We the People: The Preamble

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Mount Rashmore (from the left) faces the four largest presidents of the United States of America. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln

Our Americans have established a more perfect alliance, established justice, secured domestic peace, provided common defense, promoted general welfare, and freedom and blessings of our descendants To make sure. Whether or not to enact this constitution for the United States

The preamble does not grant or restrict privileges. It explains the purpose of the constitution and builds the foundation of the first seven articles and the first ten modifications (the Bill of Rights).

The first three words of the preface, "our people" may be the three most important words in the history of American democracy.

In addition to the undocumented British Constitution, the preamble of the constitution of most democracies starts with three famous words "our people"! Why did the preamble of the Constitution begin with our citizens? Briefly, the Constitutional People give the administration the structure of People's Government, the people and the people. As the Constitution does not strictly refine the importance of word letters, I searched for a dictionary on that meaning and found the following:

Is the preface meaningful? They will definitely do this. For Plato, the preface is the soul of the law, through which legislators persuade people to comply with the law. For Schmidt, the preface shows basic social political decisions. For Blackstone, the preface is the key to exposing ideas to legislators. For the individual, the preface is the public consciousness and they define the constitutional identity, so they define who we are. For a long time the preface was regarded as a symbolic statement. American law school students do not learn from the preface to understand that they can win the lawsuit. From the global perspective, this article shows that this premise is no longer valid. More and more countries are legalizing the language of the preamble. The rights and principles of the preface are becoming increasingly legal, and lawyers can bring them to the court (whether this is the ideal way is another matter).

The concept of Plato's preface is to prove the legitimacy. A good preface will persuade people to comply with the law, not because of civil sanctions or criminal sanctions, but because it is a good law. The purpose of the preface is to reduce the severity of the law, and the unpersistent law of preamble is "dictatorship". Plato's preface uses abstract terms and cites poetic ideals. However, they are not considered part of the law and do not create interpretive rights or binding power.

Section 1 describes the concept of preamble based on qualitative research on the preface of 50 common law and civil law countries. Section 2 explains the origins of the American preamble and its legal status. Chapter 3 introduces the three types of legal functions of the preface: etiquette - symbolicism used to integrate national identity but lacking a binding legal effect; the preface is legal interpretation and I will be given a leaders role in interpretation of the Constitution. And substances where the preface is an independent source of constitutional rights. Section 4 explains the importance of the preface agreed by the parties, the outline of the risks inherent in the nonconfusing foreword, and the pros and cons of the design of the preamble.