Preamble, Montana Constitution

Montana Constitution
Preamble
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The Preamble of the Montana Constitution precedes 14 articles and a schedule.

Preamble

	Text of Preamble: We the people of Montana grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life, equality of opportunity and to secure the blessings of liberty for this and future generations do ordain and establish this constitution.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Montana Judicial Branch, "Montana Constitution"
• Montana.gov, "Chapter 21: A People's Constitution (1972)"
• Montana State Legislature, "Highlights from Legislative History"
• Montana Historical Society, "The Blessings of Liberty: Montana's Constitutions"
• Montana Policy Institute, "Home"
• Beartooth NBC, "Big Sky Chronicles: Montana Constitution," (dead link)
• Montana PBS, "For This and Future Generations..."

Additional reading

• Elison, Larry and Fritz Snyder. (2011). The Montana State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• University of Montana's William J. Jameson Law Library, "Documentary History of the Ratification of the Montana Constitution"