''Toward a more perfect union'' is a phrase used in American political discourse. It is a slight rephrasing of the second

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of the Preamble to the United States Constitution, "in order to form a more perfect union." The phrase is used rhetorically to convey an idea that the United States remains an unfinished work-in-progress and that achieving the lofty goals espoused by the American founding documents demands continuing effort. According to one cultural history of the country's pre-revolutionary era,

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{{US-stub American exceptionalism English phrases