These 19 words enshrined at the start of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution provide a vision for a republic yet established. They offered a new way of self-governance which entrusted people (defined as landholding white men)—not some deity—with sustaining a civil peace absent of social strife or fear of governmental encroachment upon one’s unalienable right. In the founders’ minds, the establishment of justice ensured domestic tranquility.
But domestic tranquility for whom? Physical walls on international borders and invisible ones in local neighborhoods separating whiteness from color, for-profit prisons housing Black and Brown bodies, and local law enforcement militarization: All these ensure the domestic tranquility of those whom society privileges.
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