We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, 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.
Something insipired me to assess the Constitutional government against this standard.
form a more perfect Union
Unclear to me, but I suppose pretty good -- we don't seem to be suffering any serious seccession movement. Even Rick Perry clearly doesn't want secession.
establish Justice
At the moment, this seems to be an epic failure. Foreclosure fraud in the civil arena, kidnappings and imprisonment without trial, executions of innocent people, immunity for prosecutors who defrauded the courts, corporations getting away with practically anything, courts stealing elections.... oh, or I could point you to bankruptcy court in Delaware (at groklaw.net) to show that even large corporations can't get justice.
Nope, right now this isn't working.
insure domestic Tranquility
So far this seems to be going surprisingly well, but I don't expect that to continue. (No justice, no peace.)
provide for the common defence
Debatable. The military is mostly used for aggressive foreign wars, and the country hasn't had an actual external threat in a generation. Against terrorists with boxcutters, well, we had a President who deliberately ignored the warnings.
promote the general Welfare
This was going pretty well for a long time, but we seem to have an extraordinary number of politicians pushing for "every man for himself" policies. So in pretty bad shape.
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
Fail. When the government is kidnapping people at airports and sending them to Syria to be tortured, when it's spying on absolutely everyone, when a huge number of police departments positively encourage threatening and killing civilians, then no, we do not have the blessings of liberty.
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Maybe it's time to change the system. Honestly, the Constitution with the Bill of Rights is pretty decent, but it doesn't seem to be enforceable anymore. The key seems to be restoring enforceability of the Bill of Rights, but this may require structural change.