The framers of the US Constitution wrote the Preamble to set the document's guiding principles and introduce the core ideas and purposes of the new government, which should be based on the principles of democracy, justice, domestic tranquility, liberty, and America's general welfare. The preamble's first words "We the people" also embraces an idea in which the new government is established: the concept of popular sovereignty, a concept that holds that it is the people who create, give consents to and sustain the government.
