Who are the subjects and beneficiaries of the Constitution, as stated clearly in the preamble?
The answer? "… to ourselves and our posterity …"
The word "ourselves" in this context refers to those men who wrote it – and to their generation of Americans.
"Posterity," which literally means "descendants" or all succeeding generations, refers, in this context, to all those Americans yet unborn.
Is your great, great, great, great granddaughter your posterity? Absolutely. Is she born yet? Absolutely not. Does the fact that she is not yet born make her any less your posterity? No.




