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| [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Sparta Date: August 29, 2015, 4:09 pm | |
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| Realizing That all men are created equal. | |
| Further Realizing That all men are have a set of natural rights | |
| Acknowledging that the natural rights envisioned by Jefferson | |
| and Locke leave out several rights | |
| Congress Hereby Mandates that all states grant these basic | |
| human rights to all citizen of that state and that the NCSA give | |
| it to all areas of non states. Rights can only be usurped, e.g. | |
| by imprisonment for a crime, in cases where an individual has | |
| violated the rights of others and especially in cases where | |
| someone is convicted of war crimes by the government. | |
| Article I | |
| All human beings are born and remain free and equal in dignity | |
| and rights and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed | |
| with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in | |
| a | |
| spirit of brotherhood. | |
| Article 2 | |
| Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in | |
| this law | |
| without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, | |
| language, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, | |
| political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, | |
| birth or other status. | |
| Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the | |
| political, | |
| jurisdictional or international status of the country or | |
| territory to which a person | |
| belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or | |
| under any other | |
| limitation of sovereignty. | |
| Article 3 | |
| Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. | |
| (this shall not be interpreted as to inhibit the right of women | |
| to have abortions) | |
| Article 4 | |
| No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the | |
| slave trade shall be | |
| prohibited in all their forms. | |
| Article 5 | |
| No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or | |
| degrading treatment | |
| or punishment. | |
| Article 6 | |
| Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person | |
| before the law. | |
| Article 7 | |
| All are equal before the law and are entitled without any | |
| discrimination to equal | |
| protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection | |
| against any | |
| discrimination in violation of this Law and against any | |
| incitement to such | |
| discrimination. | |
| Article 8 | |
| Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent | |
| national courts | |
| for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the | |
| constitution or by law. | |
| Article 9 | |
| No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or | |
| exile. | |
| Article 10 | |
| Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public | |
| hearing by an independent | |
| and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and | |
| obligations and of any | |
| criminal charge against him. | |
| Article 11 | |
| 1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be | |
| presumed | |
| innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial | |
| at which he | |
| has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense. | |
| 2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account | |
| of any act or | |
| omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under | |
| national or | |
| international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall | |
| a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at | |
| the time the penal | |
| offence was committed. | |
| Article 12 | |
| No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his | |
| privacy, family, home | |
| or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. | |
| Everyone has | |
| the right to the protection of the law against such interference | |
| or attacks. | |
| Article 13 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence | |
| within the | |
| borders of each State. | |
| 2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his | |
| own, and to | |
| return to his State. | |
| Article 14 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other states | |
| asylum from | |
| persecution. | |
| 2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions | |
| genuinely | |
| arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the | |
| purposes and | |
| principles of the NCSA. | |
| Article 15 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to a nationality. | |
| 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor | |
| denied the right to | |
| change his nationality. | |
| Article 16 | |
| 1. Citizens of full age, without any limitation due to race, | |
| nationality, religion, or sexual orientation, have the right to | |
| marry and to found a family. They are entitled | |
| to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its | |
| dissolution. | |
| 2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full | |
| consent of the | |
| intending spouses. | |
| 3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of | |
| society and is | |
| entitled to protection by society and the State. | |
| Article 17 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to own personal property alone as well | |
| as in association with | |
| others. | |
| 2. Personal property includes "items intended for personal use." | |
| (clothes, homes, vehicles, money, etc...) | |
| 3. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. | |
| Article 18 | |
| Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and | |
| religion; this right | |
| includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, | |
| either alone or in | |
| community with others and in public or private, to manifest his | |
| religion or belief in | |
| teaching, practice, worship and observance. | |
| Article 19 | |
| 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 20 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and | |
| association. | |
| 2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association. | |
| Article 21 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his | |
| country, | |
| directly or through freely chosen representatives. | |
| 2. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in | |
| his country. | |
| 3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of | |
| government; | |
| this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections | |
| which shall | |
| be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret | |
| vote or by | |
| equivalent free voting procedures. | |
| Article 22 | |
| Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social | |
| security and is entitled | |
| to realization, through national effort and international | |
| co-operation and in | |
| accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of | |
| the economic, | |
| social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the | |
| free development | |
| of his personality. | |
| Article 23 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, | |
| to just and | |
| favourable conditions of work and to protection against | |
| unemployment. | |
| 2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal | |
| pay for equal | |
| work. | |
| 3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable | |
| remuneration | |
| ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human | |
| dignity, | |
| and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social | |
| protection. | |
| 4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for | |
| the protection of | |
| his interests. | |
| Article 24 | |
| Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable | |
| limitation of | |
| working hours and periodic holidays with pay. | |
| Article 25 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for | |
| the health and | |
| well-being of himself and of his family, including food, | |
| clothing, housing | |
| and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to | |
| security | |
| in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, | |
| old age or | |
| other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. | |
| 2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and | |
| assistance. All | |
| children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the | |
| same social | |
| protection. | |
| Article 26 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, | |
| at least in the | |
| elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be | |
| compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made | |
| generally available and higher education shall be equally | |
| accessible to all | |
| on the basis of merit. | |
| 2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the | |
| human | |
| personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights | |
| and | |
| fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance | |
| and | |
| friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups. | |
| 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education | |
| that shall be | |
| given to their children. | |
| Article 27 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural | |
| life of the | |
| community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific | |
| advancement and | |
| its benefits. 2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the | |
| moral and material interests | |
| resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production | |
| of which he is the | |
| author. | |
| Article 28 | |
| Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in | |
| which the rights and | |
| freedoms set forth in this Law can be fully realized. | |
| Article 29 | |
| 1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free | |
| and full | |
| development of his personality is possible. | |
| 2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be | |
| subject only | |
| to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the | |
| purpose of | |
| securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms | |
| of others | |
| and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order | |
| and the | |
| general welfare in a democratic society. | |
| 3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised | |
| contrary to the | |
| purposes and principles of the NCSA. | |
| Article 30 | |
| Nothing in this Bill may be interpreted as implying for any | |
| State, group or | |
| person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act | |
| aimed at the | |
| destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. | |
| Article 31 | |
| 1. All human beings are considered to have the rights of free | |
| speech, press, religion. | |
| 2. All humans also have the right to assemble peacefully as well | |
| as petition the government. | |
| ~Written by James Espo | |
| #Post#: 8572-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Fenson Date: August 29, 2015, 7:32 pm | |
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| I second. | |
| #Post#: 8574-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Louisianne Date: August 29, 2015, 7:47 pm | |
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| "Louisianne operates on the assumption that the average citizen | |
| is capable of making their own decisions, whether they be | |
| life-altering or not. The articles you have presented reinforce | |
| our stance. | |
| We overwhelmingly support this bill." | |
| #Post#: 8575-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Heavenly Paradise Date: August 29, 2015, 7:53 pm | |
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| "Gondor feels that while this bill sets a standard of equality | |
| for all human beings, it is not the duty of the National | |
| government to dictate what a state can and cannot do when | |
| regarding social laws. This is legislating morality and the | |
| government needs to stay out of a state's private business. | |
| Therefore, I oppose this bill." | |
| #Post#: 8577-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: West Phoenicia Date: August 29, 2015, 7:59 pm | |
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| West Phoenicia would hope that Congress can at least discuss a | |
| bill for once. There is alot to look at. And we need to look | |
| over each section to see if this is worth keeping or amending. | |
| A bill of rights would help boost up what is lacking in the | |
| Constitution. | |
| While we do not want to infringe on state rights a Bill of | |
| Rights is there to help. We need to find a common ground. | |
| #Post#: 8579-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: hoffmad08 Date: August 29, 2015, 8:05 pm | |
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| Rep. Oskar von Fallersleben: "While the benevolent intent behind | |
| this bill is clear, wholesale passage of this so-called 'Bill of | |
| Rights' would be an egregious overreach of confederal power, | |
| with the effect of forced homogenization of the NCSA's | |
| constituent states. As Frijstaat's representative, I would like | |
| to offer some initial thoughts on the proposed legislation, | |
| whereby the errors of its creation may become evident to all. | |
| [quote]Article 16 | |
| 1. Citizens of full age, without any limitation due to race, | |
| nationality, religion, or sexual orientation, have the right to | |
| marry and to found a family. They are entitled | |
| to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its | |
| dissolution. | |
| 2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full | |
| consent of the | |
| intending spouses. | |
| 3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of | |
| society and is | |
| entitled to protection by society and the State.[/quote] | |
| Art. 16, sec. 3 presupposes that there is but one single | |
| idealized society in which the family is at the center. Letting | |
| aside the problem of defining what it means to be a family, this | |
| bill has the audacity to presuppose that it is the confederal | |
| government's responsibility to dictate social norms and policies | |
| thereto pertaining. | |
| [quote]Article 21 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his | |
| country, | |
| directly or through freely chosen representatives. | |
| 2. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in | |
| his country. | |
| 3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of | |
| government; | |
| this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections | |
| which shall | |
| be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret | |
| vote or by | |
| equivalent free voting procedures.[/quote] | |
| While the people of Frijstaat whole-heartedly support this on a | |
| state-level, the confederal government has no right to dictate | |
| the form of a member state's government. While Frijstaaters | |
| have advocated for direct, limited rule since our founding, we | |
| would never be so bold as to believe that we have any right to | |
| force our beliefs and convictions on those who have chosen a | |
| different path. While the confederal government may dictate | |
| that's its own form be democratic, it has no right to require | |
| that constituent states give up their own monarchies, | |
| oligarchies, collectives, etc. It would be equally absurd for | |
| the confederal government to announce that all states must | |
| henceforth institute hereditary monarchies. | |
| [quote]Article 22 | |
| Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social | |
| security and is entitled | |
| to realization, through national effort and international | |
| co-operation and in | |
| accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of | |
| the economic, | |
| social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the | |
| free development | |
| of his personality.[/quote] | |
| The concept of 'social security' is highly ambiguous here, | |
| although I believe it to refer to state-funded welfare schemes. | |
| Frijstaat has rejected the socialist model and has functioned | |
| well without the kleptocracy required to 'fund' such programs. | |
| States ought to have the right to address social policy as they | |
| see fit, without mandates from busy-bodies at the capitol. | |
| [quote]Article 23 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, | |
| to just and | |
| favourable conditions of work and to protection against | |
| unemployment. | |
| 2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal | |
| pay for equal | |
| work. | |
| 3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable | |
| remuneration | |
| ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human | |
| dignity, | |
| and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social | |
| protection. | |
| 4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for | |
| the protection of | |
| his interests[/quote] | |
| While the right to work and the right to the fruits of one's | |
| labor are viewed as sacred and inalienable in Frijstaat, | |
| requiring states to institute unemployment programs is yet | |
| another attkmpt to micromanage social policy in each state. The | |
| NCSA was founded to protect the rights of states to work | |
| together peacefully, but also to allow them to follow their own | |
| paths. This is just one more example of the confederal | |
| government overreaching and attempting to control that to which | |
| it has no rightful claim. | |
| [quote]Article 24 | |
| Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable | |
| limitation of | |
| working hours and periodic holidays with pay. [/quote] | |
| This is patently absurd. I doubt this is even necessary, but on | |
| principle alone, this is overreach. Again, social engineering | |
| from above via forced homogenization. | |
| [quote]Article 25 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for | |
| the health and | |
| well-being of himself and of his family, including food, | |
| clothing, housing | |
| and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to | |
| security | |
| in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, | |
| old age or | |
| other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. | |
| 2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and | |
| assistance. All | |
| children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the | |
| same social | |
| protection.[/quote] | |
| Again, this presupposes the right of the confederal government | |
| to dictate who social policy is managed within the confines of | |
| individual, constituent states. While perhaps not the intended | |
| reading, this article could pave the way for forcing states to | |
| institute massive, unsustainable, sprawling welfare programs, | |
| even if they are antithetical to very core of a state's national | |
| identity. | |
| [quote]Article 26 | |
| 1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, | |
| at least in the | |
| elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be | |
| compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made | |
| generally available and higher education shall be equally | |
| accessible to all | |
| on the basis of merit. | |
| 2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the | |
| human | |
| personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights | |
| and | |
| fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance | |
| and | |
| friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups. | |
| 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education | |
| that shall be | |
| given to their children.[/quote] | |
| Again, while the thought behind this is clearly virtuous, the | |
| confederal government has absolutely no right to dictate to | |
| states the manner in which they educate their citizens. | |
| Frijstaat has neither free nor compulsory education, and has yet | |
| to collapse beneath uneducated masses. Private schools abound, | |
| and the number of schools drives the price downwards. | |
| Frijstaaters are well-educated and well-read without government | |
| interference. This article would strip states like Frijstaat of | |
| their right to manage their own educational systems as they see | |
| fit. | |
| [quote]Article 31 | |
| 1. All human beings are considered to have the rights of free | |
| speech, press, religion. | |
| 2. All humans also have the right to assemble peacefully as well | |
| as petition the government.[/quote] | |
| This is redundant, having already been explicitly stated in | |
| previous articles." | |
| #Post#: 8580-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Louisianne Date: August 29, 2015, 8:09 pm | |
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| "We are willing to discuss the possibility of changes throughout | |
| the bill, particularly to Articles 3, 15 (section 2), 16 | |
| (section 2), 21 (sections 1 and 2), and 23. | |
| Although we support this bill, Louisianne would like to see a | |
| greater effort to allow states to determine their own actions, | |
| especially when it comes to social and moral issues." | |
| #Post#: 8584-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: Wellsian Empire Date: August 29, 2015, 9:00 pm | |
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| Which Right is the most important? What if one right contradicts | |
| another. Is a state to deal with it or is the state required to | |
| bring it up to the national government? What if a society denies | |
| the family? Is it required to change because of what one state | |
| thinks is right? I feel that this "Bill of Rights" is an attempt | |
| by one state to push its morals upon another. | |
| #Post#: 8585-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: hoffmad08 Date: August 29, 2015, 9:03 pm | |
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| Agreed. Instead of enumerating the rights that every state must | |
| recognize, it might be best to enumerate those over which the | |
| confederal government has no authority. | |
| #Post#: 8586-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: [IC BIll] Bill of Rights | |
| By: West Phoenicia Date: August 29, 2015, 9:14 pm | |
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| "There still needs to be a standard that states can come | |
| together to agree upon. We do not want to be like a certain | |
| country that has forced all states to accept a minority | |
| lifestyle choice. But we do need a set standard that all states | |
| can agree upon. | |
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