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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines establishes the country's sovereignty, territorial boundaries, and democratic principles. It declares that sovereignty resides with the Filipino people and that the government's authority comes from them. It also establishes that the Philippines renounces war, adheres to international law, and seeks peace and cooperation with all nations. Civilian authority is supreme over the military, whose role is to protect the state and its territory. The prime duty of the government is to serve and protect its people.

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    The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines establishes the country's sovereignty, territorial boundaries, and democratic principles. It declares that sovereignty resides with the Filipino people and that the government's authority comes from them. It also establishes that the Philippines renounces war, adheres to international law, and seeks peace and cooperation with all nations. Civilian authority is supreme over the military, whose role is to protect the state and its territory. The prime duty of the government is to serve and protect its people.

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    Latiza, Cyrel Mallie D.

    THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

    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.

    ARTICLE I

    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.

    ARTICLE II

    DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND STATE POLICIES

    PRINCIPLES

    Section 1. The Philippines is a democratic and republican State. Sovereignty resides in

    the people and all government 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 with 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 Government is to serve and protect the people. The

    Government may call upon the people to defend the State and, in the fulfillment thereof,

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