preamble

Examples of preamble in the following topics:

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• Preamble

  • The Preamble to the Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles.
  • An example of the way courts utilize the Preamble is Ellis v.
  • Fromt left to right, here is the Preamble of United States Constitution made from auto tags from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

• Promoting the General Welfare

  • The United States Constitution contains two references to "the General Welfare," one occurring in the Preamble and the other in the Taxing and Spending clause .
  • The Preamble of the United States Constitution states that the Union was established "to promote the general Welfare. " The Taxing and Spending Clause is the clause that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.
  • Supreme Court has upheld that the mention of the clause in the Preamble "has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the Government of the United States or on any of its Departments. "
  • The Preamble of the 1865 Alabama Constitution notes one purpose of the document to be to "promote the general welfare," but this language is omitted from the 1901 Alabama Constitution.

• Political Strife and American Independence

  • On May 15, Congress adopted a more radical preamble to this resolution, drafted by John Adams, in which it advised throwing off oaths of allegiance and suppressing the authority of the Crown in any colonial government that still derived its authority from the Crown.

• The Legislative Branch

  • The United States Constitution consists of a preamble, seven original articles, twenty-seven amendments, and a paragraph certifying its enactment by the constitutional convention.