Preamble

We, the members of the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, in order to promote justice, insure tranquility, encourage the general welfare, foster the social and economic advancement of our people, safeguard our interests, bring our representative tribal government into closer alignment with State and National governments, and secure for ourselves and for our posterity the blessings of freedom and liberty, do hereby establish this revised constitution as the foundation upon which our tribal government shall rest.