PREAMBLE
We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of
Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious
liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and
our posterity, do, for the more certain security thereof and for the better government of this State, ordain
and establish this Constitution.