We the people living on the Earth, in order to establish justice
and peace among nations,
provide for the common security, resolve
international disputes, regulate international trade,
preserve
the environment of the Earth, protect human rights, promote the
general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution of
the United Nations Democracy.
The powers of the United Nations
Democracy
shall be limited to those designated in this Constitution,
and
all other powers shall be reserved to the sovereignty of the people
and their nations.
Article I
Section 1
All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the
Congress of the United Nations
Democracy, which shall consist of
a Senate and an Assembly of Representatives.
Section 2
The Representatives in the Assembly shall be elected by the
people in each nation
and be apportioned in districts by population
with each nation electing one
Representative per ten million people except China and India elect one Representative
per twenty million people.
Every Representative shall have one vote, except that the vote
of each Representative
from a nation with less than ten million
people shall count as one half vote, and nations
with less than
five million people shall each have one non-voting Representative.
In 2025 there are 134 nations with between five and ten million people,
32 nations with between one million and five million,
and 72 nations with less than one million people.
Each Representative must be at least twenty-five years of age,
must have been a citizen
of the nation represented for at least
ten years, and when elected, must be an inhabitant
of that nation
represented.
The Assembly of Representatives shall have the power to impeach
federal officers
by a two-thirds vote.
Section 3
The Senate of the Earth shall be composed of one hundred eighty
Senators
with twenty Senators representing each of nine regions.
Each Senator shall have one vote and must be at least thirty
years of age,
must have been a citizen of the nation represented
for at least fifteen years,
and when elected, must be an inhabitant
of one of those nations in the region
in which one is elected.
Section 4
General elections for all Representatives and for one-third
of the Senators
shall be held on the first Wednesday of November
in odd-numbered years.
Twenty Senators shall be elected from each of the following
nine regions:
China, India, East Asia, North Asia, Middle East,
Africa, Europe, South America
and North America.
The India region shall include India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
Because India in 2025 has 1,463,865,525 people they shall have one member
per every 20 million people in the Assembly of Representatives which
would give India 73 voting members in the Assembly.
The China region shall include China.
Because China in 2025 has 1,416,096,094 people they shall have one member
per every 20 million people in the Assembly of Representatives which
would give China 70 voting members in the Assembly.
The East Asia region shall include Australia, Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia,
Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Indonesia,
Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia,
Myanmar (Burma), Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand,
Niue, North
Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,
Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Timor-Leste,
Tonga,
Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Indonesia with a population of 285,721,236 would have 28 members in the Assembly.
Japan with a population of 123,103,479 people would have 13 members in the Assembly.
Philippines with a population of 116,786,962 people would have 11 members in the Assembly.
Vietnam with a population of 101,598,527 people would have 11 members in the Assembly.
Thailand with 71,619,863 people would have 7 members in the Assembly.
Myanmar (Burma) with 54,850,648 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
South Korea with 51,667,029 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Malaysia with 35,977,838 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Nepal with 29,618,118 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Australia with 26,974,026 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
North
Korea with 26,571,036 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Taiwan with 23,112,793 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Cambodia with 17,847,982 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Papua New Guinea with 10,762,817 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the East Asia region
would have 93 votingmembers in the Assembly.
The North Asia region shall include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
Belarus, Bhutan
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia,
Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Bangladesh with 175,686,899 people would have 17 members in the Assembly.
Russia with
143,997,393 people would have 14 members in the Assembly.
Uzbekistan with 37,053,428 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Kazakhstan with 20,843,754 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Tajikistan with 10,786,734 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Azerbaijan with 10,397,713 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the North Asia region
would have 38 voting members in the Assembly.
The Middle East & North Africa region shall include Afghanistan, Algeria,
Bahrain,
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya,
Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Tunisia,
United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen.
Pakistan with a population of 255,219,554 would have 25 members in the Assembly.
Egypt with a population of 118,365,995 would have 11 members in the Assembly.
Iran with a population of 92,417,681 would have 9 members in the Assembly.
Algeria with 47,435,312 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Iraq with 47,020,774 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Afghanistan with 43,844,111 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Yemen with 41,773,878 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Morocco with 38,430,770 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Saudi
Arabia with 34,566,328 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Syria with 25,620,427 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Tunisia with 12,348,573 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Jordan with 11,520,684 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
United Arab Emirates with 11,346,000 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the Middle East & North Africa region
would have 72 voting members in the Assembly.
The Africa region shall include Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina
Faso, Burundi,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic,
Chad, Comoros, Congo,
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
Niger, Nigeria, Réunion,
Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tomé
and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, South
Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland,
Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Nigeria with 237,527,782 people would have 23 members in the Assembly.
Ethiopia with 135,472,051 people would have 13 members in the Assembly.
Democratic Republic of Congo with
112,832,473 people would have 11 members.
Tanzania with 70,545,865 people would have 7 members in the Assembly.
South
Africa with 64,747,319 people would have 6 members in the Assembly.
Kenya with 57,532,493 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Sudan with 51,662,147 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Uganda with 51,384,894 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Angola with 39,040,039 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Mozambique with 35,631,653 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Ghana with 35,064,272 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Madagascar with 32,740,678 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Ivory Coast with 32,711,547 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Cameroon with 29,879,337 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Niger with 27,917,831 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Mali with 25,198,821 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Burkina
Faso with 24,074,580 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Malawi with 22,216,120 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Zambia with 21,913,874 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Chad with 21,003,705 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Somalia with 19,654,739 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Senegal with 18,931,966 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Zimbabwe with 16,950,795 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Guinea with 15,099,727 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Benin with 14,814,460 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Rwanda with 14,569,341 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Burundi with 14,390,003 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
South Sudan with 12,188,788 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the Africa region
would have 112 voting members in the Assembly.
The Europe region shall include Albania, Andorra, Austria,
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany,
Gibraltar,
Greece, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Hungary,
Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta,
Monaco, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino,
Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom,
and the Vatican State.
Turkey with 87,685,426 people would have 8 members in the Assembly.
Germany with 84,075,075 people would have 8 members in the Assembly.
United Kingdom with 69,551,332 people would have 6 members in the Assembly.
France with 66,650,804 people would have 6 members in the Assembly.
Italy with 59,146,260 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Spain with 47,889,958 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Ukraine with 38,980,376 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Poland with 38,140,910 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Romania with 18,908,650 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Netherlands with 18,346,819 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Belgium with 11,758,603 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Sweden with 10,656,633 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Czech
Republic 10,609,239 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Portugal with 10,411,834 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the Europe region
would have 49 voting members in the Assembly.
The South America region shall include Anguilla, Antigua and
Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba,
Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil,
Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti,
Jamaica,
Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Luda, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
Uruguay,
Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands.
Brazil with 212,812,405 people would have 21 members in the Assembly.
Mexico with
131,946,900 people would have 13 members in the Assembly.
Colombia with 53,425,635 people would have 5 members in the Assembly.
Argentina with 45,851,378 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Peru with 34,576,665 people would have 3 members in the Assembly.
Venezuela with 28,516,896 people would have 2 members in the Assembly.
Chile with 19,859,921 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Ecuador with 18,289,896 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Bolivia with 12,581,843 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Haiti with 11,906,095 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Dominican Republic with 11,520,487 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Cuba with 10,937,203 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the South America region
would have 54 voting members in the Assembly.
The North America region shall include Belize, Canada, Costa
Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
and the United States.
United States with 347,275,807 people would have 34 members in the Assembly.
Canada with 40,126,723 people would have 4 members in the Assembly.
Guatemala with 18,687,881 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Honduras with 11,005,850 people would have 1 member in the Assembly.
Based on these statistics at this time the North America region
would have 40 voting members in the Assembly.
Not counting half votes the total number of voting members
would be 597 in the Assembly of Representatives.
Primary elections shall be held regionally in odd-numbered
years
on the first Wednesday
of May.
In the first year of elections
after the ratification of this Constitution the Senators
from
the regions of Africa, East Asia, and Europe shall be elected
to terms of two years,
the Senators from the regions of India,
North America, and North Asia to terms of
four years, and the
Senators from the regions of China, Middle East, and South America
to terms of six years.
Thereafter every odd-numbered
year sixty Senators
from three regions shall be elected
to terms of six years.
The Senators shall be elected proportionally.
The primary election
shall determine the list of candidates with the most votes
within
each party.
In the general election citizens shall vote for the
party of their choice,
and twenty seats in each region shall be
apportioned with each party
getting one seat for each five percent
of the vote.
Representatives of the nations shall be elected by district
with instant ranked choice
voting using first, second, and third choices
in both the primary and general elections.
As candidates with
the least number of votes are eliminated, the second
(and if necessary
the third) choices of those voters shall take effect until one
candidate has more votes than all the remaining candidates.
The Senate and Assembly of Representatives shall be the judge
of their own elections,
returns and qualifications of their own
members,
and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do
business.
Section 5
The Senators and Representatives shall receive compensation
for their services
to be ascertained by law and paid out of the
Treasury of the United Nations Democracy.
They shall in all cases,
except treason, felony and breach of the peace,
be privileged
from arrest during their attendance at the session of their
respective
assemblies and in going to and returning from the same.
No Senator or Representative shall during the time for which
he or she was elected
be appointed to any civil office under the
authority of any nation or state;
no person holding any office
under any national or state government
shall be a member of either
assembly during his or her continuance in office.
Section 6
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the Assembly
of Representatives,
but the Senate may propose or concur with
amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the Assembly of Representatives
and the Senate
shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to
the Council of nine Presidents.
If two thirds or more approve,
they shall sign it;
but if not, they shall return it with their
objections to that assembly in which it
shall have originated
and which shall enter the objections at large in their journal
and proceed to reconsider it.
If after such reconsideration two
thirds of the Assembly shall agree to pass the bill,
it shall
be sent together with the objections to the Senate by
which it shall likewise be
reconsidered, and if it is approved
by two thirds of the Senate, it shall become a law.
But in
all such cases the votes of both houses of Congress shall be determined
by
yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and
against the bill shall be
entered in the journal of each house
respectively.
If any bill shall not be returned by the Council
of Presidents within ten days
after it shall have been presented
to them, the same shall be a law,
in like manner as if they had
signed it.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of
the Senate and Assembly
of Representatives may be necessary shall
be presented to the Council of Presidents,
and before the same
shall take effect, shall be approved by at least two thirds of
them,
or not being approved by two thirds of them, shall be repassed
by two thirds
of the Senate and Assembly of Representatives, according
to the rules
and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
Section 7
The Congress of the United Nations Democracy shall have the following powers:
to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay
the debts and provide
for the security and general welfare of
the people of the Earth;
but all duties, imposts and excises shall
be uniform everywhere on Earth;
to borrow money on the credit of the United Nations Democracy;
to regulate commerce between nations;
to coin money and regulate the value of currencies;
to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities
and current coin
of the United Nations Democracy;
to fix the standard of weights and measures;
to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing
for limited times
to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries;
to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court of the United Nations Democracy;
to provide for the inspection, investigation of disputed treaties,
disarmament agreements,
and suspected violations of the laws of
the United Nations Democracy;
to provide for organizing, equipping, disciplining, and missions
of the United Nations
Democracy peacekeepers to resolve international
conflicts;
to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution
the foregoing powers and all other powers vested
by this Constitution in the
United Nations Democracy or in any
department or officer thereof.
Section 8
The immigration of persons any of the nations shall think proper
to admit
shall not be prohibited by the Congress.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce
or revenue to the ports
of one nation over those of another; nor
shall vessels bound to or from one nation
be obliged to enter,
clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence
of appropriations
made by law, and a regular statement and account
of the receipts and expenditures
of all public money shall be
published from time to time.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the Federal Earth
Democracy,
and no person holding any office of profit or trust
under it shall without the
consent of the Congress accept of any
present, emolument, office, or title
of any kind whatever from
any monarch or nation.
No nation shall without the consent of Congress and the Council
of Presidents
send troops, military forces, weapons or ships of
war outside their national borders,
enter into any military agreement
or compact with another nation or other power,
or engage in war.
Article II
Section 1
The executive power shall be vested in a Council of Nine Presidents
of the
United Nations Democracy.
They shall hold these offices
during the term of six years and be elected in
odd-numbered years
by a majority of all the voters in the nine regions using
ranked choice voting in both the primary and general elections
as described
in Article I Section 4.
All persons who are at least thirty-five years of age and inhabitants
of the region
when elected shall be eligible for the office of
President.
In the first year of elections after the ratification of this
Constitution the Presidents
from the regions of India, North America,
and North Asia shall be elected to terms
of two years, the Presidents
from the regions of China, Middle East, and
South America to terms
of four years, and the Presidents from the regions
of Africa,
East Asia, and Europe to terms of six years.
Thereafter in every
odd-numbered year three Presidents from three regions
shall be elected
to terms of six years to replace those previously elected.
In case of the removal of a President from office or of his
or her death or resignation,
the twenty Senators from that region
shall elect an Acting President
until the next election can fill
the vacancy for the balance of the term.
The Presidents shall receive compensation, which shall neither
be increased
nor diminished during the period for which they shall
have been elected, and
they shall not receive within that period
any other emolument from any nation or state.
Before entering on the execution of their offices, the Presidents,
Senators, and
Representatives shall take the following oath or
affirmation:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully execute the office to which
I have been elected and
will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and
defend the
Constitution of the United Nations Democracy.”
The terms of the elected Presidents, Senators, and Representatives
shall begin
at noon on January 3 following their election.
Section 2
The Council of nine Presidents shall execute the laws of the United Nations Democracy
by a two-thirds majority.
The Council of nine Presidents may require the opinion in writing
of the administrator in each of the executive departments upon
any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
The Council of nine Presidents by a two-thirds majority shall have
power by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate to make
treaties between nations,
provided the governments of those nations
and two thirds of the Senators present concur.
The Council of nine Presidents by a two-thirds majority shall nominate
and by and
with the advice and consent of at least three-fifths
of the Senate shall appoint
ambassadors, other public ministers
and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court
of the United Nations
Democracy, and all other officers of the United Nations Democracy,
whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and
which shall be
established by law: but the Congress may by law
vest the appointment of such inferior
officers, as they think
proper, in the Council of nine Presidents alone, in the courts of law,
or in the administrators of departments.
The Council of nine Presidents shall have power to fill up all vacancies
that may happen
during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions
which shall expire
one month after the end of their recess.
Section 3
The Council of nine Presidents shall from time to time give to the
Congress information
of the state of the Earth and recommend for
their consideration such measures
as they shall judge necessary
and expedient; they may on extraordinary
occasions convene both
assemblies or either of them.
The Council of nine Presidents shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed
and shall commission all the officers of the
United Nations Democracy.
Section 4
The Council of nine Presidents and all civil officers of the Federal Earth
Democracy
shall be removed from office on impeachment for and
conviction of treason, bribery,
or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Article III
Section 1
The judicial power of the United Nations Democracy shall be
vested in one
Supreme Court and inferior courts as the Congress
may from time to time
ordain and establish.
The nine judges of
the Supreme Court and the judges of the inferior courts shall
hold
their offices during good behavior for nine years, after
which time they may be
appointed again, and they shall receive
for their services compensation, which
shall not be diminished nor increased during their continuance in office.
Eight of the first nine judges
shall serve terms limited by the annual appointments.
Each year
the President and twenty Senators representing a region shall
appoint a
judge from that region with the advice and consent of
three-fifths of the Senate.
The sequence of annual replacements
shall be China, South America, Middle East,
India, North America,
North Asia, East Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Section 2
The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity
arising under this Constitution,
the laws of the United Nations
Democracy, and treaties made or which shall be made
under its
authority, to all cases affecting international relations, ambassadors,
other public
ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty
and maritime jurisdiction; and to
controversies between two or
more nations, between citizens of different nations,
between citizens
claiming lands under grants of different nations, and between
a
nation or the citizens thereof and other nations.
In all cases affecting international relations and those in
which a nation shall be party,
the Supreme Court shall have original
jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned,
the Supreme
Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
with such
exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress
shall make.
Section 3
Treason against the United Nations Democracy shall consist only
in levying war.
No Person shall be convicted of treason unless
on the testimony of two witnesses
to the same overt act or on
confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare
the punishment of treason.
Any federal officer impeached by the Assembly of Representatives
shall be tried
before the Supreme Court, and a vote of two thirds
is required for conviction.
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Article IV
Section 1
Full faith and credit shall be given in each nation to the
public acts, records,
and judicial proceedings of every other
nation, and the Congress may by
general laws prescribe the manner
in which such acts, records and proceedings
shall be proved and
the effect thereof.
Section 2
The people of each nation shall be entitled to all privileges
and immunities
of citizens as described in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
A person charged in any nation with treason, felony, or other
crime, who shall flee
from justice and be found in another nation,
shall on demand of the executive authority
of the nation from
which he or she fled be delivered up to be removed to the nation
having jurisdiction of the crime.
Section 3
New nations may be admitted by the Congress into the United Nations Democracy;
but no new nation shall be formed or erected
within the jurisdiction of any other nation,
nor shall any nation
be formed by the junction of two or more nations or parts of nations
without the consent of the legislatures of the nations concerned
as well as of the Congress.
If a nation shall be divided, the new nations admitted into
the United Nations Democracy
having less than five million people
shall have one non-voting Representative and those
having between
five and ten million people shall have one Representative with
one-half vote.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful
rules and regulations
respecting the territory and boundaries
of nations in the United Nations Democracy.
Section 4
The United Nations Democracy shall guarantee to the people in
every nation
in this union human rights and a republican form
of government and shall protect
each nation against invasion and
on application of the legislature or of the executive
(when the
legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both assemblies shall
deem it necessary,
shall propose amendments to this Constitution
or, on the application of the
legislatures of two thirds of the
nations with more than one million people,
shall call a convention
for proposing amendments, which in either case shall be
valid
to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution when
ratified by the
legislatures of three fourths of the nations with
more than one million people or
by a majority vote of the citizens
in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other
mode of ratification
may be proposed by the Congress.
Article VI
This Constitution and the laws of the United Nations Democracy
which shall be made
in pursuance thereof and all treaties made
or which shall be made under the authority
of the United Nations
Democracy shall be the supreme law of the Earth, and the judges
in every nation shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution
or laws of any nation
to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators, Representatives, and all executive and judicial
officers of the
United Nations Democracy shall be bound by oath
or affirmation to support
this Constitution; but no religious
test shall ever be required as a qualification
to any office or
public trust under the United Nations Democracy.
Article VII
Section 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom
of speech or of the press
or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble and to petition the government
for a redress of grievances.
No peacekeeper shall be quartered in any house without consent of the owner.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures
shall not be violated, and no warrants
shall issue but upon probable
cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing
the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
No person shall be held to answer for a felony unless on a
presentment or indictment
of a grand jury; nor shall any person
be subject for the same offense to be twice
put in jeopardy of
life or limb; nor shall any person be compelled in any criminal
case
to be a witness against oneself, nor be deprived of life,
liberty, or property without
due process of law; nor shall private
property be taken for public use without
just compensation.
In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right
to a speedy and public trial
and to be informed of the nature
and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the
witnesses
against one, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses
in one's favor,
and to have the assistance of counsel for one’s
defense.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed;
neither capital
nor cruel punishments shall be inflicted.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall
not be construed to deny
or disparage others retained by the nations
and the people.
The powers not delegated to the United Nations Democracy by
the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the nations, are reserved
to the nations respectively,
or to the people.
Section 2
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist on the Earth.
All persons are citizens of the Earth and of the nation where
they were born.
No nation shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of the citizens; nor
shall any nation deprive any person of life, liberty,
or property
without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The right of citizens of the United Nations Democracy to vote
shall not be denied
or abridged by any nation on account of race,
color, sex, religion, political association,
sexual orientation,
or previous condition.
The right of citizens of the United Nations Democracy to vote
in any primary or other
election for President, Senator, or Representative
shall not be denied or abridged
by any nation by reason of failure
to pay poll tax or other tax.
The right of citizens of the United Nations Democracy, who are
eighteen years of age
or older, to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by any nation on account of age.
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators
and Representatives
shall take effect until an election of representatives
shall have intervened.
Section 3
Every person on the Earth has the right to attend free public
schools
and use free public libraries.
Every person on the Earth has the right to receive free health
care, and Congress
shall make no law interfering with a patient’s
right to be treated by a physician.
Those serving in the offices of President, Senator, Representative,
and Judge
shall not receive any other income during their term
of public service.
The election campaigns of candidates for the offices of President,
Senator,
and Representative shall be publicly financed.
Citizens
may also contribute up to
one hundred dollars to one candidate
in each office for which
they are qualified to vote during each
primary and general election.
No other person, group, organization,
or business may contribute to
any election campaign for any of
these offices.
The contributions from citizens not spent by the
campaign before the primary
or general election day shall go into
the Treasury of the United Nations Democracy,
which shall finance
the debates broadcast for each office and the sample ballots
mailed
to the voters that shall give equal time and space to all candidates
on the ballots.
Article VIII
The ratification by the legislatures of three fourths of the
nations with more than one million
people or by a majority vote
of the citizens in three fourths of the nations with more than
one million people shall be sufficient for the establishment of
this Constitution between the
nations so ratifying the same and
the nations with less than one million people choosing to join.
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Appendix:
Global Disarmament Treaty (first draft by Beck)
Constitution of the Federal Earth Democracy (Second draft by Beck)
Constitution of the United States Revised (first draft by Beck)