[rintense]

rudypoot... meet slippery slope.

Preamble for Michigan:

We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, and earnestly desiring to secure these blessings undiminished to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.

[rudypoot]

Figures. These judges read the US Constitution with rosy-red commie glasses.

[Constitution Day]

Preamble to North Carolina Constitution:

We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain and establish this Constitution.

[Miss Marple]

Preamble to the Constitution of the State of Indiana (1816):

TO THE END, that justice be established, public order maintained, and liberty perpetuated; WE, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to ALMIGHTY GOD for the free exercise of the right to choose our own form of government, do ordain this Constitution.

The phrase ALMIGHTY GOD is in all caps in the original. I guess my ancestors wanted to make sure someone got the message!