The Preamble
Copy the following paragraph.
 Please underline all the words as they are
shown.
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The Preamble
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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.
Preamble vocabulary

Copy the vocabulary word and the
synonyms.
union
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Blending, coming together, combination
establish
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Create, start, begin, set up
justice
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Fairness, fair play, morality
insure
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Make certain, make sure
domestic
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home, household, family, national,
internal
tranquility
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Peaceful, calm, quiet
common
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General, universal, shared, everyone’s
promote
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Encourage, support, sponsor
general
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universal, common, wide-ranging
welfare

well-being, health, security,
success
posterity
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future generations
ordain
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order, proclaim, command, establish
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.