The Resurgent Dream
17-02-2009, 08:33
Constitution
Whereas the people of Adoki, Dana, Finara, Gandara, Hipolis, Jagiella, Laneria, Nabarro Abarca and Sahor have agreed to join their destinies and unite into a single confederation and to take their place among the nations of the world as one nation, we, their duly elected representatives, in order to save succeeding generations from the scourge of internal war and terrorism which has many times in the past century torn these peoples asunder, to guarantee the fundamental personal, social and political rights of the person, the equality of men and women and of all races, colors and creeds compatible with the rights of others, to establish the rule of law and justice under the law throughout these lands and to promote social progress and better stands of life in greater liberty and to ensure these blessings to our posterity, do proclaim, subject to the assent of the people, this Constitution for the Confederated Peoples of the Resurgent Dream.
Article 1
Section 1
All legislative power herein granted shall be vested in a Confederal Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies.
Section 2
The Chamber of Deputies shall be composed of four hundred and fifty-four Deputies selected every year by the whole people voting according to the system of proportional representation.
No person shall be a Deputy who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years and have been seven years a citizen of the Confederated Peoples excepting citizens of the various Confederal Members prior to the ratification of this Constitution.
If a seat in the Chamber of Deputies is rendered vacant by resignation or death or if a Deputy be unable to fulfill his duties on account of injury or illness or a Deputy be removed from office as the result of an impeachment proceeding or of a popular recall, the vacancy shall be allowed to remain until the next ordinary election.
The Chamber of Deputies shall choose its own President and other officers.
In the event ten million private citizens or the legislatures of ten Members should present the Chamber of Deputies with a petition for the recall of a Deputy, the Chamber is obliged to submit the matter to a general referendum within one month’s time. Should a majority of those voting vote for the recall, the Deputy is thereby relieved of his office.
Section 3
The Senate of the Confederated Peoples shall consist of one Senator from each Member, elected by the people thereof for three years.
Upon their first election, the Senators shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year, the second at the expiration of the second year, and the third at the expiration of the third year so that one third may be chosen each year. If vacancies should arise in the Senate, they are to be filled by a special election in the Member represented by the vacant seat.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been nine years a citizen of the Confederated Peoples, excepting citizens of the various Members before the ratification of this Constitution, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the Member for which he shall be chosen.
The Senate shall elect its President and other officers.
Section 4
The time, place and manner of holding elections for Senators and Deputies shall be prescribed by the Confederal Assembly.
The Confederal Assembly shall remain in session at least six months out of each year and such session shall commence on the second Monday in December.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies or the President of the Confederal Council may call the Confederal Assembly to a special session, if dire circumstances require its attention and it be currently adjourned.
Section 5
Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members, but is limited in its considerations to the provisions of this Constitution and to relevant statutory laws passed in accordance therewith. A majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but, in the absence of a quorum, a majority of those present shall be empowered to compel the presence of absent members.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings and punish its members for disorderly behavior by means of temporary expulsion from the Chamber, suspension from service on committees, and suspension of various privileges excepting only the right to vote on legislation and the right of parliamentary immunity.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and annually publish the same, and, at the request of one fifth of those present, the votes of each member on a given question shall be recorded therein. The proceedings of each house shall remain open to the public and recordings of the proceedings shall be made for public release. Matters requiring secrecy are to be excluded from these provisions in a manner to be provided by law.
The Senate may not, while the Confederal Assembly is in session, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any place other than New Amsterdam,, without the consent of the Chamber of Deputies.
Section 6
The Senators and Deputies shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law, but no law may alter the compensation of any Senator or Deputy during the same term of service that it was passed. The members of both houses shall be paid out of the Treasury of the Confederated Peoples. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same, and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Deputy shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the Confederated Peoples or under any Member or foreign government.
All bills shall originate in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments.
Every bill which shall have passed the Chamber of Deputies shall be submitted to the Senate where it shall be subject to debate. Should the Senate also accept the bill, it shall be submitted to the High King for the royal assent and shall thereby become the law of the land. Should the Senate reject the bill, it shall return it to the Chamber of Deputies along with an official report and a list of proposed amendments to be composed according to such rules as the Senate may determine. Should the Chamber of Deputies, upon consideration, return a modified version of the bill to the Senate, it shall be treated as a new bill. Should the Chamber of Deputies pass the same bill, unmodified, then it shall come before the Senate and be brought to an immediate vote. Should two thirds of the Senators reject the bill, it does not become law. Otherwise, the bill shall be presented to the High King for the royal assent and shall become law. Any bill which the Senate neither passes nor returns to the Chamber of Deputies within one month’s time shall become law, unless the adjournment of the Confederal Assembly prevent its return, in which event the Senate shall have one month from the beginning of the next session of the Confederal Assembly to pass on the bill.
Section 8
The Confederal Assembly shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the Confederated Peoples;
To pass such laws as in its discretion are necessary and proper to guarantee the rights of Confederal citizens and other persons and to guarantee equality before the law throughout the Confederated Peoples;
To borrow money on the credit of the Confederated Peoples;
To make positive expenditures for the common good, as it might find appropriate, so long as such expenditures neither rely upon the coercive power, nor violate the other provisions of this Constitution;
To regulate commerce;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform rules of bankruptcy;
To issue money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, to establish a uniform system of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the currency of the Confederated Peoples;
To establish post offices and national roads;
To establish the exclusive rights to works of art, writings, music, inventions, and other creative products to their creators for limited times;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies, trafficking in persons, and other felonious acts committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations;
To declare war, authorize the use of armed force outside the Confederated Peoples, and make rules regarding the conduct of war in accordance with this Constitution, with treaties signed in good faith, and with the traditional laws of warfare;
To raise and support such the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples without prejudice to the Civil Defense Forces of the various Members;
To make rules governing the Armed Forces, including the Civil Defense Forces when in the service of the Confederated Peoples;
To make all laws deemed proper to carry into effect any of the aforementioned powers or any other power granted to the Confederal Assembly by this Constitution.
Section 9
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law may be passed.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce to one Member as against another.
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.
Article 2
Section 1
The Head of State of the Confederated Peoples is the High King of the Confederated Peoples.
The High King of the Confederated Peoples is styled His Most Esteemed Royal and Imperial Majesty, by the Grace of God, High King of the Confederated Peoples, Emperor of Nabarro Abarca, High King of Dana and King of His Other Realms and Territories.
Section 2
The High King’s constitutional powers are hereditary through direct, natural and legitimate descent by order of primogeniture except as otherwise provided.
Any person in line for the throne shall be deprived of his rights to the throne should he marry without the High King’s consent or, in the absence thereof, without the consent of those exercising the High King’s power in cases provided for in the Constitution.
His lost right may nevertheless be re-established by the High King or, in the absence thereof, by those exercising the High King’s powers as provided by the Constitution or by a two-thirds vote of each house of the Confederal Assembly, meeting separately.
By a two-thirds vote of each house of the Confederal Assembly, any person who was sovereign of any Confederal Member or collection of Confederal Members prior to the formation of the Confederated Peoples or the direct natural descendant of any such person may be entered into the order of succession the rules of primogeniture notwithstanding.
Section 3
In the absence of any direct natural descendant of any sovereign of a Confederal Member or collection of Confederal Members, the High King may appoint name his successor with the approval of the Confederal Assembly meeting in joint session.
In the absence of a nomination undertaken in the manner provided above, the throne shall remain vacant until such time as the Confederal Assembly shall secure the consent of the people to an alternative candidate according to the procedure for amending this constitution.
Section 4
The High King may not simultaneously act as head of a foreign state, although he may act as head of state of various Confederal Members in accordance with the constitutions and laws thereof.
Section 5
The High King’s person is inviolable. The Confederal Council is responsible.
Section 6
The civil list for the duration of each reign is established by law.
Section 7
Upon the High King’s death, the Confederal Assembly convenes without convocation, ten days following the decease at latest. Should the Confederal Assembly have been previously dissolved and should the new Confederal Assembly not be scheduled to meet for more than ten days, then the former Confederal Assembly are to return to their functions until the establishment of those destined to replace them.
From the moment of the High King’s death and until the taking of the oath by his successor to the throne of by the Regent, the High King’s constitutional powers are exercised, in the name of the Confederal people, by the Confederal Council.
Section 8
The High King attains his majority upon the eighteenth anniversary of his birth.
The High King may accede to the throne only after having taken the following oath before the Confederal Assembly in joint session: “I swear to observe the laws and constitution of the Confederated Peoples, to uphold and defend their liberty, to faithfully represent their interests, to abstain from direct involvement political parties and factions, to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation and to defend the Confederal land and people from all harm, so help me God.”
Should the heir to the throne object to the form of the oath as a matter of conscience, he might substitute the following affirmation: “I solemnly affirm to observe the laws and constitution of the Confederated Peoples, to uphold and defend their liberty, to faithfully represent their interests, to abstain from direct involvement political parties and factions, to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation and to defend the Confederal land and people from all harm.”
This oath or affirmation is perpetually binding upon the High King as a matter of law.
Section 9
Should, upon the High King’s death, his successor be under age, the Confederal Assembly shall meet jointly for the purpose of regency and guardianship.
Section 10
Should the High King find himself unable to reign, the Confederal Council, having observed this inability, shall immediately summon the Confederal Assembly. Regency and guardianship are to be provided by the Confederal Assembly meeting as a single chamber.
Section 11
Regency may be conferred on only one person.
The Regent may take office only upon taking the oath specified in Section 8 of this article.
Article 3
Section 1
The Confederal Council is the highest substantive executive and governing body in the Confederated Peoples.
Section 2
The Confederal Council shall consist of eleven members.
The members of the Confederal Council shall be elected by a two thirds vote of the Confederal Assembly in joint session after each full renewal of the Chamber of Deputies.
They shall be elected for terms of one year from among Confederal citizens eligible for membership in the Chamber of Deputies provided that no member of the Confederal Council shall enjoy any other office of trust under the Confederated Peoples.
In its proceedings, the Confederal Assembly shall take care to represent the various Members, ethnicities, languages and religions of the Confederated Peoples and to represent both men and women.
The President of the Confederal Council shall chair the Confederal Council.
The Confederal Assembly, meeting in joint session, shall elect by a two thirds vote, for a term of one year, one member of the Confederal Council to serve as President and another to serve as Vice-President of the Confederal Council.
The Confederal Council shall take its decisions as a collective body.
For the preparation and implementation of policy decisions, responsibility shall be divided among the members of the Confederal Council by department.
Matters shall be submitted to departments or subordinate administrative units as established by law and the recourse to the same guaranteed by law.
The Confederal Council shall direct the Civil Service. It shall ensure its efficient organization and the effective fulfillment of its tasks.
The Civil Service shall be divided into eleven departments, each headed by a member of the Confederal Council. These shall be the Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries, Defense, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, Industrial Affairs, Infrastructure and Justice.
The Chancellory is the general staff of the Confederal Council. It shall be headed by a Confederal Chancellor elected and removable at will by the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly.
Section 2
The Confederal Council shall determine the priorities and the instruments of executive policy within the constitution and statutes of the Confederated Peoples. It shall plan and coordinate the activities of the state.
It shall inform the public of its activities in a timely fashion unless essential public interests or the rights of private persons to confidentiality prevent it.
The Confederal Council may pass ordinances as allowed by statute.
The Confederal Council shall enforce the laws and Constitution of the Confederated Peoples, other lawful acts of the Confederal Assembly and the rulings of the Confederal judiciary.
The Confederal Council shall request a budget of the Confederal Assembly in accordance with its estimation of its own needs. However, the Confederal Assembly retains the unconditioned right to determine the budget of the Confederated Peoples.
The Confederal Council shall manage the treasury responsibly.
The Confederal Council shall oversee the foreign relations of the Confederated Peoples subject to the Constitution, laws and treaties of the Confederated Peoples. It shall involve the Confederal Assembly and the Member governments in foreign policy where appropriate.
The Confederal Council may negotiate and sign treaties but it may not ratify them. This power is reserved to the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly.
The Confederal Council shall take measures to secure the external and internal security of the Confederated Peoples in accordance with the laws and Constitution of the Confederated Peoples.
Article 4
Section 1
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples is the Grand Marshall of the Confederated Peoples.
The Grand Marshall is to be elected by the Conferal Assembly meeting jointly in times of war or insurrection, the imminent threat of war or insurrection or such other emergency as the Confederal Assembly shall determine requires the election of the Grand Marshall.
The Grand Marshall is the only Confederal official authorized to command the Civil Defense Forces of the various Members and the militia forces operating under the law of the various Members.
In time of peace, the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Confederated Peoples are to be under the command of their respective Chiefs-of-Staff under the direction of the Confederal Council and the oversight of the Confederal Assembly.
The Grand Marshall shall have the authority to declare states of emergency, suspend the right to a writ of habeas corpus, order the evacuation of civilians, prevent the public dissemination of sensitive information and declare martial law for set times and within set areas provided that a situation exists which clearly renders impracticable the ordinary functioning of established civil authority and that he ends such extraordinary measures as soon as the reestablishment of civil authority because practicable. Because of the enormous possibility for abuse of these powers, the Confederal Assembly shall establish regulations governing their use.
Section 2
The Confederated Peoples and the Members thereof shall provide, within their lawful powers, for the defense of the Confederal people and territory from all threats foreign or domestic.
The Confederated Peoples and the duly constituted authorities of the various Members shall coordinate their efforts in this regard.
Section 3
The Confederated Peoples shall have an Army, a Navy and an Air Force. All three forces shall maintain reserve forces as large or larger than their standing forces at any given moment. To the extent that the contingencies of the national defense allow, the officers and enlisted personnel of all three services shall permanently reside among the general population and the use of isolated military barracks in time of peace shall be discouraged except for particular purposes limited in time.
Under ordinary circumstances, service is strictly voluntary. In emergencies where the Confederal Assembly has already seen fit to appoint a Grand Marshall, the Confederal Assembly may also institute a draft. Such a draft must provide for alternative service for those who object to military service as a matter of conscience and may not apply to women, to persons over the age of thirty-five or to minors.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for fair compensation for the loss of income due to military service.
Those who render military or alternative service and, in the course thereof, suffer injury or loss of life, have the right for themselves and their relatives to adequate support by the Confederated Peoples as the Confederal Assembly shall provide.
Section 4
Within the limits of Confederal law, the various Members shall have the right to raise, train and equip the various Civil Defense Forces, commission officers in the same and determine the rules and regulations governing such forces except when in actual service of the Confederated Peoples. Within the limits of Confederal law, the various Members shall also have the right to establish or to authorize competent inferior authorities to establish such other responsible and disciplined militia organizations as they see fit.
Section 5
The Confederal Assembly shall by law pass such measures as they deem necessary to protect persons and property from the effects of armed conflict.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for the use of Confederal forces to ensure the protection of persons and property during catastrophes and emergencies.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for fair compensation for income lost due to armed conflict and other emergencies.
Those who suffer injury or loss of life as a result of armed conflict or other disaster or those who suffer injury or loss of life in the course of providing relief or assistance to the victims of disaster or armed conflict have the right for themselves and their families to adequate support by the Confederated Peoples as provided by the Confederal Assembly.
Article 5
Section 1
The judicial power of the Confederated Peoples shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Confederal Assembly shall establish. The judges, of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold office during good behavior and shall, at states times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuation in office.
Section 2
The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederated Peoples and treaties made under the authority of the same; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to all controversies to which the Confederated Peoples shall be a party; to controversies between two or more Members, between citizens of different Members, between citizens of the same Member claiming lands under grants of different Members; and between any Member or citizens thereof and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and those in which a Member shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all other cases included under the judicial power, the Supreme Court shall appellate jurisdiction as to law and fact in accordance with such regulations as the Confederal Assembly might by law establish.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment or cases arising in the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples or in the Civil Defense Forces or militias of the various Members when it actual service of the Confederated Peoples, shall be by jury.
Section 3
All civil officers of the Confederated Peoples, including judges, members of the Confederal Council, members of the Confederal Assembly, the Confederal Chancellor and the Grand Marshall of the Confederated Peoples shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of corruption, any criminal act utilizing for its commission the prerogatives of office, dereliction of duty or any act or attempted exceeding their authority under this Constitution, seeking to undermine the rule of law and of this Constitution or willfully deceiving the Confederal Assembly, either house thereof or the Confederal people except in regard to specific sensitive information of strategic importance as provided for by law.
The Chamber of Deputies has the sole power of impeachment and the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly has the sole power to try impeachments. In cases where the accused shall be a member of the Confederal Council, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside.
Section 4
Treason against the Confederated Peoples shall consist only in waging war against them or in offering substantive aid to her enemies in time of war or armed conflict. No person shall be convicted of treason except on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.
The Confederal Assembly shall have authority to determine the punishment for treason within the limits established elsewhere in this Constitution.
Article 6
Section 1
Full faith and credit shall be given in each Member to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other Member and of the Confederal Sovereign Territory and the Confederal Assembly may by general laws the effects thereof.
Section 2
A person charged in any Member with treason, felony or other crime who shall flee from justice and be found in another Member shall, on demand of the executive authority of the Member from which he fled, be delivered up to be delivered to the Member having jurisdiction over the crime.
Section 3
New Members may be admitted to the Confederated Peoples by the Confederal Assembly but no new Member may be admitted without conducting a popular referendum of its own citizens according to the rules of universal adult suffrage, and obtaining a vote of two thirds in favor of Membership. If any petitioner for Membership be formed by a junction of two or more existing Members or a component part of an existing Member, a two thirds majority must consent in each original Member and also in each prospective Member.
Members may secede from the Confederated Peoples if, at the recommendation of two consecutive sessions of their legislature, the people of that Member vote by a majority of two thirds to do so. Any Member which so secedes is obligated to allow due time and to make due arrangements for any citizens who wish to do so to place their affairs in order and move themselves to a Member remaining part of the Confederated Peoples.
The Confederal Assembly shall have power to dispose of and make all needful laws and regulations concerning the territory of the Confederated Peoples not a part of any particular Member. The territory of each Member is guaranteed and the borders of no Member may be altered unless the people of that Member should consent through a two thirds vote in a public referendum.
Section 4
The Confederated Peoples shall guarantee to every Member a democratic form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion and, on application of the legislature or of the executive in the event the legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence.
Article 7
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the Confederated Peoples and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the Confederated Peoples and of the Member in which they reside. No Member shall make any law which shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws nor shall any Member deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. No citizen of the Confederated Peoples shall cease to be a citizen thereof unless they freely forswear their citizenship before an authorized representative of the Confederal Council.
Section 2
All citizens of the Confederated Peoples are entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizenship without distinction of any kind such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Section 3
Everyone shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Section 4
No one shall be held in slavery or other involuntary servitude. Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in every form as shall all products produced through the use of slave labor. All persons and incorporated bodies which engage directly or indirectly in the slave trade or in slave labor or in the products there of shall be prohibited from doing business in the Confederated Peoples and all citizens of the Confederated Peoples are prohibited from accepting employment with or investing in any such business.
Section 5
Torture and all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are prohibited whether for interrogation, punishment or any other purpose.
Section 6
Everyone has the right to recognition as a person under the law.
Section 7
All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. All persons are to be protected against any discrimination in violation of this Constitution and against any incitement to such discrimination. In all instances, the use of gendered pronouns and terminology in this Constitution shall be regarded purely as a matter of grammatical convention without legal meaning.
Section 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by competent judicial authority for acts violating the rights granted him by this Constitution and by the laws of the Confederated Peoples.
Section 9
No one shall be subjected to arrest or detention without due process of law nor may any citizen of the Confederated Peoples be exiled from them or refused entry to them after any period abroad for any purpose.
Section 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Section 11
Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guaranties necessary for his defense, including the right against self-incrimination, the right to counsel, the right to a writ of habeas corpus and the right to be tried by a jury of his peers.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under Member or Confederal 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 offense was committed. This provision shall not apply to any crime against peace, war crime, crime against humanity or act illegal according to the general shared laws of civilization committed in any Member or collection of Members prior to the formation of the Confederated Peoples.
Section 12
Everyone has the right to privacy and to a basic of liberty and no person shall be subject to interference with his privacy, family, home and correspondence nor to attacks upon his personal honor and reputation without due process of law. Everyone has the right to have recourse to the law against such interference or attacks.
Section 13
All citizens of the Confederated Peoples have the right to liberty of movement and residence within the whole of the national territory.
All persons not currently held under the law in connection with a penal offense shall have the right to leave the national territory or the territory of any Member.
Section 14
Everyone subject to persecution in a foreign country has the right to petition for asylum in the Confederated Peoples, to be established in safety and reasonable comfort while so petitioning and to be granted asylum if it should be established that he faces incarceration, violence or other serious persecution on the basis of race, sex, political beliefs or other arbitrary criteria if he should return to his country of origin.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecution genuinely arising from non-political crimes, including violations of all generally applicable laws not targeted at any specific political belief system even if they are politically motivated.
Section 15
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and found a family. Men and women are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.
No provision of this Constitution or of the Constitution or laws of any Member which makes the inheritance of any hereditary title contingent upon certain restrictions with regard to marriage shall be considered an infringement upon these rights provided that no penalty for failing to comply with such restrictions be established beyond simple forfeiture of a hereditary claim on such a title.
Section 16
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be deprived of his property without due process of law.
Section 17
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes the right to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Section 18
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.
Section 19
Everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Section 20
Everyone has the right to participate in the government of his Member and of the Confederated Peoples through an open and democratic political process. No citizen of the Confederated Peoples of full shall be deprived of the right to vote for any reason whatsoever.
Everycitizen of the Confederated Peoples has the right to equal access to public services.
All elections shall be held by secret ballot.
Section 21
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through community effort and national cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each Member and of the Confederated Peoples, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Section 22
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of the dignity of the person and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Section 23
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitations on working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Section 24
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, 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 due to circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood shall be entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Section 25
Everyone has the right to an education. Education shall be free at least until the age of majority. Education shall be compulsory until the age of majority. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be accessible primarily on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the personality and to the strengthening of respect for the rights and dignity of the person, for fundamental freedoms and for democracy. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all racial and religious groups and shall foster respect for peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children, including home education, within such reasonable restrictions as the various Members shall see fit to implement.
Section 26
Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
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 authort.
Section 27
Everyone is entitled to a social order in which the rights and freedoms of citizenship can be fully realized.
Section 28
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
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.
Article 8
All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall remain valid.
This Constitution and the Laws of the Confederated Peoples which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Confederated Peoples, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every Member shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any Member to the contrary notwithstanding.
Article 9
The Confederal Assembly, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts of this Constitution if, when submitted to a national vote, such amendments receive the assent of two thirds of those voting in a majority of Members or a majority of those voting in two thirds of Members provided also that a majority of all those voting assents. No amendment, however, may abridge any right contained in Article 7 or may alter the amendment process so as to allow future abridgements of the rights contained in Article 7.
Whereas the people of Adoki, Dana, Finara, Gandara, Hipolis, Jagiella, Laneria, Nabarro Abarca and Sahor have agreed to join their destinies and unite into a single confederation and to take their place among the nations of the world as one nation, we, their duly elected representatives, in order to save succeeding generations from the scourge of internal war and terrorism which has many times in the past century torn these peoples asunder, to guarantee the fundamental personal, social and political rights of the person, the equality of men and women and of all races, colors and creeds compatible with the rights of others, to establish the rule of law and justice under the law throughout these lands and to promote social progress and better stands of life in greater liberty and to ensure these blessings to our posterity, do proclaim, subject to the assent of the people, this Constitution for the Confederated Peoples of the Resurgent Dream.
Article 1
Section 1
All legislative power herein granted shall be vested in a Confederal Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies.
Section 2
The Chamber of Deputies shall be composed of four hundred and fifty-four Deputies selected every year by the whole people voting according to the system of proportional representation.
No person shall be a Deputy who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years and have been seven years a citizen of the Confederated Peoples excepting citizens of the various Confederal Members prior to the ratification of this Constitution.
If a seat in the Chamber of Deputies is rendered vacant by resignation or death or if a Deputy be unable to fulfill his duties on account of injury or illness or a Deputy be removed from office as the result of an impeachment proceeding or of a popular recall, the vacancy shall be allowed to remain until the next ordinary election.
The Chamber of Deputies shall choose its own President and other officers.
In the event ten million private citizens or the legislatures of ten Members should present the Chamber of Deputies with a petition for the recall of a Deputy, the Chamber is obliged to submit the matter to a general referendum within one month’s time. Should a majority of those voting vote for the recall, the Deputy is thereby relieved of his office.
Section 3
The Senate of the Confederated Peoples shall consist of one Senator from each Member, elected by the people thereof for three years.
Upon their first election, the Senators shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year, the second at the expiration of the second year, and the third at the expiration of the third year so that one third may be chosen each year. If vacancies should arise in the Senate, they are to be filled by a special election in the Member represented by the vacant seat.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been nine years a citizen of the Confederated Peoples, excepting citizens of the various Members before the ratification of this Constitution, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the Member for which he shall be chosen.
The Senate shall elect its President and other officers.
Section 4
The time, place and manner of holding elections for Senators and Deputies shall be prescribed by the Confederal Assembly.
The Confederal Assembly shall remain in session at least six months out of each year and such session shall commence on the second Monday in December.
The President of the Chamber of Deputies or the President of the Confederal Council may call the Confederal Assembly to a special session, if dire circumstances require its attention and it be currently adjourned.
Section 5
Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members, but is limited in its considerations to the provisions of this Constitution and to relevant statutory laws passed in accordance therewith. A majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business, but, in the absence of a quorum, a majority of those present shall be empowered to compel the presence of absent members.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings and punish its members for disorderly behavior by means of temporary expulsion from the Chamber, suspension from service on committees, and suspension of various privileges excepting only the right to vote on legislation and the right of parliamentary immunity.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and annually publish the same, and, at the request of one fifth of those present, the votes of each member on a given question shall be recorded therein. The proceedings of each house shall remain open to the public and recordings of the proceedings shall be made for public release. Matters requiring secrecy are to be excluded from these provisions in a manner to be provided by law.
The Senate may not, while the Confederal Assembly is in session, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any place other than New Amsterdam,, without the consent of the Chamber of Deputies.
Section 6
The Senators and Deputies shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law, but no law may alter the compensation of any Senator or Deputy during the same term of service that it was passed. The members of both houses shall be paid out of the Treasury of the Confederated Peoples. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same, and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Deputy shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the Confederated Peoples or under any Member or foreign government.
All bills shall originate in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments.
Every bill which shall have passed the Chamber of Deputies shall be submitted to the Senate where it shall be subject to debate. Should the Senate also accept the bill, it shall be submitted to the High King for the royal assent and shall thereby become the law of the land. Should the Senate reject the bill, it shall return it to the Chamber of Deputies along with an official report and a list of proposed amendments to be composed according to such rules as the Senate may determine. Should the Chamber of Deputies, upon consideration, return a modified version of the bill to the Senate, it shall be treated as a new bill. Should the Chamber of Deputies pass the same bill, unmodified, then it shall come before the Senate and be brought to an immediate vote. Should two thirds of the Senators reject the bill, it does not become law. Otherwise, the bill shall be presented to the High King for the royal assent and shall become law. Any bill which the Senate neither passes nor returns to the Chamber of Deputies within one month’s time shall become law, unless the adjournment of the Confederal Assembly prevent its return, in which event the Senate shall have one month from the beginning of the next session of the Confederal Assembly to pass on the bill.
Section 8
The Confederal Assembly shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the Confederated Peoples;
To pass such laws as in its discretion are necessary and proper to guarantee the rights of Confederal citizens and other persons and to guarantee equality before the law throughout the Confederated Peoples;
To borrow money on the credit of the Confederated Peoples;
To make positive expenditures for the common good, as it might find appropriate, so long as such expenditures neither rely upon the coercive power, nor violate the other provisions of this Constitution;
To regulate commerce;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform rules of bankruptcy;
To issue money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, to establish a uniform system of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the currency of the Confederated Peoples;
To establish post offices and national roads;
To establish the exclusive rights to works of art, writings, music, inventions, and other creative products to their creators for limited times;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies, trafficking in persons, and other felonious acts committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations;
To declare war, authorize the use of armed force outside the Confederated Peoples, and make rules regarding the conduct of war in accordance with this Constitution, with treaties signed in good faith, and with the traditional laws of warfare;
To raise and support such the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples without prejudice to the Civil Defense Forces of the various Members;
To make rules governing the Armed Forces, including the Civil Defense Forces when in the service of the Confederated Peoples;
To make all laws deemed proper to carry into effect any of the aforementioned powers or any other power granted to the Confederal Assembly by this Constitution.
Section 9
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law may be passed.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce to one Member as against another.
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.
Article 2
Section 1
The Head of State of the Confederated Peoples is the High King of the Confederated Peoples.
The High King of the Confederated Peoples is styled His Most Esteemed Royal and Imperial Majesty, by the Grace of God, High King of the Confederated Peoples, Emperor of Nabarro Abarca, High King of Dana and King of His Other Realms and Territories.
Section 2
The High King’s constitutional powers are hereditary through direct, natural and legitimate descent by order of primogeniture except as otherwise provided.
Any person in line for the throne shall be deprived of his rights to the throne should he marry without the High King’s consent or, in the absence thereof, without the consent of those exercising the High King’s power in cases provided for in the Constitution.
His lost right may nevertheless be re-established by the High King or, in the absence thereof, by those exercising the High King’s powers as provided by the Constitution or by a two-thirds vote of each house of the Confederal Assembly, meeting separately.
By a two-thirds vote of each house of the Confederal Assembly, any person who was sovereign of any Confederal Member or collection of Confederal Members prior to the formation of the Confederated Peoples or the direct natural descendant of any such person may be entered into the order of succession the rules of primogeniture notwithstanding.
Section 3
In the absence of any direct natural descendant of any sovereign of a Confederal Member or collection of Confederal Members, the High King may appoint name his successor with the approval of the Confederal Assembly meeting in joint session.
In the absence of a nomination undertaken in the manner provided above, the throne shall remain vacant until such time as the Confederal Assembly shall secure the consent of the people to an alternative candidate according to the procedure for amending this constitution.
Section 4
The High King may not simultaneously act as head of a foreign state, although he may act as head of state of various Confederal Members in accordance with the constitutions and laws thereof.
Section 5
The High King’s person is inviolable. The Confederal Council is responsible.
Section 6
The civil list for the duration of each reign is established by law.
Section 7
Upon the High King’s death, the Confederal Assembly convenes without convocation, ten days following the decease at latest. Should the Confederal Assembly have been previously dissolved and should the new Confederal Assembly not be scheduled to meet for more than ten days, then the former Confederal Assembly are to return to their functions until the establishment of those destined to replace them.
From the moment of the High King’s death and until the taking of the oath by his successor to the throne of by the Regent, the High King’s constitutional powers are exercised, in the name of the Confederal people, by the Confederal Council.
Section 8
The High King attains his majority upon the eighteenth anniversary of his birth.
The High King may accede to the throne only after having taken the following oath before the Confederal Assembly in joint session: “I swear to observe the laws and constitution of the Confederated Peoples, to uphold and defend their liberty, to faithfully represent their interests, to abstain from direct involvement political parties and factions, to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation and to defend the Confederal land and people from all harm, so help me God.”
Should the heir to the throne object to the form of the oath as a matter of conscience, he might substitute the following affirmation: “I solemnly affirm to observe the laws and constitution of the Confederated Peoples, to uphold and defend their liberty, to faithfully represent their interests, to abstain from direct involvement political parties and factions, to maintain the honor and dignity of the nation and to defend the Confederal land and people from all harm.”
This oath or affirmation is perpetually binding upon the High King as a matter of law.
Section 9
Should, upon the High King’s death, his successor be under age, the Confederal Assembly shall meet jointly for the purpose of regency and guardianship.
Section 10
Should the High King find himself unable to reign, the Confederal Council, having observed this inability, shall immediately summon the Confederal Assembly. Regency and guardianship are to be provided by the Confederal Assembly meeting as a single chamber.
Section 11
Regency may be conferred on only one person.
The Regent may take office only upon taking the oath specified in Section 8 of this article.
Article 3
Section 1
The Confederal Council is the highest substantive executive and governing body in the Confederated Peoples.
Section 2
The Confederal Council shall consist of eleven members.
The members of the Confederal Council shall be elected by a two thirds vote of the Confederal Assembly in joint session after each full renewal of the Chamber of Deputies.
They shall be elected for terms of one year from among Confederal citizens eligible for membership in the Chamber of Deputies provided that no member of the Confederal Council shall enjoy any other office of trust under the Confederated Peoples.
In its proceedings, the Confederal Assembly shall take care to represent the various Members, ethnicities, languages and religions of the Confederated Peoples and to represent both men and women.
The President of the Confederal Council shall chair the Confederal Council.
The Confederal Assembly, meeting in joint session, shall elect by a two thirds vote, for a term of one year, one member of the Confederal Council to serve as President and another to serve as Vice-President of the Confederal Council.
The Confederal Council shall take its decisions as a collective body.
For the preparation and implementation of policy decisions, responsibility shall be divided among the members of the Confederal Council by department.
Matters shall be submitted to departments or subordinate administrative units as established by law and the recourse to the same guaranteed by law.
The Confederal Council shall direct the Civil Service. It shall ensure its efficient organization and the effective fulfillment of its tasks.
The Civil Service shall be divided into eleven departments, each headed by a member of the Confederal Council. These shall be the Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries, Defense, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, Industrial Affairs, Infrastructure and Justice.
The Chancellory is the general staff of the Confederal Council. It shall be headed by a Confederal Chancellor elected and removable at will by the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly.
Section 2
The Confederal Council shall determine the priorities and the instruments of executive policy within the constitution and statutes of the Confederated Peoples. It shall plan and coordinate the activities of the state.
It shall inform the public of its activities in a timely fashion unless essential public interests or the rights of private persons to confidentiality prevent it.
The Confederal Council may pass ordinances as allowed by statute.
The Confederal Council shall enforce the laws and Constitution of the Confederated Peoples, other lawful acts of the Confederal Assembly and the rulings of the Confederal judiciary.
The Confederal Council shall request a budget of the Confederal Assembly in accordance with its estimation of its own needs. However, the Confederal Assembly retains the unconditioned right to determine the budget of the Confederated Peoples.
The Confederal Council shall manage the treasury responsibly.
The Confederal Council shall oversee the foreign relations of the Confederated Peoples subject to the Constitution, laws and treaties of the Confederated Peoples. It shall involve the Confederal Assembly and the Member governments in foreign policy where appropriate.
The Confederal Council may negotiate and sign treaties but it may not ratify them. This power is reserved to the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly.
The Confederal Council shall take measures to secure the external and internal security of the Confederated Peoples in accordance with the laws and Constitution of the Confederated Peoples.
Article 4
Section 1
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples is the Grand Marshall of the Confederated Peoples.
The Grand Marshall is to be elected by the Conferal Assembly meeting jointly in times of war or insurrection, the imminent threat of war or insurrection or such other emergency as the Confederal Assembly shall determine requires the election of the Grand Marshall.
The Grand Marshall is the only Confederal official authorized to command the Civil Defense Forces of the various Members and the militia forces operating under the law of the various Members.
In time of peace, the Army, Navy and Air Force of the Confederated Peoples are to be under the command of their respective Chiefs-of-Staff under the direction of the Confederal Council and the oversight of the Confederal Assembly.
The Grand Marshall shall have the authority to declare states of emergency, suspend the right to a writ of habeas corpus, order the evacuation of civilians, prevent the public dissemination of sensitive information and declare martial law for set times and within set areas provided that a situation exists which clearly renders impracticable the ordinary functioning of established civil authority and that he ends such extraordinary measures as soon as the reestablishment of civil authority because practicable. Because of the enormous possibility for abuse of these powers, the Confederal Assembly shall establish regulations governing their use.
Section 2
The Confederated Peoples and the Members thereof shall provide, within their lawful powers, for the defense of the Confederal people and territory from all threats foreign or domestic.
The Confederated Peoples and the duly constituted authorities of the various Members shall coordinate their efforts in this regard.
Section 3
The Confederated Peoples shall have an Army, a Navy and an Air Force. All three forces shall maintain reserve forces as large or larger than their standing forces at any given moment. To the extent that the contingencies of the national defense allow, the officers and enlisted personnel of all three services shall permanently reside among the general population and the use of isolated military barracks in time of peace shall be discouraged except for particular purposes limited in time.
Under ordinary circumstances, service is strictly voluntary. In emergencies where the Confederal Assembly has already seen fit to appoint a Grand Marshall, the Confederal Assembly may also institute a draft. Such a draft must provide for alternative service for those who object to military service as a matter of conscience and may not apply to women, to persons over the age of thirty-five or to minors.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for fair compensation for the loss of income due to military service.
Those who render military or alternative service and, in the course thereof, suffer injury or loss of life, have the right for themselves and their relatives to adequate support by the Confederated Peoples as the Confederal Assembly shall provide.
Section 4
Within the limits of Confederal law, the various Members shall have the right to raise, train and equip the various Civil Defense Forces, commission officers in the same and determine the rules and regulations governing such forces except when in actual service of the Confederated Peoples. Within the limits of Confederal law, the various Members shall also have the right to establish or to authorize competent inferior authorities to establish such other responsible and disciplined militia organizations as they see fit.
Section 5
The Confederal Assembly shall by law pass such measures as they deem necessary to protect persons and property from the effects of armed conflict.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for the use of Confederal forces to ensure the protection of persons and property during catastrophes and emergencies.
The Confederal Assembly shall provide by law for fair compensation for income lost due to armed conflict and other emergencies.
Those who suffer injury or loss of life as a result of armed conflict or other disaster or those who suffer injury or loss of life in the course of providing relief or assistance to the victims of disaster or armed conflict have the right for themselves and their families to adequate support by the Confederated Peoples as provided by the Confederal Assembly.
Article 5
Section 1
The judicial power of the Confederated Peoples shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Confederal Assembly shall establish. The judges, of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold office during good behavior and shall, at states times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuation in office.
Section 2
The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederated Peoples and treaties made under the authority of the same; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to all controversies to which the Confederated Peoples shall be a party; to controversies between two or more Members, between citizens of different Members, between citizens of the same Member claiming lands under grants of different Members; and between any Member or citizens thereof and foreign states, citizens or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and those in which a Member shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all other cases included under the judicial power, the Supreme Court shall appellate jurisdiction as to law and fact in accordance with such regulations as the Confederal Assembly might by law establish.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment or cases arising in the Armed Forces of the Confederated Peoples or in the Civil Defense Forces or militias of the various Members when it actual service of the Confederated Peoples, shall be by jury.
Section 3
All civil officers of the Confederated Peoples, including judges, members of the Confederal Council, members of the Confederal Assembly, the Confederal Chancellor and the Grand Marshall of the Confederated Peoples shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of corruption, any criminal act utilizing for its commission the prerogatives of office, dereliction of duty or any act or attempted exceeding their authority under this Constitution, seeking to undermine the rule of law and of this Constitution or willfully deceiving the Confederal Assembly, either house thereof or the Confederal people except in regard to specific sensitive information of strategic importance as provided for by law.
The Chamber of Deputies has the sole power of impeachment and the Confederal Assembly meeting jointly has the sole power to try impeachments. In cases where the accused shall be a member of the Confederal Council, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside.
Section 4
Treason against the Confederated Peoples shall consist only in waging war against them or in offering substantive aid to her enemies in time of war or armed conflict. No person shall be convicted of treason except on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.
The Confederal Assembly shall have authority to determine the punishment for treason within the limits established elsewhere in this Constitution.
Article 6
Section 1
Full faith and credit shall be given in each Member to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other Member and of the Confederal Sovereign Territory and the Confederal Assembly may by general laws the effects thereof.
Section 2
A person charged in any Member with treason, felony or other crime who shall flee from justice and be found in another Member shall, on demand of the executive authority of the Member from which he fled, be delivered up to be delivered to the Member having jurisdiction over the crime.
Section 3
New Members may be admitted to the Confederated Peoples by the Confederal Assembly but no new Member may be admitted without conducting a popular referendum of its own citizens according to the rules of universal adult suffrage, and obtaining a vote of two thirds in favor of Membership. If any petitioner for Membership be formed by a junction of two or more existing Members or a component part of an existing Member, a two thirds majority must consent in each original Member and also in each prospective Member.
Members may secede from the Confederated Peoples if, at the recommendation of two consecutive sessions of their legislature, the people of that Member vote by a majority of two thirds to do so. Any Member which so secedes is obligated to allow due time and to make due arrangements for any citizens who wish to do so to place their affairs in order and move themselves to a Member remaining part of the Confederated Peoples.
The Confederal Assembly shall have power to dispose of and make all needful laws and regulations concerning the territory of the Confederated Peoples not a part of any particular Member. The territory of each Member is guaranteed and the borders of no Member may be altered unless the people of that Member should consent through a two thirds vote in a public referendum.
Section 4
The Confederated Peoples shall guarantee to every Member a democratic form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion and, on application of the legislature or of the executive in the event the legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence.
Article 7
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the Confederated Peoples and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the Confederated Peoples and of the Member in which they reside. No Member shall make any law which shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws nor shall any Member deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. No citizen of the Confederated Peoples shall cease to be a citizen thereof unless they freely forswear their citizenship before an authorized representative of the Confederal Council.
Section 2
All citizens of the Confederated Peoples are entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizenship without distinction of any kind such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Section 3
Everyone shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Section 4
No one shall be held in slavery or other involuntary servitude. Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in every form as shall all products produced through the use of slave labor. All persons and incorporated bodies which engage directly or indirectly in the slave trade or in slave labor or in the products there of shall be prohibited from doing business in the Confederated Peoples and all citizens of the Confederated Peoples are prohibited from accepting employment with or investing in any such business.
Section 5
Torture and all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are prohibited whether for interrogation, punishment or any other purpose.
Section 6
Everyone has the right to recognition as a person under the law.
Section 7
All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. All persons are to be protected against any discrimination in violation of this Constitution and against any incitement to such discrimination. In all instances, the use of gendered pronouns and terminology in this Constitution shall be regarded purely as a matter of grammatical convention without legal meaning.
Section 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by competent judicial authority for acts violating the rights granted him by this Constitution and by the laws of the Confederated Peoples.
Section 9
No one shall be subjected to arrest or detention without due process of law nor may any citizen of the Confederated Peoples be exiled from them or refused entry to them after any period abroad for any purpose.
Section 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Section 11
Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guaranties necessary for his defense, including the right against self-incrimination, the right to counsel, the right to a writ of habeas corpus and the right to be tried by a jury of his peers.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, under Member or Confederal 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 offense was committed. This provision shall not apply to any crime against peace, war crime, crime against humanity or act illegal according to the general shared laws of civilization committed in any Member or collection of Members prior to the formation of the Confederated Peoples.
Section 12
Everyone has the right to privacy and to a basic of liberty and no person shall be subject to interference with his privacy, family, home and correspondence nor to attacks upon his personal honor and reputation without due process of law. Everyone has the right to have recourse to the law against such interference or attacks.
Section 13
All citizens of the Confederated Peoples have the right to liberty of movement and residence within the whole of the national territory.
All persons not currently held under the law in connection with a penal offense shall have the right to leave the national territory or the territory of any Member.
Section 14
Everyone subject to persecution in a foreign country has the right to petition for asylum in the Confederated Peoples, to be established in safety and reasonable comfort while so petitioning and to be granted asylum if it should be established that he faces incarceration, violence or other serious persecution on the basis of race, sex, political beliefs or other arbitrary criteria if he should return to his country of origin.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecution genuinely arising from non-political crimes, including violations of all generally applicable laws not targeted at any specific political belief system even if they are politically motivated.
Section 15
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and found a family. Men and women are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.
No provision of this Constitution or of the Constitution or laws of any Member which makes the inheritance of any hereditary title contingent upon certain restrictions with regard to marriage shall be considered an infringement upon these rights provided that no penalty for failing to comply with such restrictions be established beyond simple forfeiture of a hereditary claim on such a title.
Section 16
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be deprived of his property without due process of law.
Section 17
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes the right to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Section 18
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.
Section 19
Everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Section 20
Everyone has the right to participate in the government of his Member and of the Confederated Peoples through an open and democratic political process. No citizen of the Confederated Peoples of full shall be deprived of the right to vote for any reason whatsoever.
Everycitizen of the Confederated Peoples has the right to equal access to public services.
All elections shall be held by secret ballot.
Section 21
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through community effort and national cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each Member and of the Confederated Peoples, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Section 22
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of the dignity of the person and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Section 23
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitations on working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Section 24
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, 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 due to circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood shall be entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Section 25
Everyone has the right to an education. Education shall be free at least until the age of majority. Education shall be compulsory until the age of majority. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be accessible primarily on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the personality and to the strengthening of respect for the rights and dignity of the person, for fundamental freedoms and for democracy. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all racial and religious groups and shall foster respect for peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children, including home education, within such reasonable restrictions as the various Members shall see fit to implement.
Section 26
Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
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 authort.
Section 27
Everyone is entitled to a social order in which the rights and freedoms of citizenship can be fully realized.
Section 28
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
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.
Article 8
All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall remain valid.
This Constitution and the Laws of the Confederated Peoples which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Confederated Peoples, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every Member shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any Member to the contrary notwithstanding.
Article 9
The Confederal Assembly, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as parts of this Constitution if, when submitted to a national vote, such amendments receive the assent of two thirds of those voting in a majority of Members or a majority of those voting in two thirds of Members provided also that a majority of all those voting assents. No amendment, however, may abridge any right contained in Article 7 or may alter the amendment process so as to allow future abridgements of the rights contained in Article 7.