As I recall, the reasons are 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"
Whether all that was sincere or not is not the question: that was the promise I learned. 'Common defense' is well taken care of ... unlike 'general welfare' and/or liberty, particularly for 'our posterity'
Good point! I’m not a constitutional scholar but I think basically all of those except “general welfare” are related to defense and peacekeeping.
I’d forgotten about “general welfare” and now I wonder how that got in there considering it didn’t really make it anywhere else in the founding vision.
Maybe they didn’t intend it like our modern reading at all?
