How is the preamble to the Constitution related to the idea of the social contract?
Read this excerpt from the US Constitution. Then answer the
question that follows.
We the People of the United States, in order to form a
more perfect Union... provide for the common defence,
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 to the US Constitution
* It lists specific individual rights.
It establishes an authoritarian government.
✓ It creates a government whose power comes from
the people.
* It describes a governmental structure based on a
monarchy.

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