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Bill: Reinstation of the United Governorates of Cobura {Phase IV} Revision of the Constitution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bihērawī Dēmokiratisi
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 4406
Description[?]:
| Preamble We, the people of Cobura, hereby ordain and adopt this constitution as the highest law in the United Governorates of Cobura. • Title A: Fundamental Rights _____________________________________ Article I All individuals in the State shall be treated equally in equal circumstances. Discriminations on the grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex or on any other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted. Article II Everyone shall have the right to profess freely his political and religious beliefs and opinions, either individually or in community with others, without prejudice to his responsibility under the law. Article III No one may be prevented against his will from being heard by the courts to which he is entitled to apply under the law. Article IV Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article V All workers of Cobura have the right to unify themselves in the form of a union and are not punishable for joining, founding or supporting one. • Title B: Of the State and the Government _____________________________________ Article VI Sovereignty belongs to the State which exercises it directly, by way of referendum, and indirectly, by the intermediary of its representatives. The State chooses its representatives from among the institutions elected by way of free, honest, and regular suffrage. Article VII The State is a Democratic Constitutional Monarchy which is divided between the 5 Governorates: - The Governorate of Irkawa; - The Governorate of Egato; - The Governorate of Dilganato; - The Governorate of Tokundi; - The Governorate of Domale. Article VIII All Coburan nationals shall be equally eligible for appointment to public service. Article IX Augustan, Irkawan and Mallan are the official languages of the State. The State sees to the coherence of linguistic policy and national culture and to the learning and mastery of the foreign languages of greatest use in the world, as tools of communication, of integration and to be open to different cultures and to contemporary civilizations. A National Council of Languages and of Coburan Culture is created, charged with, notably, the protection and the development of the National languages and of the diverse Coburan cultural expressions, which constitute one authentic heritage and one source of contemporary inspiration. It brings together the institutions concerned in these domains. Article X The law is the supreme expression of the will of the State. All physical or moral persons, and including the public powers, are equal before it and held to submit themselves to it. The public powers work for the creation of the conditions permitting the effectiveness of liberty and of the equality of citizens to be made general as well as their participation in political, economic, cultural and social life. The principles of constitutionality, of the hierarchy and of the obligation of publication of juridical norms, are affirmed. The law may not have retroactive effect. Article XI The political parties work for the structuring and for the political instruction of the citizens, for the promotion of their participation in the national life and the management of public affairs. They concur in the expression of the will of the electors and participate in the exercise of power, on the basis of pluralism and of alternation by democratic methods, within the framework of the constitutional institutions. Their constitution and the exercise of their activities are free, within respect for the Constitution and for the law. The political parties may not have an hostility toward the constitutional principles, to the democratic foundations or to the national unity and territorial integrity of the Government. • Title C: Of the Crown and the Prime Minister _____________________________________ Article XII The head of the Royal House of Saksoure shall be granted the title of Candace of Cobura (the Crown), as is his right by descent from the Lord Pterou Saksoure, justified. Article XIII The constitutional powers of the Crown are founded on the separation, the balance and the collaboration of the powers, as well as on participative democracy of the citizen, and the principles of good governance and of the correlation between the responsibility for and the rendering of accounts. The State relies for its collective life on the confederative constants, on the National unity of its multiple components, on the Constitutional Monarchy, and on democratic choice. Article XIV The Crown sees to the respect for the continued harmony of the State 's society. He/she is the guarantor of the free exercise of beliefs, judicial authority and integrity, and the freedom of speech. Article XV The Crown as Head of State, symbol of the unity of the State , guarantor of the permanence and of the continuity of the State and arbiter between the institutions, sees to respect for the Constitution, to the good functioning of the constitutional institutions, to the protection of democratic choice and of the rights and freedoms of the citizens of the Governorates, and to respect for the international commitments of the State . He is the guarantor of the independence of the country and of the territorial integrity of the State within its authentic frontiers. The Crown exercises these missions by decree by virtue of the powers that are expressly devolved to him by this Constitution. Article XVI The Crown formally appoints the Prime Minister (as his Head of Government) and the Cabinet based on the nominations to these offices by the House of Representatives. The Crown can, on its initiative, and with the approval of the Prime Minister terminate the functions of one or more members of the government. The Prime Minister can demand of the Crown to terminate the functions of one or more members of the government. The Prime Minister can demand of the Crown to terminate the functions of one or more members of the government who make their individual or collective resignation . Article XVII The Crown presides over the Cabinet composed of the Prime Minister and the ministers. The Cabinet meets on the initiative of the Crown or on the demand of the Prime Minister. Article XVIII The Crown is the Ceremonial Head of the State ’s Armed Forces. He formally appoints to the military offices and can delegate this right. However, the control of the Armed Forces is with the Ministry of Defence and the Prime Minister, who will serve as Supreme Head of the Armed Forces. Article XIX The Cabinet deliberates on the following questions and texts: • the strategic orientations of the policy of the Government; • the bills of revision of the Constitution; • the bills of organic laws; • the general orientations of the bill of the law of finance; • the bill of law of amnesty; • the bills of texts relative to the military domain; • the declaration of the State of siege; • the declaration of war; • the appointment, on the proposal of the Prime Minister and at the initiative of the minister concerned, to the following civil offices: ambassadors, administrators and governors, and responsible persons of the administrations charged with internal security. Article XX The Crown promulgates the law within the thirty days which follow the transmission to the government of the law definitively adopted. The law so promulgated must be made the object of publication in the Bulletin Office of the State within a time not exceeding one month counting from the date of the decree of its promulgation. Article XXI The Crown can address messages to the State and to the House of Representatives. If he/she wishes to do so, his/her speech shall be broadcasted on National television. Article XXII A National Council of Security is created, as the instance of coordination concerning the strategies of internal and external security of the country, and of management of crisis situations. The Council sees equally to the institutionalization of the norms of a good security governance. The Crown presides over this Council and can delegate to the Prime Minister the presidency of a meeting of the Council, on the basis of a specific agenda. The National Council of Security is composed of, other than the Prime Minister, the ministers responsible for the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, of Justice and of the administration of National Defence, as well as those responsible persons of the administrations competent in security matters, of the superior officers of the State 's Armed Forces and any other prominent person whose presence is useful to the work of the said Council. The internal regulations of the Council establish the rules of its organization and of its functioning. Article XXIII The Prime Minister, on behalf of the Crown , accredits the ambassadors to foreign Governorates and to the international organs. The ambassadors and the representatives of the international organs are accredited to him. The Crown shall sign and ratifies the treaties approved by the legislature. However, the treaties of peace or of union, or those relative to the delimitation of the frontiers, the commercial treaties or those which engage the finances of the government or the application of which necessitate legislative measures, as well as those treaties relative to the individual or collective rights and freedoms of the citizens, may only be ratified after having been previously approved by the law. The Prime Minister, on behalf of Crown , can submit to the House of Representatives any other treaty or convention before its ratification. Article XXIV The Crown exercises the right of pardon. However, this can be undone by a majority vote of the House of Representatives. Article XXV When the integrity of the National territory is threatened or in case that events are produced which obstruct the regular functioning of the constitutional institutions, the Crown can, after having consulted the Prime Minister, and addressing a message to the State , proclaim by decree the State of emergency. (NOTE: requires an OOC 2/3 majority vote of the House of Representatives) By this act, the Crown is enabled to take the measures that the defence of the territorial integrity imposes and to return, in the least time, to the normal functioning of the constitutional institutions. The House of Representatives may not be dissolved during the exercise of exceptional powers. The fundamental rights and freedoms provided by this Constitution remain guaranteed, and during a State of emergency elections still occur. (NOTE: The Crown ’s emergency powers may be cancelled at any time by a simple majority vote of the House of Representatives.) Article XXVI To protect the National sovereignty from being affected by foreign powers, any bill proposing an act of union with another country will have to pass with a 4/5th majority before being considered legal. • Title D: Constitutional Amendments _____________________________________ Article XXVII Any amendment to this constitution will need a 2/3rd majority in the legislative assembly to become official, and also needs to be signed by the Crown. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Charter of Protection of the United Governorates of Cobura's Constitution.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:48:20, June 07, 2018 CET | From |  Bihērawī Dēmokiratisi | To | Debating the Reinstation of the United Governorates of Cobura {Phase IV} Revision of the Constitution |
| Message | This bill also calls for the change of the name of the country to ''Esinsundu Empire, የኩቦራ ስፔኖች አስተዳዳሪዎች (United Governorates of Cobura)'' |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes |
Total Seats: 355 | |
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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