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Preamble of the Constitution

IN THE NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD We the People of Ghana, IN EXERCISE of our natural and inalienable right to establish a framework of government which shall secure for ourselves and posterity the blessings of liberty, equality of opportunity and prosperity;

IN A SPIRIT of friendship and peace with all peoples of the world; AND IN SOLEMN declaration and affirmation of our commitment to;

Freedom, Justice, Probity and Accountability,

The Principle that all powers of Government spring from the Sovereign Will of the People;

The Principle of Universal Adult Suffrage;

The Rule of Law;

The protection and preservation of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, Unity and Stability for our Nation;

DO HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

Interpretation/Insight

PROFESSOR STEPHEN KWAKU ASARE VRS THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

WRIT NO: J1/15/2015 14TH OCTOBER, 2015

Per Dotse JSC

The preamble can be taken to be in two parts, the operative and subordinate parts.

What I consider to be the operative and constitutive parts are the words

“we the People of Ghana … Do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution”.

The subordinate parts will be from the words: “In Exercise of our natural and inalienable right to establish... up to and including all the words therein to “The protection and preservation of fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, Unity and Stability for our Nation.”

If the above preambular statements are considered alongside Article 1(1) of the Constitution 1992 … Then a full understanding of the philosophical underpinnings upon which the framers of the Constitution 1992 fashioned it out will be clearly seen… "