Read this excerpt from the US Constitution. Then answer the question that follows.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union . . . 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.
–Preamble to the US Constitution
How is the preamble to the Constitution related to the idea of the social contract?
It lists specific individual rights.
It establishes an authoritarian government.
It creates a government whose power comes from the people.
It describes a governmental structure based on a monarchy.