Preamble
PREAMBLE
Objects of government. We the people of Maine, in order to
establish justice, insure tranquility, provide for our mutual
defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and
our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with
grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the
Universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the
design; and, imploring God's aid and direction in
its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and
independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine
and do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the
government of the same.