The Preamble to the Hopi constitution states that they are a self-governing tribe, focused on working together for peace and agreements between villages in order to preserve the “ good things of Hopi life .” The Constitution consists of thirteen different “ Articles ,” all with a different topic of interest.

In reviewing the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) Bosnian Genocide Case in the judgement of Jorgic v. Germany on July 12, 2007 the European Court of Human Rights quoted from the ICJ ruling on the Bosnian Genocide Case to draw a distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide. The term ' ethnic cleansing ' has frequently been employed to refer to the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are the subject of this case ... General Assembly resolution 47 / 121 referred in its Preamble to ' the abhorrent policy of ' ethnic cleansing ', which is a form of genocide ', as being carried on in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Some today feel that the Confederate Constitution's Preamble including the phrase " each State acting in its sovereign and independent character " focuses the new Constitution on the rights of the individual States.

It is also usually reproduced with its Preamble, the Imperial Oath Sworn in the Sanctuary in the Imperial Palace, and the Imperial Rescript on the Promulgation of the Constitution, which together come to nearly another 1, 000 words.

The formal name of this item is U-5 / 98, but it is widely known as the " Decision on the constituency of peoples " (), referring to the Court's interpretation of the significance of the phrase " constituent peoples " used in the Preamble of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He and Camacho defended their world title crowns on September 26, in what was nicknamed, as a matter of a fact, The Preamble to Bramble.

In 2000 a new Code, which for the first time included a Preamble defining the Spirit of Cricket was approved on 3 May.

The Preamble traces Fiji's constitutional history, from its settlement by the ancestors of the Fijian and Rotuman peoples and the subsequent arrival of numerous different peoples, through the decision of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the King who had united all of Fiji's tribes under his leadership in 1871, and his subsequent decision to cede the country to Great Britain on 10 October 1874, and the later decision of the Rotuman chiefs to cede Rotuma in November 1879, to the gaining of independence from the United Kingdom and the adoption of the first constitution in 1970, the abrogation of that constitution in 1987, and the subsequent proclamation of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Fiji and the promulgation of a republican constitution by the President, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, in 1990, and the subsequent constitutional review undertaken in the mid-1990s, leading to the adoption of the present document.

The Preamble sees an unbroken continuity connecting all of these historical events that have left their mark on Fiji's constitutional history.

The Preamble goes on to recognize that " all those who chose to make their homes in these islands form our multicultural society ," and recognizes the value and worth of the diverse faiths, traditions, languages, and cultures of the various ethnic components of Fiji's society.

The Preamble was based on Vindiciae contra tyrannos by Philippe de Mornay, and other works of monarchomachs may have been sources of inspiration also.

The Preamble begins with a classic statement of a two-class analysis of capitalism: “ The working class and the employing class have nothing in common .” The class struggle will continue until the victory of the working class: “ Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system .” The Preamble denounces trade unions as incapable of coping with the power of the employing class.

The Preamble explains, “ Instead of the conservative motto, ‘ A fair day ’ s wage for a fair day ’ s work ,’ we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘ Abolition of the wage system .’” The IWW embraced syndicalism, and opposed participation in electoral politics: “ by organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old .”

The Preamble serves solely as an introduction, and does not assign powers to the federal government ,< ref > See Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U. S. 11, 22 ( 1905 ) (" Although th preamble indicates the general purposes for which the people ordained and established the Constitution, it has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the government of the United States, or on any of its departments.

Balanced against these techniques are those that focus more attention on broader efforts to discern the meaning of the document from more than just the wording ; the Preamble is also useful for these efforts to identify the " spirit " of the Constitution.

While the Supreme Court did not specifically mention the Preamble in these cases, it seems apparent that it was expounding on the implications of what it understood reference to " the People " in the Preamble to mean .</ ref > The Court has also understood this language to mean that the sovereignty of the government under the U. S. Constitution is superior to that of the States .< ref > Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U. S. ( 2 Dall.

When Socrates and Phaedrus proceed to recount the various tools of speechmaking as written down by the great orators of the past, starting with the " Preamble " and the " Statement Facts " and concluding with the " Recapitulation ", Socrates states that the fabric seems a little threadbare. He goes on to compare one with only knowledge of these tools to a doctor who knows how to raise and lower a body's temperature but does not know when it is good or bad to do so, stating that one who has simply read a book or came across some potions knows nothing of the art. One who knows how to compose the longest passages on trivial topics or the briefest passages on topics of great importance is similar, when he claims that to teach this is to impart the knowledge of composing tragedies ; if one were to claim to have mastered harmony after learning the lowest and highest notes on the lyre, a musician would say that this knowledge is what one must learn before one masters harmony, but it is not the knowledge of harmony itself. This, then, is what must be said to those who attempt to teach the art of rhetoric through " Preambles " and " Recapitulations "; they are ignorant of dialectic, and teach only what is necessary to learn as preliminaries.

This key Resolution of the World Peace Congress, emanating from the Third Congress in Thailand in 2010, points out the ubiquity of war after the signing of UN Charter ( in the City of San Francisco on 26th June, 1945 ), the Preamble to which states that members of the United Nations are " determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war .” To re-focus attention to world peace and help accomplish this goal set by UN Charter, the World Peace Congress unanimously approved this Resolution and asked the United Nations, via a communication to its Secretary General, to similarly endorse the declaration renouncing “ War as an instrument of State Policy .” This objective is to be further advanced by positive policies and practices in the form of educational aids, media events, and other promotions organized by the World Peace Congress collaborators worldwide.

Seeing the Civil War as God's punishment for the omission of God from the Constitution, they discussed a proposed amendment to alter the wording of the Preamble to acknowledge God.

The legitimacy of these powers flows from the " General Welfare " clause in the Preamble, the " Necessary & Proper Clause ", and the " Commerce Clause.

The largest one was writing out the Preamble to the United Nations Charter in four languages, commissioned by the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1960 for $ 1000.

After the accession of East Germany to West Germany Article 23 was repealed and Article 146 and the Preamble of the Basic Law were amended.

" While the IWW shared the concept of a mass-oriented labor movement — what the IWW would call One Big Union — with the Knights of Labor, the idea of workers having much in common with employers was discarded by the IWW, whose Preamble declares that " the working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

The concept was initially considered in 1908, when the idea of adopting the Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World was voted upon by the New South Wales Trade Union Congress, and the first concrete step toward one big union was adopted in 1912.

The Preamble is a new addition and is related to " the Spirit of the Game ;" it was introduced to discourage the increasing practices of ungentlemanly conduct.

The writing of the Preamble was a careful balancing act.

The IWBP leader, and then Chief Minister, Sir Robert Peliza, was the mover in 1969 of the Preamble to the Constitution which safeguards Gibraltar from ever passing to Spain without the expressed wishes of the Gibraltarians.

The Act was remarkable for of its extensive Preamble, which took the form of an ideological justification, phrased as an indictment ( a detailed list of grievances ) of King Philip.

As a result, The Constitution Preamble, commonly known as " Objective Resolution " was approved by the national assembly which in principle accepts that all laws and amendments will be Islamic or made Islamic.

Additionally, when interpreting a legal document, courts are usually interested in understanding the document as its authors did and their motivations for creating it ; as a result, the courts have cited the Preamble for evidence of the history, intent and meaning of the Constitution as it was understood by the Founders.

").</ ref > Stated in negative terms, the Preamble has been interpreted as meaning that the Constitution was not the act of sovereign and independent states.

The Preamble has been used to confirm that the Constitution was made for, and is binding only in, the United States of America.

In the new revision, the old Preamble was completely stricken and the following text was added to Article 1, Section 2: " The objects of this Fraternity shall include the promotion of friendship, the exertion of moral influence, the diffusion of liberal culture, and the advancement of equity in college affairs.

Jay noted the language of the Preamble of the Constitution, which says that the Constitution was ordained and established by " We the people ," and stated: " Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country, and, in the language of sovereignty, establishing a Constitution by which it was their will that the State governments should be bound.

" When John Gray's 1825 Lecture on Human Happiness was first published in the United States in 1826, the publishers appended the Preamble and constitution of the Friendly Association for Mutual Interests, located at Valley Forge.

* New wording for the Preamble.

In 1908 the IWW responded to what it considered the AFL's class collaborationist tendencies with new wording in the IWW Preamble,

Although the Preamble is an integral part of the Charter, it does not set out any of the rights or obligations of member states, rather its purpose is to serve as an interpretative guide for the provisions of the Charter through the highlighting of some of the core motives of the founders of the organisation.

SGI states that, citing the Preamble and Purposes and Principles of its " Charter ", religious tolerance and a deep respect for cultures are strongly emphasized in the organization and actively sharing in interfaith dialogue.

** The Preamble to the U. S. Constitution: " We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

** The Preamble to the Confederate Constitution: " We, the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.

The Constitution of Fiji begins with a Preamble, which sets out the historical, cultural, and political reasons for the drafting of the 1997 Constitution.

The Preamble calls for workers to build an organization of all “ members in any one industry, or in all industries .” Although that sounds a lot like the industrial unionism developed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the IWW would oppose John L. Lewis ’ campaign to split from the American Federation of Labor and organize industrial unions in the 1930s.

This is echoed in stanzas four and five, which provide ethical justification for the workers ’ claim to “ all the world .” The second stanza (“ Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite ”) assumes the two antagonistic classes described in the Preamble.

" This approach reasons that, if the political community speaking for itself in the Preamble (" We the People ") includes only citizens, by negative implication it specifically excludes non-citizens in some fashion .< ref > See, e. g., Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U. S. ( 19 How.

* Music and lyrics for " Interplanet Janet ", " No More Kings ", " The Preamble ", " The Great American Melting Pot ", " A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing ", and many others, contributions to Schoolhouse Rock!

The Preamble ends with a slogan to struggle for new successes.

A bench consisting of Justices G. S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly pointed out that laws enacted for achieving the goals set out in the Preamble to the Constitution were inadequate ; the benefits of welfare measures embodied in the legislation had not reached millions of poor people, and efforts to bridge the gap between rich and poor did not yield the desired results.

After several BPUPKI meetings, the five principles ( sila ) proposed by Sukarno in 1 June 1945, were rearranged for the Jakarta Charter and the Preamble of the Indonesian Constitution ( Saafrudin Bahar et al., 1995 and Kusuma, 2004 ).