We, the People of the Earth,
conscious that humanity has entered an era in which its power has for the first time become commensurate with its vulnerability;
recognizing that war, ecological destruction, technological domination, extreme inequality, political alienation, and the loss of shared meaning threaten not individual states, but the very integrity of life on this planet;
affirming that no nation, no state, no corporation, no ideology, and no technology may constitute the supreme measure of the human future;
declaring that the dignity of the person, freedom of conscience, the sanctity of life, the diversity of cultures, the rights of future generations, and the integrity of the biosphere take precedence over all forms of power;
recognizing the Earth as the common home of humanity, and humanity as the bearer of a common fate and a common responsibility;
acknowledging that the absence of a perfect global subject does not release humanity from the obligation to begin forming a more mature order — and that the impossibility of a complete solution is no justification for inaction in the face of common threats;
hereby adopt this Constitution as the moral, legal, and civilizational orientation for the planetary order, one designed to constrain destructive forms of power, to affirm dignity, freedom, and responsibility, to secure the conditions for peaceful coexistence, and to open the path toward the mature self-determination of humanity as a unified moral-political whole.