. Change of Circumstance Some union huh? The United States was born out of revolution. The crazy king was treating his own people as second-class citizens. The French and Spanish kings were not doing this. Where is the justice in that? This ill treatment came about in the lifetime of most of the original patriots. The king and many of his island subjects were paying a dear price for the Seven Years War with France. The declaration of independence is replete with examples of the injustices. At this very time in history a revolution of ideas was occurring, the enlightenment. Mix the two and you have something that even the authors of the constitution could not fully grasp, nor did they pretend to. They simply tried their best. The preamble to the constitution, which legal scholars agree, has no force in law, States: ”We the people (herein after known as property holders)...