Preamble to the United States Constitution
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The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is an introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purpose, aims, and justification. Courts have referred to it as evidence of the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they intended the Constitution to provide.
The preamble was mainly written by Gouverneur Morris, a Pennsylvania delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.