MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE US CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE ARTICLES AND AMENDMENTS
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to gain and keep peace in the United States
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for ourselves and future generations
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for all citizens throughout the United States of America
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in order to begin a better national government
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to create a strong military for protection of all US citizens
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Detailed explanation-1: -Secure The Blessings Of Liberty To Ourselves And Our Posterity: a promise to promote a free and fair system of government that would protect citizens’ freedoms, along with those of future generations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Posterity is a noun meaning “future generations.” These people of the future could be your children and great-great grandchildren, or any people who are born after you.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: As it is used in the Preamble to the US Constitution, the word ‘posterity’ means those who come after us, i.e. children, grandchildren, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” is perhaps the strongest statement in the Preamble. It says in effect that the people made the Constitution and it is the people who give it power. The Preamble to the United States Constitution, is the beginning of the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-5: -’Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity’ The phrase confirms the Framer’s vision that the very purpose of the Constitution is to protect the nation’s blood-earned rights for liberty, justice, and freedom from a tyrannical government.