In fact, he is credited with writing the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
But he sent back a message saying he would write the preamble himself.
Three years later Murray became embroiled in controversy when attempting to write a preamble to the Australian constitution, at the request of John Howard, the prime minister.
France's first Marxist party, the French Workers Partyy (Parti Ouvrier Français), founded in 1880, claimed to represent the proletariat; its constitution was drafted largely by the radical labour leader Jules Guesde with input from Karl Marx (who wrote the preamble), Marx's son-in-law Paul Lafargue, and Friedrich Engels.
John Adams wrote the preamble, which stated that because King George had rejected reconciliation and was hiring foreign mercenaries to use against the colonies, "it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed".
It also calls for them to be written into the preamble to the human rights convention.
Fine, I guess I'll just have to write my own preamble!
The Haggadah's preamble, written by Abraham Klausner, an American Army chaplain assigned to the D.P.'s, invokes the name of Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, commander of the occupation army.
"The objects are placeholders for thoughts, and when they are situated in proximity to one another, meanings can reverberate and ricochet off of each other," Ms. Bloom writes in a preamble to the show.
But because of the lessons and sacrifice of people like Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we celebrate tomorrow, we can write a new preamble to the 21st century, in which color differences are not the problem, but the promise, of America.
