We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, 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, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Lots of civil wars and the invasions of barbarians like the huns and other tribes brought down the empire since the senator could not get along and refused to fix the problem.