How can they teach it K, when the teachers don't know it?
I'll lay you ten to one most of the teachers today don't know the difference between the Preamble and the Bill of Rights.
The Constitution of the United States of America
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.
The Bill of Rights
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
You can read a transcription of the preamble, amendments 1-10 , and amendments 11-27 of the Constitution.
Note: The above image is the joint resolution of Congress proposing 12 articles as amendments to the Constitution and was enrolled on parchment by William Lambert, a Clerk of the House. It was signed by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, on September 28, 1789, and by John Adams, President of the Senate, shortly thereafter. The Bill of Rights, as this parchment copy is now known, is on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives. You can display a high-resolution image of the Bill of Rights (339K JPEG).
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