Question

"We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.

Report of the Committee of Detail in the Federal Convention, August 1787, page one
"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."
Report of the Committee of Style in the Federal Convention, September 1787, page one.

1) What arguments would the framers offer for keeping the list of individual states? For replacing the list of states with "the United States"?

2) Consider and compare what each draft explicitly names as the purpose for Constitution. Why might the later draft list "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" when the early draft says merely "do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity."

3) Can you come up with an example of how one of the goals stated in the final version of the Preamble is carried out by our government today? I NEEDDDDDSDS HELLLLLPPPPPP PLEASEEEEEEE

Answer 1

1. The Framers, who were later known as the Nationalists or the Federalists, were keen in including both state power and federal power. However, their greatest adversary, the Anti-Federalists, were keen to keeping the majority of the powers to the states for fear of tyranny and corruption. One of the main concerns for the Anti-Federalists, stated in Brutus I of the Anti-Federalist Papers, stated that the States will simply be a cosmetic and that their autonomy would be destroyed by the federal government. Naming the states in the clause was a way to reassure the Anti-Federalists that the states are recognized as independent bodies. However, in being grouped together as the 'United States,' it is established that above their state identities, the former thirteen colonies will work together and respond to a federal government, which forms the United States.

2. This was to make sure that no one, in its present and in its future, would ever view the Constitution as an excuse to promote tyranny and authoritarianism. The Constitution was to do a very specific thing: to protect the people. The clauses and the amendments that follow, therefore, are established to be for the common interest and general welfare of the people.

3. The United States Supreme Court is the branch of the American Federal Government that is tasked with unbiasedly interpreting the Constitution, which includes the document's Preamble. Subsequent Court decisions, such as Brown v. The Board of Education (1954) were carried out for the general welfare and the blessings of liberties for the American people.

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