The phrase "to form a more perfect Union" refers to the transition our Founding Father decided to make when they changed from being governed by the Articles of Confederation to a new system they had just created, the Constitution of the United States.
The Articles of Confederation organized a basic government that united the states in a loose confederation where each state was represented in a congress. The government acted with restricted and limited power upon states only. Eventually this confederation of states didn’t adequately address collective problems such as debts owed by the confederation to foreign nations, managing the Continental Army, governing territories (non-states) won earlier by the British, and developing foreign relations with other counties.
Many saw a need for a more powerful central authority to help solve these issues.
The result was the creation of the “Constitution of the United States”. It was a newly created government over the people, not an agreement between the individual states, and gave the additional powers need to a central government to “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…”
The Articles of Confederation organized a basic government that united the states in a loose confederation where each state was represented in a congress. The government acted with restricted and limited power upon states only. Eventually this confederation of states didn’t adequately address collective problems such as debts owed by the confederation to foreign nations, managing the Continental Army, governing territories (non-states) won earlier by the British, and developing foreign relations with other counties.
Many saw a need for a more powerful central authority to help solve these issues.
The result was the creation of the “Constitution of the United States”. It was a newly created government over the people, not an agreement between the individual states, and gave the additional powers need to a central government to “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…”
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