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Whenever I feel weary of the nightmare we are in, I look to the Preamble of our U.S. Constitution which is also shown at uscourts.gov as follows:
Establish Justice is the first of five objectives outlined in the 52-word paragraph that the Framers drafted in six weeks during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787. They found a way to agree on…
Whenever I feel weary of the nightmare we are in, I look to the Preamble of our U.S. Constitution which is also shown at uscourts.gov as follows:
Establish Justice is the first of five objectives outlined in the 52-word paragraph that the Framers drafted in six weeks during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787. They found a way to agree on the following basic principles:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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."
It is up to us to make our preamble as strong a reality as possible in adherence to our principles which the Framers themselves often only adhered to for their closest subset of people. And, so, we must continue evolving and self-correcting generation after generation when we fall back from the inherent rights and respect we all deserve since we first began cooperating and raising each other in our human families, nomadic tribes and settlements over millennia with many successes and failures over time. What will we create for the near future of not just the U.S., but world civilization, too?
Amen!