We the People of the United States,

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, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 

The pages herein endeavor to explore why the words found in our Constitution matter, how our government has drifted, and why “We the People” should demand that our political representatives honor our Constitution’s most foundational premise of “liberty and justice for all.”

The Poem