... , provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity- All these concerns are practical, only one of them is an idea, but it is last in the list. Liberty is referred to once and that is here in the Preamble. The Constitution goes on to concentrate on Central Government powers but individual rights are not safe guarded, even though the Declaration of Independence had stressed ... individual liberty. This supports my view that ideas of liberty were not the first factor on their mind when drawing up the Constitution....

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