词汇 | we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union |
词源 | We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union. . . . These words that begin the preamble of the U.S. Constitution were, appropriately enough, taken from a Native American document, a 1520 treaty that established the Iroquois Confederacy, which begins, “We, the people, to form a union . . .” |
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