PREAMBLE We, the chosen representatives of the Independent Spiritualist Association of the United States of America, assembled in order to form a more perfect and efficient working organization, establish intelligent cooperation, insure harmonious action and financial success, provide for the advancement of educational, scientific and religious researches, purposes and enterprises germane to the study of the phenomena and promulgation of the philosophy and religion of Spiritualism, and to secure the blessings of equal liberty and protection under the law to ourselves and our posterity as a people, hereby establish this Constitution for the guidance and control of the Independent Spiritualist Association of the United States of America.