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CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE

Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Amended by the Law № 2952-VI dated 01.02.2011, and the Law № 586-VII dated 19.09.2013

PREAMBLE
CHAPTER I GENERAL PRINCIPLES
CHAPTER II THE RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, AND DUTIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND CITIZENS
CHAPTER III ELECTIONS; REFEREND
CHAPTER IV THE SUPREME RADA OF UKRAINE
CHAPTER V THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
CHAPTER VI THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE;OTHER ORGANS OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY
CHAPTER VII THE PROCURACY
CHAPTER VIII THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
CHAPTER IX TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE OF UKRAINE
CHAPTER X THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA
CHAPTER XI LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XII THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF UKRAINE
CHAPTER XIII AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
CHAPTER XIV FINAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER XV TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, on behalf of the Ukrainian people — citizens of Ukraine of all nationalities, expressing the sovereign will of the people, based on the centuries-old history of Ukrainian state-building and on the right to self-determination realised by the Ukrainian nation, all the Ukrainian people, providing for the guarantee of human rights and freedoms and of the worthy conditions of human life, caring for the strengthening of civil harmony on Ukrainian soil, striving to develop and strengthen a democratic, social, law-based state, aware of our responsibility before God, our own conscience, past, present and future generations, guided by the Act of Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine of 24 August 1991, approved by the national vote of 1 December 1991, adopts this Constitution — the Fundamental Law of Ukraine.

Chapter I
General Principles

Article 1
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, law-based state.
Article 2
The sovereignty of Ukraine extends throughout its entire territory.
Ukraine is a unitary state.
The territory of Ukraine within