Semi protected edit request on 15 August 2015 Please excise from the Preamble heading the paragraphs I ve reproduced below in which the text of the Preamble is dissected needlessly and made subject to a myriad of specious editorial claims that are not and will never be substantiable no matter how many sources one tacks on after the period The text of the Constitution is the text of the Constitution To assume that a more perfect union refers back to the government under the Articles of Confederation is to take a liberty that the context doesn t allow The phrase may be referencing England or France or the Ottoman Empire It may be an expression of the founder s desire to create a union more perfect than all the unions that have come before and all the unions that have yet to come Unfortunately the Constitution doesn t explain what exactly it means by a more perfect union and as a result neither can we In addition to being groundless the analysis is riddled with nonsense terms such as the powers of the earth social contract of democratic philosophy and things of a general welfare The final sentence of the second paragraph is plainly incoherent Ultimately my request is that the paragraphs at issue be deleted and replaced with the text of the Preamble verbatim One people dissolved their connection with another and assumed among the powers of the earth a sovereign nation state The scope of the Constitution is twofold First to form a more perfect Union than had previously existed in the perpetual Union of the Articles of Confederation Second to secure the blessings of liberty which were to be enjoyed by not only the first generation but for all who came after our posterity 27 It is an itemized social contract of democratic philosophy It details how the more perfect union was to be carried out between the national government and the people The people are to be provided justice civil peace common defense those things of a general welfare that they could not provide themselves and freedom A government of liberty and union now and forever unfolds when We begin and establish this Constitution