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What is the next part of that declaration?
“…in order to form a more perfect union,…”
The United States of America is a work in progress and always has been.
The list of aspirations within the Preamble to the Constitution and not the Declaration of Independence, includes “general welfare” AND prosperity through the understanding of general welfare and liberty and not prosperity at the cost of the general welfare. Without a strong citizenry there is no common defense. All the aspirations in the Preamble are interconnected to provide for a strong, able, and ready country. Remember who these men looked upto; General George Washington, Commander and Chief.
