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Political Constitution of the Kingdom of Terrerité



Chapter I

BASES OF INSTITUTIONALITY AND TERRITORY



Article 1: People are born free and equal before the law.


Article 2: The Kingdom of Terrerité is a free, independent, indivisible and constantly expanding State.


Article 3: Terrerité is a judicial monarchy. The Monarch holds the executive and legislative power while the Royal High Court of Justice holds the supremacy of the judicial power.


Article 4: The sovereign power resides in the Nation. The Monarch exercises it in accordance with this Constitution and the laws of the country.


Article 5: The organs of the State must submit their action to the Constitution and the norms issued pursuant to it and guarantee the institutional order of the Republic. The precepts of this Constitution bind both the holders or members of said bodies and any person, institution or group.


Article 6: The organs of the State act validly after the regular investiture of their members, within their competence and in the manner prescribed by law. The Monarch appoints public employees, in accordance with the law and except for the exceptions established therein. All civil public officials, before taking office, take the following oath: ‘‘I swear fidelity to the Monarch, obedience to the Constitution and the laws of the Nation. I promise to perform my duties with integrity, accuracy and impartiality. "



Chapter II

NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP



Article 7: The body in charge of births, deaths, nationality, citizenship and all other matters entrusted to it by the Monarch is the Royal Heraldic House of Citizens.


Article 8: Terreritas are:

1. The children of a Terreritan father or mother after their registration in the Royal Heraldic House of Citizens.

2. Those who are verified and invested with royal grace through the Royal Heraldic House of Citizens, upon request of the applicant.


Article 9: Each person that the Royal Heraldic House of Citizens grants the Terrerita nationality will be granted their own Terreritan surname that can be extended to their family and by which it will be recognized by all nationals and the State.


Article 10: The titles of nobility granted by the Crown are, in hierarchy, the following:

1. Lord.

2. Baron.

3. Count.

4. Marquis.

5. Duke.


Article 11: Terreritas who have reached the age of eighteen are citizens. Being a citizen grants the right to organize public councils and validly vote in them.


Article 12: Nationality and citizenship are always lost together. The cases in which these qualities will be lost are:

1. By voluntary resignation manifested before the Royal Heraldic House of Citizens.

2. For having breached any rule of the constitution or the laws through a court ruling.

3. By the will of the Monarch, prior law.



Chapter III

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES



Article 13: The Constitution assures all Terreritas:

1. The right to life. Which is understood to begin with conception and end with natural death.

2. The right not to be born in slavery, slavery can only occur if both parties freely consent to it in an agreement of solemn will subject to trial by the Royal High Court of Justice.

3. Equality before justice. Regardless of race, sex, function or rank of nobility, all the inhabitants of Terrerité will be judged rationally and impartially by the Royal High Court of Justice.

4. The right to honor, to the forgot and to the protection of private life and the family. The information of every terrerita is confidential and untraceable.

5. The freedom to express opinions and to inform, without prior censorship, in any form and medium, always respecting the norms of the law and the constitution and responding to violations of the Law and abuses committed in the exercise of these freedoms.

6. The right to associate freely in civil organizations whose objective is the support and development of the nation. The tax rates and procedure to legally associate will be determined by law.

7. Admission to all public functions and jobs, without other requirements than those imposed by the constitution and the laws.

8. The non-arbitrary discrimination in the treatment that the State must give nationals.

9. The right to property and ownership, being able to acquire ownership of all kinds of goods, except those that nature has made common to all men. Nobody can in any case be deprived of their property, expropriation and its variants are prohibited.

10. The right to work, trade and the free industry without any restrictions other than those that may emanate from logic and healthy criticism.


Article 14: Every inhabitant of the Kingdom owes respect to Terrerité and its national emblems, the laws, the constitution and the King. The Terreritas have the fundamental duty to honor the nation, defend its independence and sovereignty, and contribute to the dissemination of its ideals, supremacy and traditions forged by its inhabitants.



Chapter IV

THE CROWN



Article 15: The Crown of the Kingdom of Terrerité is hereditary in the Audeladroit family.


Article 16: The person of the King is majestic and inviolable.


Article 17: The King has no other powers than those formally attributed to him by the Constitution and the special laws issued by virtue of the same Constitution.


Article 18: For the coronation it is required that the first-born has reached the age of 18, that there is no one hierarchically superior capable of occupying the role of regent and it must take the royal oath that reads: “I swear to observe the Constitution and the laws of the Kingdom of Terrerité, maintain national independence, the integrity of the territory, traditions and their status, as well as public and individual freedoms”.


Article 19: The Monarch is the Head of State, symbol of his unity and guarantor of national independence. He exercises executive power in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the country.


Article 20: The Monarch proposes, approves and promulgates the laws, dictates the regulations and royal decrees necessary for the execution of the laws. The King enters the treaties, which do not take effect before being approved by law and published in the forms provided for the publication of the laws.


Article 21: The Monarch has the right to condone or reduce the penalties imposed by the judges.


Article 22: The Monarch has the right to mint currency in execution of the law.


Article 23: The Monarch has the right to confer titles of nobility.



Chapter V

ROYAL HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE



Article 24: Justice is administered on behalf of the Monarch by the Royal High Court of Justice, the Sovereign Constitutional Court and the judges. The acts and sentences are carried out in the name of the King.


Article 25: Disputes that have civil rights as their object are exclusively the competence of the Royal High Court of Justice.


Article 26: Disputes involving political rights are the jurisdiction of the courts, except for the exceptions established by law.


Article 27: No court or contentious jurisdiction can be established except by virtue of a law. Extraordinary commissions or courts cannot be created, whatever their denomination.


Article 28: The hearings of the Royal High Court of Justice and the Sovereign Constitutional Court are public for all members of Terrerité, unless such publicity is dangerous for order or customs, and, in this case, the court will declare it by means of a previous sentence.


Article 29: Every sentence must be reasoned and rational.


Article 30: The judges of the Royal High Court of Justice and of the Sovereign Constitutional Court are directly appointed by the Monarch.


Article 31: The Constitutional Court is established, which is competent, with a prejudicial nature, according to the modalities that the law determines, to pronounce on the conformity of the laws with the Constitution, except for the laws referring to the approval of Treaties.


Article 32: The constitution can only enter a review process for reform by solemn unanimous request of all the members of the Royal High Court of Justice and the Sovereign Constitutional Court.


Article 33: No provision of the Constitution can be suspended.


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