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.


EXPLINATION:

It shall be the sovereign Filipino people basically through the facilities and structures of government
and through peoples organization.

It is said that the Preamble is not a part of the Constitutions nor a source of rights. But it can certainly
be referred to in knowing the aims or purposes of the Constitutions. Dean Vicente Sinco says of the
Preamble: The preamble performs a vital function in a constitution. Its value is not merely formal but
real and substantive. It is to the constitution what the enacting clause is to a statue. The authenticity
of the authorship of the constitution is made patent in the preamble. Without this or something
equivalent to it, the source of authority that gives valid force to the constitutional mandates may lie
concealed, perhaps left to the dangers of uncertain conjectures.
ARTICLE IV
CITIZENSHIP
Section 1. The following are citizens of the Philippines:
1. Those who are citizens of the Philippine Islands at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution.
2. Those born in the Philippine Islands of foreign parents who, before the adoption of this
Constitution, had been elected to public office in the Philippine Islands.
3. Those whose fathers are citizens of the Philippines.
4. Those whose mothers are citizens of the Philippines and, upon reaching the age of majority,
elect Philippine citizenship.
5. Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.
Section 2. Philippine citizenship may be lost or reacquired in the manner provided by law.