Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in ...

The Preamble was placed ... than had pre-existed the Constitution. Yet a New York Anti-Federalist who wrote under the pseudonym Brutus professed to believe that, to carry out the mandate, it ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... Constitution. Through his studies of human nature and history, he came to believe that those documents offered the best hope of ...

Central to this task was the creation of the Preamble, a brief introductory statement that sets out the guiding principles ...