There remains also a camp of countries pressing for the inclusion of a mention of God or Christianity in the preamble to the constitution, but they are likely to fail in the face of stiff French and Belgian opposition.

ECONOMIST: The European Union summit

The constitution is not so much a founding document as a sort of constitutional preamble to hundreds of pages of rules.

ECONOMIST: State constitutions

" When Gouverneur Morris was asked to draft the preamble to our new Constitution, he offered an important revision and opened with words that changed the course of our Nation and the history of the world: "We the people.

NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address