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. You do not need to copy the definitions.

5. union Blending, coming together, combination The act of joining together people or things

6. establish Create, start, begin, set up To start or set up something that is intended to continue

7. justice Fairness, fair play, morality

8. insure Make certain, make sure To make sure something will happen

9. domestic home, household, family, national, internal Happening within one country

10. tranquility Peaceful, calm, quiet

11. common General, universal, shared, everyone’s Belonging to, or shared by two or more people or things

12. promote Endorse, encourage, support, sponsor To encourage the growth and development of something

13. general universal, common, wide-ranging Including all or nearly all the members of a group

14. welfare well-being, health, security, success

15. posterity future generations

16. ordain order, proclaim, command, establish To order or establish something formally, especially by law

17. 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.