CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEAPREAMBLE
We the people of Equatorial Guinea, Conscious of our responsibility before God and history;
Driven by the will to safeguard our independence, organize and consolidate our national unity;
Desirous of upholding the authoritic African spirit of family and community set-up adapted to the new social and legal structures of the modern world;
Conscious of the fact that the charismatic authority of the traditional family is the foundation of the Equato-Guinean Society;
Firmly support the principles of social justice and solemnly reaffirm our attachment to the mental freedoms enshrined in the universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948;
By virtue of these principles and the free determination of the people;
Adopt the following constitution of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.