[EternalVigilance]

I’m sorry you feel that way about the founding paragraph of the United States of America.

Because without it, there is no America. Not for long anyhow.

[robowombat]

Wasn't the preamble pretty much plagiarized from Locke's ‘Second Treatise’ particularly Chapter Two. Much of Jefferson's theory seems to come from Locke. So, what makes Locke anymore insightful or right than Hobbes? At bottom my belief is men use elevated rhetoric to mask their real motivations just as persons routinely mask statements as questions. Therefore making a big to do about any set of rhetorical pronouncements is very dubious as it invest transcendence in something that was done for a contingent and transitory purpose.