We the sovereign people in the Philippine Islands, the Far-East Orient State, the Filipinos, cultural minorities and cultural majority, Indigenous People in Maharlika Archipelago, since time and immemorial who are as well indigenous peoples in the account of their descent, as successors-in-interest, asserting our inherent rights to self-governance, self-government, ancestral domain, social justice, human rights and cultural integrity, united in heart and in spirit in the practice of the Maharlika Common Code, the love of God, the love of the good, to build a rich, prosperous and powerful indigenous people nation within an existing Philippine nation, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.