Comments on: WE, THE PEOPLE http://expatspost.com/creative/we-the-people/ Write to live, live to write! Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Larry Conley http://expatspost.com/creative/we-the-people/#comment-6666 Larry Conley Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:15:50 +0000 http://expatspost.com/?p=105229#comment-6666 “We the People” are the first three words of the preamble identifying those responsible for upholding the foundations of the American Constitution. In the theory of the Framers, the people, or the citizenry, were the true sovereigns and source of legitimacy for any government.

Their intent, articulated by framers of the document, is laid out in the remainder of the preamble, thus: “in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

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