The Preamble: Once Sentence Which Changed World History...

The Preamble: Once Sentence Which Changed World History #Constitution - By Daniel W. Sheridan

Thomas Cahill wrote a series of books entitled, The Hinges of History. He describes the title thus:

"We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance."

The Constitution is undoubtedly one of those narratives of grace, a work of genius bestowed upon us during a unique time in human history. The Constitution is a Hinge of History - it changed the world. The Preamble, which is only one sentence, sums up the goals of this great gift.

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure 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."

"One sentence. And this, my friends, this one simple sentence, changes everything. It's the pivot of world history, the hinge of history. Before this sentence, you have self-government, democracy, existing almost nowhere on planet earth." ---Akhil Reed Amar

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