Articles of Federation (Meridon)

The Articles of Federation are the constituting documents that comprises the supreme law of Meridon.

Provisions

Preamble

The preamble of the Articles of Federation read:

In the aims of establishing an agreed-upon unity among the people of the lands and territories of Meridon under common cause, bond, and law, we, her people, assembled in concord, set forth these Articles of Federation to ensure and establish a more brotherly Union, establish and provide for justice, enshrine rights to law, provide for the defense and welfare of her people, secure the blessings of liberty, and form the basis of union upon one supreme law beneath none but Heaven.

Adjustments to the Articles of Federation

Adjustment ##, ratified in 1910, sets the dates and cycles for election to the Presidency and the Federal Council, with elections to be held on January 10 and assumption of office to be conducted on April 10th of every fifth year beginning from 1910. It codified the unwritten standard of conducting elections on these dates and adjusted the year of election cycles one year forward following the constitutional crisis during the Kanuha War.

Adjustment ##, ratified in 1957 following the three-term presidency of Reginald Lancaster, sets term limits on holders of the office of President. It stipulates that presidents may be elected to the office no more than twice for two five year terms, and prohibits anyone who held the office as the result of a presidential vacancy for more than two years and six months from being elected more than once.

See also

Government of Meridon