Charter.
Proposed Charter for the United Nations of Earth
Article I
Section 1
Paragraph 1
All persons in the United Nations of Earth and its Member States shall be treated equally in all circumstances. Discrimination on the grounds of sex, religion, belief, political opinion, race, or on any other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted.
Paragraph 2
The 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.
Paragraph 3
All persons born or naturalized in the United Nations of Earth, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are Citizens of the United Nations of Earth and of the Member State wherein they reside. No Member State shall make or enforce any Law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of Citizens of the United Nations of Earth; nor shall any Member State 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.
Paragraph 4
The right of Citizens of the United Nations of Earth to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United Nations of Earth or by any Member State on account of sex, religion, belief, political opinion, or race.
Paragraph 5
The right of Citizens of the United Nations of Earth, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United Nations of Earth or by any Member State on account of age.
Paragraph 6
The right of Citizens of the United Nations of Earth to vote in any primary or other Election for Secretary-General or Undersecretary-General, for Electors for Secretary-General or Undersecretary-General, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United Nations of Earth or any Member State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2
Paragraph 1
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, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Paragraph 2
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, 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.
Paragraph 3
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial Jury of the Member State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by Law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Paragraph 4
In Suits at Common Law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by Jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a Jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United Nations of Earth, then according to the Rules of the Common Law.
Paragraph 5
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
The district constituting the Seat of Government of the United Nations of Earth shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct; a number of Electors of Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a Member State, but in no event more than the least populous Member State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the Member States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the Election of Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General, to be Federal Electors appointed by a Member State; and they shall meet in the District and perform the same duties as any other Federal Elector.
Article II
Section 1
Paragraph 1
All Legislative Powers herein shall be vested in a Congress of the United Nations Member States, which shall consist of a Council of Nations and General Assembly.
Section 2
Paragraph 1
The General Assembly of the United Nations shall be composed of Representatives of the People chosen every second year by the People of the several Member States and the Electors in each Member State shall have the qualifications requisite for Electors of elections in their Member States.
Paragraph 2
No person shall be a Representative of the People who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, been seven years a Citizen of a United Nations Member State and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that Member State in which he shall be chosen.
Paragraph 3
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several Member States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United Nations of Earth, and within ever subsequent Term of ten years. The General Assembly will decide how the counting shall be done. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each Member State shall have at least one Representative.
Paragraph 4
When vacancies happen in the Representation from any Member State, the Executive Authority thereof shall call for an Election to fill such vacancies.
Paragraph 5
The General Assembly shall choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
The Council of Nations of the United Nations shall be composed of two Senators from each Member State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
Paragraph 2
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, been nine years a Citizen of a United Nations Member State, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that Member State for which he shall be chosen.
Paragraph 3
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one third may be chosen every second year after the first Election; and if vacancies happen in the representation of any Member State in the Council of Nations, the Executive Authority of such Member State shall issue writs of Election to fill such vacancies; provided, that the Legislature of any Member State may empower the Executive Authority thereof to make temporary appointments until the People fill the vacancies by Election as the Legislature may direct.
Paragraph 4
The Undersecretary-General of the United Nations of Earth shall be President of the Council of Nations but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Paragraph 5
The Council of Nations shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro Tempore, in the absence of the Undersecretary-General of the United Nations of Earth, or when he shall exercise the Office of Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 6
The Council of Nations shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When siting for that purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the Secretary-General is tried the Chief Justice shall preside. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Paragraph 7
Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Public Office under the United Nations of Earth; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, Judgment and punishment, according to Law.
Section 4
Paragraph 1
The times, places and manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each Member State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Paragraph 2
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year.
Section 5
Paragraph 1
No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in the Congress, or Federal Elector of Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United Nations of Earth, or under any Member State, who, having previously taken an Oath, as a Member of the Congress, or as an Officer of the United Nations of Earth, or as a Member of any Member State Legislature, or as an Executive or Judicial Officer of any Member State, to support the Charter of the United Nations of Earth, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But the Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 6
Paragraph 1
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections and qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do business. A smaller number may adjourn from day to day, but Members of each House are authorized to compel the attendance of absent Members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Paragraph 2
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Paragraph 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 questions shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the Journal.
Paragraph 4
Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
Section 7
Paragraph 1
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United Nations of Earth. 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 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.
Paragraph 2
No Law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an Election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Paragraph 3
No Senator of Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United Nations of Earth, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shell have been increased during such time; and no person holding any Office under the United Nations of Earth Armed Forces, shall be a Member of either House during his continuance in such Office.
Section 8
Paragraph 1
All Bills for raising taxes shall originate in the General Assembly; but the Council of Nations may concur or propose with Amendments as on other Bills.
Paragraph 2
Every Bill which shall have passed the General Assembly and the Council of Nations, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth; if he approves, 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 proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of that House agrees to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House Respectively.
Paragraph 3
If any Bill shall not be returned by the Secretary-General within ten days after it has been presented to him, the same shall be a Law, like manner as if the Secretary-General had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a Law.
Paragraph 4
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the General Assembly and Council of Nations may be necessary shall be presented to the Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Council of Nations and the General Assembly, the same shall take effect and become the Law.
Section 9
Paragraph 1
The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect taxes on incomes and duties, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several Member States, and without regard to any Census or enumeration to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United Nations of Earth; but all duties shall be uniform throughout the United Nations of Earth;
Paragraph 2
To borrow money on the credit of the United Nations of Earth;
Paragraph 3
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several Member States;
Paragraph 4
To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United Nations of Earth;
Paragraph 5
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
Paragraph 6
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United Nations of Earth;
Paragraph 7
To construct and improve infrastructure;
Paragraph 8
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writing and discoveries;
Paragraph 9
To constitute Courts inferior to the Supreme Court;
Paragraph 10
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed in international waters, and offenses against the international Law;
Paragraph 11
To declare war, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning captures of territories;
Paragraph 12
To raise and support armies;
Paragraph 13
To provide and maintain a Navy;
Paragraph 14
To provide and maintain an Air Force;
Paragraph 15
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the Land, Naval and Air Forces;
Paragraph 16
To provide for calling forth the National Guard to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
Paragraph 17
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the National Guard, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United Nations of Earth, reserving to the Member States respectively, the appointment of the Officers, and the authority of training the National Guard according to the discipline prescribed by the Congress;
Paragraph 18
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district as may, by Cession of particular Member States and the acceptance of the Congress, to become the Seat of Government of the United Nations of Earth, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the Member States in which the same shall be, for the erection of needful buildings for the Governmental Apparatus;
Paragraph 19
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the beforementioned Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Charter in the Government of the United Nations of Earth, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 10
Paragraph 1
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
Paragraph 2
No Bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
Paragraph 3
No personal tax, or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Paragraph 4
No tax or duty shall be laid on any products or services exported from any Member State.
Paragraph 5
No preference shall be given by any Regulation of commerce or tax to the (air)ports of one Member State over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one Member State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
Paragraph 6
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.
Paragraph 7
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United Nations of Earth; and no person holding any Office under the authority of the United Nations of Earth, 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 11
Paragraph 1
No Member State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but the current coin of the United Nations of Earth a tender in payment for debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Paragraph 2
No Member State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection Laws; and the net produce of all duties, laid by any Member State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United Nations of Earth; and all such Laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
Paragraph 3
No Member State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or warships in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another Member State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Article III
Section 1
Paragraph 1
The Executive Power shall be vested in a Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth. He shall hold his Office during the Term of five years, and, together with the Undersecretary-General of the United Nations of Earth, chosen for the same Term, be elected as follows;
Paragraph 2
Each Member State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Federal Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the Member State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office under the authority of the United Nations of Earth, shall be appointed a Federal Elector.
Paragraph 3
The Federal Electors shall meet in their respective Member States and vote by ballot for Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same Member State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the Nominee voted for as Secretary-General, and in distinct ballots the Nominee voted for as Undersecretary-General, and they shall make a distinct lists of all persons voted for as Secretary-General, and of all persons voted for as Undersecretary-General, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of Government of the United Nations of Earth, directed to the President of the Council of Nations; the President of the Council of Nations shall, in the presence of the Council of Nations and General Assembly, open all the Certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The Nominee having the greatest number of votes for Secretary-General, shall be the Secretary-General, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Federal Electors appointed; and if no Nominee has such majority, then from the Nominees having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as Secretary-General, the General Assembly shall choose immediately, by ballot, the Secretary-General. But in choosing the Secretary-General, the votes shall be taken by Member States, the representation from each Member State having one vote; a Quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the Member States, and a Majority of all the Member States shall be necessary to a choice. The Nominee having the greatest number of votes as Undersecretary-General, shall be the Undersecretary-General, if such number be a Majority of the whole number of Federal Electors appointed, and if no Nominee have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Council of Nations shall choose the Undersecretary-General; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth shall be eligible to that of Undersecretary-General of the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 4
To be elected to the Office of Secretary-General, the Nominee must attain the Popular Vote. If the Nominee has proven unable to attain a majority of Federal Electors and the Popular Vote, the Popular Vote will decide who will become the Secretary-General of the United Nations of Earth
Paragraph 5
In every case, after the choice of the Secretary-General, the Nominee having the greatest number of votes of the Federal Electors shall be the Undersecretary-General. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Council of Nations shall choose from them by Ballot the Undersecretary-General.
Paragraph 6
The Council of Nations may determine the time of choosing the Federal Electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 7
No person except a natural born Citizen the United Nations of Earth, or a natural born Citizen of a recently joined Member State, at the time of the adoption of this Charter, shall be eligible to the Office of Secretary-General; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 8
In case of the removal of the Secretary-General 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 Undersecretary-General, and the Congress may by Law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General, declaring what Officer shall then act as Secretary-General, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a Secretary-General shall be elected.
Paragraph 9
The Secretary-General shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased 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 United Nations of Earth, or any of the Member States.
Paragraph 10
Before he enters 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 Secretary-General of the United Nations, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Charter of the United Nations of Earth.”
Section 2
Paragraph 1
The terms of the Secretary-General and Undersecretary-General shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Paragraph 2
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the Secretary-General, the Secretary-General Elect shall have died, the Undersecretary-General Elect shall become Secretary-General. If a Secretary-General shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his Term, or if the Secretary-General Elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Undersecretary-General Elect shall act as Secretary-General until a Secretary-General shall have qualified; and the Congress may by Law provide for the case wherein neither a Secretary-General Elect nor a Undersecretary-General Elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as Secretary-General, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a Secretary-General or Undersecretary-General shall have qualified.
Paragraph 3
The Congress may by Law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the General Assembly may choose a Secretary-General whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Council of Nations may choose a Undersecretary-General whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
No person shall be elected to the Office of the Secretary-General more than twice, and no person who has held the Office of Secretary-General, or acted as Secretary-General, for more than two years of a Term to which some other person was elected Secretary-General shall be elected to the office of the Secretary-General more than once.
Section 4
Paragraph 1
The Secretary-General shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United Nations of Earth, and of the National Guard of the several Member States when called into the actual service of the United Nations of Earth. 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 the Power to grant Reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United Nations of Earth, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Paragraph 2
He shall have Power, by and with the advice and consent of the Council of Nations, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Council of Nations, shall appoint ambassadors, and other public ministers and consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United Nations of Earth Government, 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 Secretary-General alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Paragraph 3
The Secretary-General shall have Power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Council of Nations, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next Session.
Section 5
Paragraph 1
He shall from time to time give to the Congress information on 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 both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of their 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 the United Nation of Earth.
Section 6
Paragraph 1
Whenever the Undersecretary-General and a majority of either the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments or of such other body as the Congress may by Law provide, transmit to the President pro Tempore of the Council of Nations and the Speaker of the General Assembly their written declaration that the Secretary-General is unable to discharge the Powers and Duties of his office, the Undersecretary-General shall immediately assume the Powers and Duties of the office as Acting Secretary-General.
Paragraph 2
Thereafter, when the Secretary-General transmits to the President pro Tempore of the Council of Nations and the Speaker of the General Assembly his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the Powers and Duties of his office unless the Undersecretary-General and a majority of either the Principal Officers of the Executive Department or of such other body as the Congress may by Law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro Tempore of the Council of Nations and the Speaker of the General Assembly their written declaration that the Secretary-General is unable to discharge the Powers and Duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the Secretary-General is unable to discharge the Powers and Duties of his office, the Undersecretary-General shall continue to discharge the same as Acting Secretary-General; otherwise, the Secretary-General shall resume the Powers and Duties of his office.
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 2
A Member State of the United Nations of Earth which has persistently violated the Rules, Regulations, and Obligations contained in this Charter may, in only the most extreme cases, be expelled from the United Nations of Earth by Judgment of the Congress.
The Secretary-General, Undersecretary-General and all civil Officers of the United Nations of Earth, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors against the United Nations of Earth.
Article IV
Section 1
Paragraph 1
The Judicial Power of the United Nations of Earth shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in Office.
Section 2
Paragraph 1
The Judicial Power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Charter, the Laws of the United Nations of Earth, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting civil Officers of the Government; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United Nations of Earth shall be a party; to controversies between two or more Member States; between a Member State and Citizens of another Member State; between Citizens of different Member States; between Citizens of the same Member State claiming lands under grants of different Member States, and between a Member State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign Nations, Citizens or Subjects.
Paragraph 2
In all cases affecting civil Officers of the Government, and those in which a Member State 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.
Paragraph 3
The trial of all crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such trial shall be held in the Member State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any Member State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
Treason against the United Nations of Earth 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.
Paragraph 2
The Congress 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 V
Section 1
Paragraph 1
Full faith and credit shall be given in each Member State to the public acts, records, and Judicial Proceedings of every other Member State; 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
Paragraph 1
The Citizens of each Member State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of Citizens in the several Member States.
Paragraph 2
A person charged in any Member State with Treason, Felony, or other crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another Member State, shall on demand of the Executive Authority of the Member State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the Member State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
New Member States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new Member State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other Member State; nor any Member State be formed by the junction of two or more Member States, or parts of Member States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the Member States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Paragraph 2
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United Nations of Earth; and nothing in this Charter shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United Nations of Earth, or of any particular Member State.
Section 4
Paragraph 1
The United Nations of Earth shall guarantee to every Member State 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 VI
Section 1
Paragraph 1
Membership in the United Nations of Earth is open to all foreign Powers which accept all the Rules, Regulations and Obligations contained in the present Charter, and during the Accession Talks are judged to be able and willing to carry out these Obligations and uphold the high standard of peace, cooperation and all the other values the United Nations of Earth stands for.
Paragraph 2
A Member State of the United Nations of Earth which has persistently violated the Rules, Regulations, and Obligations contained in this Charter may, in only the most extreme cases, be expelled from the United Nations of Earth by Judgment of the Congress.
Paragraph 2
A Member State which has been expelled may not apply for membership during the following twenty-five years after the Member State has been expelled.
Section 2
Paragraph 1
For any new foreign Power applying to join the United Nations of Earth, a special Accession Committee will be formed, which will be, together with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, the primary point of contact for the joining foreign Power. This Committee will perform an investigation of the joining foreign Power to advise all three Branches of the Government of the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 2
The Accession of any new foreign Power to the United Nations of Earth will be affected by a recommendation made by the Accession Committee to the Congress, which will, together with the Executive Branch, ultimately decide whether the joining foreign Power will join the United Nations of Earth.
Section 3
Paragraph 1
The Secretary-General has, in the most extreme cases, the right to fire the, and only the, Executive Authority when this person is not serving in the best interest of the people. The Secretary-General cannot appoint a new Executive Authority. The Member States’ own Legislature will decide who will become their next Executive Authority.
Article VII
Paragraph 1
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Charter, or, on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several Member States, shall call a convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Charter, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several Member States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress
Paragraph 2
No Member State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Council of Nations.
Article VIII
Paragraph 1
All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Charter, shall be as valid against the United Nations of Earth under this Charter, as under the individual Member States.
Paragraph 2
This Charter, and the Laws of the United Nations of Earth which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United Nations of Earth, shall be the supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every Member State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Charter or Laws of any Member State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Paragraph 3
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several Member State Legislatures, and all Executive and Judicial Officers, both of the United Nations of Earth and of the several Member States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Charter; but no religious, class, race or economic position test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Public Office under the Authority of the United Nations of Earth.
Article IX
Paragraph 1
The Ratification of the conventions of the Member States shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Charter between the Member States so ratifying the same.
Article X
Paragraph 1
The Protocols of Implementation will decide how power vested in the Member States will be transferred to the Government of the United Nations of Earth.
Paragraph 2
The Protocols of Accession will decide how a new foreign power can join into the United Nations of Earth and how power vested in this joining foreign power will be transferred to the Government of the United Nations of Earth.