What was the purpose of the Preamble?
To me, the starting pojnt is the why we are doing something. Why are we doing a land survey or a construction project...
After the constitution was finished it was given to Gouverneur Morris for finalizing. He took a couple of days to cut down the number of articles and sections, clean up the wording and added the preamble.
I read somewhere that part of the origination of the preamble was credited to James Wilson.
I bring up land surveys and such because the Democrats have floated the initial point in our political system, causing great problems in politics. If they did the same thing in construction and surveying, you could lose your house. We need to get serious about the Constitution being the foundation, the initial point, of all political and legal measurements.