RDD_1210
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You might have a point if the Constitution didn't lay out what the United States is about in the very first words of the document.
"We the People of the United States.."
The United States is made up of "the people" and providing for the Defense and general welfare of those people is mentioned in the very same breath in the very section you quoted. You can try and twist it all you want but it's just not working.
I completely and totally DISAGREE. In fact the phrase you quoted separates the two entities specifically. By noting that the document is being written by "the People" OF "the United States" the authors have separated the two entities from each other.
The two entities are intertwined and co-dependent, but they are not necessarily always the same thing. Nor should they be. That's a lot of the problem with our political atmosphere in this country right now.... we have too many politicians who are more interested in their Constituents interests than in the Constitutional interests that they have sworn to protect and defend.
There is no "United States" without the people. The people and in turn this country are defined and as a result protected by the constitution, even if you try and distort the meaning of it to fit your needs.