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A More Perfect Union

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4658359 ↗
Source-derived summary

"A more perfect Union" refers to a phrase in the preamble to the United States Constitution that begins with "in order to form". Toward a more perfect union is a related stock phrase in American political discourse.

A More Perfect Union may also refer to:

Books

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, a 2001 book by Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “A More Perfect Union” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through More, Perfect and Union, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, More, Perfect and Union is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “A More Perfect Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.