This part of the Preamble naturally flows out of the out of the first two elements listed in it. As was pointed out two essays ago (The Preamble – Part III: To Form a More Perfect Union), there wasn’t much domestic tranquility (i.e., peaceful existence) between the various states and that was a motive to create “a more perfect union.” Out of this “more perfect union” came the establishment of justice between the states, and eventually all of their citizens. Without justice (i.e., fair and equal treatment) there can be no tranquility. What parent has not had to deal with one of their children protesting his/her treatment and acting rebelliously because in comparison to the treatment of a sibling they felt they were not being treated the same (i.e., justly)? When that happens, there is no domestic tranquility! When Freddie Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri (and as testimony later indicated, for just cause), citizens in that city jumped to conclusion that it was not justified and took to the streets proclaiming “No justice, no peace”, and anarchy ensured there for several nights.
Our national government today has greatly exceeded its constitutional authority and in doing so we see the result – a disintegration of tranquility within our society. President Obama and his Marxist party, the Democrats, constantly harped on (and continue to harp on) the need to “spread the wealth” among the citizenry, which means government taking from those who earn and giving it to those who did not. Is that fair? Is that treating everyone with justice? No, so is it any wonder that it is often spoken of as “class warfare”? That is hardly a term applicable to a society that is experiencing domestic tranquility.
In my 65 years on this earth I have not seen this kind of discord among Americans since the turmoil of the civil rights era of the late 1950s’ and ‘60s’, and it is not by accident. The policies and rhetoric of the previous administration and its party has sought – and succeeded to a degree – of creating a disunity among us, and that has led to this explosion of feelings of injustice, both of which is destroying what should be a tranquil existence among a free people governed by a limited government that has left us alone to enjoy the blessings that are provided in lives lived in liberty.
The Preamble stipulates that the purpose for forming this more perfect union was to insure tranquility among the citizens of the various states, or in other words, to maintain peace among the citizenry. How was the government to accomplish this? By a just application of the law, which the Constitution following the Preamble, is to be supreme. If government would adhere to the limits placed upon it by the Constitution, it would go a long way towards insuring tranquility within our society.
-December 10, 2017