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Preamble to the United States Constitution

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.1

1. Caret in the substitution vocabulary for the underlined words. form create, set up union a group working together, uni- = one insure protect domestic tranquility homeland security, being safe in our country provide set up and pay for common defense protection for every state in our country promote encourage, inspire, motivate general welfare overall living in our country secure keep safe blessings good things coming from, benefits liberty Freedom, liber- = free posterity children and our children’s children and so on ordain proclaim, say it out loud to everyone establish begin, set up, create constitution agreement, contract, pact

2. On a separate piece of paper, rewrite the Preamble of the Constitution in words you understand.

1 For more resources see National Society Daughter of the American Revolution http://www.dar.org/forms/omni/PR-0009.PDF and http://www.dar.org/omni/store/store32/

TeachUntilTheyKnow.com Suzan Bates © Copyrighted 2013 Clip Art by babystardesign.com and GiftSeasonStore on Etsy Const. Week Vocab CCSS 3rd-5th grades RI1, RI10, Rf4a, L3a, L4, L5b, L6 & 6th-8th grades RI2, RI4, RI5, RI3, RI4 RI10, L2ca-c, L3, L4, L5b-c, L6, W&WHST1d, W&WHST2d-e,W&WHST4, W&WHST5, W&WHST10, H1, H2, H4, H10

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Preamble to the United States Constitution

We the people of the United States, in order to set up

a more perfect group working together, establish justice,

protect homeland safety, pay for everyone’s protection,

promote the good life, and keep safe the goodness of

freedom to ourselves and our children, do say out loud and

begin this pact for the United States of America.1

1. Caret in the substitution vocabulary for the underlined words. form create, set up union a group working together, uni- = one insure protect domestic tranquility homeland security, being safe in our country provide set up and pay for common defense protection for every state in our country promote encourage, inspire, motivate general welfare overall living in our country secure keep safe blessings good things coming from, benefits liberty Freedom, liber- = free posterity children and our children’s children and so on ordain proclaim, say it out loud to everyone establish begin, set up, create constitution agreement, contract, pact

2. On a separate piece of paper, rewrite the Preamble of the Constitution in words you understand.

1 For more resources see National Society Daughter of the American Revolution http://www.dar.org/forms/omni/PR-0009.PDF and http://www.dar.org/omni/store/store32/