please help me put in words why this is important in the constitution (preamble & securing liberty)?

Question

okay so ive kind of been playing around with phrases and am looking for something with this information in it.. a major point of the constitution is to create and continue a form of government which will secure liberty for ourselves and our posterity. ... what are some supporting things i could say for this? links would be awesome

Answer 1

Look up sites about the founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, etc. They all wrote articles at that time about the creation and hopes of the new nation.

Here are some sites to get you started.

Also, keep in mind that the constitution was always to be a blue print, and by creating checks and balances it would ensure that no one branch would become too strong, thereby limiting liberty. And the proecess created to amend it will ensure that future generations can change it to reflect future needs and issues.

Answer 2

You might consider the words of John Locke in his second Treatise [1689] Section 131.

“But though Men when they enter into Society, give up Equality, Liberty, and Executive Power they had in the State of Nature, into the hands of the Society, to be so far disposed of by the Legislative, as the good of the Society shall require; yet it being only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself his Liberty and Property; (For no rational Creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse) the power of Society, or Legislative constituted by them, can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good. . . . . “

It goes on from there. . . .

Or your might delve into Federalist Paper 84 as written by Alexander Hamilton which addresses some of this question.

However, you might also consider that, no power to enact any statute is derived from the preamble. The Constitution (body of) is the only source of power authorizing action by any branch of the Federal Government. For this interpretation you can refer to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dorr v. United States [1904].