Download Preamble Current Events Assignment Due date: Wednesday

Preamble Current Events Assignment
Due date: Wednesday, September 19
Task:
Page through newspapers and magazines and surf major media (major magazines, major newspapers, CNN, etc…)
internet sites over the next week to collect images, pictures, headlines, and/or full articles that represent, symbolize or
explain three (3) different goals of the United States government stated in the Constitution’s preamble.
Requirements:
 Cut out the examples from the magazine or newspaper or print out the examples you find on the internet.
 Label each example with the goal it represents, symbolizes or explains.
 Use your textbook (Prologue page 35) and the restating of the Preamble below to review the six goals of our
government and their meanings.
 You must find examples of three (3) different goals.
 Staple the examples together and put your name on the top of the first example.
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The Preamble of the United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union (#1), establish
Justice (#2), insure domestic Tranquility (#3), provide for the common defense (#4), promote
the general Welfare (#5), and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
(#6), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Constitution was written over 200 years ago. Words and phrases
were used differently. Below is a more modern statement of the
preamble.
We the people of the United States want to form a better country (#1), create a fair and just
legal system (#2), have peace inside the country (#3), defend our country from other countries
(#4), help everyone live a better life (#5), and make sure these things last during our lifetimes
and our children's (#6). Therefore, we make and authorize this plan of government for the
United States of America.