Preamble
The people of Venezuela, exercising their powers of creation and
invoking the protection of God, the historic example of our Liberator
Simon Bolivar and the heroism and sacrifice of our aboriginal ancestors and the forerunners and founders of a free and sovereign nation;
to the supreme end of reshaping the Republic to establish a democratic, participatory and self reliant, multiethnic and multicultural society
in a just, federal and decentralized State that embodies the values of
freedom, independence, peace, solidarity, the common good, the
nation's territorial integrity, comity and the rule of law for this and
future generations; guarantees the right to life, work, learning, education, social justice and equality, without discrimination or subordination of any kind; promotes peaceful cooperation among nations and
furthers and strengthens Latin American integration in accordance
with the principle of nonintervention and national self-determination
of the people, the universal and indivisible guarantee of human rights,
the democratization of imitational society, nuclear disarmament, ecological balance and environmental resources as the common and
inalienable heritage of humanity; exercising their innate power
through their representatives comprising the National Constituent
Assembly, by their freely cast vote and in a democratic Referendum,
hereby ordain the following:
