Article 1

1. The Polish People's Republic shall be a socialist State.

2. In the Polish People's Republic authority shall be vested in the working people of town and country.

1. The working people shall wield State authority through their representatives elected to the Diet (Sejm) of the Polish People's Republic and to the People's Councils on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot.

2. The people's representatives to the Diet of the Polish People's Republic and to the People's Councils shall be accountable to their constituents and may be recalled by them.

1. The Polish United Workers' Party shall be the guiding political force of society in building socialism.

2. The co-operation of the Polish United Workers' Party, the United Peasants' Party and the Democratic Party shall constitute foundations of a National Unity Front.

3. The National Unity Front shall constitute a common platform on which social organizations of the working people operate and all the citizens - members of the Party and political organizations and persons with no party adherence, irrespective of their attitute toward religion - patriotically unite to promote interests of the Polish People's Republic.

In the Polish People's Republic it shall be the primary objective of the State activity to develop socialist society in all its aspects, to expand creative forces of the Nation and of each person and to meet the needs of citizens more and more adequately.

The Polish People's Republic –

(1) shall safeguard and expand the socialist achievements of the Polish working people of town and country, their authority and freedom;

(2) shall ensure that citizens participate in government, and shall promote various form of self-government by the working people;

(3) shall develop the productive forces of the country and the national economy through a planned use and increase of its material resources, sound work organization, and continuous progress of science and technology;

(4) shall strengthen social property as the mainstay of the economic power of the country and of national welfare;

(5) shall implement the principles of social justice, eliminate the exploitation of man by man, and counteract any infringements of the principles of community life;

(6) shall provide conditions conducive to a steady rise in the living standard and to a progressive obliteration of distinctions between town and country, between manual and non-manual labour;

(7) concerned about national development, shall protect the family, motherhood and the education of the young generation;

(8) shall take care of public health;

(9) shall promote and spread education;

(10) shall ensure the all-round development of science and national culture.

Article 6

In its policy the Polish People's Republic -

(1) shall be guided by the interests of the Polish Nation, its sovereignty, independence and security, by the will for peace, and co-operation among nations;

(2) shall follow the noble traditions of solidarity with the forces of liberty and progress, shall consolidate friendship and co-operation with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other socialist States;

(3) shall base its relations with States of different social systems on the principles of peaceful co-existence and co-operation.

The Polish People's Republic shall implement and develop a socialist democracy.

Article 8

1. The laws of the Polish People's Republic shall express the interests and the will of the working people.

2. Strict observance of the law shall be the fundamental duty of every organ of State and of every citizen.

3. All the organs of State authority and administration shall work on the basis of the law.

In their work all the organs of State authority and administration shall rest upon the conscious and active support of the broadest masses and shall have the duty -

(1) to account to the people for their work;

(2) to examine carefully and comply with reasonable proposals, complaints and suggestions, in keeping with the law;

(3) to explain to the working people principal objectives and guiding principles of the policy pursued by the people's authority in various fields of State, economic and cultural activity.

The Armed Forces of the Polish People's Republic shall safeguard the sovereignty and independence of the Polish Nation, its security and peace.