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
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Copy the vocabulary word and the
synonyms. You do not need to copy the
definitions.
union
Blending, coming together, combination
 The act of joining together people or
things
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establish
Create, start, begin, set up
 To start or set up something that is
intended to continue
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justice
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Fairness, fair play, morality
insure
Make certain, make sure
 To make sure something will happen
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domestic
home, household, family, national, internal
 Happening within one country
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tranquility
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Peaceful, calm, quiet
common
General, universal, shared, everyone’s
 Belonging to, or shared by two or more
people or things
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promote
Endorse, encourage, support, sponsor
 To encourage the growth and
development of something
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general
universal, common, wide-ranging
 Including all or nearly all the members of
a group
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welfare

well-being, health, security, success
posterity

future generations
ordain
order, proclaim, command, establish
 To order or establish something formally,
especially by law
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Assignment
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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.