Learn valuable lessons from the past to better understand the present and ensure that "We the People of the United States" continue to "secure the Blessings of Liberty."
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.