We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of almighty God, in order to built a just and humane society and establish a Goverment that shall embody our ideals and aspiration, promote the common goods, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and to 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.
ARTICLE 1(Philippine territory) The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein and all over the territories over which the Philippine has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves and other submarine areas. The Water around, between, and connecting the islands of the archipelago, regardless of their breadth and dimensions, from part of the internal waters of the philippines,
ARTICLE II (declaration of principle and state policies)
Section 1, the philippines is a democratic and republican state. sovereignty resides in the people and all goverment authority emanates from them.
Section 2, The Philippines renounces war as an instrument of national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles of International law as part of the law of the land and adheres to the policy of peace, equality, justice, freedom, cooperation and amity all nations.
Section 3-Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the state. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory.
Section 4-The prime duty of the Goverment is to serve and protect the people. The Goverment may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof, all citizens may be required, under