Pentru Ritul Scoțian Antic și Acceptat, Constituțiile din 1723, 1762 și 1786 precum și Principiile de bază din 1858 reprezintă regulile după care ne ghidăm în activitatea masonică.

     În anul 1858 Mackey a definit Principiile de bază ale Francmasoneriei după cum urmează:
Landmark First: The modes of recognition
Landmark Second: The division of symbolic Masonry into three degrees
Landmark Third: The legend of the third degree
Landmark Fourth: The government of the fraternity, by a presiding officer called the Grand Master, who is elected from the body of the craft
Landmark Fifth: The prerogative of the Grand Master to preside over every assembly of the craft
Landmark Sixth: The prerogative of the Grand Master to grant dispensations for the conferring of the degrees at irregular times
Landmark Seventh: The prerogative of the Grand Master to give dispensations for opening and holding lodges
Landmark Eighth: The prerogative of the Grand Master to make Masons at site
Landmark Ninth: The necessity of Masons to congregate in Lodges
Landmark Tenth: The government of the craft, when congregated in lodges by a Master and two Wardens
Landmark Eleventh: The necessity that every lodge, when congregated, should be duly tiled
Landmark Twelfth: The right of every Mason to be represented in all general meetings of the craft, and to instruct his representatives
Landmark Thirteenth: The right of every Mason to appeal from the decision of his brethren in lodge convened, to the Grand Lodge or General Assembly of >
Landmark Fourteenth: The right of every Mason to visit and sit in every regular lodge
Landmark Fifteenth: No visitor unknown to the Brethren present, or to some one of them as a Mason, can enter a lodge without first passing an examinatio>
Landmark Sixteenth: No lodge can interfere in the business of another lodge, nor give degrees to brethren who are members of other lodges
Landmark Seventeenth: Every Freemason is amenable to the laws and regulations of the Masonic jurisdiction in which he resides, and this although he may >
Landmark Eighteenth: Certain qualifications for candidates are derived from a Landmark of the order
Landmark Nineteenth: A belief in the existence of God as the Grand Architect of the Universe
Landmark Twentieth: A belief in the resurrection to a future life
Landmark Twenty-first: The book of the law shall constitute an indispensable part of the furniture of every lodge
Landmark Twenty-second: The equality of all Masons
Landmark Twenty-third: The secrecy of the institution
Landmark Twenty-fourth: The foundation of a speculative science upon an operative art, and the symbolic use and explanation of the terms of that art, fo>
Landmark Twenty-fifth: That these Landmarks can never be changed

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