As Constituted

NewMexiKen has finished The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart. It’s a readable, rather well-told narrative about the Constitutional Convention.

The classic work on the Constitutional Convention is Catherine Drinker Bowen’s Miracle At Philadelphia. I’ve never read Bowen’s book so can’t suggest the choice between the two.

But here’s another trivia question from the Constitution.

The Preamble begins with the famous “We the People of the United States, in order to [blah, blah, yada yada, and so forth], do ….

“Do” what? What are the two predicates in this famous sentence?