2. The Preamble Copy the following paragraph. Please underline all the words as they are shown.

3. The Preamble 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.

4. Preamble vocabulary Copy the vocabulary word and the synonyms.

5. union Blending, coming together, combination establish Create, start, begin, set up

6. justice Fairness, fair play, morality insure Make certain, make sure

7. domestic home, household, family, national, internal tranquility Peaceful, calm, quiet

8. common General, universal, shared, everyone’s promote Encourage, support, sponsor

9. general universal, common, wide-ranging welfare well-being, health, security, success

10. posterity future generations ordain order, proclaim, command, establish

11. Assignment Rewrite the Preamble changing the underlined words. It must make sense. Read it out loud to yourself to make sure. You can rearrange the words to allow your paragraph to make sense.