The Constitution final boss™ edition

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Notice

This is a draft for the purposes of public review and critique and is NOT a final version. It is an early draft. All clauses, articles, definitions, and even entire sections are subject to change.
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Preamble

The Preamble
We, the Citizens of TeenGovernment, solemnly resolve to constitute TeenGovernment as a sovereign democratic community founded upon the enduring principles of Democracy, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Justice, and Secularism.
Believing that all authority flows from the people and is exercised only with their consent, we affirm the equal worth and dignity of every citizen. We reject privilege by birth, status, wealth, race, sex, religion, ideology, or any other distinction, and declare that all citizens stand equal before the law and equal in their right to participate in public life.
In order to secure Liberty for every citizen, to establish Justice, political, social, and legal, to promote Equality of rights, opportunity, and representation, to foster Fraternity among all members of our community, transcending divisions and disagreements, to preserve a Secular public sphere where no religion is established and all beliefs are respected equally, and to maintain a Free and Democratic Government accountable to its citizens, we hereby establish this Constitution.
We dedicate ourselves to the rule of law, the protection of civil liberties, the peaceful exchange of ideas, the defense of democratic institutions, and the preservation of a society in which every citizen may speak freely, participate openly, and govern collectively.
Mindful of our duty to both present and future generations, and determined to create a community founded upon mutual respect, civic responsibility, and the common good, we pledge ourselves to these ideals and to the institutions established by this Constitution.
Therefore, in the exercise of our sovereign democratic will, and with unwavering commitment to a Secular, Free, Democratic, Just, Liberal, Equal, and Fraternal society, we do hereby ordain, enact, and establish this Constitution as the supreme law of TeenGovernment.

Section I: Definitions

Section I: Definitions
Subsection 1: Citizens
Article 1: “Citizen” is defined as any human teenager, aged 13-19, who is a member of TeenGovernment.
Article 2: “Registered citizen” is defined as a citizen who is registered with the census.
Article 3: Article 3: A "Senior Citizen" is any person who was previously a Citizen of TeenGovernment and has aged beyond nineteen (19) years of age
Article 4: “Citizenry” and the “population” are defined as the body composed of all registered citizens of TeenGovernment.
Subsection 2: Legislation & Legislative
Article 1: “Legislation” is defined as any type of law, bill, act, amendment, or other motion before council.
Article 2: “Council” is a legislative body and sole member of the legislative branch which creates new laws, modifies existing laws, and maintains the laws of TeenGovernment.
Article 3: "Targeted legislation" is defined as legislation designed to adversely affect or disparage a certain group or person.
Subsection 3: Definitions of Spaces
Article 1: “TeenGovernment”, “TeenGov” and “TG” are defined as the political simulation, or pol-sim composed of the r/TeenGovernment subreddit, Official Discord, and any other relevant spaces as determined by law.
Article 2: “SMP”, “Sub Main Page”, and “Subreddit Main Page” shall be defined at the subreddit of r/TeenGovernment in its entirety.
Article 3: An “Official server” is a server that acts as a server for official purposes on behalf of the Government of TeenGovernment.
Article 4: An “Official Subreddit” is a server that acts as a space for official purposes on behalf of the Government of TeenGovernment and is under the mod-team’s control.
Subsection 4: Amendments
Article 1: "Amendment" is defined as a change to any text, legislation, the constitution, or other media.
Article 2: "Constitutional amendment" is defined as an amendment that modifies or changes the constitution or constitutional law.
Article 3: “Stipulative legislative amendment" is defined as the act of council voting on a proposition with something like "Aye, if it no longer has (example article)".
Article 4: "Formal Legislative Amendment" is defined as a piece of legislation that in-of-itself modifies another piece of legislation—seeing that piece of legislation is not the constitution nor a constitutional amendment—using a structured, logical piece of text that outlines exactly what changes are to be made in what way.
Subsection 5: Position classes
Article 1: “High Office” is defined as an office of high power which contains much sway within the government. Includes but is not limited to: The President, the Vice President, Council Members, and the Ombudsman.
Subsection 6: Moderation
Article 1: "Mod Team" and “Mod-Team” shall be defined as the group of members of the citizenry that hold either the status of Admin, Moderator, or Jr. Mod.
Article 2: A "Jr. Mod" or "Junior Moderator" is someone with the most basic level of moderator privileges. They are often new additions to the mod team or members of the mod team that otherwise don't need or shouldn't have full permissions. Jr. Mods have full power to remove posts against the law, respond to modmail, reflair posts that are incorrectly flaired, remove improper comments, approve & deny posts in the mod queue, and other actions relating to posts. Junior Moderators do not have authority over global subreddit rules nor can they promote and/or demote other members of the modteam. Jr. Mods have 1 vote in internal votes.
Article 3: A "Moderator" is the normal level of moderator privileges. They hold the same privileges as a Jr. Mod in addition to being able to edit global Subreddit settings. Moderators have 2 votes in internal votes.
Article 4: A "Admin" or "Head mod" is the highest level of moderator privileges. Admins have all the same moderator privileges but may also promote, demote, and hire new members to the mod-team. Admins also can hold high office unlike moderators. Admins have 3 votes in internal votes.
Article 5: "Moderation privileges" and "Moderator privileges" shall be defined as the power granted by the Reddit permission system to take action as a moderator on the r/TeenGovernment Subreddit/SMP.
Subsection 7: Economic Rights
Article 1: Employer: Any corporation or business that buys the labor of the citizenry
Article 2: Workers Cooperative: a corporation owned by its employees
Article 3: Corporation/Business: a legal business entity that is entirely separate from its owners and employs labor
Article 4: For-Profit Corporation/Business: A business established to generate revenue and distribute those earnings to its owners, shareholders, or private investors
Article 5: Limited Liability Corporation: A business structure that protects its owners and members personal assets from business debts and legal liabilities.
Subsection 8: Voting
Article 1: A “majority” or “simple majority” shall be defined as greater than 50% or half of the people voting, excluding those abstaining, being in favor, or in some contexts simply greater than 50%.
Article 2: A “super majority” or “Supermajority” shall be defined as greater than 2/3 of the people voting, excluding those abstaining, being in favor, or in some contexts simply greater than 2/3.
Article 3: “General elections” are the primary process of voting outside of special elections which appoint the President, VP, and council members.
Article 4: “Special elections” are the backup process of voting outside of general elections which happen primarily in the case an official vacates their position and the next general election is further than a week away, an official is removed from their position and the next general election is further than a week away, or other circumstances that leave a position open.
Subsection 9: Branches of government
Article 1: The legislative branch shall be defined as the category of government containing council.
Article 2: The judicial branch shall be defined as the category of government containing the courts and constitutional courts.
Article 3: The executive branch shall be defined as the category of government containing the president, vice president, ministers, and ministries.
Article 4: The Administrative branch shall be defined as the category of governance which contains the r/TeenGovernment mod-team and the auxiliary quasi-administrative bodies pertaining to the moderation teams of Official TeenGovernment servers.
Article 5: The “Government of TeenGovernment” as a whole shall be defined as the combined group of all the branches defined in this subsection.
Subsection 10: Ministries, ministers, and committees
Article 1: A “Minister” is a member of the executive branch in charge of a department or ministry which carries out a specific task.
Article 2: The “Press minister” is the minister in charge of public transparency and announcements.
Article 3: The “Documentation minister” or “Minister of Documentation” also referred to as the “Wiki minister” in some contexts is the minister in charge of managing the wiki, carrying out documentation at trial under Zeedith’s law, and managing the wiki team.
Article 4: The “Wiki team” is a committee led by the Minister of Documentation which manages and writes the wiki currently found at eengovernment.miraheze.org and keeping it up to date with accurate information.
Article 5: The “Election minister” is the minister in charge of managing elections and verifying their integrity.
Article 6: The “Referendum minister” is the minister in charge of administering petitions and referendums and verifying the results of such.
Article 7: The “Census minister” is the minister in charge of holding censuses and issuing voter codes.
Article 8: The “Entertainment minister” is the minister in charge of community entertainment and community activities.
Article 9: There are two ministers of mental health as follows, these ministers are in charge of community mental health and helping those who request it:
1) The Reddit minister of mental health, in charge of mental health on the SMP
2) The Discord minister of mental health, in charge of the mental health within Official Discord servers.
Article 10: The “Economics minister” is a ministry position that is to be created upon the release of the economy which manages and collects taxes along with all other economic work not otherwise specified.
Article 11: The “Foreign minister” is a minister who manages foreign contact with other pol-sim’s and represents TeenGovernment as a whole to the outside.
Article 12: The “Balance Team” or “BT” is an unelected committee which manages and balances the economy.
Subsection 11: Ex post facto
Article 1: "ex post facto" shall be defined as retroactively applying something that didn't exist when something happened.
Article 2: "ex post facto law", "ex post facto proposition", and "ex post facto amendment" shall be defined as any law of TeenGovernment which retroactively takes effect on things that took place before the law was passed.
Article 3: "Retroactive criminalization via an ex post facto law", "Retroactive criminalization", and to "retroactively criminalize" shall be defined as retroactively making something illegal and punishing people for doing it, even if that thing was done before it was made illegal.
Subsection 12: Miscellaneous definitions
Article 1: "Protected" in the context of law is defined as being explicitly allowed, possibly with protections that make it illegal to try to punish someone for doing the action.
Article 2: "Unaddressed" in the context of law is defined as not having any laws addressing it. That being no law explicitly allows it nor makes it illegal.
Article 3: “Alt account” and “Alternative account” are defined as any secondary (Non-primary) account or alias used by a member of the citizenry.
Article 4: A “TG-related”, “TeenGovernment-related”, or “TeenGov-related” server is a server in which the Government of TeenGovernment has jurisdiction.
Article 5: To “denounces”, a “Denunciation”, a “condemnation”, or to “condemn” something, is the action of dissuading people from voting or being in favor of something or otherwise stating something is bad to the public.
Article 6: To “Pin” or to be “pinned” in the context of the SMP is defined as being highlighted for any length of time and being able to be removed based on availability of highlight slots and importance of other pinned posts by members of the mod-team based on their judgement.

Section II: Bill of Rights

Section 2: Bill of Rights
Subsection 1: Basic rights
Article 1: All Unbanned Citizens age into the freedoms this sub provides and remain equal in rights until they age out of teenhood (13-19 years inclusive).
Article 2: The Power to create, change and repeal the laws shall emit from the people. The following are strictly prohibited:

(a) Voter fraud

(b) Unlawful use of alt accounts

Article 3: None shall make law establishing religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, nor shall the rights of Conscience be infringed, provided that expressing such thoughts does not harm other citizens. The Council may make no law respecting an establishment of religion, nor disparage one.
Article 4: The citizenry shall have the right to liberty. Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm one’s property, emotional state, economic opportunity, or life. The exercise of the natural rights of each human has only those borders which assure other members of the society the fruition of these same rights.
Article 5: The council has the right to forbid actions that can reasonably be considered harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
Article 6: The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to contribute personally. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, and shall be punished regardless of status in any form.
Article 7: No human can be accused, arrested, nor detained but in the cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed. Those who solicit, dispatch, carry out, or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders, must be punished; but any citizen called or seized under the terms of the law must obey at once; they render themself culpable by resistance.
Article 8: 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 affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Property must not be removed by the government without just compensation.
Article 9: The law should establish only penalties that are deemed necessary.
Article 10: No citizen may be punished under a law passed after the alleged offence was committed nor shall they be held in contest. Any official attempting to punish or otherwise seek disparagement for something that was not a crime at the time it took place.
Article 11: Any human must be presumed innocent until they are declared culpable by a judge in a fair trial. If it is judged indispensable to arrest them, any rigor which would not be necessary for the securing of their person must be severely reprimanded by the law. An exception to this is made for bans. If a moderator or the ombudsman suspects a user may do damage to the community or violate its laws, they may be banned awaiting trial.
Article 12:

(a) No person shall be subject to more than one trial, or one punishment for the same offence, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case, to be a witness against themselves, 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.

(b) An exception to this is made for mistrials.

Article 13: The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of human; any citizen thus may speak, write, print freely, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by laws of teengovernment.
Article 14: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a fair and public trial, to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against them, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in their favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for their defense.
Article 15: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Fines and bail should be proportional to the accused's wealth.
Article 16: The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration. Except where excessive requests would cease the operations of the official's duties.
Article 17: All people have the right to the freedom of association as defined here:

Subarticle 1: No law of TeenGovernment may attempt to prohibit, limit, or otherwise specify punishment for any stance or political belief. (e.g. You can't make a law outright banning a certain class of people or people who believe in a certain thing as long as they don't do anything illegal)

Subarticle 2: Freedom of association

(a) No law of TeenGovernment shall make it illegal or seek punishment for being in a certain non-Teengovernment related server or group chat.

(b) No law of TeenGovernment shall make it illegal or seek punishment for having a certain opinion on non-Teengovernment-related server(s) or group chat(s).

(d) Breach of this article is considered a breach of free speech and free association.

(e) An exception exists for prohibiting the advertisement of certain non-Teengovernment related server(s) and group chats.

Subarticle 3: Extension and specification of free speech and thought

(a) No law shall make it illegal or seek punishment for having, or otherwise prohibit, a certain stance on issue(s), nor force someone to say they support or condemn something.

(b) Breach of this subarticle is considered a breach of free speech and thought.

Article 18: No citizen may face unreasonable discrimination by any public institution based on:

(a): Political beliefs

(b): Economic status

(c): Political position of power

(d): Race

(e): Sex

Article 19: The right to bear arms shall be granted to all registered citizens; however the council shall have the right to regulate and change this right.
Article 20: All people shall have the right of self-ownership. Self-Ownership is hereby defined as the right of control over one's own body, life, and labor.
Article 21: Everyone has inherent dignity and the right to have their dignity respected and protected except where such would breach the freedoms of others.
Article 22: Everyone has the right to be free from all forms of violence from either public or private sources to which they do not voluntarily take part in.
Article 23: Not to be subject to cruel or unusual punishment.
Article 24: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement, lawful residence, and all citizens have the right to leave or re-enter Tegovia. Every citizen has the right to enter, to remain in and to reside anywhere in Tegovia. Every citizen has the right to a passport if passports are implemented.
Article 25: Everyone has the right:

(a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or wellbeing;

(b) to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that:

(i) prevent pollution and ecological degradation;

(ii) promote conservation; and

(iii) secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development.

Article 26: Everyone has the right to (if implemented):

(a) a basic education, including adult basic education; and

(b) further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.

Article 27: Everyone has the right to establish and maintain, at their own expense, independent educational institutions that
(a) do not discriminate on any basis but merit;
(b) are registered with the state; and
(c) maintain standards that are not inferior to standards at comparable public educational institutions.
Article 28: Impossibility

(a) No member of the citizenry shall be held in contempt or otherwise punished for inaction due to the required action being physically and/or electronically impossible. (e.g. A mod can't be prosecuted for not changing a rule to a new one passed by council if the new rule exceeds the character limit of 500 Reddit enforces for rules and they literally can't update it)

(b) If whether something is impossible or not is in question the courts shall decide. This decision can be reversed by council with either a super-majority of council OR a simple majority in favor \+ either the vice president or president concurring.

Article 29: Freedom of proposition

Subarticle 1: No law of TeenGovernment may prohibit the right to propose.

Subarticle 2: Officials who pursue bans or other forms of punishment for someone proposing a piece of legislation may be punished based on court discretion.

Subarticle 3: Everyone regardless of political affiliation, standing, status of being registered with the census, race, sex, or any other distinguishing factor has the right to propose.

Subarticle 4: The following exceptions apply to any clause in this article:

(a) Legislation may seek punishment if the body, title, or other contents of the legislation in-of-themselves contain hate speech, gore, or other content that objectively is likely to disturb mental peace.

(b) Legislation may seek punishment if the legislation is targeted legislation.

(c) Legislation may seek punishment if the legislation or similar legislation has been proposed more than 3 times in the past week. (Spam)

Article 30: No individual may be paid to vote for a certain person in any sort of election.
Article 31: Reasonability

(a) Citizens shall be held to reasonably follow the law.

(b) Citizens shall be able to take reasonable freedoms surrounding the law so long as it does not contradict the law.

Economic Rights

Subsection 2: Economic Rights

Article I: The right to unionize shall not be infringed by the government and by one's employer, as well as by any other organizations.

Article II: Citizens can pool together funding to form a workers cooperative, which have the same economic rights as a corporation and are owned by all who they employ. The employees can determine how they structure their cooperative.

Article III: All citizens in unions and worker cooperatives can bargain, leverage demands, strike, or blockade the entrance to a business or corporation without retribution by their employer.

Article IV: Employers cannot fire employees without providing due cause (poor performance, theft, economic duress)

Article V: Corporations are not considered human and only have certain economic rights, not political ones.

Article VI: Money and the donation of it is considered a different act than speech.

Article VII: The rights protected by This Constitution are the rights of natural persons and do not extend to for-profit corporations, limited liability companies, or other private entities established for business purposes or to promote business interests under the laws of TeenGovernment.

Article VIII: Such corporate and other private entities established under law are subject to regulation by the people through the legislative process so long as such regulations are consistent with the powers of The Council and the Provinces and do not limit the freedom of the press.

Article IX: Such corporate and other private entities shall be prohibited from making contributions or expenditures in any election of any candidate for public office or the vote upon any ballot measure submitted to the people.

Article X: The Council shall have the power to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures, including a candidate's own spending, and to authorize the establishment of political committees to receive, spend, and publicly disclose the sources of those contributions and expenditures.

Article X: All people have the right to fair transactions and the government shall be able to intervene against transactions which are clearly manipulated to favor one party.

Article XI: All people shall be subject to treatment free of persecution on account of Race, Sex, Gender, personally held political beliefs, and using any freedom granted by the constitution.

Article XII: People who engage in such Discrimination as determined in Article XXVII shall face punishment proportional to their actions

Article XIII: All people have the right to work as long as they are registered, unbanned citizens.

Article XIV: All citizens shall have the right to earn a fair wage.

Article XV: Anyone may sue a corporation

Article XVI: Anyone may engage in a transaction or the gifting involving anything they are able to provide/receive/agree not to or to engage in, and will not violate the law by doing so. (actions, money, assets, and all other things)

Rights & Limitations of Prisoners

Subsection III: Rights & Limitations of Prisoners
Article 1: No prisoner may join a political party.
Article 2: Prisoners may register on the census, but must put “prisoner” as their political affiliation.
Article 3: Prisoners shan't be given citizen IDs, and cannot vote.
Article 4: An exception to the above article is made for prisoners serving sentences under seven days. They will retain a valid citizen ID.
Article 5: Prisoners may sue for violations of the Laws of TeenGovernment which take place against them.
Article 6: Prisoners shall be guaranteed the following rights

To practice a religion of their choice

To be free from accusation, arrest or detention unless in the cases determined by the law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed.

The right 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 affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The rights to a fair and public trial, to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against them, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in their favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for their defence.

The right to be free from excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

The right to request public information from any government official

The right to freely associate in compliance with Section 2 Subsection 1 Article XVII

The right to not be discriminated by social standing, economic standing, political affilitation, party, or any such things on account of Race, disability, gender, sex, position of power within government, political affiliation, or any other such things

To a rehabilitative education in prison

Article 7: Prisoners only have rights listed here and this subsection overrides any other rights states elsewhere within the constitution overriding such rights not expressly listed.

Section III: Council

Section III: Council
Article 1: Council is elected in general elections and a council member’s term shall be 1 month long with their powers immediately being revoked at midnight UTC on the 27th at which time elections conclude.
Article 2: The size of council is decided by a referendum on the 8th of each month.
Article 3: Council may vote on proposed legislation.
Article 4: Passing non-constitutional-amendment legislation requires a simple majority.
Article 5: Passing constitutional amendments requires a supermajority.
Article 6: Passing a Formal Legislative Amendment requires a simple majority.
Article 7:
1) Upon a piece of legislation passing the flair must be changed to “Proposition for council: Passed” within 48 hours of a relevant transparency post being posted by either the press minister or a member of the mod-team.
2) If it is not carried out within 48 hours the press minister shall be contacted to change it within 36 hours of notification.
3) If it is still not changed after the secondary 36 hour period it constitutes a strike against the press minister, after 5 strikes council shall take a vote on whether or not to remove the minister from their position.
Article 8: Voting is counted as followed
1) In all cases abstains lower the “out of” number for the legislation to pass by a proportional amount. For example if the council size is 7, and 2 council members abstain it shall only require 3 for a simple majority instead of 4\.
2) If the vote is exactly on the required amount, for example exactly 2/3 vote in favor for a constitutional amendment and exactly 1/2 in favor for normal legislation, a tiebreaker vote shall be taken by the vice president.
3) If the aye contains a stipulative legislative amendment what passes shall be determined as follows:
(i) All abstains on the legislation shall take place normally.
(ii) All unconditional ayes shall count towards a stipulative legislative amendment.
(iii) All unconditional nays shall count against the stipulative legislative amendment.
(iv) Any other stipulative legislative amendments that conflict with the stipulative legislative amendment in question shall count against the stipulative legislative amendment.
(v) If there is a winning number of ayes excluding stipulative votes the full piece of legislation shall pass.
(vi) If multiple stipulative legislative amendments are proposed that conflict, the legislation doesn’t pass on unconditional ayes, and both stipulative legislative amendments have enough votes in favor the one with more stipulative (conditional) votes in favor shall win.
(vii) If after §3.7(c)(vi) it is still undecided the vice president shall take a tie breaker vote.

Section IV: President

Section IV: The President
The president shall be the highest representant of TeenGovernment both internally and outside. They shall be elected by runoff population voting. This section defines their exact powers and duties.
Article I \- The president shall be elected by the members of the subreddit, at the same time as council members. The presidential term starts one day after elections and ends as soon as their term begins. Only registered citizens may become president. The president is elected by popular vote with runoff in the case of no candidate reaching over 50% of the vote. There are no requirements to run besides being the only candidate from your party if in a party and being a registered citizen. Presidential terms shall be 1 month long with their powers immediately being revoked at midnight UTC on the 27th at which time elections conclude.
Article II \- The president is required to publicly veto any bill to cause a veto. President veto is ignored for a case of a supermajority vote in the council (which systematically applies for constitutional amendments). Vetos must occur within one week after a bill passes. Council can override a veto with a supermajority vote.
Article III \- The president is responsible for defending the subreddit. In case of crisis such as brigading, the council can pass a super-majority motion giving temporary limited Moderation privileges to the president. These powers shall be automatically removed after 72 hours, unless the crisis ends or the council passes a second motion, extending mod powers to 96 more hours, for a maximum total of 144 hours or 7 days. If the president or the council declares that the crisis has ended, mods' powers should be removed from the president.
Article IV \- The president is NOT immune from the law. If the president is found guilty of any crime they are to face the same punishment as any other citizen.
Article V \- The council may pass a motion of no-confidence against the president. If a supermajority of council votes no-confidence, the president is immediately removed from the office.
Article VI \- If the president is permanently or temporarily unable to hold the office due to impeachment, culpability of a serious criminal offence or political crime, death, resignation (temporary or permanent) or sickness, an interim president takes its place until the next regular presidential election. The order of succession for the office is the following:

The vice president.

An interim president elected by the council

An executive council managed by the council

An interim president elected in an emergency election

If the president is once again able to hold the office before the end of their term or that presidential elections happened, the interim president shall return their power. The president cannot return through this means if impeached.

Article VII: The president also gains the authority to pass, amend, or overrule legislation during emergency states, but cannot change their own powers, SMP rules, or the constitution in any way. Council can strike down the president’s decision with a simple majority.

Subarticle I: Prior decrees to passage of this document remain in full effect as if passed by this document unless otherwise directly specified or otherwise that decree did modify the previous constitution.

Subarticle II: This authority can amend legislation that is not a constitutional amendment.

Article VIII: Runoff voting will work the same way it does in most US states at time of passage.

Article IX: The president may not hold a governmental position in another pol-sim. This is considered treason.

Section V: Vice President

Section V: The Vice President
Article I: The Vice President shall act in Council, only cases of a tie-breaker. The Vice president may vote on texts if their vote is necessary for a decision to proceed.
Article II: In cases where the president is unable to fulfill their duties, the Vice President shall be obliged to assume responsibility for said duties until the President returns.
Article III: If the Ombudsman refuses an investigation, the Vice President will decide if the rejection is valid. The Vice President’s decision may be overturned by a judicial appeal.
Article IV: The Vice President shall assume the duty of advising the Referendum Minister to hold a referendum.
Article V: In cases of impeachment for all government positions, excluding the President and Vice President, the Vice President shall preside over the impeachment trials respectively.

Section VI: Departments and Ministers

Section VI: Departments and Ministers
Subsection 1: Appointment of a minister
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Subsection 2: Impeachment of a minister
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Subsection 3: Press minister
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Subsection 4: Documentation minister & Wiki team
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Subsection 5: Election minister
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Subsection 6: Referendum minister
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Subsection 7: Census minister
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Subsection 8: Entertainment minister
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Subsection 9: Ministers of mental health
(a) Reddit minister of mental health:
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(b) Discord minister of mental health:
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Subsection 10: Economics minister
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Subsection 11: Foreign minister
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Section VII: Courts of TeenGovernment

Section 7: Courts of TeenGovernment
Subsection 1:
Article I: Striking and replacement
Article II: Basic private trials.
(a) Any individual, of which must be either the defendant or plaintiff of the set trial, may request a privatized trial, yet the trial must fall under the conditions held in Sec III (a), 1-4.. The private trial must be approved by the Acting Judge of the trial, and proof of why the trial must be private must be presented to the Judge, via DM’s.
(b): A private trial is to fall under the following conditions.
(1): Zeedith’s law will not take into effect.
(2) No records or news article may be created on the trial, nor on the contents,
(3) The trials contents, prosecution, defense, Judge, evidence, results, are all private, and revealing any of it is illegal. Section 10 of this constitution, or any equivalent legislation or law, is to be considered null in the case an individual shares information from the trial in DMs or separate servers, permitting prosecution in the circumstance of sharing information.
(4) Once the trial concludes, the only bodies told results are to be one Discord Moderator, and one SMP moderator. Once done, both bodies must perform a legal duty to uphold the sentence, alongside administration of it, in the case their duty is needed, this report is to be done by the Judge of the trial.
(5) out of the contents being private, the trial is to occur as all other trials would, maintaining all functions out of publication.
(6) There must be a substantial reason (a reason that complies with Sec. III) for a private trial. Supposed damage to a person’s reputation or social/political standing may only be considered a substantial reason if the judge presiding over the trial believes that the damage to a person’s reputation or social/political standing would be so severe that it warrants a private trial.
Article III: Conditions
(a) For a private trial to be held, it must fall under the following conditions
(1) Evidence within the trial may dox or generally leak private information.
(2) Evidence within the trial may be uncomfortable or harm the public to be shown or released widespread, or otherwise would be a crime to publicly show (i.e: Not Safe For Work content)
(3) Publication of the trial may physically or mentally harm an individual.
(4) Either the defendant or Plaintiff feel that the contents being open may physically or mentally harm them.
(b) If a condition from Sec III (a) is not fulfilled, no private trial may be requested.
Article IV: Enforcement
(a) if any information from a private trial is leaked, it is the legal duty and obligation to report the violation to an SMP mod, and once done, the individual who did it shall be given a sentence at mod discretion.
(1): Doing so again, post trial, is to lead to the allowance of either the defendant or plaintiff, of the original private trial, to sue.
Subsection 2:
Article I: Replacements.
Article II: Contents
(a) Definitions
(1) Alters are to be defined as distinct identities or dissociated parts of a person’s personality, for the use of this document, only individuals diagnosed with D.I.D gain it.
(2) Systems are to be defined as the whole of multiple alters, defined as the full self of all alters.
(b) Individuals, diagnosed with D.I.D (Dissociative Identity Disorder), are to be treated under Teen Government law and governance, as the following.
(1): All diagnosed individuals are to gain the status of D.I.D INDIVIDUAL’.
(2): All D.I.D INDIVIDUAL’s are to comply with the following, alongside gaining the following rights.
(i) in the circumstance of a committed crime or offense, only the alter(s) responsible shall be given legal action.
(ii) In the case of winning a political office, only one alter is to be capable of holding that legal office.
(iii) In the case of a contract, it requires all alters to consent upon it, via requiring the signatures of 50%+1 or more of the alters.
(iiii) In the case of a) specific alter breaking a law, and facing proper judicial punishment, the system is responsible for keeping the distinct, currently facing judicial punishment, alter(s) in ordinance to a punishment, failure to do so leading to the entirety of them being given the punishment (requires three distinct occurances)
(iiiii) The entire system may be punished in the following cases
(1) Sec II (b) (2) (iiii) occurred, and three distinct failures occurred
(2) The Judiciary decides upon it, being capable of mandating a sentence for all alters.
(3) As terms within a plea deal.
Article III: Enactment
(a) The Court Second Amendment is to be known as “Suki and Krasnaya’s law”.
Subsection 3:
Article I: Kras’s law
(b) All laws governing Class Actions
Article II: Contents.
(a) Under the circumstance multiple people are attempting to sue the same individual, they may request a class action suit
(b) All class action suits must comply with the following
(1) All Class Actions must be officially approved by the Judiciary, via request of all acting Justices, if approved, the following may occur.
(2) All prosecution is to be found and collected, all of them are to formally announce themselves as prosecution to the Court Server.
(i) Only a maximum of 5 prosecutors/plaintiffs may exist.
(3) All legislation decorating the jury cannot be a part of the same party or coalition as the prosecutor as considered null.
(4) Each plaintiff is only permitted to speak once at a time, and may be held in contempt for speaking over one another.
(5) Any plaintiff is permitted to attempt the admitting evidence, yet acting Judge approval is necessary.
(6) All plea deals and or settlements are to be accepted unanimously amongst all prosecution, plaintiffs, and defendants, alongside acting Judge approval.
(7) All plaintiffs are permitted all rights and obligations a regular plaintiff would be forced to uphold in a regular trial, and is prohibited from violating any law, of which is not directly given an exception to by another law or this document's outlined clauses.
Subsection 4:
Article I: Presiding over Impeachment Trials.
(a) In the case of an impeachment trial, the elected Vice President shall preside over the case, hence shall assume all powers of a Judge.
(b) In the case of the President or Vice President standing for impeachment, the Chief Justice assumes the rights instead.
Article II: Impeachment Trial Processes.
(a) In the case, post Ombudsman investigation, or any other legally recognized investigation, of which finds a crime constituting grounds for Impeachment,
Occurs. (Specifically Section 2, Article IIII Section 2, Article IIII(a) Section 2, Article IIII(b) Section 2, Article IIII(c) Section 2, Article IIII(c)1 Section 2, Article IIII(c)2 Section 2, Article IIII(c)3 Section 2, Article IIII(d) Section 2, Article IIII(e))

Section VIII: Moderation

Section 8:
Subsection 1: General Terms
Article 1: Only the following shall be allowed to have moderator privileges of any kind:
\* (a) Admins
\* (b) Moderators
\* (c) Jr. Mods
\* (d) The TeenGovernment mod-team account (u/TeenGovernment)
\* (e) The president during times of emergency
\* (f) The press minister for permissions relevant to updating the flairs of bills to reflect they've passed.
\* (g) Other positions explicitly approved to have moderation privileges by council per the terms of §2.2.
Article 2: Council can create additional roles that are allowed to have moderator privileges. Such a motion must contain:
\* (a) What specific role can have moderator permissions, AND
\* (b) What specific moderator permissions the role may have, AND
\* (c) In what circumstances the mod team can remove aforementioned moderator privileges. (e.g. in case of abuse of moderator privileges & what counts as an abuse of moderator privileges)
Article 3: Having moderator privileges does not make someone a part of the mod team by default unless they are an Admin, Moderator, or Jr. Mod.
Subsection 2: Internal votes
Article 1: Internal votes may take place within the mod team where there is a disagreement. These shall be a simple majority unless specified otherwise.
Article 2: In the case of a vote Jr. Mods have 1 vote, Moderators have 2 votes, and Admins have 3 votes.
Article 3: If there is a tie within the internal vote the side with more admins shall win. If it's still a tie an additional vote from the president, vice president, or a council motion may be requested to settle the issue.
Article 4: Admins are not required to host an internal vote when rearranging or changing the mod-team, changing subreddit settings, or other actions within their power but may choose to do so.
Subsection 3: Addition of a member to the mod-team.
Article 1: New members can be added to the mod-team through any of the following processes:
\* (a) One or more admins choose to do so.
\* (b) A supermajority motion from council.
\* (c) An internal vote is held except with the threshold of 2/3 instead of 1/2.
Subsection 4: Removal of a member of the mod-team.
Article 1: Members can be removed from the mod-team by any of the following conditions:
\* (a) An internal vote is held by the mod-team. (2/3)
\* (b) Greater than or equal to half of admins concur.
\* (c) A super-majority action in council states so.
\* (d) The moderator abuses their power and a moderator with the power to remove them reasonably believes they should. This can be reversed by an internal vote.
Article 2: As an exception to §5.1 admins may only be removed from the mod team by either:
\* (a) A motion in council with a super-majority that states so.
\* (b) Greater than or equal to half of admins concur.
\* (c) The case the admin abuses their power and another admin with the power to remove them reasonably believes they should. This can be reversed by an internal vote.
Subsection 5: Promotions and demotions within the mod-team
Article 1: Admins may freely promote and demote members within the mod-team except if they are doing it for political gain or promoting or demoting a member from or to the status of admin, in which case greater than or equal to half of active admins must concur.
Article 2: An internal vote may promote or demote members of the mod-team. Except in the case the member of the mod-team is in admin, in which case only the same things defined in §5.2 take place.
Subsection 6: Weight of evidence
Members of the Administrative branch must have evidence that it is more likely than not a crime was committed to take a moderation action such as a ban unless:
\* (a) It is evident not taking the action immediately could cause immediate foreseeable harm.
\* (b) An internal vote is held within that body of the administrative branch where a majority of members agree that the ban should go forward without further evidence based on reasonable belief the crime took place and/or not taking action could lead to further crimes.

Section IX: Petitions, Referendums, and Recalls

Section IX: Petitions, Referendums, and Recall Votes
Subsection I: Of Petitions
Article I: A petition may be called for by any registered citizen. If at least 1/6 of all registered citizens agree to putting the petition up to a vote, the Referendum Minister shall make a vote on whether the petition shall be passed and made law.
Article II: This vote must be posted within 48 hours of the petition gaining enough support from registered citizens for it to be put to a vote, and shall last 72 hours.
Article III: This vote shall contain three questions, listed below:
a. What is your Citizen ID?
b. What is your Username (Reddit username, If you’re a Discord only member, give your Discord username)?
c. Do you want \[legislation put up to petition\] to pass?
Article IV: The question listed in IX.I.III.c of this document shall have three and only three options for answers, those being aye, nay, and abstain.
Article V: If the petition is on a constitutional amendment, at least a supermajority of all votes must be in favor and at least 2/3 of registered citizens must vote on the petition in order for the legislation proposed by the petition to pass. If at least one of these conditions is not met, then the legislation shall be rejected.
Article VI: If the petition is on an act, motion, bill, or other piece of legislation which requires a simple majority it shall require a simple majority of votes and at least 1/2 of registered citizens must vote on the petition in order for the legislation proposed by the petition to pass. If at least one of these conditions is not met, then the legislation shall be rejected.
Subsection II: Of Referendums
Article I:
a. When a piece of legislation is proposed to Council, the President, Vice President, or a Council Member may call for the legislation to be put to referendum.
b. If at least 50% \+ 1 of Council Members vote aye to put the legislation to referendum, then the Vice President shall notify the Referendum Minister to make and post a referendum for the legislation.
c. The Referendum Minister must make and post this referendum within 48 hours of being told by the Vice President to do so.
Article II: This referendum shall last 72 hours and the results of the referendum must be published within 48 hours of the referendum’s conclusion.
Article III: This referendum shall contain three questions, listed below:
a. What is your Citizen ID?
b. What is your Username (Reddit username, If you’re a Discord only member, give your Discord username)?
c. Do you want \[legislation put up to referendum\] to pass?
Article IV: The question listed in IX.I.III.c of this document shall have three and only three options for answers, those being aye, nay, and abstain.
Article V:
a. If the referendum is on a bill, act, or motion and less than 1/2 of registered citizens vote in the referendum, the bill, act, or motion shall be voted on by Council as normal.
b. If the referendum is on a bill, act, or motion and at least 1/2 of registered citizens vote in the referendum, then the bill, act, or motion shall be passed if it reaches a simple majority.
Article VI:
a. If the referendum is on a constitutional amendment and less than 75% of registered citizens vote in the referendum, the bill, act, or motion shall be voted on by Council as normal.
b. If the referendum is on a constitutional amendment and at least 75% of registered citizens vote in the referendum, then the constitutional amendment shall be passed if it reaches a supermajority.

Section X: Unrelated servers & jurisdiction

Section 10: Unrelated servers & jurisdiction
Subsection 1: Related servers and group chats
Article 1: A server or group chat is considered related if it meets any of the following requirements:
1) A supermajority of the members of the server are TeenGovernment members and access to the server was gained primarily through links or invites sent within existing TeenGovernment-related servers.
2) The server is that of a TeenGovernment party
3) The server is that of a TeenGovernment organization
4) The server is that of a TeenGovernment corporation
5) The server is that of a TeenGovernment coalition
6) The server is being used for discussion pertaining to TeenGovernment, and directly identifies itself as related.
7) The server uses branding such as “TeenGovernment (Something)” and primarily contains TeenGovernment members or discusses TeenGovernment.
8) A moderator of the server voluntarily identifies the server as TeenGovernment-related.
9) The server is that of a TeenGovernment ministry.
10) The server is that of a branch of government or otherwise a part of the government of TeenGovernment.
11) The server is formed to directly draft legislation for the legislative branch of TeenGovernment.
12) The server is being used to discuss events within TeenGovernment or TeenGovernment members in the context of TeenGovernment and is made of primarily TeenGovernment members.
Subsection 2: Unrelated servers and group chats
Article 1: Evidence from an unrelated server or group chat cannot be used at trial.
Article 2: Any servers or group chats not explicitly stated as being related are considered unrelated.
Subsection 3: DMs
Article 1: DMs and screenshots of DMs can only be administered in court under the following circumstances:

(a) The DMs are related to or commenting upon events such as **but not limited to**:

The proceedings of a TeenGovernment party

The proceedings of a TeenGovernment organization

The proceedings of a TeenGovernment corporation

The proceedings of a TeenGovernment Ministry

The proceedings of a TeenGovernment coalition

The writing of TG legislation or the discussion of such

Affairs of a TeenGovernment ministry.

A war.

A public controversy.

A message, poll, or other media sent in a TeenGovernment-affiliated server.

(b) The DMs aim to sexually exploit or disturb mental peace.

(d) The DM is being governed by §10.5 Privacy protection

Subarticle 1: If the DM in question discusses events within TeenGovernment or TeenGovernment members in the context of TeenGovernment and is between two TeenGovernment members it may be administered in court
Subsection 4: Official servers
Article 1: Official servers have special conduct under unrelated server law and are always related to TeenGovernment.
Article 2: Evidence found within Official TeenGovernment servers is allowed within court in all cases except that the evidence was gathered through illegal means then shared on an official server.
Article 3: As of the passing of this constitution the following shall be considered official TeenGovernment servers:
1) Main TeenGovernment Discord server. (Server ID: 1451551726183252070\)
2) Official prison server (Server ID: 1472362608245084301\)
3) Official courts of TeenGovernment server (Server ID: 1477426787607646261\)
4) Ombudsman's office (Server ID: 1490472920999526573\)
5) The TeenGovernment Welcome center (Server ID: 1504041833259597907\)
Article 4: Official servers are always within TeenGovernment jurisdiction.
Article 5: Council may vote in a motion to recognize another server as official.
Subsection 5: Privacy protection
Article 1: This subsection applies where privacy is expected, this applies to, though not exclusively:
(a) DMs
(b) Private group chats not open to the public
(c) Private threads
Article 2: The following shan't be allowed:
(a) Copying text from one of the spaces outlined in article 1 of this section without consent of all members present in or implied within the text.
(b) Taking a screenshot of one of the spaces outlined in article 1 of this section without consent of all members present in or implied within the screenshot.
Article 3: Exceptions to §10.5.2 are:
(a) The screenshot, text, or media is clearly and unarguably for the purposes of joking or “memes” such as catching soon to be deleted horny messages, screenshotting odd or “funny” behavior, etc.
(b) The screenshot, text, or other media contains incriminating evidence or evidence relating to a crime.
(c) The screenshot, text, or other media simply contains already public imagery such as screenshotting a picture of a meme.
(d) The screenshot, text, or other media is being captured of the council general GC, council voting GC, or council Discord server for the purposes of transparency.
(e) All information shown in the screenshot is without a shadow of a doubt already public and would not reveal further information.
Article 4: It shall not be considered a violation of this section of the constitution to take non-consensual screenshots of messages in related servers to enter into trial.
Subsection 6: Official Subreddits
Article 1: Any content on Official Subreddits is always within jurisdiction.
Article 2: The following servers may also be within TeenGovernment jurisdiction and are considered official subreddits.
1) r/TeenGovernment
2) r/TeenGov
3) r/Teenews
Article 3: Council may vote in a motion to recognize another subreddit as official.
Subsection 7: Misc
Article 1: Distributing screenshots of messages or the content of messages from within official servers as defined in Subsection 4 of Section 10 shall not be considered illegal
Article 2: No other article in any piece of legislation, constitutional or not, shall attempt to prosecute or otherwise punish citizens for actions not taken within TeenGovernment-related servers, on the SMP, or otherwise explicitly allowed as defined in this section.
Article 3: What is related and unrelated is a blanket definition, no exception shall be made for a specific offence or crime. This is an entrenched clause.

Section XI: Economy

Section 11: Economy
Subsection 1: Balance team
Article 1: The balance team has the power to:
1) Create and activate natural disasters & new systems into the economy so long as they do not intentionally disparage one specific group.
2) Balance the economy in any way such as adjusting prices or difficulty of actions.
3) Maintain and code the game which is the economy.
4) Freedom to implement the economy in whatever way is chosen.
5) Take any actions relating to the economy which the government would not have natural control of.
Article 2: The Balance Team is a group primarily composed of the programmers of the game of which volunteer to join the group.
Article 3: Membership in the balance team is not considered a government position.
Article 4: Membership in the balance team is not an elected position per-se however joining requires being appointed to the team by the president.
Article 5: Balance team members can be removed from the balance team by:
1) A supermajority council motion.
2) A simple majority vote within the balance team.
Subsection 2: The economy game
Article 1: Actions which can take place in the economy but are not required to be implemented include:
1) A tech tree
2) Companies
3) Organizations
4) Mining and resource extraction
5) State-owned-entities
6) Disease
7) Productivity
8) Routines
9) Unions
Article 2: Participation in the economy or anything related to the economy shan't be required for any action related to or pursuant to the government or any governing forces of TeenGovernment currency is at a minimum implemented.
Article 3: The economy can be released at any time in any state so-long as the head developer believes it is in a releasable state.
Subsection 3: The Tengovian dollar
Article 1: The Tengovian dollar is represented by the 𝕋
Article 2: The Tengovian dollar is a FIAT currency unless a majority of the council chooses to change its backing.
Article 3: The government shall have the sole authority to mint currency.
Subsection 4: Government monetary transparency
Article 1: Any citizen has the right to request a monetary account of any public office, committee, or branch of governance.
Article 2: All economy logs surrounding the government shall be public, including but not limited to:
1) Tax increases and decrease
Article 3: The exact specification of how taxes are determined shall be made publicly available within any change in taxes.

Section XII: Real-life crimes

Section 12: Real-life crimes
Article 1: If a member of the administrative branch finds it is more likely than not a citizen is to have committed a felony of which falls under the crimes listed within §12.2, they are to be removed from all Teen Government servers and subreddits, awaiting a due process trial. (If the course of action is disputed an internal vote may be held within the mod-team)
Article 2: Felonies are any of the following when they happen in-real-life:
(a) Distribution of Pornography to minors
(b) Stalking in any degree
(c) Harassment in any degree
(d) Murder in the any degree
(e) Kidnapping in any degree
(f) Manslaughter in any degree
(g) Vehicular Manslaughter in any degree
(h) Assault in any degree
(i) Aggravated Assault
(j) Arson in any degree
(k) Assault of a federal worker
(l) Gang Assault in any degree
(m) Rape in any degree
(n) Intimidating a victim or witness in any degree
(o) Criminal sale of a firearm in any degree
(p) Criminal sale of a firearm with the aid of a minor
(q) Armed Robbery in any degree
(r) Criminal possession of a forged instrument in any degree
(s) Criminal possession of public benefit cards in any degree
(t) Use of a child for sexual purposes
(u) Course of sexual conduct against a child in any degree
(v) Use of a child in a sexual performance
(w) Promoting a sexual performance by a child
(x) Promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child
(y) Abandonment of a child
(z) Public Nudity
(aa) Human trafficking in any degree
Article 3: Once a judiciary decision is made, on whether Guilty or Innocent, the following is to occur:
(a) If innocent, the individual is free of all charges.
(b) If guilty, the minimum punishment is 3 months, and the maximum Capital Punishment.
Article 4: Satirical use of a felony is not to be tried unless it is a serious offense, such as murder and sexual related offenses.This may only occur for cases of minimal damage, up to both judiciary and moderator discretion.
Article 5: Prosecution for a court hearing, such as this, is to be decided via self nomination. Under the circumstance of multiple wishes for the role, a class action may occur.
Article 6: If there’s a server, of which has gone to the attention of Teen Government, where felonies or other serious crimes occur, a request to permanently consider it criminal may be made. This must be approved via a supermajority council vote with executive concurrence.
Article 7: If a server is labeled as criminal, the following jurisdictions will apply:
1) It may not be advertised within the TeenGovernment.
2) It may not be considered TeenGovernment related nor used for official TeenGovernment purposes.
Article 8: A server may lose criminal status under the circumstance the owner or a moderator of the server files a motion to repeal the illegal server classification.
Article 9: A motion to repeal an illegal server classification must be approved via a supermajority of council or the server remains considered criminal.
Article 10: The ombudsman has no legal obligation to investigate crimes shown within this section of the constitution.

Section XIII: Voting

Section 13: Voting
Subsection 1: Who can vote
Article 1: Only registered, unbanned citizens may vote.
Article 2: If a non-registered person votes, their vote is to be deleted from the count.
Subsection 2: Voting form
Article 1: All registered citizens shall be given a voter code by the election minister. This code must be unique and clandestine.
Article 2: The voter/election form must ask for the citizen ID in order for a vote to be counted
Article 3: The ID used by the voter in order to cast their ballot must be authentic.
Subsection 3: Voter fraud
Article 1: No person may vote using another citizen’s reddit or discord username, nor use a citizen ID not given to them. A breach of this article shall be considered a high crime.
Article 2: A breach of Section 13 Subsection 3 Article 1 must go to trial.
Subsection 4: Gubernatorial, Provincial, and Local elections.
Article 1: To be able to vote for a governor/provincial legislature , you must have a valid Citizen ID and live in the providence for a majority of the time.
Article 2: To be able to vote for Local Legislature you must have a valid Citizen ID and be in the City/Town for a majority of the time.

Section XIV: Alt Accounts

Section 14: Alt accounts
Subsection 1: Conditions in which alt accounts are legal
Article 1:
1) If the alternative account is a Reddit account they must contact a member of the mod-team of the rank moderator or higher with the alternative account’s username and their main account’s username.
2) If the alternative account is a Discord account in the Main Discord server they must register following server rules and gain the “Registered alt” role.
3) If the alternative account is a Discord account it must follow reasonable per-server rules on alternative accounts and the procedures of any TeenGovernment-related servers they are in.
Subsection 2: Limitations of Alt Accounts
Article 1:

Alt accounts cannot vote

Alt accounts cannot participate in TeenGovernment in any way if they do not comply with §14.1.1

Alt accounts cannot be used to evade bans.

Subsection 3:
Article 1: A breach of Subsection 2 will lead to a permaban for the alt account and a trial for the main account. The suspected user will be banned awaiting trial.
Article 2: A trial is required for breaches of Subsection 2

Section XV: Parties

Section 15: Parties/Coalitions
Subsection 1: Definitions
Article 1: Any group of people that coordinates candidates to compete in elections and participate in governance shall be considered a party.
Article 2: A coalition is a group of parties or like-minded members with a specific ideological, legislative, or political goal.

Section XVI: Census

Section 16: Census
Subsection 1: Citizen IDs, and registering to be a citizen
Article 1: A citizen ID may be obtained by any citizen via any of the following methods:
\* (i) Via a request put in on the census via the question specified in §16.2.2(iv)
\* (ii) Via a direct DM or public request for one to an official allowed to issue IDs.
\* (iii) By a redistribution done by the pursuant authorities after voter fraud takes place.
\* (iv) If they previously had a voter code one will be given to them.
Article 2: Any citizen with a citizen ID is to be considered a registered citizen. A citizen ID is to be revoked and the person no longer considered a registered citizen if they do not fill out the census for two consecutive months.
Article 3: Any previous clauses of any legislation that in any way depend upon voter codes shall now depend upon Citizen IDs.
Article 4: A citizen ID is a unique pseudo-random alphanumeric 6 character code used for Identification of citizens along with being used to verify votes in various contexts. Other purposes may be used, but no non-constitutional legislation may allow more officials access to citizen IDs.
Article 5: In the situation it is more likely than not voter fraud has occurred IDs may be redistributed.
Article 6: Only the following positions may ever have access to Citizen IDs:
\* (i) Election minister
\* (ii) Referendum minister
\* (iii) An Admin of the SMP for the purposes of verification on the TeenGovernment website.
\* (iv) The census minister
\* (v) The census assistant
\* (vi) The ombudsman when pursuant to investigations.
\* (vii) The acting election minister
\* (viii) The acting Referendum minister
\* (ix) The acting census minister
Article 7: Privacy opt-in
\* (a) If a citizen of any type requests so either via the census question or via contacting an official when requesting an ID they may request additional privacy.
\* (b) If a citizen opts into additional privacy their ID must be stored in a separate spreadsheet than the rest of the IDs to which only the following have access:
\* (i) Election minister
\* (ii) Referendum minister
\* (iii) A single SMP admin for entering the codes into the TeenGovernment website.
\* (iv) The ombudsman when pursuant to investigations.
\* (c) Only the officials stated in (b) may distribute IDs to individuals who have requested additional privacy.
Article 8: A citizen may request they be reissued a new ID once a month at any time if they so decide.
Article 9: Citizen IDs shall be kept in a spreadsheet where only the officials designated to have access shall have access.
Article 10: The following officials may ever distribute IDs:
\* (i) Election minister
\* (ii) Referendum minister
\* (iii) The census minister
\* (iv) The census assistant
\* (v) The acting census minister
Article 11: Citizens may opt-in to more officials having access to their IDs for the purposes of (for example and not limited to) gubernatorial elections. And these IDs may be required to participate in local elections. However a citizen must choose to take part in local elections and shan't be forced to nor shall they be forced to overturn their ID to any official not listed in this document.
Article 12: Having an active citizen ID shall grant it's holder all the rights that would've been previously given by 'filling in' or 'being counted by' the census. Expressly including but not limited to the right to vote and run for office.
Subsection 2: Process of a census
Article 1: The census is to be held by the census minister monthly.
Article 2: The following questions shall be on the census:
\* (i) What is your Reddit username (Optional, but one of (i) or (ii) must be filled out for the submission to be valid)
\* (ii) What is your Discord username (Optional, but one of (i) or (ii) must be filled out for the submission to be valid)
\* (iii) What is your party? (Always with the option of 'unaffiliated')
\* (iv) If you do not have a citizen ID would you like one to be issued to you? (Optional with the options: Yes, Yes, with additional privacy, and No.)
Article 3: Additional questions may be added either by legislation or the census minister as long as they are entirely optional and there is no penalty for not answering them.
Article 4: The census minister or census assistant must post a census reminder reminding the citizenry to do the census once every 7 days for the duration of the census.
Article 5: Members of the administrative branch, especially that of the SMP’s mod-team and official Main Discord server’s moderators shall pin census reminders.
Article 6: Timing of the census
1) The census shall open on the first of each month or-if no census minister is appointed for the term at that time as soon as they enter office.
2) The census shall end on the 18th of each month. (NIL: Two days before elections start.
Article 7: The census shall be used for determining party sizes based on question §16.2.2(iii).
Subsection 3: Release of census results
Article 1: On the day the census ends the following information shall be released:
1) The number of members of each party.
2) A list of who is registered with each party, listing their Reddit username, Discord username, or both.
Article 2: No information not specified in Article 1 of this subsection shall be released without further legislation specifying such.

Section XVII: Capital Punishment

Section 17: Capital Punishment
Subsection 1: Conditions in which capital punishment may be issued
Article 1: Capital punishment may be issued for three instances of ban evasion.
Article 2: Capital punishment may be issued in the case of a conviction for any high crime after already being convicted for another high crime.
Article 3: Capital Punishment may be issued in the case of three five Rule 1 or Rule 8 violations with penalties totaling to 18 months for those combined.
Article 4: Capital punishment may be issued for moderator corruption
Article 5: Capital punishment may be issued for a breach of Rule 9
Article 6: Capital punishment may be issued for three violations of Rule 8 totaling to 12 months or higher
Article 7: Capital punishment may be issued for a single violation of Rules 5/6
Article 8: Capital punishment may be issued for election fraud.
Article 9: Capital punishment may be issued for any continued disturbance of the mental health of the community through violent rhetoric,
Article 10: If someone breaches Articles 1, 5, 8, or 9 while they are imprisoned, they may be removed from the prison server as an alternative to capital punishment.

Section XVIII: Federalism

Section 18: Federalism
Subsection 1: Order of Laws
Article 1: The constitution will be considered the highest law of the land.
Article 2: Legislation passed by Council, provincial legislature, and local councils cannot supersede the constitution.
Article 3: Legislation passed by council will be considered “federal law”
Article 4: No provincial Legislation may supersede the Constitution or Federal law.
Article 5: Laws passed by the Provincial Legislature will be considered “provincial law”
Article 6: No Local council ordinance shall supersede provincial law, federal law, or the constitution.
Article 7: Legislation passed by local councils shall be considered “local ordinances”
Subsection 2: Local Legislature
Article 1: Local Legislature, in cities and towns with a population of one will be voided. The one person in that town will be considered the mayor and only local legislator and will be responsible for passing legislation that applies to their town.
Article 2: Local Legislature, in cities and towns with a population of 2 will have both members of the town. If there is a tie, the governor of the province the town is in is responsible for breaking said tie
Article 3: The Mayorship in towns of 2, in the case of a tie, said tie will be broken by the governor.
Article 4: Local Legislature, in cities and towns with a population of 3 will have two members of the town. The other member will be the mayor of the town. If there is a tie, Section XVII Subsection 2 Article 2 applies.
Article 5: Local Legislature in towns of 4 will have three members. The 4th member of the town will be the mayor.
Subsection 3: Provincial legislature
Article 1: Any registered citizen is allowed to run for provincial legislation in the province they reside in.
Article 2: Provincial legislature will be made up of five members, who will be voted in by members of the province they aim to govern.
Article 3: Any member of the province is able to submit bills to the legislature.
Article 4: Each governor will be responsible for designing their official seal, which they must apply to all bills they wish to make laws. No bill shall be valid without this seal.
Subsection 4: Court system
Article 1: If a province, town, or city chooses, they may establish a court system.
Article 2: The court system must have one prosecutor, one defender, and one person able to be the presiding judge.
Article 3: If these conditions are not met, the case will arrive on certiorari to the first court that meets this requirement.
Subsection 5: Provincial Parties

Section XIX: Miscellaneous

Section 19: Miscellaneous
Article 1: Any part of a piece of legislation clearly segmented with punctuation or other visual indicators that starts with "NIL:" or "Not In Law:" shall be held as a note by the drafter and "Not In Law" nor legally enforceable. Such content shall be expressly viewed as a note or observation from the author and not the will of the people, council, nor any government official and shan't be enforced in any legal capacity.
Article 2: No legislation shall hold higher authority than the constitution nor shall any legislation breach any values set forth in this constitution. (NIL: Constitutional amendments as per Section 13 article 3 are made a part of the constitution and are not separate legislation once they’ve passed)
Article 3: Conflicting legislation should be avoided where possible (by explicitly voiding past legislation or articles of past legislation that conflict) but for the purposes of brevity legislation passed more recently shall be enforced if legislation conflicts.
Article 4: If in any case if it is later found the election of an official, their appointment, or an action taken in office was illegal without the official knowing such. The actions shan’t be reversed unless foul play is discovered.

Section XX: Amendment of this constitution

Section 20: Amendment of this constitution
Article 1: Constitutional amendments shall require a supermajority in council.
Article 2: When an amendment is passed an version of the full document of the constitution including changes made by the amendment and any previous amendments must be made publicly available.
Article 3: Amendments modify the existing constitution and after they’re passed are not standalone documents.
Article 4: Constitutional amendments shall explicitly void clauses they conflict with instead of leaving it up to question where possible.

Section XXI: Enactment

Section 21: Enactment
Article 1: This constitution shall take immediate effect upon passing.
Article 2: Upon this new constitution passing the previous constitution(s) shall be voided in their entirety (And by extension their amendments). This shall also void any previously entrenched constitutional amendments.
Article 3: This document shall be known as the “Constitution” or for the purposes of distinguishing from past constitutions “The Constitution final boss™ edition”.
Article 4: Any previous legislation that conflicts or breaches the terms set forth in this constitution shall be immediately voided upon the enactment of this constitution.

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Internal ID: 524
API access: /524.json
Bill proposed(Unix Epoch): null
Proposer: 3p14, Bob-The15th, Due_Camel6262, ewenlau1, ForsakenBuilder7061, MinecraftGuy7401, Then_Train8542, Trickster-123, SrijitDas2010, and Zeedith-
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ARPD-Curator: Zeedith
Recorded by tracker: 2026-05-29 23:17:02