The introductory section of the Magna Carta is known as this, just like the intro to the U.S. Constitution
Section 94 provides biblical justification supporting the death 
penalty in... [DOC] [TLE] Bill of Rights: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual ... [PAR] Articles three through twelve, known as the Bill of Rights, became the first ten .... 
Seen here in one of only two known copies of the preliminary printing, these ... of 
the Constitution of the United States (1787-8) and the introduction (1789) in the ...