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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe Preamble of the Constitution of the United States
Edited: no, not the Declaration of Independence. The heat made me crazy. Well, anyway:
This is only a few blocks from where I am right now. If I don't keel over from the heat, I ought to go look at it again. It's really a hoot. I imagine kids get a kick out of it.
Preamble
Mike Wilkins, Preamble, 1987, painted metal on vinyl and wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., 1988.39
Mike Wilkins, Preamble, 1987, painted metal on vinyl and wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., 1988.39
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The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2018
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nycbos
(6,034 posts)1. Pretty sure this is The Constitution.
Still pretty cool.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)2. Huge embarrassment. What was I thinking? I edited that.
Yes, I do know the difference.
I blame the media.
Thanks.
We the People of the United States, in Order 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.
Still it must have taken him some time to assemble.....
Aristus
(66,327 posts)4. Here's one I grew up with: