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Proposal - the rights and duties of all wa members

Serbian_Soviet_Union
02-05-2009, 09:10
Rights and Duties of WA States

Category: Political Stability
Strength: Significant

Description: :
WA membership in NationStates is a choice, not a requirement. Those of us who chose to participate have certain responsibilities to ourselves, each other, and the entire NationStates community. At the same time, we as NationStates have certain rights and responsibilities that we do not willingly give up when we chose to join the WA. It is therefore vital to clearly delineate what constitutes sovereign law versus WA sanctioned international law. This document will attempt to enumerate those most basic of rights, as they exist within and as defined by the World Assembly of NationStates.

A Declaration on Rights and Duties of WA States:

Section I: The Principle of National Sovereignty:

Article 1
§ Every WA Member State has the right to independence and hence to exercise freely, without dictation by any other NationState, all its legal powers, including the choice of its own form of government.

Article 2
§ Every WA Member State has the right to exercise jurisdiction over its territory and over all persons and things therein, subject to the immunities recognized by international law.

Article 3
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to refrain from unrequested intervention in the internal or external economic, political, religious, and social affairs of any other NationState, subject to the immunities recognized by international law.

Section II: The Art of War:

Article 4
§ Every WA Member State has the right of individual or collective self-defense against armed attack.

Article 5
§ War in the World of NationStates is defined as a consensual act between two or more NationStates. Any and all NationStates may, at their discretion, respond to declarations of war on NationStates who wish to avoid war. The recommended method is a barrage of I.G.N.O.R.E. Cannons.

Article 6
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to refrain from fomenting civil strife in the territory of another NationState, and to prevent the organization within its territory of activities calculated to foment such civil strife.

Article 7
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to refrain from giving assistance to any NationState which is acting in violation of Article 5, or against which the World Assembly is taking preventive or enforcement action.

Article 8
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to refrain from recognizing any territorial acquisition by another NationState acting in violation of Article 5.

Section III: The Role of the World Assembly:

Article 9
§ Every WA Member State has the right to equality in law with every other WA Member State.

Article 10
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to carry out in good faith its obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law, and it may not invoke provisions in its constitution or its laws as an excuse for failure to perform this duty.

Article 11
§ Every WA Member State has the duty to conduct its relations with other NationStates in accordance with international law and with the principle that the sovereignty of each WA Member State is subject to the supremacy of international law.


I don't have any endorsements therefore i cannot post this proposal up, can someone so kindly do so for me??
Kelssek
02-05-2009, 10:10
By some strange coincidence, you seem to have utilised the title and basic idea behind the very first (or second, arguably) resolution passed by the WA.
Ardchoille
02-05-2009, 11:24
I don't have any endorsements therefore i cannot post this proposal up, can someone so kindly do so for me??

Count yourself lucky that no-one responded to this heartrending plea. Had they done so, your WA membership would have been revoked, on the grounds of plagiarism.

The only original feature is the revival of the addendum to Article 5, which, with its reference to IGNORE cannon, would have resulted in the proposal being deleted even if you hadn't chosen to plagiarise most of it.

As this is the third time you have spammed badly enough to earn an infraction, see you in 24 hours.