Is the American Government Aligned with its Mission Statement?

The government of the United States of America has a mission statement.

It's nothing new. It's not one of the "changes" brought forth by President Obama's administration. It's not something that was birthed out of the last decade's mission statement craze.

Actually, the government's mission statement is over 200 years old. You've heard it before:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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."

Perhaps you've never before heard the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution referred to as the mission statement of the U.S. government. But it is. It declares the exact purpose of the Constitution and of the government which the Constitution established. This mission statement hasn't changed in the 222 years since the founding father wrote it.

My question is this: if the laws and programs established by U.S. government officials fail to align with government's mission statement, are those laws and programs considered unconstitutional? And if they are not, shouldn't they be?

If a law, executive order, or judicial ruling is not helping to:

- form a more perfect union
- establish justice
- insure domestic tranquility
- provide for the common defense
- promote the general welfare
- secure the blessings of liberty to current and future generations of American citizens

shouldn't it be overturned?

And if government officials' actions defy this mission statement, should those officials be fired? They would in the business world.