NationStates Jolt Archive

Note:All people that quote the entirety of this proposal will be ignored from the disscussion.

Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile without being tried in a court of law.

Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

We realise that this is an extremely long post (and we are not given to submitting such), but for whatever it is worth, we submit the Declaration of Rights in our own constitution for your consideration:

TITLE VI FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Article 1. Individual Rights

(1) All persons are born free and equal in their humanity, and are possessed of inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is the purpose of government to secure those rights within the context of a just and peaceful society.

(2) The rights of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of conscience shall be respected and sustained.

(3) Government shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. No devotional activities shall be promoted by government, or permitted in the public schools.

(4) No person shall be deprived of equal protection of the law on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or sexual preference.

(5) No form of slavery or involuntary servitude shall exist, except in cases wherein the party has been convicted of a crime in accordance with law.

(6) All persons accused of a crime shall be entitled to a fair and impartial trial by a jury of their peers, to the presumption of innocence, and to the assistance of competent legal counsel. All persons shall be protected against self-incrimination. No evidence obtained in violation of this Constitution shall be admissible in a court of law.

(7) No ex post facto law or bill of attainder shall be passed. No person shall be tried more than once for the same crime; nor shall penalties be imposed for any crime that are more severe than those in effect when the crime was committed.

(8) In all civil cases the party at risk shall be entitled to the presumption of innocence, and, if the case involves a claim for at least one hundred dollars, to a trial by jury.

(9) All persons held in custody shall be entitled to know the nature of the accusation against them, and to a speedy and public trial. Unreasonable bail shall not be required.

(10) No form of torture, capital punishment, corporal punishment, or other cruel or unusual punishment shall be permitted.

(11) All persons shall have a right to be secure in their persons and property from unreasonable search and seizure.

(12) The right of artistic expression shall be protected and sustained. No form of prior censorship of works of art or literature shall exist.

(13) Government shall make no law infringing upon the right of adults to control their own bodies, and to ingest substances of their own choice. No law shall be passed to restrict or prohibit sexual activity between consenting adults.

(14) The right of workers to organise, bargain collectively and strike shall not be infringed. Parliament shall enforce this right by means of appropriate legislation.

(15) All citizens who are at least eighteen years of age, and not serving a sentence lawfully imposed by a Court in a criminal matter, shall be eligible to vote in all elections, and to serve in all offices of government except Head of State.

(16) Upon completing a criminal sentence, the party convicted shall be restored to full rights of citizenship, if citizenship was held prior to conviction, and to all other civil rights if such was not the case.

(17) No form of military conscription shall exist.

(18) The right of the people to freely travel to and trade with other countries, except in time of War or pursuant to sanctions imposed by the United Nations and confirmed by Parliament, shall not be infringed.

(19) All persons at least eighteen years of age, resident in Ursoria at the time of the ratification of this Constitution, who freely choose to accept citizenship, shall be considered citizens of Ursoria. The citizenship of children below the age of eighteen years shall be determined by those having custody over them, with the preference of the head-of-household taking precedence in case of conflict. Persons over eighteen years of age who are under legal disability or serving a criminal sentence shall nonetheless be entitled to freely choose to accept or reject Ursorian citizenship. Thereafter, children born to any Ursorian citizens, wherever resident, shall be considered citizens of Ursoria by birth; and children born on Ursorian soil to parents not citizens shall be considered citizens by birth unless their parents (or other persons having custody over them) shall renounce Ursorian citizenship on their behalf.

(20) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations on the tenth day of December, 1948, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations on the twentieth day of November, 1989, are hereby adopted as fundamental law and made a part of this Constitution, by reference.

Article 2. Social Justice

(1) Human life being a necessary condition for human freedom, all people shall have a right to the requisites of a human existence, including adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical care, to be provided at public expense, if necessary.

(2) It shall be the policy of government to ensure, to the extent of its ability, that all adults willing and able to work have an opportunity to obtain gainful employment.

(3) All children shall have a right to receive an adequate education; and to this end, the government shall maintain and properly fund the public schools. The right of parents to place their children in private or parochial schools, or to provide private tutoring, shall be respected, subject to reasonable regulation.

(4) No form of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference shall be permitted in housing, public accommodation or employment.

(5) Government shall foster and promote the arts, sciences and culture, to the extent of its ability.

Article 3. Peace and International Relations

(1) All human beings have the right to live free from the scourge of war. To that end, the Kingdom of Ursoria forever renounces war as an instrument of national policy, except in case of self-defence.

(2) The Kingdom of Ursoria adheres to the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Convention on Chemical and Biological Weapons, and the Convention on Land Mines. It declares its willingness to submit all disputes with other nations to impartial arbitration by a neutral agency, mutually acceptable to all parties.

(3) No nuclear, biological or chemical weapons shall be permitted on the national territory.

(4) No foreign military forces shall be stationed on the national territory.

(5) The foreign policy of the Kingdom of Ursoria shall, to the extent permitted by considerations of honour and humanity, be one of scrupulous non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations. The government shall provide asylum and support to refugees of all nationalities, to the limit of its ability.

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