Republic Act No. 8438 (1997)
Congress of the Philippines
Preamble

Source: Official Gazette. Vol. 94, No. 20. Manila. National Printing Office. 1998. p. 3533.

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PREAMBLE

We, the people of the Cordillera, imploring the Aid of Divine Providence exercising our fundamental and constitutional right to self-determination in faithfulness to the struggle of our forbears for the defense of our patrimony and cultural heritage, in order to secure for ourselves and our posterity a region of peace founded on truth, freedom, justice, love and human solidarity and establish a Regional Autonomous Government that shall ensure our human rights, our human development, and our participation in the affairs of the Filipino nation, do proclaim this Charter of the Cordillera Autonomous Region.

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