The preamble to the Philippine Constitution establishes that the sovereign Filipino people, with God's aid, are ordaining and promulgating the Constitution in order to build a just and humane society and establish a government that embodies their ideals and aspirations, promotes the common good, conserves and develops their patrimony, and secures independence, democracy, and other blessings for themselves and future generations under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace.

2. PREAMBLE
Latin word
“preambulare”
Foreword
Introductory
Statement

3. 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.

4. FUNCTIONS
• It sets down the origin
,scope, and purpose of the
constitution.
• It aids in ascertaining the
meaning of ambiguous
provisions.

5. To establish a just
and humane society
To establish a Government that shall
a.) embody our ideals and aspirations
b.) promote the common good
c.) conserve and develop our patrimony
d.) secure to ourselves and our posterity the
blessing and independence and democracy
under the
(1) rule of law
(2) a regime of truth, justice,
freedom, love, equality and
peace