The Meaning of "We the People"

The first three words in the Constitution are the most powerful: We the People. The Constitution gets its power, not from Congress, but from the people themselves. This concept of "popular sovereignty", power of the US citizen (the people), is the foundation upon which the US and the entire Constitution depends. The concept of “We the People” is the unity of all of the citizens of the United States of America.

What does this mean? The government gets its powers from the Citizens of the United States of America as they unite together as ONE! When we unite together, we can agree on a way of life that's ethical, successful, and happy as a whole. We can support each other, support our local communities, support or nation to make a better life for ourselves and our future (aka our children). The Government should be here to serve it's people...all of them!! Another interpretation would be to say that we come together through thick and thin. Through thick and thin we love each other, through thick and thin we support each other in ALL of our Differences!

As Abraham Lincoln wrote on November 19, 1863

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Source: abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm