There are 56 men generally considered to be the framers of the United States Constitution. 37 seven of those men were lawyers and 10 were merchants. One of them, if you can believe it was a minister/lawyer. He is in category all his own (talk about serving 2 masters.) The remaining men were mostly politicians (go figure) with a few soldiers and a teacher. This is what they wrote:

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.

These are romantic sentiments. As a country, we believe these are the words that give us a freedom so chaste, so perfect that the rest of the world,