section_path: Provisions/Preamble
section_name: Preamble
paragraph_text: Preamble
  
  The preamble of the constitution recalls the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen from 1789 and establishes France as a secular and democratic country, deriving its sovereignty from the people.
  
  Since 2005 it includes the ten articles of the Charter for the Environment.
  
  The preamble of the constitution recalls the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen from 1789 and establishes France as a secular and democratic country, deriving its sovereignty from the people.
  
  Since 2005 it includes the ten articles of the Charter for the Environment.
  
  The preamble of the constitution recalls the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen from 1789 and establishes France as a secular and democratic country, deriving its sovereignty from the people.
  
  Since 2005 it includes the ten articles of the Charter for the Environment.