is preamble an essential part of the constitution?

Answer 1

The preamble is designed as an introduction of the Constitution. Essentially, it's there as a forewarning (to let the reader know that the foundation of the constitution is supported by good intentions).

It's hard to interpret something without knowing the original intentions and the preable does a good job and establishing that the intentions of our forefathers were to prosper, be succesfull, form a perfect union of peoples, and to live in peace.

Answer 2

I guess I don't really know what you mean by determining if it is "essential", but I would be hard pressed to say no no matter what your definition of it is.

The preamble is the most important sentence concerning the United States. It broadly sums up the goal of the nation - everything, in its ultimate form at least, is based off this sentence.

Without the preamble you have a bunch of ideas to set up a country without a focus. The preamble is especially essential for ammendments as every ammendment has to be in the spirit of the constitution. Without the preamble it would be difficult (impossible really when you consider how many different ways there are to take the constitution as we have it right now) to make any ammendments as no one would agree on anything.

Answer 3

Let us first see the meaning of the word to give u an idea as to what it is.

As a noun it is an introductory explanation,a section at the beginning of a speech, report, or formal document that explains the purpose of what follows.

so it is something that precedes, introduces, prefaces or leads up to something else.

The term is particularly applied to the opening paragraph(s) of a statute, which recite historical facts which may be pertinent to the issue being discussed.

India,France,Canada,USA,have written constitutions and they have the preambles to them,whereas the UK has no written constitution so ne preamble.

Answer 4

Check out the site below. It tells you better than I can exactly what the preamble is and why it was written and the power that it generates for the constitution.

Answer 5

You expect Congress to read everything in the Library of Congress when they won't even read the legislation before them. You seem to be suggesting that the government can lawfully name what powers it has. The Constitution would disagree with that. I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people' (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition. -- Thomas Jefferson

Answer 6

the short answer is yes.