>By the way, many web versions of the preamble contain this:
>
>>We declare that this Republic can only endure as a free government
>>while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and
>>for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets; that
>>the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which
>>grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as we
>>are in name, one united brotherhood of free [men].
>
>Why the bracketed [men]? Is something being elided, or was the word missing?
Doug