Write a brief argumentative essay in which you address this question: which statement do you find most compelling for americans today: the preamble to the constitution or the first sentence of paragraph three of the declaration of independence?

Most Americans recognize the phrase “We the People” as the beginning of something important. Many of them, however, associate it with the Declaration of Independence or even the Gettysburg Address. It is, of course, the opening phrase of the Preamble to the Constitution, the entrée into our fundamental law.

The Preamble, as its name implies, serves to introduce the Constitution. Because it neither grants nor denies powers to the federal government, some have been tempted to dismiss it as a mere preface having no real meaning of its own. Actually, the Preamble has been important in our constitutional development.

The Preamble evolved late in the Constitutional Convention. On September 6, 1787, after working for three and a half difficult months in drafting a new framework of government, the convention turned its labors over to a Committee on Style and Arrangement to put the document in a more organized and readable form. At this point, the Constitution’s opening section merely stated “We the People of the States of [with the thirteen states individually enumerated] do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity.” Six days later, the committee reported back to the convention the draft of what was (after a few additional changes) the Constitution we know today. Especially striking was the altered Preamble

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the second sentence is a great revision in my opinion. that would be a great topic.

explanation:

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.