"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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."
These words will forever stand in the pages of history as timeless. They represented the ideals of the framers of the constitution and stood to establish the precedent of what our new country would strive for. They were the beginning of a document like no other before its time: a living constitution. "We the People" represented a nation united, and still does. At the time of it's writing, the statement referred primarily to property owning men (remember, at the time, most women and blacks did not have many rights), however, according to the principle that the constitution has to grow and change, these words today truly do mean every person of the United States.
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