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Six example sentences with preamble, each labelled with its topic.
Before any clause on penalties, the preamble states that the drafters intended to protect tenants from sudden eviction.
Law
Delegates argued for three days over the preamble alone, since its opening lines would frame every article that followed.
Politics
The 1787 convention placed a short preamble at the head of the document, naming the people rather than the states.
History
The climate treaty's preamble calls the atmosphere a common concern of humankind, language judges later used to read its vaguer articles.
Environment
The trade agreement's preamble promises rising living standards, a purpose economists cite whenever the tariff schedules seem to contradict it.
Economics
Political philosophers read a constitution's preamble as its moral argument, the reasons stated before any of the rules.
Philosophy
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