PREAMBLE
We the people of the Township of Hampton, under authority granted
to the citizens of all municipalities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to adopt home rule charters, and thus to exercise to the fullest extent
the rights of local self-government, do hereby ordain and adopt this
Home Rule Charter. We do this in order to establish a municipal government
that will be more responsive and more responsible to the needs and
desires of the people of this Township, both now and in the future.