Roach-Busters
29-03-2005, 16:01
Preamble
We, the non-Shooban people of the Pest Control Company, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity with the exception of Shoobans, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters.
ARTICLE I
Section I. All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in the President of the Pest Control Company.
The President shall have power-
(I) To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Pest Control Company; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Pest Control Company.
(2) To borrow money on the credit of the Pest Control Company.
(3) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States.
(4) To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Pest Control Company.
(5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
(6) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Pest Control Company.
(7) To establish post offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Post Office Department, after the 1st day of May in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and five, shall be paid out of its own revenues.
(8) To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
(9) To constitute tribunals.
(10) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
(11) To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
(12) To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than ten years.
(13) To provide and maintain a navy.
(14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
(15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Pest Control Company, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
(16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Pest Control Company; reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia.
(17) To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one or more States, become the seat of the Government of the Pest Control Company; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the . erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; and
(18) To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Pest Control Company, or in any department or officer thereof.
(19) To do anything he damn well pleases!
Sec. 2. (I) The importation of slaves of the Shooban race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters, is hereby forbidden.
(2) The President shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves (not that we would) from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Pest Control Company.
(3) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it or if the President feels like it.
(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Shooban slaves shall be passed.
(5) No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
(6) No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
(7) No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another.
(8) No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
(10) The President shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, unless he deems it necessary; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, unless the President deems it necessary. Shoobans shall be denied free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and right to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
(12) A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the non-Shooban people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
(13) No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, unless the owner be a Shooban.
(14) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated without the approval of the Secretary of Law and Order; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized without the approval of the Secretary of Law and Order.
(16) No person not of the Shooban race shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
(17) In all criminal prosecutions, if the accused not be of the Shooban race or a left-wing or Nazist ideology, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
(18) In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed five hundred dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the Pest Control Company, than according to the rules of common law.
(19) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted, unless upon subversives, dissident Shooban slaves, Nazis, or those of a left-wing ideology.
(20) Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Sec. 3. (I) No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
(2) No State shall, without the consent of the President, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the Pest Control Company; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the President.
(3) No State shall, without the consent of the President, lay any duty on tonnage, except on seagoing vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Pest Control Company with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue thus derived shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.
ARTICLE II
Section I. (I) The executive power shall be vested in a President of the Pest Control Company. The President shall hold his office for the duration of his life, and the Vice President shall hold his office for as long as the President deems necessary. No person except Generalissimo J.L. shall be President, and the President shall appoint the Vice President.
(2) The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which may be increased during the period for which he shall hold the Presidency; and he may receive within that period any other emolument from the Pest Control Company, or any of them.
Sec. 2. (I) The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and National Guard of the Pest Control Company, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the Pest Control Company; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Pest Control Company, except in cases of impeachment and in cases where the offender be of the Shooban race.
(2) He shall have power to make treaties; and he shall appoint, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and all other officers of the Pest Control Company whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law, but no one of the Shooban race shall receive such an appointment.
(3) The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of the Executive Departments may be removed at any time by the President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity. inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
ARTICLE III
Section I. (I) The judicial power of the Pest Control Company shall be vested in the President, and in such inferior courts as the President may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Sec. 2. (I) The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Pest Control Company, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Pest Control Company shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, where the State is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands under grants of different States; and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects; but no State shall be sued by a citizen or subject of any foreign state.
(2) In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the President shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the President shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact.
(3) The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the President may by law have directed.
Sec. 3. (I) Treason against the Pest Control Company shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
(2) The President shall have power to declare the punishment of treason and proscribe whatever punishment he desires.
ARTICLE IV
Section I. (I) Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State; and the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Sec. 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their Shooban slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
(2) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
(3) No Shooban slave or person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.
Sec. 3. (I) Other States may be admitted into this Pest Control Company by the President.
(2) The President shall have power to dispose of and make allneedful rules and regulations concerning the property of the Pest Control Company, including the lands thereof.
(3) The Pest Control Company may acquire new territory; and the President shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Pest Control Company, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Pest Control Company. In all such territory the institution of Shooban slavery, as it now exists in the Pest Control Company, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Pest Control Company.
(4) The Pest Control Company shall guarantee to every State that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Pest Control Company, a right-wing form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature or of the Executive when the Legislature is not in session) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V
Section I. (I) Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their several conventions, the President shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said convention, voting by States, and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two- thirds of the several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention, they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution.
ARTICLE VI
I. The Government established by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional Government of the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters, and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified; and all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished.
2. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the Pest Control Company under this Constitution, as under the Provisional Government.
3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Pest Control Company made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Pest Control Company, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
4. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the non-Shooban people of the several States.
5. The powers not delegated to the Pest Control Company by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the non-Shooban people thereof.
Adopted unanimously by the Congress of Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters of Azores, Botswana, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, East Timor, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Philippines, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, and Thailand, sitting in convention at the capitol, the city of RB City, on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year two thousand and five.
We, the non-Shooban people of the Pest Control Company, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity with the exception of Shoobans, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters.
ARTICLE I
Section I. All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in the President of the Pest Control Company.
The President shall have power-
(I) To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Pest Control Company; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Pest Control Company.
(2) To borrow money on the credit of the Pest Control Company.
(3) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States.
(4) To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Pest Control Company.
(5) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
(6) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Pest Control Company.
(7) To establish post offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Post Office Department, after the 1st day of May in the Year of Our Lord two thousand and five, shall be paid out of its own revenues.
(8) To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
(9) To constitute tribunals.
(10) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.
(11) To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
(12) To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than ten years.
(13) To provide and maintain a navy.
(14) To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
(15) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Pest Control Company, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
(16) To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Pest Control Company; reserving to the States, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia.
(17) To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one or more States, become the seat of the Government of the Pest Control Company; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the . erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; and
(18) To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Pest Control Company, or in any department or officer thereof.
(19) To do anything he damn well pleases!
Sec. 2. (I) The importation of slaves of the Shooban race from any foreign country other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters, is hereby forbidden.
(2) The President shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves (not that we would) from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Pest Control Company.
(3) The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it or if the President feels like it.
(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Shooban slaves shall be passed.
(5) No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
(6) No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
(7) No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another.
(8) No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
(10) The President shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, unless he deems it necessary; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, unless the President deems it necessary. Shoobans shall be denied free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and right to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
(12) A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the non-Shooban people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
(13) No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, unless the owner be a Shooban.
(14) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated without the approval of the Secretary of Law and Order; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized without the approval of the Secretary of Law and Order.
(16) No person not of the Shooban race shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
(17) In all criminal prosecutions, if the accused not be of the Shooban race or a left-wing or Nazist ideology, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
(18) In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed five hundred dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the Pest Control Company, than according to the rules of common law.
(19) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted, unless upon subversives, dissident Shooban slaves, Nazis, or those of a left-wing ideology.
(20) Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Sec. 3. (I) No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
(2) No State shall, without the consent of the President, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the Pest Control Company; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the President.
(3) No State shall, without the consent of the President, lay any duty on tonnage, except on seagoing vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Pest Control Company with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue thus derived shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.
ARTICLE II
Section I. (I) The executive power shall be vested in a President of the Pest Control Company. The President shall hold his office for the duration of his life, and the Vice President shall hold his office for as long as the President deems necessary. No person except Generalissimo J.L. shall be President, and the President shall appoint the Vice President.
(2) The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which may be increased during the period for which he shall hold the Presidency; and he may receive within that period any other emolument from the Pest Control Company, or any of them.
Sec. 2. (I) The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and National Guard of the Pest Control Company, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the Pest Control Company; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Pest Control Company, except in cases of impeachment and in cases where the offender be of the Shooban race.
(2) He shall have power to make treaties; and he shall appoint, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and all other officers of the Pest Control Company whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law, but no one of the Shooban race shall receive such an appointment.
(3) The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. All other civil officers of the Executive Departments may be removed at any time by the President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity. inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.
ARTICLE III
Section I. (I) The judicial power of the Pest Control Company shall be vested in the President, and in such inferior courts as the President may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Sec. 2. (I) The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Pest Control Company, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Pest Control Company shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, where the State is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands under grants of different States; and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects; but no State shall be sued by a citizen or subject of any foreign state.
(2) In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the President shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the President shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact.
(3) The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the President may by law have directed.
Sec. 3. (I) Treason against the Pest Control Company shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
(2) The President shall have power to declare the punishment of treason and proscribe whatever punishment he desires.
ARTICLE IV
Section I. (I) Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State; and the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
Sec. 2. (I) The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their Shooban slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
(2) A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such State, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
(3) No Shooban slave or person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.
Sec. 3. (I) Other States may be admitted into this Pest Control Company by the President.
(2) The President shall have power to dispose of and make allneedful rules and regulations concerning the property of the Pest Control Company, including the lands thereof.
(3) The Pest Control Company may acquire new territory; and the President shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Pest Control Company, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Pest Control Company. In all such territory the institution of Shooban slavery, as it now exists in the Pest Control Company, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Pest Control Company.
(4) The Pest Control Company shall guarantee to every State that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Pest Control Company, a right-wing form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature or of the Executive when the Legislature is not in session) against domestic violence.
ARTICLE V
Section I. (I) Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their several conventions, the President shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said convention, voting by States, and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two- thirds of the several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention, they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution.
ARTICLE VI
I. The Government established by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional Government of the Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters, and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified; and all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished.
2. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the Pest Control Company under this Constitution, as under the Provisional Government.
3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Pest Control Company made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Pest Control Company, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
4. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the non-Shooban people of the several States.
5. The powers not delegated to the Pest Control Company by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the non-Shooban people thereof.
Adopted unanimously by the Congress of Pest Control Company of Roach-Busters of Azores, Botswana, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, East Timor, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Philippines, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, and Thailand, sitting in convention at the capitol, the city of RB City, on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year two thousand and five.