In the belief that it is proper for students to establish a system of government for the regulation of their community, we, as the students of the undergraduate schools of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, do adopt this constitution to protect the intrinsic powers and rights of the student body, to insure freedom of association, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and all other freedoms which are necessary and consistent with the existence of Mercer University as an academic community.
-Preamble to the SGA Constitution