WE, THE PEOPLE OF BURMA including the Frontier
Areas and the Karenni States, Determined to establish in strength and unity a
SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT STATE, TO maintain social order on the basis of the
eternal principles of JUSTICE, LIBERTY AND EQUALITY AND To guarantee and
secure to all citizens JUSTICE social, economic and political; LIBERTY of
thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, Location, association and action;
EQUALITY of status, of opportunity and before the law, IN OUR CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY this Tenth day of Thadingyut waxing, 13O9 B.E. (Twenty-fourth day of
September,.1947 A.D), DO HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS
CONSTITUTION.
This is the Preamble of the Union of Burma’s 1947
Constitution.
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WE The People