Secure The Blessing Of Liberty To Ourselves And Our Posterity

The last word is posterity meaning children and future generations rather than prosperity or wealth.

Secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. In a tradition going back to roman times of which the founders would have been well aware liberty means the right of a people to rule themselves accordin. To best achieve those ends the american founders recognized that simple republicanism was not enough that what was required was a compound republic what we today call a federal system. It appears at the end of the list of purposes. I m going to disagree slightly with what others have said about the meaning of liberty.

Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity is one of the purposes of the constitution given in 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. We the people of the united states to form a more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquility 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. The phrase to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity appears in the preamble to the constitution.

The last is presented most fully to whit secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity taken together those six define the ends of republican government.