[Source: Parliament of the Czech Republic’s website]

CONSTITUTION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Constitutional Act No. 1/1993 Coll. of the Czech National Council of 16th December 1992
as amended by Acts No. 347/1997 Coll., 300/2000 Coll., 448/2001 Coll., and 395/2001 Coll.

The Czech National Council passed the following Constitutional Act

Preamble
We, the citizens of the Czech Republic in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia,
at this time of the reconstitution of an independent Czech State,
true to all the sound traditions of the ancient statehood
of the Lands of the Crown of Bohemia as well as of Czechoslovak statehood,
resolved to build, protect and advance the Czech Republic
in the spirit of the inalienable values of human dignity and freedom
as the home of equal and free citizens
who are aware of their obligations towards others
and of their responsibility to the community,
as a free and democratic State founded on respect for human rights
and on the precept of a community of citizens,
as a member of the family of democratic nations of Europe and the world,
resolved to protect and develop their natural, cultural, material and spiritual heritage,
resolved to heed all the well-proven tenets of law-abiding state,
have adopted through our freely elected representatives this Constitution of the Czech Republic.

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Article 3
An integral component of the constitutional system of the Czech Republic is the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.

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Article 6
Political decisions shall proceed from the will of the majority, expressed by free vote. Majority decisions shall respect protection of minorities.

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Article 112
(1) The constitutional system of the Czech Republic shall comprise this Constitution, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, Constitutional Acts adopted under the provisions of this Constitution, and Constitutional Acts of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic, the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and of the Czech National Council defining the state frontier of the Czech Republic, and Constitutional Acts of the Czech National Council adopted after the 6th of June, 1992.
(2) The existing Constitution, the Constitutional Act concerning the Czechoslovak Federation, the Constitutional Acts amending it, and the Constitutional Act of the Czech National Council No. 67/1990, on the State Symbols of the Czech Republic, are hereby repealed.
(3) The other Constitutional Acts in force on the territory of the Czech Republic on the day this Constitution enters into effect shall have the force of a law.

Article 113
This Constitution shall enter into effect on the 1st of January, 1993.

Milan Uhde (Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies)
Václav Klaus (Prime Minister)

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Amended provisions
99, 39(3), 43, 98(1), 1(2), 10 - 10b, 39(4), 49, 52, 87(1)a-b, 87(2), 89(3), 95
translated by Libor Chlad, Parliamentary Institute
and proof read by J. Paul O'Keeffe, B.A., M.Sc.