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Quotation from The Founding Documents by Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention
“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”
The Founding Documents, Constitution of the United States, Preamble (1787) (National Archives transcription)
The Constitution opens by naming the people as the source of the new federal frame of government.
Citation: "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" — Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention, The Founding Documents, Constitution of the United States, Preamble (1787) (National Archives transcription). (id the-founding-documents-q2)
Virtues: Justice
Portrait: United States Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Public domain.
