{ Adopted: 16 Dec 1992 / Status: 1 Jan 1993 }
We, the citizens of the Czech Republic in Bohemia, Moravia,
and Silesia, at the time of the renewal of an independent Czech
state, being loyal to all good traditions of the ancient statehood
of Czech Crown's Lands and the Czechoslovak State, resolved
to build, protect and develop the Czech Republic in the spirit of
the inviolable values of human dignity
and freedom, as the
home of equal and free citizens who are conscious of their
duties towards others and their responsibility towards the whole,
as a free and democratic state based on the respect for human
rights and the principles of civic society, as part of the family
of European and world democracies, resolved to jointly protect
and develop the inherited natural and cultural, material and
spiritual wealth, resolved to abide by all time-tried principles of
a law-observing state, through our freely elected
representatives, adopt this Constitution of the Czech
Republic.