Commmentary: The Preamble serves as a basic statement of the hopes and goals for the nation and government.
Preambles typically address three major areas: the source of authority for the government, the purpose of government, and the goals of the nation.
The Nation of Pacifica constitutional preamble views the people as the ultimate source for the authority of government.
The Nation of Pacifica constitutional preamble views the purpose of government as: establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, protecting the environment, encouraging trade, industry, and agriculture, constructing and maintaining infrastructure, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty, equality, community, and civilziation.
The Nation of Pacifica constitutional preamble views the goals of government as: forming a more perfect union and serving world peace as an equal partner in the global human community.
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This Constitution is a work in progress.
We the People of the Nation of Pacifica, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, protect the environment, encourage trade, industry, and agriculture, construct and maintain infrastructure, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, equality, community, and civilization to ourselves and our posterity, resolved to serve world peace as an equal partner in the global human community, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Nation of Pacifica.
[Constitution of the United States, Preamble:] We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.
[Basic Law [Constitution] for the Federal Republic of Germany, Article I:] Conscious of their responsibility before God and Men, Animated by the resolve to serve world peace as an equal partner in a united Europe, the German people have adopted, by virtue of their constituent power, this Basic Law.
The Germans in the Länder of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia have achieved the unity and freedom of Germany in free self-determination. This Basic Law is thus valid for the entire German People.
[Constitution of the Republic of France, Preamble:] The French people solemnly proclaim their attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789, confirmed and complemented by the Preamble to the Constitution of 1946.
By virtue of these principles and that of the self-determination of peoples, the Republic offers to the overseas territories that express the will to adhere to them new institutions founded on the common ideal of liberty, equality and fraternity and conceived with a view to their democratic development.
This Constitution is a work in progress.
