• Promise freedoms of religion, speech, and many others to us and our children, and those that come after

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country

What is meant by the following phrase?

Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

• Promise freedoms of religion, speech, and many others to us and our children, and those that come after

• Form a military that will protect us and keep us safe

• Promise peace and safety in your own home

• Make life better for everyone in the entire country

• Create and approve this written government for our new country