Constitutional Charter of Eminia

Foundation Act
Louis Philippe Théoton, by the grace of God, King of Eminians, to all those present and in the future, greetings!

Divine Providence, in bringing us to the present moment in which we live, this solemn moment, imposed big obligations. Peace is and will always be the first need for all of us and we take care of it without rest; and that peace, so necessary for Emínia, as well as for the rest of the world, is ours commandment. For this emancipation that we claim against the bonds of fear, misfortune, ingratitude and lying, an act of foundation and constitutional principles to guide us in the formation of a new Micronational State is a requirement and we now publish it. We take into account that, although all authority in Emínia resides in the person of the acclaimed king, we will not hesitate to change his exercise according to the changing times, so that we are always in harmony with the democracy and the wisdom that the people instruct the monarch who leads them.

We are obliged, by the example of kings, our predecessors, to estimate the effects of progress each time greater degree of intellectual enlightenment, social advances and the achievements that guide us. Therefore, together with this Foundation Act, we present a Constitutional Charter which, in addition to being the desire of our subjects and to be the expression of a real need, has every precaution so that this Charter is worthy of us and the people we are proud to govern over. Wise men withdrawn highest state body met with our council commissioners to work on this important work.

Although we recognized that a free constitution was necessary to meet the expectations of our people, we were also forced to remember that our first duty to our subjects was preserve, in their own interest, the rights and prerogatives to which we are all subject. We hope that, taught by experience, they can be convinced that only supreme authority can give the institutions it establishes the strength, continuity and majesty with which it is invested; what so, when the king's wisdom freely coincides with the people's desire, a constitutional charter it can be long lasting; but that when violence takes concessions from the fragility of the government, the public freedom is no less in danger than the throne itself. In a word, we seek the principles of the constitutional charter in the Eminian character and in the lasting examples of past times.

In our actions for the new homeland we have established, we will always show zeal for the people's interests and fidelity and respect for the king's authority. So trying to reinvigorate the chain of times that disastrous mistakes broke, we banish our memory, as we would like it to be possible to erase from history, all the evils that afflicted the homeland and our citizens honored by the hands of the dishonest, the weak, the pretended, the anarchic. Happy to meet again in the within a large family, we felt that we could respond to the love that so many testimonies we receive, just by speaking words of peace and comfort. Our heart's dearest wish is that all Eminians live as brothers and that no bitter memory disturbs the security that you must follow the solemn act that we give you today.

Assured of our intentions and strengthened by our conscience, we commit ourselves, before all who listens to us, to be faithful to this constitutional charter, reserving us to swear to keep it with new solemnity, before the altars of the One who weighs kings and nations in the same scale.

For these reasons, voluntarily, and for the free exercise of our royal authority, we grant and make fulfill and obey our subjects, both for us and for our successors forever, the letter constitutional law that follows:

Constitutional Charter
We order and enforce that the Constitutional Charter is published in the following terms:

PUBLIC LAW OF EMINIANS

1. Eminians are equal before the law, whatever their titles and position.

2. They contribute, without distinction, in proportion to their fortunes to the expenses of the State.

3. They are all equally eligible for civilian and military jobs.

4. Your personal property is also guaranteed; no one can be prosecuted or arrested but us provided for by law and in the form prescribed by law.

5. Everyone can profess their religion with equal freedom and must obtain for their worship the same protection.

6. The ministers of the Catholic, apostolic and Roman religions, professed by the majority of Eminians, and ofother Christian sects, receive state stipends.

7. Eminians have the right to publish and print their opinions, respecting the law. Censorship never can be established.

8. All property is inviolable, without exception for the so-called national, with no distinction between the law.

9. The State may demand the sacrifice of an asset for reasons of legally established public interest, but with prior indemnity.

10. All inquiries of opinions and votes given prior to restoration are prohibited: the same oblivion is demanded of the court and the citizens.

11. Recruitment has been abolished. The recruitment method for the army and navy is determined by the law.

King's Forms of Government

12. The person of the king is inviolable and sacred. Your ministers are responsible. Only the king belongs to power executive.

13. The king is the supreme head of the state, commands the land and sea forces, declares war, makes peace, alliance and trade treaties, nominates all places of public administration and makes regulations and ordinances necessary for the enforcement of laws and state security.

14. Legislative power is exercised collectively by the king, the Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies.

15. The king proposes the laws.

16. The draft law is sent, at the king's will, to the Chamber of Peers or Deputies, except the law tax collection, which must be sent first to the Chamber of Deputies.

17. All laws will be freely discussed and voted on by the majority in each of the two chambers.

18. The chambers have the power to require the king to propose a law on any matter and indicate the that seems appropriate for the law to contain.

19. This request can be made by either of the two chambers, but only after it has been discussed in the secret commission; will be sent to the other chamber by the one who proposed it, only after an interval of ten days.

20. If the proposal is approved by the other chamber, it will be presented to the king; if it is rejected, it cannot be displayed again in the same session.

21. The king alone sanctions and promulgates laws.

22. The civil list is fixed, for the entire duration of the reign, by the first legislature assembled after the accession of the king.

From the Chamber of Peers

23. The Chamber of Peers is an essential part of legislative power.

24. It is summoned by the king at the same time as the Chamber of Deputies of the departments. The session of one starts and ends at the same time as the other.

25. All Chamber of Deputies meetings that take place outside the Chamber's session of Deputies, or that cannot be ordered by the king, are illegal and invalid.

26. Emínia's nomination of peers belongs to the king. His number is unlimited: he can, at will, alter their dignities, designate them for life or make them hereditary.

27. Peers enter the chamber at sixteen and a deliberative voice only at eighteen.

28. The Chamber of Peers is chaired by the Chancellor of Emínia and, in his absence, by a pair appointed by the king.

29. Members of the royal family and princes of blood are equal by birthright. They sit at the president's side; but they have no deliberative voice until they are eighteen years old.

30. Princes may take their places in the chamber only by order of the king, expressed for each session by a message, under penalty of invalidating everything that may have been done in your presence.

31. All deliberations of the Chamber of Peers are secret.

32. The Chamber of Peers has jurisdiction over crimes of high treason and attacks on the security of the State, which will be defined by law.

33. No pair can be arrested except by the authority of the chamber, nor tried in criminal matters, except for her.

From the Chamber of Deputies

34. The Chamber of Deputies will be composed of the deputies elected by the electoral colleges, whose organization will be determined by law.

35. Deputies are elected for six-month terms.

36. No deputy may be admitted to the Chamber unless he is sixteen years old and assembles the rest qualifications provided for by law.

37. No one is a voter, unless he is at least sixteen and meets the other conditions determined by law.

38. The king convenes the two chambers every six months: he extends them and may dissolve that of the deputies; but, in that case, he must call a new one within three months.

Ministers

39. Ministers can be members of the Chamber of Peers or the Chamber of Deputies. Besides that, they entered any of the chambers and must be heard when they demand it.

Judiciary

40. All justice emanates from the king. It is administered on his behalf by judges he appoints and to whom he invests.

41. The king is entitled to forgiveness and commutation penalties.

Special Rights Guaranteed by the State

42. The king does nobles at will, but grants them only patents and honors, without any exemption from society's charges and duties.

43. The king and his successors must swear, on the occasion of his coronation, to faithfully observe this constitutional charter.

 Special Provisions

44. The following subjects will be provided for successively by separate laws, within the minor possible time:

1st: The use of the jury for political and press crimes;

2nd: The responsibility of the ministers and other agents of the executive branch;

3rd: The reelection of deputies appointed to public positions with expiration;

4th: The annual vote on the army quota;

5th: The organization of the National Guard, with the participation of the National Guard in the choice of its officers;

6th: Provisions that legally ensure the condition of officers of all grades of the army and navy;

7th: Regional and local institutions founded on an elective system;

45. All laws and ordinances that are contrary to the provisions adopted for the reform of the Charter are immediately canceled and revoked.