Please help! We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure 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 the Constitution for the United States of America. Who is taking action?

What are they doing?

The Preamble lists six reasons why the people want to form a new type of government. Fill in the chart with the words from the Preamble and then explain what they mean in your own words (you can use the Internet to help; but be sure to use your own words here) in the second column. The first one has been completed for you.
Goals or purposes Explain
Form a more perfect union Set up a stronger government with states more closely united