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Philippine Constitution - The Preamble and National
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The 1987
Philippine Constitution
THE PREAMBLE
We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of
Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane
society and establish a Government that shall embody our
ideals and aspirations, promote the common good,
conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to
ourselves and our posterity the blessings of
independence and democracy under the rule of law and a
regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and
peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution. |
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ARTICLE 1:
NATIONAL TERRITORY
The national territory comprises the Philippine
archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced
therein, and all other territories over which the
Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting
of its terrestrial, fluvial, and aerial domains,
including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil,
the insular shelves, and other submarine areas. The
waters around, between, and connecting the islands of
the archipelago, regardless of their breadth and
dimensions, form part of the internal waters of the
Philippines. |
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