Handout B: In His Own Words: Gouverneur Morris and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

IN HIS OWN WORDS: GOUVERNEUR MORRIS AND THE PREAMBLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

Directions: For each clause of the Preamble, rewrite a version in your own words.

1. We the People of the United States,
2. In Order to form a more perfect Union,
3. establish Justice,
4. insure domestic Tranquility,
5. provide for the common defense,
6. promote the general Welfare,
7. and secure the Blessings of Liberty
8. to ourselves and our Posterity,
9. do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America