Contest of Principles
... By using this statement as part of the backbone of the preamble, the authors are, without specifically mentioning America, stating that the new nation was being founded under a set of principles. ... The third paragraph of the preamble, “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, tit is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles as and organizing its powers in such form, as to them seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness,” criticizes Britain, implying that she had become “destructive of these ends,” and arguing that the American citizens had the right to alter or abolish it, and, in its place, form a government founded on principles.