[Arkinsaw]

Whats interesting about the Articles of Confederation is that it was specifically a 'perpetual' union. But then just a few years later George Washington and company held a Constitutional Convention which gave every State the opportunity to either ratify or not. Had a State not ratified then it would have been on its own. So much for perpetual union.

The word was left out of the new Constitution. Since the founders were already breaking up a 'perpetual' union to form the new one leaving the word in the new document would have been potentially embarassing.

[capitan_refugio]

"Perpetual union" was not in the Constitution, but the phrase "to ourselves and our posterity" is in the Preamble. The desire and sense of lasting permanency is there.