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Preamble
We, the citizens of the Land of Brandenburg, have given ourselves this Constitution in free self-determination,

in the spirit of the traditions of law, tolerance and solidarity in the Mark Brandenburg,

based on the peaceful changes in the autumn of 1989,

imbued with the will to safeguard human dignity and freedom, to organise community life based on social justice, to promote the well-being of all, to preserve and protect nature and the environment, and determined to fashion the Land of Brandenburg as a living member of the Federal Republic of Germany in a uniting Europe and in the One World.

Article 1 (Land Brandenburg)
(1) Brandenburg is a Land of the Federal Republic of Germany.

(2) The Land is divided into municipalities and associations of municipalities.

(3) The Land capital is Potsdam.

Article 2 (Principles of the Constitution)
(1) Brandenburg is a free, social and democratic Land, governed by the rule of law, committed to peace and justice and to the protection of the natural environment and culture, which strives to cooperate with other peoples, in particular with its Polish neighbours.

(2) All state authority shall be derived from the people.

(3) The people of the Land of Brandenburg acknowledge the basic rights laid down in the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms, in the European Social Charter and in the international conventions on human rights. 10