Constitution of Namor
| Constitution of the People's Republic of Namor | |
|---|---|
| Created | June 3, 1955 |
| Ratified | July 1, 1955 |
| Location | Namo, Namor |
| Author(s) | 10th Central Council |
| Signatories | 10th Central Council |
| Purpose | Establish a new Namorese Constitution to meet the needs of the Third Stage of the Revolution |
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Template:Politicsboxend The Constitution of the People's Republic of Namor is the basic governing document and the supreme law of the People's Republic of Namor. Since the People's Republic was founded in 1925, Namor was governed by two constitutions - one that was drafted and implemented in 1925 and another that replaced the first version in 1955, which is now the current document.
The constitution is available in its original form in Namorese and in the official languages of Namor's autonomous republics online.
Text of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Namor (effective July 1, 1955)
The current constitution of Namor, which took effect on July 1, 1955, contains a total of 45 articles - 38 of which are part of the "original" constitution (referred to in the text as "the Constitution") and 7 which are part of the Additional Articles.
PREAMBLE
Under the leadership of Paramount Leader Antelope Yunglang and the Liberationist Party of Namor, the Namorese people established the People's Republic of Namor, the first government of the people in the history of the Namorese nation. The People's Republic is the outcome of popular dissatisfaction with the reactionary Republican regime, which claimed to embody the values of the Double Fourth Revolution but in reality pandered to the interests of anti-revolutionary forces at the expense of the people. For this reason, another revolution — one based on radical political thought and led by committed revolutionaries opposed to opportunism and deviationism — was necessary.
In 1925, the first constitution of the People's Republic of Namor was drafted and ratified. This constitution functioned as the highest law of the People's Republic for the duration of the Second Stage of the Revolution. Under the brilliant leadership of Paramount Leader Antelope Yunglang and the Liberationist Party of Namor, the Namorese people defended the People's Republic from domestic counter-revolutionaries and their imperialist allies. Social stability, political unity, and economic development have returned to Namor after a long era of turmoil. The well-being of the people can no longer be reversed.
The Namorese people are in agreement that the goals of the Second Stage of the Revolution have been achieved. The people, therefore, have met all the necessary conditions to strive for national rejuvenation and the comprehensive triumph of the Liberationist ideology. The 10th Namorese Central Council hereby ratifies this constitution of the People's Republic of Namor that will remain in effect until the Revolution is finally complete.
CHAPTER I: ON THE BASIC FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Article 1
The People's Republic of Namor is an indivisible sovereign people's democracy established in accordance with the will of the Namorese people. The Central Government of the People's Republic of Namor is the sole and legitimate government and representative of the Namorese people.
Article 2
Namo of Capital District is the national capital of the People's Republic, and will serve as the seat of the Central Government unless extraordinary conditions require the temporary relocation of the Central Government.
Article 3
Namorese is the official language of the People's Republic and will be used in all governmental proceedings and publications. Other languages may be allowed official status alongside Namorese in autonomous republics.
Article 4
The Flag of the People's Republic is a blue-white-green tricolor with a red star surrounded by a red circle in the center. Green symbolizes the Revolution, Blue symbolizes the Nozama River, White symbolizes transparency, and the Red Star represents the Union of the Five Classes - peasantry, working class, military, intelligentsia, and bourgeoisie.
Article 5
The Ramon is the national currency of the People's Republic, with the Bank of Namor as its issuing authority.
Article 6
The executive consists of the State Council headed by the President-General, who is the head of the state and government.
Article 7
The President-General, in accordance with the will of the Central Council, has the power to direct the central bureaucracy, command the Liberation Army, promulgate laws, appoint members of the State Council, issue state honors and sign treaties.
Article 8
The President-General must be a citizen of the People's Republic with full electoral rights who is 40 years of age or older and has resided within the territories of the People's Republic for more than 15 years prior to taking office.
Article 9
Presidential elections are held concurrently with legislative elections which occur once every five years under normal circumstances. The President-General's term is limited to five years and renewable once.
Article 10
The Vice President-General is the deputy head of state and government and the liaison of the President-General in the Central Council. All qualifications for the President-General as listed in this Constitution apply to the Vice President-General. As the liaison of the President-General in the Central Council, the Vice President-General is responsible for facilitating communication and cooperation between the State and Central Councils.
Article 11
The State Council is the central and primary consultative body of the executive. The number of members in the State Council may be expanded or shrunk by the President-General should circumstances warrant such an action.
Article 12
The Namorese Central Council is the national legislature of the People's Republic and the supreme representative authority of the people. Upon ratification of this Constitution, the Central Council will compose and ratify a charter which outlines its specific procedural guidelines.
Article 13
- §1 The President of the Central Council is the leader of the Central Council. The President has the power to veto legislation passed by the Central Council, thereby handing said legislation to the Commissioner of the Central Council. The President is elected by members of the party with the most number of seats in the Central Council.
- §2 The Commissioner of the Central Council is the deputy leader of the Central Council. The Commissioner receives legislation vetoed by the President of the Central Council. He may choose to challenge the veto by authorizing the Central Council to override it with a two-thirds majority vote. Should the veto be successfully overridden, the vetoed legislation circumvents the President of the Central Council to await approval by the President-General.
Article 14
Deputies of the Central Council must be citizens of the People's Republic with full electoral rights who are 30 years of age or older and longstanding residents of the constituencies they represent.
Article 15
The Central Council has the power to pass legislation; determine the national budget; levy taxes; elect the President-General, Vice President-General, President and Vice Presidents of the Supreme People's Court and Procurator-General; confirm appointments made by the President-General; impeach the President-General and all whom it elects for unlawful behavior; determine the salaries of all whom it elects; summon all whom it elects to address the policies of the government; declare war, peace, or a state of emergency; establish or disestablish the administrative divisions of the People's Republic; and supervise the government by conducting probes into alleged unlawful behavior by officials.
Article 16
Deputies of the Central Council are divided into three classes:
- §1 Five groups of 25 deputies for each first-level division, with each group representing one of the five classes — working class, peasantry, intelligentsia, petite bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie.
- §2 375 deputies whose seats are allocated to a party in proportion to the number of votes the party receives in the legislative election.
- §3 50 deputies are elected to represent Overseas Compatriots.
Article 17
Elections for the Central Council are held every five years. All deputies representing Overseas Compatriots or a class within a first-level division belong to the party that had secured the highest number of votes in their respective constituencies. Deputies cannot be held criminally liable for exercising their duties in the Central Council.
Article 18
- §1 The judiciary consists of the People's Courts and the People's Procuratorates.
- §2 The Supreme People's Court is the highest People's Court, followed by the Appellate People's Courts and District People's Courts.
- §3 The Supreme People's Procuratorate is the highest People's Procuratorate, followed by the District People's Procuratorates.
Article 19
- §1 The President of the Supreme People's Court is the chief administrative officer of the Supreme People's Court and spokesperson of the national judiciary. The President leads the business of the Supreme People's Court and presides over oral arguments. The President is accompanied by four Vice Presidents of the Supreme People's Court. The structure of the Supreme People's Court applies also to the lower-level People's Courts.
- §2 The President of the Supreme People's Court may serve for no more than twenty years. Vice Presidents of the Supreme People's Court and all other judges may serve for no more than ten years.
- §3 Judges of the Supreme People's Court are elected by the whole Central Council.
- §4 Judges of the lower-level People's Courts, including the Appellate People's Courts and District People's Courts, are elected by deputies of the Central Council who are residents of the area within the jurisdiction of the particular lower-level Court.
- §5 All qualifications for the President-General of the People's Republic listed in the Constitution apply to the judges of the People's Courts.
Article 20
- §1 The Procurator-General is the chief administrative officer of the Supreme People's Procuratorate. The District Procurator is the chief officer of the District People's Procuratorate.
- §2 The term limit for all Procurators of the People's Procuratorates is ten years and nonrenewable.
- §3 The Procurator-General is elected by the whole Central Council.
- §4 Procurators of the District People's Procuratorates are elected by deputies of the Central Council who are residents of the area within the jurisdiction of the particular Procuratorate.
- §5 All qualifications for the President-General of the People's Republic listed in the Constitution apply to the Procurators of the People's Procuratorates.
Article 21
The Namorese Liberation Army is the armed forces of the People's Republic. It is responsible for defending the People's Republic from both domestic and external threats.
Article 22
As the armed forces of the Namorese people, the Namorese Liberation Army has the obligation to defend all Namorese people regardless of their political views and may not impose affiliation or loyalty to any political party or organization as a prerequisite for military service.
Article 23
As an army subordinate to the people, the Namorese Liberation Army may not take actions that establish its supremacy over civilian governments without the authorization of the Central Council, nor may it interfere with the affairs of civilian governments without the authorization of the Central Council.
CHAPTER II: ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF NAMOR
Article 24
- §1 The administrative divisions of the People's Republic are divided into three classes: first-level divisions (districts and autonomous republics), second-level divisions (prefectures, autonomous prefectures and prefecture-level cities), third-level divisions (counties, autonomous counties, county-level cities), fourth-level divisions (cities and towns) and fifth-level divisions (villages).
- §2 Each administrative division is administered by a council which is responsible for electing local leaders, passing and enforcing laws and levying local taxes.
- §3 All councils of administrative divisions are ultimately subordinate to the Central Council.
Article 25
- §1 The Central Council may establish autonomous republics in areas with significant ethnic minority populations with respect to the unique conditions and necessities of the minority groups involved.
- §2 Autonomous republics enjoy significant jurisdiction over their internal affairs, which includes the power to establish regional official languages, the power to determine their political systems and the right of final adjudication.
- §3 The members of an autonomous republic's Regional Supreme People's Court and its subordinate courts are to be chosen in a method determined by the autonomous republic and are thus exempt from the procedures outlined in Article 19 of the Constitution.
- §4 Subordinate councils may establish autonomous regions under the same circumstance and with the same purpose outlined in this Article.
CHAPTER III: FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL POLICIES
Article 26
The People's Republic is a bastion of anti-imperialism. As such, it will not, under any circumstance, engage in aggression, colonization or interference in the domestic affairs of another people. Any act of armed intervention by the People's Republic must be supported by the international community at large before proceeding. The Central Council may not authorize the establishment of permanent garrisons of the Namorese Liberation Army beyond the territory of the People's Republic.
Article 27
The Peitoan, Vanhotoan and Sonlang archipelagoes and Nantai are territories of Namor. It is the duty of all Namorese people, including Namorese in Peitoa, Vanhotoa, Sonlang and Nantai, to work towards the eventual reunification of the Namorese nation. The Central Council may pass any necessary legislation to facilitate the task of national reunification.
CHAPTER IV: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CITIZENS
Article 28
All citizens are entitled to the freedoms of speech, expression, assembly and press.
Article 29
The people have the right to a healthy, prosperous and comfortable life, as well as the right to live from fear and want.
Article 30
The People's Republic is a secular state without a state religion. The people have the freedom to and from religion; they are free to follow or refuse any religious faith free of intervention from either the government or each other.
Article 31
The people have a right to a fair and transparent trial and counsel. Under no circumstance may a defendant in court be considered guilty before a verdict is reached or forced to resort to self-incrimination.
Article 32
The people are not subject to extraordinary means of punishment for breaking the law. Punishments must be carried out in a compassionate and humane matter that gives offenders an opportunity to exercise self-analysis and reform.
Article 33
The people have the freedom of movement, and may move around the country and leave the country's borders so long as the movement does not harm national security or general societal well-being. The people have the right to choose their area of residence. The place of one's residence is not the matter of the state unless restrictions had already been placed.
Article 34
With the exception of convicts, all Namorese citizens who are 18 years of age or older enjoy full electoral rights.
Article 35
As a cultured nation, the Namorese people have the right to enshrine their cultures and identities. The state guarantees that the culture, customs and lifestyles of Kannei and non-Kannei peoples will coexist under the People's Republic.
Article 36
All people have the right to free public education, higher education and additional means by which they can achieve success and self-fulfillment in life.
Article 37
The people have the freedom to live without discrimination of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, creed and sexual orientation. If discrimination occurs, it is the responsibility of the people to report it, and the responsibility of the state to investigate the situation in an impartial, non-discriminatory way.
Article 38
All Namorese owe their present freedom and security to the People's Republic and are thus obliged to pledge their loyalty to the People's Republic by upholding the Constitution and laws of the People's Republic, defending the People's Republic from internal and external threats and fighting for the People's Republic in times of peril.
CHAPTER V: ADDITIONAL ARTICLES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF NAMOR
Taking into consideration the changing conditions that accompany the Revolution, the Central Council finds it necessary that a chapter for Additional Articles be included to maintain the Revolution's compatibility with said conditions. A valid Additional Article to the Constitution requires the approval of three-fourths of all deputies in the Central Council.
Article 1 (August 1955)
- §1 Articles 23 and 33 and parts of Article 28 of the Constitution may be suspended by the Central Council in the event of a state of emergency.
- §2 The state of emergency lasts for a year before expiring. The Central Council may terminate the state of emergency before it expires or extend the state of emergency by another year should circumstances require an extension.
- §3 Under no circumstance may the Central Council or subordinate councils use a state of emergency to justify permanent restrictions on people's rights as outlined in the Constitution.
Article 2 (August 1955)
- §1 Under any extraordinary circumstance such that elections cannot be held throughout the country, national security is significantly threatened or the lives of either the President-General or the Vice President are threatened, the Central Council may delay a general election with a two-thirds majority vote. The newly determined date of the election may not be any time later than the last day of the President-General's term in office.
- §2 The inauguration of the President-General and all members of the Central Council must occur no later than 31 days after a general election.
Article 3 (August 1955)
Should the President-General no longer be in a position to carry out the duties required of the office in the Constitution, the Vice President-General will act as President-General. Should the Vice President-General be absent from the Presidency-General under the aforementioned circumstance, the highest member in the following list who is present to discharge the President-General's constitutional duties will act as President-General: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Public Security, Minister of Defense, Minister of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, Minister of Overseas, Nantai, and Peitoa Compatriot Affairs, Minister of Culture, Minister of Labor, Minister of Information, Minister of Infrastructure and Minister of Agriculture. Should none of the listed persons be capable of discharging the duties of President-General, the Central Council will determine the acting President-General.
Article 4 (May 1966)
- §1 Article 15 of the Constitution is amended such that the power to elect the President-General and Vice President-General is transferred from the Central Council to the electorate in a direct popular vote in which the candidate must receive the highest share of the popular vote, over 40% of the popular vote and win by a margin of no less than 5% to win the Presidency-General. If no presidential candidate meets the qualifications for election as outlined in this Article, or voter turnout in the presidential election does not exceed 50 percent, an additional round of voting will occur at a date determined by the Central Council in which only two candidates with the highest share of votes appear on the ballot. The winner of this round is elected President-General.
- §2 The additional round in Section One of this Article may occur no later than the expiration of the incumbent President-General's term.
- §3 The salaries of the President-General and Vice President-General will continue to be determined by the Central Council.
- §4 The Central Council's authority to summon the President-General and Vice President-General to address the policies of the government as stipulated in Article 15 of the Constitution shall not be revoked by this Article.
Article 5 (May 1966)
- §1 The composition of the Central Council as detailed in Article 16 of the Constitution is amended such that Deputies of the Central Council are divided into four classes:
- Legislative District Deputies, who are elected to represent a legislative district. Each legislative district is represented by 30 deputies, and its area and borders are determined by the Central Council.
- First-level Deputies, who are elected to represent a first-level division of the People's Republic. Each first-level district will be represented by 70 deputies.
- 23 deputies who are elected to represent the Capital District.
- 46 deputies who are elected to represent Overseas Compatriots.
- §2 Article 17 of the Constitution is amended such that the number of seats a party receives in each legislative district is proportional to the percentage of votes the party receives.
Article 6 (November 1984)
A nationwide referendum with the aim of changing public policy may be initiated at the request of the President-General with the approval of the Central Council. A referendum may be automatically initiated by the people if a petition for a referendum carries the valid signatures of at least 20% of the electorate and is properly registered with election authorities. 50% or more of all eligible voters must participate in a referendum in order for the referendum to be considered valid.
Article 7 (November 1984)
Article 15 of the Constitution is amended such that the Central Council may only determine the salaries of the President-General and Vice President-General before they enter their respective offices.
Article 8 (August 2006)
In recognition of the reunification of the Peitoan, Vanhotoan and Sonlang archipelagos in their entirety, the Central Council thus finds it appropriate to remove said areas from the list of unliberated territories in Article 27 of the Constitution and advises that the Article be entirely annulled in the event that occupied Nantai is reunified with the People's Republic.
Article 9 (July 2013)
In response to the People's Republic of Namor's accession to the Central Ocean Basin Alliance and adherence to the terms set forth by the treatise that established it, the Central Council amends Article 26 of the Constitution such that the Namorese Liberation Army may not be garrisoned beyond the territories of the People's Republic as well as the territories of other members of said Organization.
Article 10 (March 2018)
The President-General may mobilize the Liberation Army to wage a defensive war in the event that the People's Republic of Namor faces external armed aggression or threats thereof.