Question

Read the preamble to the Constitution.

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.

According to the preamble, the phrase “a more perfect Union” refers to

A) improving upon a previous attempt at creating a new union.
B) duplicating the original government system set up by the union.
C) creating a union with stronger ties between individual states.
D) building up the union with help of foreign governments.

Answer 1

The phrase "to form a more perfect Union" has been construed as referring to the shift to the Constitution from the Articles of Confederation. The contemporaneous meaning of the word "perfect" was complete, finished, fully informed, confident, or certain.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the preamble, the phrase "a more perfect Union" refers to option A, improving upon a previous attempt at creating a new union. The preamble states that the purpose of the Constitution is to "form a more perfect Union," which suggests that the framers of the Constitution believed that there were flaws in the previous attempt at creating a union (the Articles of Confederation) and that they sought to improve upon it with the new Constitution.