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Citizen #22:
Miestrâ Schivâ | Azul:
If this, and the Topic Nine text beneath, are approved without suggestion of amendment, then this time next week I will have the pleasure of declaring the First Draft Constitution complete. If I continue to have a lack of input for QI#4, I may well print the whole damn thing.
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TOPIC TEN: DECLARATION OF FREEDOMS AND PROTECTIONS
Introduction
1. The rights granted by this Article shall apply to all citizens of the Republic, and also to all those who register with the Government as prospective citizens according to law.
2. No decision of the Government, or of any Minister or government official, may override these rights. These rights form part of the Constitution of the Republic.
3. Any citizen may seek redress in the Courts against the Government, or any citizen or corporation of the Republic, for violation of these rights.
Equality
4. All persons are equal before the law. This is the right of individual value.
5. No one may be prejudiced or favored due to sex, parentage, race, language, homeland or origin, faith, religious or political opinions, or sexual orientation.
Open Freedoms
6. Everyone has the right to the free progress of his or her person insofar he or she does not violate the rights of others or violate any law within the Republic.
7. Everyone has the right to life and to the sanctity of his or her person. The right of individual value is sacred.
Freedom of Expression
8. Everyone has the right freely to express and to propagate his or her belief by speech, writing, and pictures and freely to inform him or herself from publicly available sources.
9. Freedom of the press and of reporting by electronic communications is guaranteed. There shall be no censorship. Secrecy of all communications is sacred. Restrictions may be ordered only pursuant to a law.
Freedom of Belief
10. Freedoms of faith and of conscience, and freedom of creed, religious or ideological, are sacred. The undisturbed practice of religion is guaranteed.
11. The government shall neither endorse or support any organized religious group, nor make any practice that may be seen as an endorsement.
Freedom of Association
12. All Talossans have the right to form associations and societies.
13. Associations, the objects or activities of which conflict with the criminal laws or which are directed against the constitutional order or the concept of international relations, are prohibited.
14. The right to form labor associations is guaranteed to everyone and to all trades and professions. Agreements that confine or seek to obstruct this right are null and void.
15. All Talossans have the right to assemble peacefully without prior notification or permission.
Freedom to Voice Opinion
16. Every Talossan has the right to petition the suitable authorities or to their representatives. This right may be exercised by individuals as well as by several persons together.
17. It shall be the right of all citizens to vote on or after their fourteenth birthday.
Inviolability of Privacy and Property
18. The home is sacred. Searches may be ordered only by a judge and may be carried out only in the mode set by law. Otherwise, this sacredness may be encroached upon or limited only to avoid a common danger to individuals.
19. The right to ownership of and the protection of property is guaranteed but implies duties.
Intellectual Property
20. Intellectual labor, the rights of the author, the inventor, the composer, and the artist enjoy the special protection and care of the Republic.
21. The products of Talossan scholarship, art, and technical science shall also be recognized and protected abroad through international agreement.
Application of Rights
22. Insofar as under this Constitution a basic right may be restricted by or only pursuant to a law, the law must apply generally and not solely to an individual case. Furthermore, the law must name the basic right, indicating the article.
23. In no case may a basic right be infringed upon in its essential content.
24. The basic rights apply also to corporations established under Talossan public law to the extent that the nature of such rights permits.
Restrictions
25. The freedom of the individual may be restricted only in accord with the formal law and only with appropriate regard to the law.
27. Any person charged with an offense must be brought before a judge the day following the charge. From there, the detainee shall be informed of the reasons for the charge. and be given an opportunity to raise objection.
Right to Fair Hearing
28. In the courts everyone is entitled to a hearing in accord with the law.
29. An act can be punished only if it was a punishable offense by law prior to the act. No one may be punished for the same act more than once in pursuance of general penal legislation. Bills of attainder are illegal.
Miestrâ Schivâ
"Now I'm liberal, but to a degree; I think everybody should be free, but if you think I'm going to let Barry Goldwater move in next door or marry my daughter, you must think I'm crazy! I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba!"
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