Preliminaries

The preamble to the Declaration of Independence is a concise statement of purpose for the Declaration it introduces:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Can we agree that foreword is not spelled "forward"? and that a prelude is not an allusion?