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WHEREAS the Peoples of the Islands of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, who are known as Vincentians -
(a) have affirmed that their Nation is founded on the belief in the
supremacy of God and the freedom and dignity of man;
(b) desire that their society be so ordered as to express their
recognition of the principles of democracy, free institutions,
social justice and equality before the law;
(c) realize that the maintenance of human dignity presupposes safe
guarding the rights of privacy, of family life, of property and
the fostering of the pursuit of just economic rewards for
labour;
(d) desire that their Constitution should enshrine the above-
mentioned inalienable rights, freedoms, principles and ideals;
AND WHEREAS Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (which comprises
the inhabited islands of Saint Vincent, Bequia, Union Island, Canouan,
Mustique, Mayreau, Petite Saint Vincent, Prune (Palm) Islands, Young
Island and all other inhabited or uninhabited islands, islets, cays or lands
lying between latitudes 12° 31' 50"N and 13° 23' 30"N and longitudes
61° 07' 30"W and 61° 28' 00"W) is henceforth to be styled Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines (or alternatively, St. Vincent and the Grenadines);
AND WHEREAS the Peoples of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines have
been profoundly engaged in public consultations spread over six years
beginning February 2003 in a process designed to reform their
constitutional arrangements so as to produce a genuinely home-grown
Constitution truly rooted in their history, heritage and culture with the
objective of ensuring a more secure constitutional future for Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, under a Republican form of government;
NOW, THEREFORE, the following provisions shall have effect as the
Constitution of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:-
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