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THE CONSTITUTION OF The Federation of GLOBAL NATION TABLE OF PROVISIONS Covering Clause 1. Short title 2. Act to extend to the Supreme State Sovereign's successors 3. Proclamation of the Federation of Global Nation Earth 4. Commencement of Act 5. Operation of the Constitution and laws 6. Definitions 7. Boundaries 8. Constitution CHAPTER I THE GOVERNING BODY PART I - GENERAL Section 1. Legislative power 2. Federation-General 3. Salary of Supreme State Sovereign; the Federation-General; the High Council 4. Provisions relating to Federation-General 5. Sessions of Governing Body Prorogation and dissolution Summoning the Governing Body. First session 6. Half-Yearly session of the Governing Body PART II - THE REGIONAL SENATE 7. The Regional Senate 8. Qualification of electors 9. Method of election of Regional Senators Times and places 10. Application of State laws 11. Failure to choose Regional Senators 12. Issue of writs 13. Rotation of Regional Senators 14. Further provision for rotation 15. Casual vacancies. Appointment of common person to the Regional Senate 16. Qualifications of a Regional senator 17. Election of Regional senate President 18. Absence of Regional senate President 19. Resignation of Regional senator 20. Vacancy by absence 21. Vacancy to be notified 22. Quorum 23. Voting in Regional Senate 24. Disqualification 25. Penalty of sitting when disqualified PART III - ELECTOR RIGHTS & ALLEGIANCE OF REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STATES 26. Right of electors of States 27. Oath or affirmation of allegiance to Supreme State Sovereign
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THE CONSTITUTION OF The Federation of

GLOBAL NATION TABLE OF PROVISIONS Covering Clause 1. Short title 2. Act to extend to the Supreme State Sovereign's successors 3. Proclamation of the Federation of Global Nation Earth 4. Commencement of Act 5. Operation of the Constitution and laws 6. Definitions 7. Boundaries 8. Constitution CHAPTER I THE GOVERNING BODY PART I - GENERAL Section 1. Legislative power 2. Federation-General 3. Salary of Supreme State Sovereign; the Federation-General; the High Council 4. Provisions relating to Federation-General 5. Sessions of Governing Body Prorogation and dissolution Summoning the Governing Body. First session 6. Half-Yearly session of the Governing Body PART II - THE REGIONAL SENATE 7. The Regional Senate 8. Qualification of electors 9. Method of election of Regional Senators Times and places 10. Application of State laws 11. Failure to choose Regional Senators 12. Issue of writs 13. Rotation of Regional Senators 14. Further provision for rotation 15. Casual vacancies. Appointment of common person to the Regional Senate 16. Qualifications of a Regional senator 17. Election of Regional senate President 18. Absence of Regional senate President 19. Resignation of Regional senator 20. Vacancy by absence 21. Vacancy to be notified 22. Quorum 23. Voting in Regional Senate 24. Disqualification 25. Penalty of sitting when disqualified PART III - ELECTOR RIGHTS & ALLEGIANCE OF REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STATES 26. Right of electors of States 27. Oath or affirmation of allegiance to Supreme State Sovereign

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PART IV - POWERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY 28. Legislative powers of the Governing Body 29. Exclusive powers of the Governing Body 30. Powers of the Regional Senate in respect of Legislation 31. Appropriation Bills 32. Tax Bill 33. Recommendation of money votes 34. Disagreement between Regional Governments & the Regional Senate 35. Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent to Bills Recommendations by Federation-General 36. Disallowance by the Supreme State Sovereign 37. Signification of Supreme State Sovereign's pleasure on Bills reserved CHAPTER II THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT 38. Executive power 39. High Council 40. Provisions referring to Federation-General 41. Ministers of the Federation Ministers to sit and observe sessions of Regional Governments 42. Number of Ministers 43. Salaries of Ministers 44. Appointment of Federation civil servants 45. Command of Federation naval and military forces 46. Transfer of certain departments and resources 47. Certain powers of Prime Ministers, Presidents & Monarchs of Regions CHAPTER III THE JUDICATURE 48. Judicial power and Courts 49. Judges' appointment, tenure, and remuneration 50. Appellate jurisdiction of Sovereign Court 51. Appeal to Supreme State Sovereign in Council 52. Original jurisdiction of Sovereign Court 53. Additional original jurisdiction 54. Power to define jurisdiction 55. Proceedings against Federation or State 56. Number of judges 57. Trial by jury CHAPTER IV FEDERATION FINANCE AND TRADE 58. Imperial Monetary Reserve 59. Expenditure charged thereon 60. Money to be appropriated by law 61. Transfer of officers 62. Transfer of property of State 63. Customs, excise, and bounties 64. Revenue from customs and excise duties 65. Uniform duties of customs 66. Payment to States before uniform duties 67. Exclusive power over customs, excise, and bounties 68. Exceptions as to bounties 69. Trade within the Federation to be free 70. Payment to States for five years after uniform tariffs 71. Distribution of surplus

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72. Financial assistance to States 73. Audit 74. Trade and commerce includes navigation and State railways, airports, seaports and spaceports 75. Federation not to give preference 76. Nor abridge right to use water 77. Vertical Integration Board 78. Governing Body may forbid preferences by State 79. Commissioners' appointment, tenure, and remuneration 80. Saving of certain rates 81. Taking over public debts of States 82. Agreements with respect to State debts CHAPTER V THE REGIONAL STATES 83. Saving of Constitutions 84. Saving of power of State Regional Governments 85. Saving of Regional Government State laws 86. Inconsistency of laws 87. Provisions referring to Regional Prime Ministers, Presidents & Monarchs 88. States may surrender territory 89. States may levy charges for inspection laws 90. Intoxicating liquids & Illegal Drugs 91. States may not raise forces. Taxation of property of Federation or State 92. States not to coin money 93. Religious observance and religious fundamentalism 94. Rights of residents in States 95. Recognition of laws in States 96. Protection of States from invasion and violence 97. Custody of offenders against laws of the Federation CHAPTER VI NEW STATES 98. New States may be admitted or established 99. Government of territories 100. Alteration of limits of States 101. Formation of new States CHAPTER VII SEAT OF FEDERATION, THE CITADEL & IMPERIAL PROTECTIVE FORCES 102. Seat of Government 103. Power to Supreme State Sovereign to authorise Federation-General to appoint Imperial Guards and Federation Marshals CHAPTER VIII GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION 104 - 1. Human Dignity 104 - 2. Equality 104 - 3. Integrity 104 - 4. Abolishment of slavery 104 - 5. Punishment 104 - 6 Marriage & Family 104 - 7 Property 104 - 8 Equality at law 104 - 9 Presumption of Innocence 104 - 10 Liberties 104 - 11 Right to Privacy 104 - 12 Privacy and the Media

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104 - 13 Computers and Data Protection 104 - 14 Freedom of Movement and Federation Migrant Transport 104 - 15 Political Rights 104 - 16 Assemblies and Association 104 - 17 Work 104 - 18 Standard of Living 104 - 19 Education 104 - 20 Arts & Culture: CHAPTER IX ALTERATION OF THE CONSTITUTION 105. Mode of altering the Constitution CHAPTER X INSTALLATION OF SUPREME STATE SOVEREIGN & OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AFFIRMATION OF ALLEGIANCE 106. Installation of the Supreme State Sovereign - Qualifications 107. Installation of the Supreme State Sovereign - The Selection Process Oath of Allegiance. Affirmation of Allegiance.

_____________ LONG TITLE An Act to constitute the Federation of Global Nation Earth.

PREAMBLE WHEREAS the people of the nations of Earth, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Global Federation under the Supreme State Sovereign, and under the Constitution hereby established: And whereas each individual shall unite with others to promote a kindred spirit of good-will in a world-wide family of humanity and peace; to form a world where the strong do not dominate the weak; where the rich help the poor; where the human spirit is allowed to love and care for others without obstruction; where the beauty of our planet, its flora and its fauna are nurtured to its most full potential; and where justice, truth and human kindness shall never be allowed to be removed: And whereas it is expedient to provide for the admission into the Federation of other Nations who wish to share and join our great benevolence and possessions and protection of the Supreme State Sovereign to whom shall be the protector and defender of mankind and mother earth: Be it therefore enacted by the Supreme State Sovereign, by and with the advice and consent of the High Council, and the Regional Senate, under the grace of God, in this present Governing Body assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- SECT 1 Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Constitution of Global Nation. Act.*1* SECT 2 Act to extend to the Supreme State Sovereign's successors 2. The provisions of This Act referring to the Supreme State Sovereign shall extend to his/her or Her successors in the sovereignty of the Planet Earth. SECT 3 Proclamation of the Federation of Global Nation Earth 3. It shall be lawful for the Supreme State Sovereign, with the advice of the High Council, to declare by proclamation*2*that, on and after a day therein appointed, not being later than one year after the passing of this Act, the people of the 10 Regional States of Earth being (in no preferential order) that of Australia, New Zealand, North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia and also, if our Supreme State Sovereign is satisfied that the people of any other region have agreed thereto, on Planet Earth, shall be united in a World Federation of Earth under the name of Global Nation Earth. But the Supreme State Sovereign may, at any time after the proclamation, appoint a Federation-General of Global Nation Earth.

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SECT 4 Commencement of Act 4. The global Federation of Earth shall be established, and the Constitution of Global Nation Earth shall take effect, on and after the day so appointed. Any authority within the 10 regions may at any time after the passing of This Act make any such laws, unless such laws violate the rights or laws held by the Constitution of Global Nation Earth, to come into operation on the day so appointed, as they might have made if the Constitution had taken effect at the passing of This Act. SECT 5 Operation of the Constitution and laws 5. This Act, and all laws made by the Supreme State Sovereign and the High Council of the Federation under the Constitution, shall be binding on all courts, judges, and people of every State and of every part of the Federation, notwithstanding anything in the laws of any State; and the laws of the Federation shall be in force on all Federation ships which includes transports of Sea, Land, Air and Outer Atmosphere, the Supreme State Sovereign's ships of war excepted, whose first port of clearance and whose port, whether sea, land or space are of destinations in The Federation.*3* SECT 6 Definitions 6. "The Federation" shall mean the Federation of the peoples of Global Nation of Earth as established under This Act. "The States" shall mean the 10 Regions of Earth being: Australia, New Zealand, North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and South East Asia as for the time being are parts of the Federation, and such regions or territories as may be admitted into or established by the Federation as States; and each of such parts of the Federation shall be called "a State." "Regional Government" shall mean a government that is established in the capitol of each State during and after the establishment of the Federation. "GN credits" shall mean the standard universal currency of the Federation. The value of which is fixed and shall not fluctuate or change and to which circulation of is based upon Platinum, Gold and Silver reserves throughout the Federation. All previous monetary units will be dissolved and re-issued with GN credits. SECT 7 Boundaries 8. All international Boundaries shall not apply to any Region which becomes a State of the Federation; all boundary migration controls will be taken over by the Federation and population flow movements will be monitored and moderated in accordance with each states Regional Government migration office. All peoples of the Federation shall be issued Federation passports that shall give them right of abode and to move freely into each state in accordance with each states capacity to handle such migration. Federation passports shall immediately make previous passports of a Region obsolete. SECT 8 Constitution 9. The Constitution of the Federation shall be as follows:-

CHAPTER I PART I PART I - THE GOVERNING BODY

CHAPTER I SECT 1 Legislative power 1. The legislative power of the Federation shall be vested in a Governing body, which shall consist of the Supreme State Sovereign, the High Council and the Regional Senate, which is herein-after called " The Governing body," or "The Governing body of the Federation." CHAPTER I SECT 2 Federation-General 2. A Federation-General appointed by the Supreme State Sovereign shall be the Supreme State Sovereign's representative in the Federation, and shall have and may exercise in the Federation during

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the Supreme State Sovereign's pleasure, but subject to This Constitution, such powers and functions of the Supreme State Sovereign as the Supreme State Sovereign may be pleased to assign to him or her. CHAPTER I SECT 3 Salary of Supreme State Sovereign the Federation-General and the High Council 3. There shall be no payable salary to the Supreme State Sovereign, the Federation-General and the High Council. No form of money or payment shall be given to the Supreme State Sovereign, the Federation-General and the High Council by any person, company, corporation or government. Any such person that attempts to do so shall be charged with attempting to bribe a Government official and shall be exiled for the term of their natural lives from the Federation. To compensate the Governing body for their work and devotion, The Federation will instead provide a living allowance of 25,000 GN credits per year out of the Imperial Monetary Reserve of the Federation, plus the federation will house, clothe, feed and transport the Supreme State Sovereign, the Federation-General and the High Council during their stay in government. However on retirement of each of these federal representatives a retirement package will be granted of 100,000 GN credits to the Supreme State Sovereign per year until his/her death. And 90,000 GN credits per year to the Federation-General for 5 years after his/her end of term in office and 80,000 GN credits per year for members of the High Council for 5 years after their end of term in office. As an expression of gratitude for their devotion to serving the people of Earth and for ensuring their freedoms the Supreme State Sovereign, The Federation-General and the High Council shall be given special protection by Federation Imperial Guards after their term in office for the rest of their natural life. These remuneration packages of the Supreme State Sovereign, the Federation-General and the High Council shall not be altered during their continuance in office. CHAPTER I SECT 4 Provisions relating to Federation-General 4. The provisions of This Constitution relating to the Federation-General extend and apply to the Federation-General for the time being, or such person as the Supreme State Sovereign may appoint to administer the Government of the Federation; but no such person shall be entitled to receive any salary from the Federation in respect of any other office during his/her or her administration of the Government of the Federation. CHAPTER I SECT 5 Sessions of Governing Body Prorogation and dissolution 5. The Federation-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of the Governing Body as he/she thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Governing Body, and may in like manner dissolve the Regional Senate. Summoning Governing Body. After any general election the Governing Body shall be summoned to meet not later than thirty days after the day appointed for the return of the writs. First session. The Governing Body shall be summoned to meet not later than six months after the establishment of the Federation. CHAPTER I SECT 6 Half-Yearly session of Governing Body 6. There shall be a session of the Governing Body twice at least in every year, so that six months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Governing Body in one session and its first sitting in the next session. CHAPTER I PART II PART II - THE REGIONAL SENATE CHAPTER I SECT 7 The Regional Senate 7. The Regional Senate shall be composed of senators from each State, directly chosen by the people of the represented State. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides there shall be three senators from each of the States. The Governing Body may make laws increasing or diminishing the number of senators for each State, but so

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that equal representation of the States shall be maintained and that no State shall have less than three senators. The senators shall be chosen for a term of six years, and the names of the senators chosen for each State shall be certified by their own Regional Government to the Federation-General. CHAPTER I SECT 8 Qualification of electors 8. The qualification of electors of regional senators shall be in each State that which is prescribed by This Constitution, or by the Governing Body, but in the choosing of regional senators each elector shall vote only once. CHAPTER I SECT 9 Method of election of regional senators 9. The Governing Body of the Federation may make laws prescribing the method of choosing regional senators, but so that the method shall be uniform for all the States. Subject to any such law, the Regional Government of each State may make laws prescribing the method of choosing the regional senators for that State. Times and places. The Regional Government of a State may make laws for determining the times and places of elections of regional senators for the State. CHAPTER I SECT 10 Application of State laws 10. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, but subject to this Constitution, the laws in force in each State, for the time being, relating to elections for the more numerous representatives of each states Regional Government shall, as nearly as practicable, apply to elections of Regional senators for the State. CHAPTER I SECT 11 Failure to choose Regional senators 11. The Regional Senate may proceed to the despatch of business, notwithstanding the failure of any State to provide for its representation in the Regional Senate. CHAPTER I SECT 12 Issue of writs 12. The President, Prime Minister or Monarch of the Regional Government of any State may cause writs to be issued for elections of Regional senators for the State. In case of the dissolution of the Regional Senate the writs shall be issued within ten days from the proclamation of such dissolution. CHAPTER I SECT 13 Rotation of Regional senators 13. As soon as may be after the Regional Senate first meets, and after each first meeting of the Regional Senate following a dissolution thereof, the Regional Senate shall divide the Regional senators chosen for each State into two classes, as nearly equal in number as practicable; and the places of the senators of the first class shall become vacant at the expiration of three years, and the places of those of the second class at the expiration of six years, from the beginning of their term of service; and afterwards the places of senators shall become vacant at the expiration of six years from the beginning of their term of service. The election to fill vacant places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant. For the purposes of This section the term of service of a senator shall be taken to begin on the first day of January following the day of his/her election, except in the cases of the first election and of the election next after any dissolution of the Regional Senate, when it shall be taken to begin on the first day of January preceding the day of his/her election. CHAPTER I SECT 14 Further provision for rotation 14. Whenever the number of senators for a State is increased or diminished, the Governing Body of the Federation may make such provision for the vacating of the places of regional senators for the State as it deems necessary to maintain regularity in the rotation. CHAPTER I SECT 15 Casual vacancies. Appointment of common person to the Regional Senate

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15. If the place of a regional senator becomes vacant before the expiration of his/her term of service, the Regional Government of the State they represent shall immediately install an interim person from their own cabinet to hold the place until the expiration of the term. But if the Regional Government of the State is not in session when the vacancy is notified, the President or Prime Minister of the State, may appoint any common resident of sound reputation to hold the place until the expiration of fourteen days from the beginning of the next session of the Regional Government of the State or the expiration of the term, whichever first happens. Where a vacancy has at any time occurred in the place of a regional senator chosen by the people of a State and, at the time when he/she was so chosen, he/she was publicly recognized by a particular political party as being an endorsed candidate of that party and publicly represented himself to be such a candidate, a person chosen or appointed under this section in consequent vacancy or vacancies, shall, unless there is no member of that party available to be chosen or appointed, be a member of that party available to be chosen or appointed, be a member of that party. Where- (a) in accordance with the last preceding paragraph, a member of a particular political party is chosen or appointed to hold the place of a senator whose place had become vacant; and (b) before taking his/her seat he/she ceases to be a member of that party (otherwise than by reason of the party having ceased to exist), he/she shall be deemed not to have been so chosen or appointed and the vacancy shall be again notified in accordance with section twenty-one of This Constitution. The name of any senator chosen or appointed under this section shall be certified by the Prime Minister or President or Monarch of the State to the Federation-General. CHAPTER I SECT 16 Qualifications of a Regional Senator 16. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the qualifications of a Regional Senator of Federation of Global Nation Earth shall be as follows:- (i) He/she must be of the full age of eighteen years, and must be a registered voter for the election of members of his/her Regional Government's House of Representatives, or a person qualified to become such elector, and must have been for three years at the least a resident within the limits of the Federation as existing at the time when he/she is chosen: (ii) He/she must be a willing to loyally serve the Supreme State Sovereign and the Federation; be either natural-born or for at least five years naturalized under a law of the Federation, or of a region which has become or becomes a State, or of the Federation, or of a State. CHAPTER I SECT 17 Election of Regional Senate President 17. The Regional Senate shall, before proceeding to the despatch of any other business, choose a senator to be the President of the Regional Senate; and as often as the office of President becomes vacant the Regional Senate shall again choose a Regional senator to be the President. The President shall cease to hold his/her office if he/she ceases to be a Regional senator. He/she may be removed from office by a vote of the Regional Senate, or he may resign his/her office or his/her seat by writing addressed to the Federation-General. CHAPTER I SECT 18 Absence of Regional Senate President 18. Before or during any absence of the President, the Regional Senate may choose a regional senator to perform his/her duties in his/her absence. CHAPTER I SECT 19 Resignation of regional senator 19. A regional senator may, by writing addressed to the President, or to the Federation-General if there is no President or if the President is absent from the Federation, resign his/her place, which thereupon shall become vacant. CHAPTER I SECT 20 Vacancy by absence

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20. The place of a regional senator shall become vacant if for two consecutive months of any session of the Governing Body he/she, without the permission of the Regional Senate, fails to attend the Regional Senate. CHAPTER I SECT 21 Vacancy to be notified 21. Whenever a vacancy happens in the Regional Senate, the President, or if there is no President or if the President is absent from the Federation the Federation-General, shall notify the same to the Prime Minister or President or Monarch of the State in the representation of which the vacancy has happened. CHAPTER I SECT 22 Quorum 22. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the presence of at least one-third of the whole number of the senators shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the Regional Senate for the exercise of its powers. CHAPTER I SECT 23 Voting in the Regional Senate 23. Questions arising in the Regional Senate shall be determined by a majority of votes, and each senator shall have one vote. The President shall in all cases be entitled to a vote; and when the votes are equal the question shall pass in the negative. CHAPTER I SECT 24 Disqualification 24. Any person who- (i) Is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power: or (ii) Is attainted of treason, or has been convicted and is under sentence, or subject to be sentenced, for any offence punishable under the law of the Federation or of a State by imprisonment for one year or longer: or (iii) Is an undischarged bankrupt or insolvent: or (iv) Holds any office of profit under the Federation, or any pension payable during the pleasure of the Federation out of any of the revenues of the Federation: or (v) Has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement with the Public Service of the Federation otherwise than as a member and in common with the other members of an incorporated company consisting of more than twenty-five persons: shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a Regional senator. However this does not apply to the office of any of the Supreme State Sovereign's recipient of pay, half pay, or a pension, as an officer or member of the Supreme State Sovereign's navy or army, or to the receipt of pay as an officer or member of the naval or military forces of the Federation by any person whose services are not wholly employed by the Federation. CHAPTER I SECT 25 Penalty of sitting when disqualified 25. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, any person declared by this Constitution to be incapable of sitting as a senator shall, for every day on which he/she so sits, be liable to pay the sum of one hundred GN credits to any person who sues for it in any court of competent jurisdiction. CHAPTER I PART III PART III - ELECTOR RIGHTS & ALLEGIANCE OF REGIONAL GOVERNMENT STATES CHAPTER I SECT 26 Right of electors of States 26. No adult person who has or acquires a right to vote at elections for the Regional Government of a State shall, while the right continues, be prevented by any law of the Regional Government from voting at elections for the Governing Body of the Federation. CHAPTER I SECT 27 Oath or affirmation of allegiance to Supreme State Sovereign

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27. Every Regional senator, every member of the House of Representatives and senator in each regional government shall before taking his/her seat make and subscribe before the Federation-General, or some person authorised by him/her, an oath or affirmation of allegiance to this Constitution and to the Supreme State Sovereign - who is the protector and gracious ruler of the people of the Federation. CHAPTER I PART IV PART IV - POWERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY CHAPTER I SECT 28 Legislative powers of the Governing Body 28. The Governing Body shall, subject to This Constitution, have power to control and make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Federation with respect to:- i. Trade and commerce with non-states, and among the States: ii. Taxation; but so as not to discriminate between States parts of States: iii. Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the Federation: iv. Borrowing money on the public credit of the Federation: v. Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services: vi. The naval and military defence and security of the Federation and of the Regional States, and the control of all state forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Federation: vii. Lighthouses, lightships, beacons and buoys: viii. Astronomical and meteorological observations: ix. Quarantine: x. Fisheries in all Regional waters: xi. Census and statistics: xii. Currency, coinage, and legal tender: xiii. Banking, other than State banking; also State banking extending beyond the limits of the State concerned, the incorporation of banks, and the issue of money: xiv. Insurance, other than State insurance; also State insurance extending beyond the limits of the State concerned: xv. Weights and measures: xvi. Bills of exchange and promissory notes: xvii. Bankruptcy and insolvency: xviii. Copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks: xix. Naturalization and aliens: xx. Foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Federation: xxi. Marriage: xxii. Divorce and matrimonial causes; and in relation thereto, parental rights, and the custody and guardianship of infants: xxiii. Invalid and old-age pensions: xxiv. The provision of maternity allowances, widows' pensions, child endowment, unemployment allowances, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorize any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances: xxv. The service and execution throughout the Federation of the civil and criminal process and the judgments of the courts of the States: xxvi. The recognition throughout the Federation of the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of the States: xxvii. The people of any race, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws: xxviii. Immigration and emigration: xxix. The influx of criminals: xxx. External affairs: xxxi. The relations of the Federation conducted with inhabitants of all cartographically surveyed land masses of the planet: xxxii. The acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Governing Body has power to make laws:

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xxxiii. The control of railways, airports, seaports and spaceports, with respect to transport for the naval and military purposes of the Federation: xxxiv. The acquisition, with the consent of a State, of any railways airports, seaports and spaceports of the State on terms arranged between the Federation and the State: xxxv. Railway, Airport, Seaport and Spaceport construction and extension in any State with the consent of that State: xxxvi. Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State: xxxvii. Matters in respect of which This Constitution makes provision until the Governing Body otherwise provides: xxxviii. Matters referred to the Governing Body of the Federation by the Regional Governments of any State or States but so that the law shall extend only to States by whose Regional Governments the matter is referred, or which afterwards adopt the law: xxxix. The exercise within the Federation, at the request or with the concurrence of the Regional Governments of all the States directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this Constitution be exercised only by the Governing Body: CHAPTER I SECT 29 Exclusive powers of the Governing Body 29. The Governing Body shall, subject to This Constitution, have exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Federation with respect to- (i) The seat of government of the Federation, and all places acquired by the Federation for public purposes: (ii) Matters relating to any department of the public service the control of which is by This Constitution transferred to the Executive Government of the Federation: (iii) Other matters declared by This Constitution to be within the exclusive power of the Governing Body. CHAPTER I SECT 30 Powers of the Regional Senate in respect of legislation 30. Proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys, or imposing taxation, shall not originate in the Regional Senate. But a proposed law shall not be taken to appropriate revenue or moneys, or to impose taxation, by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licences, or fees for services under the proposed law. The Regional Senate may not amend proposed laws imposing taxation, or proposed laws appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Government. The Regional Senate may not amend any proposed law so as to increase any proposed charge or burden on the people of the Federation. The Regional Senate may at any stage return to the Representatives of any Regional Government any proposed law which the Regional Senate may not amend, requesting, by message, the omission or amendment of any items or provisions therein. And Representatives of any Regional Government may, if it thinks fit, make any of such omissions or amendments, with or without modifications. Except as provided in This section, the Regional Senate shall have equal power with all Representatives of Regional Governments in respect of all proposed laws. CHAPTER I SECT 31 Appropriation Bills 31. The proposed law which appropriates revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the Governing Body shall deal only with such appropriation. CHAPTER I SECT 32 Tax Bill 32. Laws imposing taxation shall deal only with the imposition of taxation, and any provision therein dealing with any other matter shall be of no effect. Laws imposing taxation, except laws imposing duties of customs or of excise, shall deal with one subject of taxation only; but laws imposing duties of customs shall deal with duties of customs only, and laws imposing duties of excise shall deal with duties of excise only.

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CHAPTER I SECT 33 Recommendation of money votes 33. A vote, resolution, or proposed law for the appropriation of revenue or moneys shall not be passed unless the purpose of the appropriation has in the same session been recommended by message of the Federation-General to Regional Government of the State in which the proposal originated. CHAPTER I SECT 34 Disagreement between Regional Governments and the Regional Senate 34. If a Regional Government passes any proposed law, and the Regional Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the Regional Government will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the Regional Government, in the same or the next session, again passes the proposed law with or without any amendments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the Regional Senate, and the Regional Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which Regional Government will not agree, the Federation-General may dissolve the Regional Senate and the Regional Government's Representatives simultaneously. But such dissolution shall not take place within six months before the date of the expiry of the Regional Government by effluxion of time. If after such dissolution the Regional Government again passes the proposed law, with or without any amendments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the Regional Senate, and the Regional Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which Regional Government will not agree, the Federation-General may convene a joint sitting of the members of the Regional Senate and of the Representatives of Regional Government with the High Council. The members present at the joint sitting may deliberate and shall vote together upon the proposed law as last proposed by Representatives of the Regional Government, and upon amendments, if any, which have been made therein by one Regional Government and not agreed to by the other, and any such amendments which are affirmed by an absolute majority of the total number of the members of the Regional Senate and the Representatives of the Regional Government shall be taken to have been carried, and if the proposed law, with the amendments, if any, so carried is affirmed by an absolute majority of the total number of the members of the Regional Senate and the Representatives of the Regional Government, it shall be taken to have been duly passed by the Governing Body, and shall be presented to the Federation-General for the Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent. CHAPTER I SECT 35 Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent to Bills 35. When a proposed law passed by the Governing Body is presented to the Federation-General for the Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent, he/she shall declare, according to his/her discretion, but subject to This Constitution, that he/she assents in the Supreme State Sovereign's name, or that he/she withholds assent, or that he reserves the law for the Supreme State Sovereign's pleasure. Recommendations by Federation-General. The Federation-General may return to the Regional Government in which it originated any proposed law so presented to him/her, and may transmit therewith any amendments which he/she may recommend, and the Regional Government may deal with the recommendation. CHAPTER I SECT 36 Disallowance by the Supreme State Sovereign 36. The Supreme State Sovereign may disallow any law within one year from the Federation-General's Royal assent, and such disallowance on being made known by the Federation-General by speech or message to the States, or by Proclamation, shall annul the law from the day when the disallowance is so made known. CHAPTER I SECT 37 Signification of Supreme State Sovereign pleasure on Bills reserved 37. A proposed law reserved for the Supreme State Sovereign's pleasure shall not have any force unless and until within two years from the day on which it was presented to the Federation-General for the Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent the Federation-General makes known, by speech or message to each of the States, or by Proclamation, that it has received the Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent.

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CHAPTER II SECT 38 Executive power 38. The executive power of the Federation is vested in the Supreme State Sovereign's and is exercisable by the Federation-General as the Supreme State Sovereign's representative, and extends to the execution and maintenance of This Constitution, and of the laws of the Federation. CHAPTER II SECT 39 High Council 39. There shall be a High Council to advise the Federation-General, and the members of the Council shall be chosen and summoned by the Supreme State Sovereign and sworn as Executive Councillors, and shall hold office during his/her pleasure. The number of the members of the High Council shall be twenty-four. Three of these twenty-four shall accompany the Supreme State Sovereign as advisors on the Sovereigns tours of duty throughout the Federation and shall be representative of the entire High Council during such tours. CHAPTER II SECT 40 Provisions referring to Federation-General 40. The provisions of This Constitution referring to the Federation-General in Council shall be construed as referring to the Federation-General acting with the advice of the High Council. CHAPTER II SECT 41 Ministers of the Federation 41. The Federation-General may appoint officers to administer departments of the States of the Federation as the Federation-General in Council may establish. Such officers shall hold office during the pleasure of the Federation-General. They shall be members of the High Council, and shall be the Supreme State Sovereign's Ministers for the Federation. Ministers that shall sit and observe sessions of the Regional Governments. CHAPTER II SECT 42 Number of Ministers of the Federation 42. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the Ministers of the Federation shall not exceed ten in number, and shall hold such offices as the Governing Body prescribes, or, in the absence of provision, as the Federation-General directs. CHAPTER II SECT 43 Salaries of Ministers of the Federation 43. There shall be payable out of the Imperial Monetary Reserve of the Federation, for the salaries of the Ministers of the Federation, an annual sum which, until the Governing Body otherwise provides, shall not exceed forty thousand GN credits a year. CHAPTER II SECT 44 Appointment of Federation civil servants 44. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the appointment and removal of all other officers of the Executive Government of the Federation shall be vested in the Federation-General in Council, unless the appointment is delegated by the Federation-General in Council or by a law of the Federation to some other authority. CHAPTER II SECT 45 Command of Federation naval and military forces 45. The command in chief of all States naval and military forces of the Federation is vested in the Federation-General as the Supreme State Sovereign's representative. CHAPTER II SECT 46 Transfer of certain departments and resources 46. On a date or dates to be proclaimed by the Federation-General after the establishment of the Federation the following departments of the public service and vital resources in each State shall become transferred to the Federation:- i. Posts, telegraphs, telephones and satellite communications which shall also include all communication networks of surveillance such as Echelon: ii. Naval and military defence: iii. Lighthouses, lightships, beacons, and buoys:

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iv. Quarantine: v. Power stations, All extracted Fossil Fuels and Natural Resources: vi. Airports, Sea ports and Space Ports: vii. Regional Government Buildings and their resources: which include and are not exhausted to Federal Reserves, Banks, Treasury Departments, Taxation Departments, Hospitals, Police Departments, Emergency Services: viii. Dams and vital water storage facilities: ix. Public Transportation Services: But the departments of customs and of excise in each State shall become transferred to the Federation on its establishment. CHAPTER II SECT 47 Certain powers of Prime Ministers, Presidents and Monarchs of Regional States to vest in Federation-General 47. In respect of matters which, under This Constitution, pass to the Executive Government of the Federation, all powers and functions which at the establishment of the Federation are vested in Prime Ministers, Presidents and Monarchs of Regional States, shall vest in the Federation-General, or in the Federation-General in Council, or in the authority exercising similar powers under the Federation, as the case requires.

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CHAPTER III - THE JUDICATURE CHAPTER III SECT 48 Judicial power and Courts 48. The judicial power of the Federation shall be vested in a Federation Supreme Court, to be called the Sovereign Court of the Global Nation Federation, and in such other federal courts as the Governing Body creates, and in such other courts as it invests with federal jurisdiction. The Sovereign Court shall consist of a Chief Justice, and so many other Justices, not less than two, as the Governing Body prescribes. CHAPTER III SECT 49 Judges' appointment, tenure, and remuneration 49. The Justices of the Sovereign Court and of the other courts created by the Governing Body- (i) Shall be appointed by the Federation-General in Council: (ii) Shall not be removed except by the Federation-General in Council, on an address from the Governing Body in the same session, praying for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity: (iii) Shall receive such remuneration as the Governing Body may fix; but the remuneration shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. The appointment of a Justice of the Sovereign Court shall be for a term expiring upon his/her attaining the age of seventy years, and a person shall not be appointed as a Justice of the Sovereign Court if he has attained that age. The appointment of a Justice of a court created by the Governing Body shall be for a term expiring upon his/her attaining the age that is, at the time of his/her appointment, the maximum age for Justices of that court and a person shall not be appointed as a Justice of such a court if he has attained the age that is for the time being the maximum age for Justices of that court. Subject to This section, the maximum age for Justices of any court created by the Governing Body is seventy years. The Governing Body may make a law fixing an age that is less than seventy years as the maximum age for Justices of a court created by the Governing Body and may at any time repeal or amend such a law, but any such repeal or amendment does not affect the term of office of a Justice under an appointment made before the repeal or amendment. A Justice of the Sovereign Court or of a court created by the Governing Body may resign his/her office by writing under his/her hand delivered to the Federation-General. CHAPTER III SECT 50 Appellate jurisdiction of Sovereign Court

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50. The Sovereign Court shall have jurisdiction, with such exceptions and subject to such regulations as the Governing Body prescribes, to hear and determine appeals from all judgments, decrees, orders, and sentences- (i) Of any Justice or Justices exercising the original jurisdiction of the Sovereign Court: (ii) Of any other federal court, or court exercising federal jurisdiction; or of the Supreme Court of any State, or of any other court of any State from which at the establishment of the Federation an appeal lies to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council: (iii) Of the Vertical Integration Board, but as to questions of law only: and the judgment of the Sovereign Court in all such cases shall be final and conclusive. But no exception or regulation prescribed by the Governing Body shall prevent the Sovereign Court from hearing and determining any appeal from the Supreme Court of a State in any matter in which at the establishment of the Federation an appeal lies from such Supreme Court to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the conditions of and restrictions on appeals to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council from the Supreme Courts of the several States shall be applicable to appeals from them to the Sovereign Court . CHAPTER III SECT 51 Appeal to Supreme State Sovereign in Council 51. No appeal shall be permitted to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council from a decision of the Sovereign Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se of the Constitutional powers of the Federation and those of any State or States, or as to the limits inter se of the Constitutional powers of any two or more States, unless the Sovereign Court shall certify that the question is one which ought to be determined by Supreme State Sovereign in Council. The Sovereign Court may so certify if satisfied that for any special reason the certificate should be granted, and there upon an appeal shall be made application thereof to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council on the question without further leave. Except as provided in This section, This Constitution shall not impair any right which the Supreme State Sovereign may be pleased to exercise by virtue of his/her Sovereignty prerogative to grant special leave of appeal from the Sovereign Court to the Supreme State Sovereign in Council. The Governing Body may make laws limiting the matters in which such leave may be asked, but proposed laws containing any such limitation shall be reserved by the Federation-General for the Supreme State Sovereign's pleasure. CHAPTER III SECT 52 Original jurisdiction of Sovereign Court 52. In all matters- (i) Arising under any treaty: (ii) Affecting consuls or other representatives of other countries: (iii) In which the Federation, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the Federation, is a party: (iv) Between States, or between residents of different interior states, or between a State and a resident of another State: (v) In which a writ of Mandamus or prohibition or an injunction is sought against an officer of the Federation: the Sovereign Court shall have original jurisdiction. CHAPTER III SECT 53 Additional original jurisdiction 53. The Governing Body may make laws conferring original jurisdiction on the Sovereign Court in any matter- (i) Arising under This Constitution, or involving its interpretation: (ii) Arising under any laws made by the Governing Body: (iii) Of Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction: (iv) Relating to the same subject-matter claimed under the laws of different States. CHAPTER III SECT 54 Power to define jurisdiction

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54. With respect to any of the matters mentioned in the last two sections the Governing Body may make laws- (i) Defining the jurisdiction of any federal court other than the Sovereign Court: (ii) Defining the extent to which the jurisdiction of any federal court shall be exclusive of that which belongs to or is invested in the courts of the States: (iii) Investing any court of a State with federal jurisdiction. CHAPTER III SECT 55 Proceedings against Federation or State 55. The Governing Body may make laws conferring rights to proceed against the Federation or a State in respect of matters within the limits of the judicial power. CHAPTER III SECT 56 Number of judges 56. The federal jurisdiction of any court may be exercised by such number of judges as the Governing Body prescribes. CHAPTER III SECT 57 Trial by jury 57. The trial on indictment of any offence against any law of the Federation shall be by jury, and every such trial shall be held in the State where the offence was committed, and if the offence was not committed within any State the trial shall be held at such place or places as the Governing Body prescribes.

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CHAPTER IV - FEDERATION FINANCE AND TRADE CHAPTER IV SECT 58 Imperial Monetary Reserve 58. All revenues or moneys raised or received by the Executive Government of the Federation shall form one Imperial Monetary Reserve, to be appropriated for the purposes of the Federation in the manner and subject to the charges and liabilities imposed by This Constitution. CHAPTER IV SECT 59 Expenditure charged thereon 59. The costs, charges, and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt of the Imperial Monetary Reserve shall form the first charge thereon; and the revenue of the Federation shall in the first instance be applied to the payment of the expenditure of the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 60 Money to be appropriated by law 60. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the Federation except under appropriation made by law. But until the expiration of one month after the first meeting of the Governing Body the Federation-General in Council may draw from the Treasury and expend such moneys as may be necessary for the maintenance of any department transferred to the Federation and for the holding of the first elections for the Governing Body. CHAPTER IV SECT 61 Transfer of officers 61. When any department of the public service of a State becomes transferred to the Federation, all officers of the department shall become subject to the control of the Executive Government of the Federation. Any such officer who is not retained in the service of the Federation shall, unless he is appointed to some other office of equal emolument in the public service of the State, be entitled to receive from the State any pension, gratuity, or other compensation, payable under the law of the State on the abolition of his/her office. Any such officer who is retained in the service of the Federation shall preserve all his/her existing and accruing rights, and shall be entitled to retire from office at the time, and on the pension or retiring allowance, which would be permitted by the law of the State if his/her service with the Federation were a

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continuation of his/her service with the State. Such pension or retiring allowance shall be paid to him by the Federation; but the State shall pay to the Federation a part thereof, to be calculated on the proportion which his/her term of service with the State bears to his/her whole term of service, and for the purpose of the calculation his/her salary shall be taken to be that paid to him by the State at the time of the transfer. Any officer who is, at the establishment of the Federation, in the public service of a State, and who is, by consent of the Prime Minister or President or Monarch of the State with the advice of their Executive Council thereof, transferred to the public service of the Federation, shall have the same rights as if he had been an officer of a department transferred to the Federation and were retained in the service of the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 62 Transfer of property the State 62. When any department of the public service of a State is transferred to the Federation- (i) All property of the State of any kind, used exclusively in connexion with the department, shall become vested in the Federation; but, in the case of the departments controlling customs and excise and bounties, for such time only as the Federation-General in Council may declare to be necessary: (ii) The Federation may acquire any property of the State, of any kind used, but not exclusively used in connexion with the department; the value thereof shall, if no agreement can be made, be ascertained in, as nearly as may be, the manner in which the value of land, or of an interest in land, taken by the State for public purposes is ascertained under the law of the State in force at the establishment of the Federation: (iii) The Federation shall compensate the State for the value of any property passing to the Federation under This section; if no agreement can be made as to the mode of compensation, it shall be determined under laws to be made by the Governing Body: (iv) The Federation shall, at the date of the transfer, assume the current obligations of the State in respect of the department transferred. CHAPTER IV SECT 63 Customs, excise and bounties: 63. On the establishment of the Federation, the collection and control of duties of customs and of excise, and the control of the payment of bounties, shall pass to the Executive Government of the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 64 Revenue from customs and excise duties: 64. During a period of ten years after the establishment of the Federation and thereafter until the Governing Body otherwise provides, of the net revenue of the Federation from duties of customs and of excise not more than one-fourth shall be applied annually by the Federation towards its expenditure. The balance shall, in accordance with This Constitution, be paid to the several States, or applied towards the payment of interest on debts of the several States taken over by the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 65 Uniform duties of customs 65. Uniform duties of customs shall be imposed within two years after the establishment of the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 66 Payment to States before uniform duties 66. Until the imposition of uniform duties of customs- (i) The Federation shall credit to each State the revenues collected therein by the Federation. (ii) The Federation shall debit to each State- (a) The expenditure therein of the Federation incurred solely for the maintenance or continuance, as at the time of transfer, of any department transferred from the State to the Federation; (b) The proportion of the State, according to the number of its people, in the other expenditure of the Federation. (iii) The Federation shall pay to each State month by month the balance (if any) in favour of the State. CHAPTER IV SECT 67

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Exclusive power over customs, excise, and bounties 67. On the imposition of uniform duties of customs the power of the Governing Body to impose duties of customs and of excise, and to grant bounties on the production or export of goods, shall become exclusive. On the imposition of uniform duties of customs all laws of the several States imposing duties of customs or of excise, or offering bounties on the production or export of goods, shall cease to have effect, but any grant of or agreement for any such bounty lawfully made by or under the authority of the Government of any State shall be taken to be good if made before the thirtieth day of January, Two thousand and twelve, and not otherwise. CHAPTER IV SECT 68 Exceptions as to bounties 68. Nothing in This Constitution prohibits a State from granting any aid to or bounty on mining for gold, silver, or other metals, nor from granting, with the consent of the Governing Body of the Federation expressed by resolution, any aid to or bounty on the production or export of goods. CHAPTER IV SECT 69 Trade within the Federation to be free 69. On the imposition of uniform duties of customs, trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall be absolutely free. But notwithstanding anything in This Constitution, goods imported before the imposition of uniform duties of customs into any State, or into any other region which, whilst the goods remain therein, becomes a State, shall, on thence passing into another State within two years after the imposition of such duties, be liable to any duty chargeable on the importation of such goods into the Federation, less any duty paid in respect of the goods on their importation. CHAPTER IV SECT 70 Payment to States for five years after uniform tariffs 70. During the first five years after the imposition of uniform duties of customs, and thereafter until the Governing Body otherwise provides- (i) The duties of customs chargeable on goods imported into a State and afterwards passing into another State for consumption, and the duties of excise paid on goods produced or manufactured in a State and afterwards passing into another State for consumption, shall be taken to have been collected not in the former but in the latter State: (ii) Subject to the last subsection, the Federation shall credit revenue, debit expenditure, and pay balances to the several States as prescribed for the period preceding the imposition of uniform duties of customs. CHAPTER IV SECT 71 Distribution of surplus 71. After five years from the imposition of uniform duties of customs, the Governing Body may provide, on such basis as it deems fair, for the monthly payment to the several States of all surplus revenue of the Federation. CHAPTER IV SECT 72 Financial assistance to States 72. During a period of ten years after the establishment of the Federation and thereafter until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the Governing Body may grant financial assistance to any State on such terms and conditions as the Governing Body thinks fit. CHAPTER IV SECT 73 Audit 73. Until the Governing Body otherwise provides, the laws in force in any Region which has become or becomes a State with respect to the receipt of revenue and the expenditure of money on account of the Government of the Region, and the review and audit of such receipt and expenditure, shall apply to the receipt of revenue and the expenditure of money on account of the Federation in the State in the same manner as if the Federation, or the Government or an officer of the Federation, were mentioned whenever the Region, or the Government or an officer of the Region, is mentioned. CHAPTER IV SECT 74

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Trade and commerce includes navigation and State railways, airports, seaports and spaceports 74. The power of the Governing Body to make laws with respect to trade and commerce extends to navigation and shipping, and to railways, airports, seaports and spaceports, the property of any State. CHAPTER IV SECT 75 Federation not to give preference 75. The Federation shall not, by any law or regulation of trade, commerce, or revenue, give preference to one State or any part thereof over another State or any part thereof. CHAPTER IV SECT 76 Nor abridge right to use water 76. The Federation shall not, by any law or regulation of trade or commerce, abridge the right of a State or of the residents therein to the reasonable use of the waters of rivers for conservation or irrigation. CHAPTER IV SECT 77 Vertical Integration Board 77. There shall be a Vertical Integration Board, with such powers of adjudication and administration as the Governing Body deems necessary for the execution and maintenance of States, within the Federation, of the provisions of this Constitution relating to trade, commerce and foreign policies, and of all laws made there under: The Vertical Integration Board shall immediately take control and dissolve the following organizations, of which this list is not exhausted according to the directives that the Governing Body may execute; shall be: The Tri-Lateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, The United Nations, The Bilderberg Group, Club of Rome, Royal Institute of International Affairs. CHAPTER IV SECT 78 Governing Body may forbid preferences by State 78. The Governing Body may by any law with respect to trade or commerce forbid, as to railways, airports, seaports or spaceports, any preference or discrimination by any State, or by any authority constituted under a State, if such preference or discrimination is undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State; due regard being had to the financial responsibilities incurred by any State in connexion with the construction and maintenance of its railways, airports, seaports and spaceports, But no preference or discrimination shall, within the meaning of This section, be taken to be undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State, unless so adjudged by the Vertical Integration Board. CHAPTER IV SECT 79 Commissioners' appointment, tenure, and remuneration 79. The members of the Vertical Integration Board- (i) Shall be appointed by the Federation-General in Council: (ii) Shall hold office for seven years, but may be removed within that time by the Federation-General in Council, on an address from the Governing Body in the same session praying for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity: (iii) Shall receive such remuneration as the Governing Body may fix; but such remuneration shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. CHAPTER IV SECT 80 Saving of certain rates 80. Nothing in This Constitution shall render unlawful any rate for the carriage of goods upon a railway, air transport, sea transport or space transport, the property of a State, if the rate is deemed by the Vertical Integration Board to be necessary for the development of the territory of the State, and if the rate applies equally to goods within the State and to goods passing into the State from other States. CHAPTER IV SECT 81 Taking over public debts of States 81. The Governing Body may take over from the States their public debts or a proportion there according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Federation, and may erase, convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Federation in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Federation payable to the

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several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States. CHAPTER IV SECT 82 Agreements with respect to State debts 82 The Federation may make agreements with the States with respect to the public debts of the States, including- (a) the taking over of such debts by the Federation; (b) the management of such debts; (c) the payment of interest and the provision and management of sinking funds in respect of such debts; (d) the erasure, consolidation, renewal, conversion, and redemption of such debts; (e) the indemnification of the Federation by the States in respect of debts taken over by the Federation; and (f) the borrowing of money by the States or by the Federation, or by the Federation for the States. 82-2 The Governing Body may make laws for validating any such agreement made before the commencement of This section. 82-3 The Governing Body may make laws for the carrying out by the parties thereto of any such agreement. 82-4 Any such agreement may be varied or rescinded by the parties thereto. 82-5 Every such agreement and any such variation thereof shall be binding upon the Federation and the States parties thereto notwithstanding anything contained in This Constitution or the Constitution of the several States or in any law of the Governing Body of the Federation or of any State. 82-6 The powers conferred by This section shall not be construed as being limited in any way by the provisions of section seventy-eight of this Constitution.

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CHAPTER V - THE REGIONAL STATES CHAPTER V SECT 83 Saving of Constitutions 83. The Constitution of each State of the Federation shall, subject to This Constitution, continue as at the establishment of the Federation, or as at the admission or establishment of the State, as the case may be, until altered in accordance with the Constitution of the Federation. CHAPTER V SECT 84 Saving of Power of State Regional Governments 84. The domestic power of the Government of a Region which has become or becomes a State, shall, unless it is by This Constitution exclusively vested in the Governing Body of the Federation or withdrawn from the Governing Body of the State, continue as at the establishment of the Federation, or as at the admission or establishment of the State, as the case may be. All previous Federal powers of the Region which has become a State of the Federation will come under the control of the Governing Body. CHAPTER V SECT 85 Saving of Regional State laws 85. Every law in force in a Region which has become or becomes a State, and relating to any matter within the powers of the Governing Body of the Federation, shall, subject to This Constitution, continue in force in the State; and until provision is made by the Governing Body of the Federation to establish universal laws, the Regional Government of the State shall carry on in respect of any such law as the Regional Government had until the Region became a State; however if any Regional Government has laws that are harmful to the State, the Federation or its people then those Laws will be replaced by interim laws of a more stable Region until Universal Law is established by the Governing Body. CHAPTER V SECT 86 Inconsistency of laws 86. When a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Federation, the latter shall prevail, and the former shall become invalid. CHAPTER V SECT 87 Provisions referring to Prime Minister or President or Monarch

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87. The provisions of This Constitution relating to the Prime Minister or President or Monarch of a State extend and apply to the Prime Minister or President or Monarch for the time being of the State, or other chief executive officer or administrator of the government of the State. CHAPTER V SECT 88 States may surrender territory 88. The Regional Government of a State may surrender any part of the State to the Federation; and upon such surrender, and the acceptance thereof by the Federation, such part of the State shall become subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federation. CHAPTER V SECT 89 States may levy charges for inspection laws 89. After uniform duties of customs have been imposed, a State may levy on imports or exports, or on goods passing into or out of the State, such charges as may be necessary for executing the inspection laws of the State; but the net produce of all charges so levied shall be for the use of the Federation; and any such inspection laws may be annulled by the Governing Body of the Federation. CHAPTER V SECT 90 Intoxicating liquids & Illegal Drugs 90. (i) All fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquids passing into any State or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage, shall be subject to the laws of the State as if such liquids had been produced in the State. (ii) A Citizen or Alien that manufactures, traffics or distributes Drugs that are deemed illegal by the Federation will be exiled from the Federation for a period of no less than 20 years. CHAPTER V SECT 91 States may not raise forces. Taxation of property of Federation or State 91. A State shall not, without the consent of the Governing Body of the Federation raise or maintain any naval or military force, or impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to the Federation. CHAPTER V SECT 92 States not to coin money 92. A State shall not coin its own money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts. CHAPTER V SECT 93 Religious observance and religious fundamentalism. 93. The Federation shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Federation. However the federation will not tolerate any extreme religious fundamentalism from any state or group of people within a state; violators of any type of such acts of fundamentalism will be arrested and charged by Federation Police and shall stand before a bench trial before the Federations Sovereign Court or an appointed Court. Extreme religious fundamentalism shall be defined as using religious belief or doctrine to incite hatred or to perform acts of physical injury or terrorism to another human being within the Federation or to the Federation government which shall include deliberate attempts by any religious person to influence members or representatives of the Federation Government with any religious doctrine or beliefs so as to alter Federation decisions and laws and / or to place in jeopardy or threaten the lives of any of the Federation Governments office holders or representatives. Individuals charged and found guilty of Extreme religious fundamentalism against any citizen in a state of the Federation or any part thereof that is under Federation jurisdiction of the Federation or against any office holder or representative of any state of the Federation shall face charges of Insurrection the consequences of which shall be a prison term defined by the trial judge or immediate exile from Federation including all processes that may apply with Exile as may be determined by the Governing Body. CHAPTER V SECT 94 Rights of residents in States 94. All residents of the states are subjects of the Supreme State Sovereign; a resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to him/her if he/she were a subject of the Supreme State Sovereign resident in such other State.

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CHAPTER V SECT 95 Recognition of laws of States 95. Full faith and credit shall be given, throughout the Federation to the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of every State, except on grounds to which the Governing Body believes such a state has a law in violation of the Federation and this Constitution. CHAPTER V SECT 96 Protection of States from invasion and violence 96. The Federation shall protect every State against invasion, whether that be by land, air, sea or space, and, on the application of the Regional Government of the State, against domestic violence. CHAPTER V SECT 97 Custody of offenders against laws of the Federation 97. Every State shall make provision for the detention in its prisons of persons accused or convicted of offences against the laws of the Federation, and for the punishment of persons convicted of such offences, and the Governing Body of the Federation may make laws to give effect to this provision. Every State shall also ensure the protection and care of such persons accused or convicted of offences against the laws of the Federation. Although punishment shall be exiled imprisonment on Federation approved off-shore penal islands or off-world penal settlements, these persons must be treated fairly in view of hopeful repentance and reform to the laws of the federation of which he/she violated. CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VI - NEW STATES CHAPTER VI SECT 98 New States may be admitted or established 98. The Governing Body may admit to the Federation or establish new States, and may upon such admission or establishment make or impose such terms and conditions, including the extent of representation of the Governing Body, as it thinks fit. CHAPTER VI SECT 99 Government of territories 99. The Governing Body may make laws for the government of any territory surrendered by any State to and accepted by the Federation, or of any territory placed by the Supreme State Sovereign under the authority of and accepted by the Federation, or otherwise acquired by the Federation, and may allow the representation of such territory in the Governing Body to the extent and on the terms which it thinks fit. CHAPTER VI SECT 100 Alteration of limits of States 100. The Governing Body of the Federation may, with the consent of the Regional Government of a State, and the approval of the majority of the electors of the State voting upon the question, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of the State, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed on, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any increase or diminution or alteration of territory in relation to any State affected. CHAPTER VI SECT 101 Formation of new States 101. A new State may be formed by separation of territory from a State, but only with the consent of the Governing Body thereof, and a new State may be formed by the union of two or more States or parts of States, but only with the consent of the Regional Government of the States affected.

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CHAPTER VII - SEAT OF FEDERATION, THE CITADEL & IMPERIAL PROTECTIVE FORCES

CHAPTER VII SECT 102 Seat of Federation Government 102. The seat of Government of the Federation shall be determined by the Governing Body, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Federation, and shall be vested in and belong to the Federation, and shall be originally installed in the State of Australia, and be distant not

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less than two hundred miles from a major capital city. The state that is occupied by the sitting session of the Governing body shall be called the 'Host State'. Such territory shall contain an area of not less than two hundred square miles, and such portion thereof as shall consist of Regional Government lands shall be granted to the Federation without any payment thereof. Each State of the Federation shall make available land in accordance with the specifications of the Governing Body and build a grand complex to house the next sitting session of the Governing Body. The complex that houses the governing body shall be called 'The Citadel'. The Governing body shall routinely rotate its seat of government to another host State every 5 years. Whenever a Citadel is utilized as the seat of power in a host State that Citadel shall be called 'The Citadel empowered'. No State shall deem themselves as the State which holds the seat of power of the federation as all states are equal. The Governing Body shall sit at the Citadel of the State of Australia in Canberra until it meets at a future seat of Government. CHAPTER VII SECT 103 Power to Supreme State Sovereign to authorise Federation-General to appoint Imperial Guards and Federation Marshals. 103. The Supreme State Sovereign may authorize the Federation-General to appoint any person, or any persons jointly or severally, to take services as his/her Imperial Guards or Federation Marshals within any part of the Federation, and in that capacity to exercise during the pleasure of the Federation-General such powers and functions of the Federation-General as he/she thinks fit to assign to such deputy or deputies, subject to any limitations expressed or directions given by the Supreme State Sovereign; but the appointment of such Imperial Guards and Federation Marshals shall not affect the exercise by the Federation-General him/herself of any power or function. A host state chosen to seat the Governing Body shall maintain a Special Forces unit to become Imperial Protective Forces to protect and serve the Governing Body. The number of Protective Forces to maintain security for The Citadel and immediate surrounding territory shall include no less than 3 Battalions. The Supreme State Sovereign shall also be mobile throughout the federation. At all times Imperial Protective Forces shall escort the Supreme State Sovereign throughout the federation on such tours of duty to enable the Supreme State Sovereign to perform duties and pay patronage to the peoples of all the States on such tours of duty. This escort shall include one Battalion of Imperial Troops, 3 members of the High Council, 1 Federation Marshall and 12 Imperial Guards.

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CHAPTER VIII - GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION CHAPTER VIII SECT 104 General Provisions of the Constitution The Constitution of the Federation shall immediately empower the following basic rights for every man, woman and child who is subject to the Constitution and the Supreme State Sovereign. No Regional Government may deny any of these rights or any other laws herein:- 104 - 1. Human Dignity: All human beings are born free, equal in dignity and rights , and should act towards one another in a spirit of benevolence: 104 - 2. Equality: Each person is equally entitled to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status and inclusive of the following subsection: (i) Sex Discrimination: It is unlawful to treat one person less favourably than another on grounds of sex when offering employment. This also applies to education courses and the provision to the public of housing, goods, facilities and services such as insurance. Advertisements indicating an intention to discriminate in this way are also illegal: (ii) Equal Pay: Women employed by the same employer can claim the same pay as men for work of equal value. This right also applies to work which is the same or broadly similar or work which is judged equal by a job evaluation scheme. The same rights apply to men:

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(iii) Regional Government Legislation: States are obliged to eliminate discrimination in state social security schemes providing protection against sickness, unemployment, invalidity, old age, accidents at work or occupational diseases: 104 -3. Integrity: Each person has the right to life, Liberty, and the security of person, in subjection to the following subsection: (i) Taking of Life: The mandatory penalty for murder is exile for life to an off-shore or off-world penal colony . Anyone exiled for murder is liable to be exiled for the rest of his/her life but may be released only on compassionate grounds from the Supreme State Sovereign: (ii) Control of Firearms: There shall be strict licensing and control over the sale of firearms and their possession. Private ownership of highly dangerous weapons is a breach of Federation security and is banned: (iii) Federation security forces have special powers to search, question and arrest suspected terrorists. Throughout the Federation the maximum period for which the police can hold a suspected terrorist is 48 hours. This period can be extended to seven days with the consent of the appropriate Secretary of Security of the suspects State: (iv) Incitement to racial hatred is a criminal offence. It is against the law to use threatening, abusive, or insulting words or to display, publish or distribute such material. It is also an offence to possess racially inflammatory material, Federation police shall have powers of search, seizure and forfeiture of such material: 104 - 4. Abolishment of Slavery: No one may be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade are prohibited. 104 - 5. Punishment: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. 104 - 6. Marriage and Family: (i) Men and women of full age of 18, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (ii) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (iii) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by the Federation and the State. (iv) All marriages must be registered in the State of residence, residence being at at least 1 year. It is unlawful to force anyone to marry against his or her will or to bring about a marriage by fraudulent means. (v) Members of the family are to be advantageous position in matters of succession. If death occurs without a valid will, the spouse and children of the deceased have priority. Children have equal rights of inheritance from parents whether parents are married or unmarried: 104 - 7. Property: (i) Each person has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others: (ii) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their property: (iii) Compensation shall be paid for any losses suffered through compulsory purchase or the deterioration of property as a result of activities by public authorities: 104 - 8. Equality before the law: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law: 104 - 9. Presumption of Innocence: (i) Each person charged with an offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he/she has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (ii) No one shall be held guilty of any offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute an offence, under State or Federation law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. (iii) It shall be order of the Federation to ensure that all these laws are to become uniform throughout the Federation. No State shall be allowed to defy these laws. 104 - 10. Liberties: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile. Each person has a legal right to personal liberty. No one can be arrested with the exception of those suspected of

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committing a crime, those failing to comply with certain civil court orders, or individuals in contempt of a superior court or of a or Regional Government. An arrest to enforce a court order in civil proceedings can only be made under a warrant issued by a court or by a power of arrest granted by the court in cases of domestic violence: (i) Arrests in Criminal Proceedings: The police have power to arrest a suspect without a warrant if he or she is reasonably suspected of involvement in an arrestable offence, that is, one where the maximum penalty is five years imprisonment or more. They must normally obtain a warrant before arresting, someone for other offences; an immediate arrest without a warrant may, however, take place if the police believe it is not possible or appropriate to issue a summons to appear in court, for instance where a suspect refuses to give a name and address: (ii) An arrested person has the right to: consult a solicitor/public defender; ask the police to notify a relative or other named person likely to take an interest in his or her welfare; and consult the code of practice regarding treatment in police custody. The police may delay the exercise of the first two of these rights for up to 12 hours. (iii) Consultation: Federation Public Defenders shall be provided on a 2 hour basis to offer free legal advice for people being questioned at police stations. The police must caution a suspect before any questions are put for the purpose of obtaining evidence. The caution must inform the suspect that he or she is entitled to refuse to answer questions - a so-called 'right of silence'. No person may be compelled to give evidence against themselves. (iv) A suspect may not normally be detained for more than 24 hours without charge. In the case of a suspect arrested in connection with a serious offence, however, he or she may be detained for up to 36 hours without charge on the authority of a senior police officer; if the police wish to detain the suspect for longer than 36 hours, they must obtain authority from a court, which may not grant authority for a period beyond 96 hours from first detention. Reviews must be made of a person's detention at regular intervals to check whether the criteria for detention are still satisfied. If they are not, the person must be released immediately (v) A suspect that possesses a Federation Diplomatic Passport may not be detained by any civil or military police department for more than 2 hours. The matter must be handed over to the Governing Body and the suspect be made subject to inquiry by the High Council. Should the Governing body find reason that the suspect may have committed an offence they shall be suspended of all duties impending an investigation by Federation Police. (vi) Habeas Corpus: Anyone who thinks that his or her detention is illegal may apply to the Sovereign Court for a writ of habeas corpus against the person detaining him or her. If no lawful cause can be shown, the prisoner must be released immediately. A habeas corpus case has priority over other cases in the order of court business. (vii) Bail: Most accused people shall be released on bail pending trial. They are not remanded in custody except where strictly necessary. 104 - 11. Right to Privacy: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his/her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Every one has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks on the provision the following laws are observed: (i) Federation law allows people to speak and act in their own homes as they please and to carry on their daily business, provided that they do not infringe the rights of others or commit an offence: (ii) Parents are free to bring up their children as they so wish, provided that they do not infringe laws against cruelty and exposure to moral and physical danger. Parents also have to observe the law regarding compulsory education of their children. (iii) Is a criminal offence for a man/woman to commit a homosexual act with a person under the age of 18. 104 - 12. Privacy and the Media: The Federation forbids media intrusion into the privacy of individuals. No person shall be subject to attacks on a person's honour and reputation. Any such Media outlet or offending Media person shall be charged by Federation Police for invasion of privacy. 104 - 13. Computers & Data Protection: Data users are required to register a description of the personal data they hold on a citizen(s) of the Federation, the purposes for which they use it, the sources from

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which they obtain it and the categories of person to whom they may disclose it. They must also provide an address to which data subjects may write for access to the data. Individuals have the legal right to know about the data held on them and the right to ask a court to have factually wrong or misleading data corrected or deleted. In addition they have the right to claim compensation for damages if the data are lost, inaccurate, or disclosed without authority. 104 - 14. Freedom of Movement & Federation Migrant Transport: (i) Each person has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of the Federation. (ii) Should an individual wish to migrate to a State that is at a distance that makes it financially hard to migrate to; then that person can apply for Federation Migration Transport status. The individual shall then be issued a free travel permit and be placed upon the next available Federation Migration Transport whether that be via Railway, Seaport, Airport or Spaceport. Persons can apply for Federation Migration Transport status only once per year. 104 - 15. Political Rights: (i) Each person has the right to take part in the government of their State, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (ii) Each person has the right of equal access to public service in their State: (iii) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of Regional Government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures: 104 - 16. Assemblies and Associations: (i) Each person has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association: (ii) No one may be compelled to belong to an association: 104 - 17. Work: (1) Each person has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Each person, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Each person who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for him or herself and his/her family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. 104 - 18. Standard of living: (i) Each person has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (ii) Parenthood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. A child, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. (iii) A Federation Medicare System shall be installed to provide comprehensive health care to all citizens. Treatment shall be based on medical priority regardless of patients' income and shall be financed out of a Medicare taxation levy. Prescriptions shall be subsidised to people on low incomes, children, expectant mothers, pensioners and other groups. (iv) Patients are free to seek private medical treatment and doctors, dentists, opticians and pharmacists are able to practice privately. (v) A Federation social security system shall be established to provide financial help to people who are elderly, sick, disabled, unemployed, widowed or bringing up children. The system shall include contributory national insurance benefits covering sickness, invalidity, unemployment, widowhood, and retirement. There shall also be statutory sick pay and maternity pay paid for their employees by employers. There shall also be a system that consists of non-contributory benefits such as child benefit paid for every child in a family and a range of benefits for severely disabled people and those looking after them. 104 - 19. Education: Each person has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and

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professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. 104 -20. Arts & Culture: Each person has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts, and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Each person has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary, or artistic production of which he is the author. The Federation, Regional Government and local government authorities shall give financial support to the arts. The preservation of artistic heritage shall be encouraged by tax relief and other measures including certain controls on the export of works of art. Arts Councils shall allocate funds to the major opera, dance, and drama companies, symphony orchestras, small touring theatres, experimental groups, and creative artists. Original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works, films, and sound recordings are automatically protected. The copyright owner has rights against unauthorized reproduction, public performance, and broadcasting of his or her work. In most cases the author is the first owner of the copyright, its term being the life of the author and a period of 100 years after his or her death (100 years from the date of release for films and sound recordings). Authors have the right to be identified on their works and to object to any unjustified modifications of them. The law shall also protect performers against the trading in unauthorized recordings of live performance, the term of protection being 100 years from the year in which the performance is given. A copyright work first published in one state has automatic copyright in all . The law shall secure the rights of the originators of inventions, new industrial designs, and trade marks. Protection is also available under Federation Patent Protection. The Federation shall take steps to protect the ownership of ideas by means of patents, registered designs, trademarks, and copyright. Measures shall include the extension of copyright protection to computer software owners, the extension of trade marks to cover services, and powers to enable customs authorities to prevent the entry of counterfeit goods from outside Federation territory.

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CHAPTER IX - ALTERATION OF THE CONSTITUTION CHAPTER IX SECT 105 Mode of altering the Constitution 105. *1* This Constitution shall not be altered except in the following manner:- The proposed law for the alteration thereof must be passed by an absolute majority of the Regional Senate and the High Council, and not less than two nor more than six months after its passage through the Regional Senate and the High Council the proposed law shall be submitted in each State to the electors qualified to vote for the election of representatives of their Regional Governments. But if the Regional Senate passes any such proposed law by an absolute majority, and the High Council rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with any amendment to which the Regional Senate will not agree, and if after an interval of three months the Regional Senate in the same or the next session again passes the proposed law by an absolute majority with or without any amendment which has been made or agreed to by the High Council, and such the High Council rejects or fails to pass it or passes it with any amendment to which the Regional Senate will not agree, the Federation-General may submit the proposed law as last proposed by the Regional Senate, and either with or without any amendments subsequently agreed to by both the Regional Senate and the High Council, to the electors in each State and Territory qualified to vote for the election of the Representatives of their Regional Government. When a proposed law is submitted to the electors the vote shall be taken in such manner as the Governing Body prescribes. But until the qualification of electors of members of the Representatives of their Regional Government becomes uniform throughout the Federation, only one-half the electors voting for and against the proposed law shall be counted in any State in which adult suffrage prevails. And if in a majority of the States a majority of the electors voting approve the proposed law, and if a majority of all the electors voting also approve the proposed law, it shall be presented to the Federation-General for the Supreme State Sovereign's Royal assent.

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CHAPTER X CHAPTER X - INSTALLATION OF THE SUPREME STATE SOVEREIGN

& OATH OF ALLEGIANCE & AFFIRMATION OF ALLEGIANCE

CHAPTER X SECT 106 Installation of the Supreme State Sovereign - Qualifications 106. The installation of the Supreme State Sovereign shall be chosen by the Governing Body of the Federation and the term of power shall be for ten years before another Supreme State Sovereign is selected for succession. The Supreme State Sovereign shall be chosen from a group of prospective applicants who demonstrates or show the ability in the following: i. A person who is either male or female between the ages of 18 and 45 years: ii. A person either natural-born or for at least five years naturalized under a law of the Federation, or of a region which has become or becomes a State, or of the Federation, or of a State: iii. A person who is able to show great compassion for fellow human beings: iv. A person who is an advocate of Freedom and Equality of all races: v. A person who believes in the advancement of the human race for the benefit of the Common Good: vi. A person who shuns those who pursue monetary gain and material gain over the well being of fellow humans: vii. A person dedicated to protecting all those who may suffer under the authority of oppression or under the hands of those who wish to dominate people to their injury: viii. A person who believes in peaceful co-habitation with fellow human beings: ix. A person able to display diplomacy: x. A person of moderation and mid temperament: xi. A person who will uphold the laws of the Constitution: xii. A person willing to sacrifice their time to loyally serve the people of the federation: xiii. A person of competent and sound mind who is able to carry out their functions as the Sovereign leader of the federation: xiv. A person that has no affiliation with any political group or civil association. Unless however they cut all ties and contacts with such groups or associations on their appointment: 107. Installation of the Supreme State Sovereign - The Selection Process Each State in the Federation shall accept applications from the general public to nominate a person(s) who have shown themselves to be exemplary citizens. (e.g.: People who volunteer their time to help underprivileged children or the homeless as two examples). The open application period is for 3 months. i. After 3 months applications will close and all nominated people shall be contacted by their State authority and the nominated person and their spouse are informed of their nomination under a strict confidentially agreement. If they break the agreement they are disqualified immediately. ii. The nominee persons have 1 month to consider whether to accept the nomination or decline. If they accept, the nominee must cut off all association with any political, religious or social organization they are involved in. Those nominees are then referred to as 'Federation Prefects'. iii. The Federation Prefects are then transported to the Citadel Empowered for the first level of the selection stage. This process shall be conducted by the High Council and the Regional Senate. The Federation shall house and cater for the Federation Prefects and their spouses during the selection process. iv. All Federation Prefects shall be given medical and psychological examinations. If any fail they are re-examined. If they fail again they return home. v. The Regional Senate will call each Federation Prefect to present themselves to the Senate. In a series of different sessions each Federation Prefect is asked and given tests of general knowledge, personal and other questions that will determine if they qualify for the next level. vi. The Federation Prefects that pass then go to level 2 selection before the High Council. The High Council shall ask them similar questions but with more focus into their passionate and intellectual side. The High Council is to then inform the Federation Prefects that if they are chosen they will loose all property and privacy rights and shall not be allowed to associate with people outside their immediate

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family or receive any type of income for the 10 years that they occupy the position as Supreme State Sovereign. If they agree they go to the final level. vii. The Federation Prefects are sat before a joint sitting of the High Council and Regional Senate and informed of whether they are appointed or dismissed and narrowed down to 3 individuals. These 3 Federation Prefects shall now be referred to as the 'Sovereign In Waiting'. viii. The Sovereign In Waiting are then schooled through the laws of the Constitution, world history, philosophy and humanity for 6 consecutive months. This course also includes etiquette, speech and many other lessons to prepare them for their function as the Sovereign. ix. Upon the end of 6 months the Sovereign in Waiting are brought before the High Council and a final decision based upon their abilities and refinement is made by the High Council. One Sovereign in Waiting is selected and the other two shall have a choice to either return home or be appointed as ambassadors to the High Council or become a High Councillor. x. The Federation General shall then announce officially to the Federation that the new Sovereign has been appointed. xi. 1 month must pass after the announcement by the Federation General before a grand ceremony will be held in the Citadel Empowered before The High Council, Regional Senate, All Regional government leaders, Federation forces and the citizens of the host state for the Sovereigns royal coronation Until the Governing body is able to take a seat of power and appoint a Supreme State Sovereign, this constitution shall provide an Interim Federation-General that shall act in behalf of the Supreme State Sovereign. The Interim Federation-General shall be chosen by the Executive Core Officers of the Global Nation Party of Australia, that shall include the Party Secretary and Party President. Once the Governing Body is formed, the Interim Federation-General shall hand power over to the appointed Supreme State Sovereign not more than 18 months after the formation of the Federation and no more than two months after the appointment of the Supreme State Sovereign:

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE I, a member of the human family of planet Earth, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance

to the Supreme State Sovereign, His/Her heirs and successors according to law. So help me God. AFFIRMATION OF ALLEGIANCE

I, a member of the human family of planet Earth, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Supreme State Sovereign, His/Her heirs and successors

according to law. Amended on the 8th September 2002 by

the Global Nation Executive Core.