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Constitutional Framework
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Government
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United States
with the
Liberty statue, because she is a beacon that represents or freedom and our rights.
When we, the keepers of Liberty, fail to properly maintain or abandon our beacon
altogether, others move in to use her for treachery promising false hope, so they might
The true authors of this work are many. Naming one honors none.
Far too many citizens do not understand their most important rights, let alone the True
Power of those rights. Aside from introducing a new form of government, this
publication provides instruction about understanding those rights as well as our duty to
maintain them.
The Declaration of Independence is the Founding Charter that created the United States.
Government, when defective, leaves us few options; modify it, if possible; when
It is our Duty, as the governed, to frequently and thoroughly inspect every aspect of our
government for corruption; when found, we must act swiftly to correct it. With timely
Should we, or our posterity, fail our Duty — our neglect — allows corruption to ravage
As the primary author, I sincerely hope you accept this work as your own, telling others
In the united words of our Founders, from their 1776 Unanimous Declaration, they
instruct us, their posterity, as to when it becomes necessary to institute new forms of
government. It is that necessity, the long train of abuses and usurpations that require us to
act.
Introduction
government.
United States Founding Charter, 1776
For ease of reading and for reference: The numbered paragraphs replace many of the
original long dashes. The following text results from comparing copies of the signed
1. “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
2. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
3. “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
5. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
future security.
6. “Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the
necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and
over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
7. “He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
8. “He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained;
9. “He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the
distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of
11. “He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
12. “He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be
to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time
exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
13. “He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose
appropriations of lands.
14. “He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for
15. “He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices,
16. “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to
17. “He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of
our legislatures.
18. “He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil
power.
19. “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation:
21. “For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which
22. “For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
26. “For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province,
render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute
27. “For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering
28. “For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with
30. “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed
31. “He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of
cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally
32. “He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear
arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and
33. “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known
conditions.
34. “In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant,
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to
disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of
our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in
Peace, Friends.
36. “We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General
Congress, assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of
these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and
of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all
allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them
and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as
Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace,
contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which
37. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of
divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
a. Separated the political powers of the Colonies from those of Great Britain.
governed.
b. The world.
We the Citizens of the United of States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish
justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, to secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Taking responsibility for our actions
The following definitions are for this Constitution. When enacted by the people, these
definitions shall replace those in prior enacted laws as well as all laws enacted hereafter.
1. Citizen: Any person who legally resides within and maintains permanent
this Constitution.
2. Citizen, (native-born): One who, regardless of the country in which the person is
born, shall retain the citizenship of the mother and/or father. Where conflict
3. Citizen, (naturalized): One who applies for citizenship within a Nation-State and
is accepted.
6. Political Jurisdiction: The respective geographical area the office and level of
wherein a person maintains their permanent legal residence, which are the
official serves, as well as promises the official made while campaigning for office
8. Representative: Any person elected by the people into the executive and the
judicial offices in all levels of government. Others who represent the people but
are not elected, include all those whom elected officials appoint, hire, or contract
9. Treason: Consists of a person or group levying war against the people of any
them aid and comfort. Betrayal of a public trust shall also constitute treason under
10. Tyrant, Tyranny: Any one or more of the acts listed in the grievances outlined in
the 1776 United States Founding Charter against King George III of Great-Britain
Article II. The Foundation
Independence) is the Founding Charter that created this Union of States from the
2. For the times when our government abuses or usurps the authority and power the
people grant to it, the Founding Charter reminds us that it is not only our right, it
government and to institute a new Rule of Law for our future security and
happiness.
3. No level or branch of government under this Constitution shall have any power
that was not specifically granted to it by the people subject to its jurisdiction.
5. Our Founders, in keeping with the ideals they established within the Founding
Charter, freed themselves from the tyranny of Great Britain's form of government,
6. Our Founders soon realized the Articles tended toward too weak a government
without sufficient powers to bind the Union and provide for its future defense,
they abolished the Articles of Confederation and replaced them with the 1787
Constitution.
7. The 1787 Constitution created a strong government that united all the states under
the same Supreme Law. The Founders intended the 1787 Constitution to prevent
our government from tyrannizing us, so they altered our 1787 Constitution and
8. The new government that our Founders and Constitutional Framers created
outlived them. They did not see their — our — government evolve into a tyranny,
committing the same political abuses they identified for us, the very acts of
government that many of them risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to
9. In the united words of our Founders, from their 1776 Unanimous Declaration,
government. It is that necessity, the long train of abuses and usurpations that
legislative votes shall begin in the First House of the city, town, or village's that
3. All Legislative Power of the United States and every state, county, and city,
town, or village shall reside in the people, who collectively shall enact all
legislation, determine the fair penalty for punishing offenders, as well as provide
4. The First House shall consist of all citizens eligible to vote who attained eighteen
years of age and older, as well as those under eighteen who are legally
emancipated minors and/or members of the United States Armed Forces; unless,
at the time of voting, they are serving any portion of a sentence for a crime of
according to the number of cites, towns, and villages within a county; the number
of counties within a state; the states in a National Union; and progressively into
each larger political jurisdiction. Each lower-level political jurisdiction shall have
one vote in the Second House of the next-larger jurisdiction to which it belongs.
6. Legislation (required elements): When considering legislation to control the
7. A Free Society limits legislation to that purpose which prevents a person or group
of people from violating the rights of another person or group who are not
harming or causing harm to another or their property. For purposes herein, harm
8. All legislation shall contain a preamble, the purpose that identifies what part of
this Constitution authorizes the legislation and how the proposed legislation
improves, strengthens, and perfects the political jurisdiction for which the
9. Legislation that does not specifically state a penalty for punishing violators or the
manner in which to fund it, that legislation shall be unenforceable and void.
funding.
11. Proposed legislation shall contain only one clearly defined issue.
12. All proposed legislation shall be worded in such a manner that a YES vote favors
both Houses, the larger population centers are unable to control the smaller; also
progressively larger political jurisdictions, only the people of the largest political
jurisdiction that enacts the legislation shall fund and enforce it.
14. Equal media time: Media equality prohibits advertising to reduce campaign
costs, forcing candidates to become news-worthy for their ideas and plans to
15. The publication or broadcasting business shall independently determine the space
and/or time allotments within their respective coverage area, which must be the
same for each candidate running for the same office during the same election. As
well as equal time and/or space for pro and con sides of legislative proposals.
16. Debates: The political jurisdiction holding the election shall sponsor question-
and-answer forums and debates that include all registered candidates who are
17. In order to provide equal opportunity to attend each forum, the same political
jurisdiction responsible for the forum shall at least provide ground transportation
for each candidate to and from the closest city hall office that serves the
candidate's official place of residence and the location where the forums take
place.
18. The jurisdiction sponsoring the debates shall solicit questions from the people
19. The moderator shall organize the questions according to topic, then ask the
question(s) that best solicit information on that topic. During the forums, the
moderator shall allow equal time for each candidate to respond to every question
asked. The candidates shall not be allowed to hear the responses of the other
candidates until after all the questions are asked and answered in this first phase.
Candidates, in the second phase, may challenge and debate other candidates on
specific topics. Each phase shall run until complete, in marathon fashion with a
20. All question-and-answer sessions shall be video and audio recorded for
the people amended into this Constitution. The recorded audio/video of the
question and answer forums and debates, in their entirety, shall also be
commercially available to the people, for which the proceeds shall help fund the
21. Sixty days after phase two, the first elimination vote shall take place. Should this
rounds shall take place. To reduce the field of candidates after each voting round,
the top twenty percent of candidates advance to the next round of question-and-
answer forums, debates, and voting until one candidate acquires two-thirds or
spans only one time zone shall open and close at the same time so they remain
open during the same twenty-four hour period. For voting that includes multiple
time zones, all polling stations shall open according to the hour of the earliest
time zone and shall close according to the hour of the latest time zone so that all
polling stations shall remain open the same twenty-four hours, plus one hour for
23. Method of Voting: All candidate elections and all legislative proposals shall be
voted on by the use of hand-marked paper ballots, requiring an ink mark in the
appropriate box.
24. All ballots shall remain in public view from the time the voter places it into a
transparent tumbler, through the time the final vote tally is counted three times
yielding the same totals, certified complete by the official vote counters, and no
less than twenty-four hours after the legal allotted time to contest the vote count
ends.
25. To save time in the vote-counting and to ensure enough ballots are in the tumbler
to provide voter privacy; removal of ballots from the tumbler for vote-counting
shall begin no earlier than one hour after the first ballot enters the tumbler. The
ballots shall be drawn from the tumbler in public view, at random, one at a time,
and placed on an overhead projector so that the official vote-counters and the
public may record the results. This allows the public to credibly challenge the
voter shall have their ballot notarized at the time of mailing or upon delivery to
the local town office so their name may be marked as having already voted.
27. The Tally-Sheet shall include the total number of registered voters; the number
the total qualified to vote, which is the total registered to vote minus those
ballots cast; the total number of ballots cast in person; the total number of ballots
cast, which is the total absentee added to the total in person; the total number of
voters who did not cast a ballot, which is the number of total qualified minus total
number ballots cast; the total number of votes cast in favor of the legislative
proposal; the total number of votes for each candidate whether printed on the
the number of ballots cast that do not have a mark next to the proposal or next to
any candidate's name for that office; and the number of vote marks that extend
into more than one box, which shall count in the final tally as though the mark
28. For the purpose of tallying all votes, all spaces left blank, as well as every write-in
with the final tallies. Official tally-sheets from the voting precincts shall be
jurisdiction.
29. If the proposed legislation or candidate does not receive the minimum required
votes as set forth in this Constitution, the proposal shall not pass or the candidate
30. Broadcasting/Publishing Vote Results: The total number and/or the percentage
of total voters who cast ballots as of a certain time may be broadcast or published
during an election; however, the actual vote count, exit poll or predicted voting
results in any form shall be banned until twenty-four hours after the polls close.
31. Enacting Legislation: All legislative voting begins in the First House with the
govern; passing in the First House when two-thirds of the people vote YES. The
Second House vote for each city, town, or village shall be YES when two-thirds
or more of the people of the First House of that city, town, or village approve the
proposed legislation.
32. The First House vote for each progressively larger jurisdiction consists of
tabulating the First House votes of the next-smaller level of political jurisdictions.
vote YES.
33. The First House tally-sheet and Second House vote shall accompany copies of all
34. When the proposed legislation passes in both Houses of the next-larger political
jurisdiction, it shall send the same to all other lower-level jurisdictions that have
not yet passed the legislation, informing them that the legislation is now affects
35. When one-half of the cities, towns, and villages vote on the same legislative
proposal, the county official shall forward a copy of the legislative proposal to the
appropriate state official who adds the totals from the county's First and Second
Houses. When the legislative proposal passes in both House of the state, the state
official sends the same to all other county officials where the legislative has not
yet passed.
36. This legislative process continues in like manner into each progressively-larger
political jurisdiction.
37. If the legislation remains unchanged as it advances into each larger jurisdiction,
the people of the smaller jurisdictions need not vote on the issue with each
changes if it has not already passed in both Houses of the larger political
jurisdiction.
38. In order to enact proposed legislation to a specific political jurisdiction, both
Houses of the named jurisdiction must attain two-thirds or more YES votes.
Without the required two-thirds majority, the proposal fails and is not enforceable
in the lower-level jurisdictions that passed it; unless the lower level enacted the
39. This process does not guarantee or require that every citizen will approve every
40. This process eliminates the rule of the few over the many; where the majority of
as few as fifteen percent of the total voters who cast a ballot rule all others; or,
41. Electing Officials: A single ballot shall issue with every candidate listed.
Candidate names shall appear on the ballot in the order candidates registered for
the office sought. Ballots shall not contain any political party affiliation for any
candidate whatsoever.
42. The People collectively shall directly elect the executive and judicial officers for
the candidate who takes office must also receive more votes than the combined
total of qualified voters who did not cast a ballot for that office and those who left
the space blank. In this manner, the people are not obligated to vote for the lesser
of evils, which is in fact treasonous as it elects the candidate the voter expects will
44. In cases where no candidate receives more votes than the total voters who did not
cast a ballot added to voters who left the space blank, the executive and/or judicial
officer shall order a new election. The new ballot shall list all new candidates,
excluding the previous list of candidates preprinted on the ballot, but may include
45. The elected officials, within their appropriate branch and political jurisdiction,
shall work together to successfully carry out the duties approved by law, while
also working on the plans and promises they proposed during their campaigns.
by the people for that official to develop plans for with regards to the amount and
46. Standard Term Limits shall consist of two, six-year terms, with a person serving
47. Ideally, the people might promote, via election, their best qualified leaders from
within the smaller political jurisdictions into the larger political jurisdictions in
removed from another family member who served in the same political office,
jurisdiction, and level of government that the candidate seeks. This reduces the
ease by which political office and power becomes a family heirloom. The two-
49. Grant of Authority: Upon election, executive and judicial officers obtain the
legal authority to act in the name of the people of their respective political
jurisdictions but only so far as the enacted legislation permits. An election does
for treason against the people. The people may grant or revoke any powers via
jurisdiction may call an emergency session for situations where existing enacted
51. Impeachments and Recalls: The people shall hold the sole power of
impeachment and recall. Petitions that circulate within the affected area shall state
the cause for action as well as the desired remedy and obtain signatures from at
least ten percent of the qualified voters for the purpose of ordering a special
election to remove the named official and/or contract or other acts where the
the chief officer of the government branch not named in the petition. With ten
days to verify petition signatures, the emergency ballot shall issue for that
political jurisdiction within thirty days. The impeachment vote shall hold to the
53. Repeal and Amendments shall not become effective until the required two-thirds
vote of both Houses of the political jurisdiction to which the legislation elevated
54. Other Powers: The people, through their legislative process, shall have the
power, through the National Union, to declare war, approve treaties, approve
taxation in both the budgeted amounts and the manner collected, determine the
wages and benefits for elected officials, grant pardons, and all other duties as
55. All citizens collectively risk their lives, fortunes, and honor in time of war.
Citizens of the National Union shall be the ones who decide what wars to initiate,
56. Benefits: From the people of the cities, towns, and villages upward, more people
congressional members, their staff and operating expenses while also abolishing
58. Legislation is written for the people to understand without the need for legal
implement. When starting at the national level, an otherwise minor glitch might
60. The requirement of attaining two-thirds or more of the eligible votes prevents
requires the greatest degree of publicity and voter approval before proposed
61. For national voting, there shall be four days set aside as national holidays. the first
two days in May; the second two days in November. These days shall replace two
1. Qualifications for the local, county, and state jurisdictions shall be as the people
2. The President of the United States shall be at least thirty-five years of age; a
native-born citizen; and must live in the United States the fourteen consecutive
years immediately prior to their election. No candidate for the office of President
shall share citizenship with any other Nation-State not yet united under this
Constitution.
3. At the time of registering as a candidate for the office, each candidate shall
executive officers shall, without bias, enforce all laws, work to put into effect
6. The executive title and other duties shall be those previously defined by
promises made by the executive officer that do not conflict with enacted
legislation of record.
7. The President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the United States
Armed Forces, shall defend the United States, territories, possessions; and by ally
request and approval of the people of the United States, defend the ally; enforce
legislation that the people elevated into the national level; and through the use of
legislatively approved agencies of the United States, keep the peace within the
8. The President shall negotiate treaties and trade deals for the United States, subject
to the approval of people, and maintain good standing with other nations of the
9. The office of Vice President shall be filled by the presidential candidate who
receives the second highest vote count during the presidential elections, regardless
of political party.
10. The Vice President shall assume the office of President should the President die,
become incapacitated, or be removed from office by the people. The office of the
Vice President shall be filled by the presidential candidate who received the third
highest vote count during the election, and shall be informed of matters of State.
11. Should the President and Vice President become incapacitated, die, or be removed
from office at the same time, two governors shall fill the vacancies of Vice
President and third replacement for the remaining terms or until such time either
one or both shall be reinstated. The governors selected shall be from the states
with the best financial record, lowest crime-rate, and highest education standards;
in that order. Standards shall result from comparative national statistics: Financial
records decided by which has a balanced budget or not. Crime-rate takes into
account the ratios between the state's population and the number of persons
incarcerated (servings a sentence for any crime). Education takes into account the
ratio between the total number of students compared to the total graduating above
be at least thirty-five years of age, a native-born citizen, and lived in the United
States fourteen years with the year just prior to the election in the district that the
office serves.
2. Each jury shall be chosen from a list of thirty-six randomly drawn qualified voters
who live in the jurisdiction where the crime happened. The names of all the
qualified voters shall be verified by the presiding judge, the prosecuting attorney,
and the defense and placed into a tumbler. Each of the three shall draw twelve
names. Of the thirty-six names drawn, each party shall be entitled to remove up to
six. In judge's chambers, the eighteen remaining jurors shall draw twelve names
from a hat to determine which will serve as the primary jury and which as the
replacement jurors. All eighteen jurors shall sit through the entire trial until
those serving jury duty shall receive waivers from the court, which all bill
collectors shall honor. The waiver extends the juror's bills one month without
3. In both criminal and non-criminal cases, the jury shall consist of twelve members
who decide the outcome of the case. Juries shall hear only one case at a time,
5. The courts shall not legislate in any way whatsoever. Every case shall be tried on
6. No judge shall; but juries alone shall decide the guilt or culpability in every
shall without bias, sentence the convicted according to the Rule of Law depending
8. In all criminal cases, with assistance of the defense attorney, judges shall ensure
that the accused is made aware of their rights and that the rights of the accused are
the prosecuting and defense attorneys shall assist the judge in ensuring that the
parties understand the laws pertaining to their case. This process shall not prohibit
any party from obtaining independent legal counsel in either criminal or non-
criminal cases.
9. Each larger-level judicial jurisdiction shall serve as the appellate court for the
jurisdiction for all cases resulting from issues and legislation elevated to their
jurisdiction.
10. In both criminal and non-criminal cases, the accused shall be considered innocent
shall be paid by the people out of the appropriate jurisdiction's General Fund
where the trial shall occur; thus providing those lacking financial means the
ability to seek justice via the courts. Every jury shall have the option to decide
whether a case is frivolous; if so, the jury may charge predetermined court costs
and/or the defendant(s); the value of which shall be served in jail or community
service at a rate of thirty dollars per day, calculated at the current federal
minimum wages.
12. Where there is an increase of a specific crime, the jury shall recommend
increasing the penalty where the crime violates the rights of another; or amending
or repealing the law if the crime resulted from the acts between consenting adults.
Article VI. Open Records
1. All government meetings, records, acts, and judicial proceedings in all branches
and all government levels shall be open and available to any citizen and to the
2. The citizens of each jurisdiction under this Constitution shall be entitled to all the
3. A convicted person fleeing one jurisdiction into another shall be subject to return
on the demand of the executive officer of the jurisdiction whence the person fled.
4. A state may remove themselves from this Constitutional Union with the consent
of a three-fourths vote in each of both Houses of that state. Or, the Constitutional
Union of states may remove a state from this Union with the consent of three-
5. This Constitution shall guarantee to every citizen in this Union a Direct Bicameral
that they properly presented to the people and to which the people granted their
Constitution were not properly presented to the people or obtain their authority
those representatives who consented to the same shall be personally liable for
fulfilling them. The people have the option to re-instate any act on a case-by-case
basis or to bring any living representative to trial for violations of oath and/or
treason.
3. This Constitution, with the afore mentioned Founding Charter, shall be the
Supreme Law of this Union, governing the legislative, executive, and judicial
establishment of a religion or the free exercise thereof. Free exercise does not
permit breaking laws in the name of a religion or in the name of any god, nor does
this exempt any religion or member thereof from paying any taxes according to
the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to
incorrect shall not be illegal. Remember, “Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words can never hurt me.” The line that differentiates freedom of speech from
that of harassment seeks to settle conflicts between the rights of one person to
speak with the rights of another to not hear that speech. Common courtesy, the
volume of the exchange, the venue where the exchange occurs, and whether the
infringed. As with all other rights, when a convicted person pays their debt in full,
according to the law, that person's rights shall be reinstated. The punishment for
criminal activity that uses a weapon or threat of a weapon shall be three-fold that
During the same robbery, if more than one person is robbed, each person robbed
house without the consent of the owner, or in time of war but in a manner to be
prescribed by law.
6. Personal Security: The right of the people to be secure in their person, houses,
transactions and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be
violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath
long as the searchers receive prior written consent of the person to be searched or
the owner and occupant of the places to be searched. The written consent shall
include the places to be searched, the items or persons sought, the persons or
8. All searches shall allow for the benefit of the presence of counsel or other
9. Without a court order, only the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) can search or grant
permission to search a person who is not yet eighteen years of age or who is not
10. A person who is not an adult may not authorize or grant consent to a search of
their person without the consent of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), or to places
they live or have temporary control of or use of without the consent of the owner
11. Found Evidence: The evidence found as a result of any illegal search may be
presented in court for examination by the judge, prosecutor, defense, and the jury,
so long as the offending searchers are prosecuted for the illegal search. Upon
conviction, each person involved in an illegal search shall serve a mandatory three
year sentence for violating the rights of the searched person. Each person illegally
and all money seized shall be returned with the addition of interest paid at the
highest bank rate available to the public during the time the money was seized,
provided the defendant is found not guilty of the charges that brought about the
13. Capital Crime: No person shall be detained while awaiting trial to answer for a
Grand Jury.
14. Double Jeopardy: No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put
in jeopardy for the loss of life, limb, or property. Nor shall any person be
them-self. Nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law. Double Jeopardy shall include a combination of criminal and
15. Eminent Domain: No property shall be taken from the rightful owner, except in
cases of non-criminal prosecutions for which a jury decides the defendant owes
restitution. Taking private property for public use shall not be an option in a Free
and Responsible Society. No private land or items of value may be taken from its
rightful owner for public use except through taxation that is justly applied to all
public to develop alternatives that do not involve the taking of property without
speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and jurisdiction wherein
the crime was committed, which jurisdiction shall have been previously
ascertained by law. At the time of arrest and no later than three hours, the accused
testimony that might convict themselves. The accused shall also be confronted
with the witnesses against them, to have the compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in their favor, and to have the assistance of independent counsel for
their defense.
17. Long-Form Confession: For the purpose of justice, the accused may not waive
the right to trial by an impartial jury, unless upon long-form confession to the
charges in open court that detail crime committed. Such confession shall not
18. Insanity Plea, in any form, is an automatic admission of guilt and shall be
available for use by any accused person who chooses to use it. The person using
this plea shall first serve the required jail or prison time with all other jail or
prison inmates, and not in a hospital. The person using this plea shall bear sole
responsibility for proving they are not insane before their release back into
society.
19. Death Sentence shall no long be available within any jurisdiction under this
they live than it is after they are dead. See Involuntary Servitude.
20. Criminal & Non-Criminal Cases: shall include all prosecutions for the violation
of any enacted legislation, regardless of the level of government. All court trials,
hearings, and other proceedings shall have an elected judge, an elected prosecutor,
and an elected defense lawyer present to assist the parties of each case and the
justice for all. This shall in no way deny a person from obtaining independent
legal counsel. No fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court
21. Failure to Appear: All trial dates and subpoenas, from both the prosecution and
the defense, shall be issued from the courts and served in-hand by the Sheriff's
22. If a defendant flees the jurisdiction or fails to appear for trial, the courts shall
accept such actions by the accused as if having presented a written document that
allows the courts to proceed with the trial in the absence of the accused. The court
shall make note that the named defendant failed to appear. In criminal cases, if
found guilty, a warrant for arrest shall issue. When captured, the convicted person
shall begin serving the required sentence and the individual shall be allowed to
challenge both the evidence the law in an appeal. In non-criminal cases, if found
culpable by the jury, an order for restoration shall issue where financial accounts
23. Bail, Fines, and Punishment shall not exceed that which the enacted legislation
requires.
24. Involuntary Servitude: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for a crime of which the party was duly convicted, shall exist within
25. Within any political jurisdiction subject to this Constitution, slavery and
involuntary servitude are neither cruel nor unusual. For less-dangerous crimes,
where jail or prison is not required, involuntary servitude shall include community
service. There shall be no fines demanded for the punishment of a crime. The test
to determine whether a particular type of labor or the hours worked are either
cruel or unusual shall consist solely of whether or not the labor or hours are legal
whether Free Citizens work the number of hours demanded of inmates for that
labor.
26. Convicted persons shall not receive monetary compensation for their labors.
Revenue from convict labor shall help with victim restorations, supply the raw
materials for inmates to grow their own food, make the fabrics for their own
clothing, and pay for maintenance of the jail and prison facilities. In this manner
our jails and prisons provide hands-on skill-building education, instilling work
habits, and the understanding that crime no longer pays. The Free People also
benefit in that they no longer pay as both the victim and taxpayer.
27. Due Process: No law shall abridge the privileges or immunities offered by this
Constitution; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. In
behalf of a political jurisdiction shall not escape justice because of their political
connections.
28. Other Rights: The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not be
construed in any way to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people. The
Founding Charter names some of the rights retained by the people regardless of
their forms of government. Mentioning certain rights within this Constitution are
those rights until such time as the people amend this Constitution to grant to
29. Political Powers: The powers not delegated by the people within this
Constitution to the government of the United States are forbidden for that
smaller political jurisdictions within this Union are reserved respectively to those
jurisdictions in descending order; otherwise, the people retain all such powers
individually.
30. Military Authority: The police and military authority of larger political
jurisdictions; except in cases where those jurisdictions are under investigation for
criminal activity.
31. Diplomatic Immunities: All citizens of this Union who visit foreign lands for
work, student, tourist, illegal, political, or other reasons are subject to the laws of
that land. There shall be no diplomatic immunity for officials of the United States,
officials of any state of this Union, or private citizens who commit a crime in
another country.
32. In like manner, all visitors from foreign lands to any of the states in this Union,
whether diplomatic or civilian, whether for work, student, tourist, illegal, political,
or other reasons are subject to the laws of the jurisdictions wherein they travel.
33. Political Refuge: Those fleeing tyranny of another Nation-State and seeking
political refuge within these United States shall surrender themselves to the first
political authority under this Constitution; otherwise, when captured within this
States illegally shall receive an impartial jury trial, funded out of the National
Union's General Fund. If the jury finds the accused guilty, those convicted shall
serve three years in jail or prison working hard labor alongside convicted citizens
before being returned to their home country. If the individual is charged with
other crimes, additional trials shall be held for those charges, which shall be paid
out of the general fund of the political jurisdiction where the crimes and/or the
trial shall take place. If convicted, the person shall serve the appropriate
sentence(s). All sentencing shall be the same as if a legal citizen committed the
same crime.
35. Whether a citizen or in the jurisdiction of this Constitution legally or illegally, all
prohibited from re-entering legally for at least ten years after being returned to
qualifying for any government program or benefits. Short-term refugees are the
only exception. This requirement does not violate the conditions of a person's age,
that all persons voluntarily come to, or remain within, any one of these states.
This requirement shall not be construed in any way to prevent citizens from
37. Right to Vote: The right of citizens to vote or to receive benefit from any
or agent subject to this Constitution because of that citizen's race, color, age,
gender, cultural background, sexual preference, religion, failure to pay any tax, or
eligibility, that they understand their duties and responsibilities, that they are
Constitution.
38. No other reason shall exist to prevent a person from voting other than if that
person still serves a sentence for any criminal activity; which also makes them
benefits that they were not already eligible for prior to the commission of the
crime.
40. Right of Personal Association: The right of the people to choose personal
so long as the individual advertises and/or openly posts such restrictions. This
41. Taxation: Through legislation, the People shall decide all amounts and forms of
taxation with regard to how they shall fund the enforcement of laws, pay for
public programs, government projects, or any other act that requires the use of
public money.
Article IX. Ratification