<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <text> <s id="1"> <w id="w1.1">PREAMBLE</w> </s> <s id="2"> <w id="w2.1">On</w> <w id="w2.2">the</w> <w id="w2.3">25th</w> <w id="w2.4">of</w> <w id="w2.5">April</w> <w id="w2.6">1974</w> <w id="w2.7">the</w> <w id="w2.8">Armed</w> <w id="w2.9">Forces</w> <w id="w2.10">Movement</w> <w id="w2.11">crowned</w> <w id="w2.12">the</w> <w id="w2.13">long</w> <w id="w2.14">resistance</w> <w id="w2.15">and</w> <w id="w2.16">reflected</w> <w id="w2.17">the</w> <w id="w2.18">deepest</w> <w id="w2.19">feelings</w> <w id="w2.20">of</w> <w id="w2.21">the</w> <w id="w2.22">Portuguese</w> <w id="w2.23">people</w> <w id="w2.24">by</w> <w id="w2.25">overthrowing</w> <w id="w2.26">the</w> <w id="w2.27">fascist</w> <w id="w2.28">regime</w> <w id="w2.29">.</w> </s> <s id="3"> <w id="w3.1">Freeing</w> <w id="w3.2">Portugal</w> <w id="w3.3">from</w> <w id="w3.4">dictatorship</w> <w id="w3.5">,</w> <w id="w3.6">oppression</w> <w id="w3.7">and</w> <w id="w3.8">colonialism</w> <w id="w3.9">represented</w> <w id="w3.10">a</w> <w id="w3.11">revolutionary</w> <w id="w3.12">change</w> <w id="w3.13">and</w> <w id="w3.14">the</w> <w id="w3.15">beginning</w> <w id="w3.16">of</w> <w id="w3.17">an</w> <w id="w3.18">historic</w> <w id="w3.19">turning</w> <w id="w3.20">point</w> <w id="w3.21">for</w> <w id="w3.22">Portuguese</w> <w id="w3.23">society</w> <w id="w3.24">.</w> </s> <s id="4"> <w id="w4.1">The</w> <w id="w4.2">Revolution</w> <w id="w4.3">restored</w> <w id="w4.4">their</w> <w id="w4.5">fundamental</w> <w id="w4.6">rights</w> <w id="w4.7">and</w> <w id="w4.8">freedoms</w> <w id="w4.9">to</w> <w id="w4.10">the</w> <w id="w4.11">people</w> <w id="w4.12">of</w> <w id="w4.13">Portugal</w> <w id="w4.14">.</w> </s> <s id="5"> <w id="w5.1">In</w> <w id="w5.2">the</w> <w id="w5.3">exercise</w> <w id="w5.4">of</w> <w id="w5.5">those</w> <w id="w5.6">rights</w> <w id="w5.7">and</w> <w id="w5.8">freedoms</w> <w id="w5.9">,</w> <w id="w5.10">the</w> <w id="w5.11">people</w> <w id="w5.12">’</w> <w id="w5.13">s</w> <w id="w5.14">legitimate</w> <w id="w5.15">representatives</w> <w id="w5.16">are</w> <w id="w5.17">gathered</w>