Preamble
The Poetry in the Constitution’s Preamble
The person most responsible for the Constitution’s final form was Gouverneur Morris. The Preamble, which begins with “We the People,” is one of the world’s most recognizable bits of prose — prose that, at least in some ways, approaches poetry. Morris had been well...
The Preamble to the Constitution: What It Tells Us and What It Doesn’t
For many Americans, knowledge of the Constitution begins and ends with the preamble. A lot of people probably even memorized it at some point in school. I suppose you could laud the educational system for at least acknowledging the existence of America’s...
We the People of the United States: Who Established the Constitution?
One of the key arguments made by constitutional nationalists is that the Constitution provides that “We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution.” The idea is that a single people throughout the country as a whole established...
Constitution101: The Sovereignty of the People
This is the second article in a series on basic constitutional principles. Read last week’s article HERE. The federal government acts like it stands as sovereign in the American system, but that was never intended by those who created it. In fact, the federal...