Constitution of Gjorka

Constitution Text

We the United People of Gjorka, do find that in order to create a more equal government, to establish human rights, create a fair system of justice, assert our new democratic pirnciples, provide for the defense of gjorka, and preserve our unity do hereby adopt and establish the Constitution for the Federation of Gjorka.

Article I (Article 1 - Legislative) Section 1 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in the National Assembly of Gjorka, which shall consist of a Senate, a Council of the People and a Congress.

Section 2 1: The Congress shall be composed of Members chosen every tenth Year by the People of each district

2: No Person shall be a Congressional Official who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been ten years a Citizen of Gjorka, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that District in which he shall be chosen.

3: Congressional Officials and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among each district which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Nomads not taxed. .2 The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first meeting of the National Assembly of Gjorka, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner, as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Congressional Officials, shall not exceed three for each district.

4: When vacancies happen in the Representation from any District, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

5: The Congress shall choose their Delegate.

6: The Congress shall have the sole designation of beginning impeachment proceedings in which they require a unanimous vote to pass on to the Council of the People.

Section 3 1: The Council of the People of Gjorka shall be composed of ten council members from each district chosen for ten Years and each Council Member shall have one Vote.

2: No Person shall be a Council Member who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been teen Years a Citizen of Gjorka, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that District for which he shall be chosen.

3: The Council of the People shall choose their Delegate.

4: In the ordinance of impeachment proceedings for Chairman, the Council of the People shall require a unanimous vote for those proceedings to pass on to the Senate.

Section 4 1: The Senate of Gjorka shall be composed of 12 members, 6 from each district, and 6 chosen by the Chairman. However, each of the 6 elected by each district must be approved by the Chairman.

2: No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five years, and been born in Gjorka, and who shall not, when elected, ben an Inhabitant of that District for which he shall be chosen.

3: All bills passed by the Congress and the Council of the People shall go to the Senate, and if a unanimous vote is reached, the bill shall be struck down, and may not be reproposed until a new Senate is elected.

4: In the ordinance of impeachment proceedings for the Chairman, the Senate shall require a unanimous vote for those proceedings to be enacted, and the Chairman removed from their position.

Section 5 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators, Council Members, and Congressional Officials, shall be prescribed in each District by the Chairman; but the National Assembly may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

2: The National Assembly shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December.

Section 6 1: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

3: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

4: No House, during the Session of the National Assembly, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the three Houses shall be sitting.

Section 7 1: The Senators, Council Members, and Congressional Officials shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of Gjorka. They shall in no Cases, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

2: No Senator, Council Member or Congressional Offical shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under Gjorka, shall be a Member of any House during his Continuance in Office.

Section 8 1: Every Bill which shall have passed the Congress and the Council of the People, and was not vetoed by the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and may not repropose said bill until a new chairman has been elected.

3: Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Congress and Council of the People may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the Chairman of Gjorka; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him.

Section 9 1: The National Assembly shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

3: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

4: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

5: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

6: 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;

7: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Court of Gjorkat;

8: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

9: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

10: To provide and maintain a Navy;

11: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

12: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the army and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of Gjorka and the Authority of training the Army according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

13: 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 Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section 9 1: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended by the National Assembly, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it

2: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

3: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

4: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

5: 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.

6: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Section 10 1: No District shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

2: No District shall, without the Consent of the National Assembly, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of Gjorka; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the National Assembly.

3: No District shall, without the Consent of the National Assembly, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another District, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Article II (Article 2 - Executive) Section 1 1: The executive Power shall be vested in the Chairman of the Federation of Gjorka. He shall hold his Office during the Term of ten Years, and, together with the Vice-Chairman, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows

2: The Chairman is appointed by the People of Gjorka, and requires a simple majority as determined by-election to take the office of chairman.

3: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of Gjorka, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of Chairman; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been twenty Years a Resident within the United States.

6: In Case of the Removal of the Chairman from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice Chairman, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman, declaring what Delegate shall then act as Chairman, and such Delegate shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a Chairman shall be elected.

7: The Chairman shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the Gjorka, or any of them.

8: Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:— “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of Chairman of the Federation of Gjorka, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of Gjorka, and defend the People of Gjorka, So Help Me God. ”

Section 2 1: The Chairman shall be Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force of the United States, when called into the actual Service of Gjorka; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against Gjorka.

2: He shall have Power, to make Treaties, and he shall nominate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Court of Gjorka, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law.

Section 3 He shall from time to time give to the National Assembly Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene all Houses, or any of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of Gjorka.

Section 4 The Chairman, Vice Chairman and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article III (Article 3 - Judicial) Section 1 The judicial Power of Gjorka, shall be vested in one Court of Gjorka, and in such inferior Courts as the National Assembly may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Gjorka and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Section 2 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of Gjorka, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which Gjorka shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more districts;—between a District and Citizens of another District;between Citizens of different districts,between Citizens of the same district claiming Lands under Grants of different districts, and between a districts, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

2: In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellateJurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

3: The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

Section 3 1: Treason against Gjorka, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. 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.

2: The National Assembly shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

Article IV (Article 4 - Districts' Relations) Section 1 Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each District to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every District. And the National Assembly may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Section 2 1: The Citizens of each District shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several Districts.

2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another District, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the District from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the District having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

3: No Person held to Service or Labour in one District, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.

Section 3 1: New Districts may be admitted by the National Assembly into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other District; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more districts, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the Districts concerned as well as of the National Assembly.

2: The National Assembly shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of Gjorka, or of any particular District.

Section 4 Gjorka shall guarantee to every District in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Article V (Article 5 - Mode of Amendment) The National Assembly, whenever all members of it deem necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, in which all six districts consent the Amendment shall be added.

Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office) 1: All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against Gjroka under this Constitution.

2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the Gjorka which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of Gjorka, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every District shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any District to the Contrary notwithstanding.

3: The Senators, Council Members and Congressional Officals before mentioned, and the Members of the several District Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of Gjorka and of the several districts, 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 States.