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=CONSTITUTION OF THE GRÉMMIAN REPUBLIC=

THE REPUBLIC
I The Grémmian State shall be known as the Grémmian Republic. The short form Grémmia shall be interchangeable with the Grémmian Republic.

II It is the obligation of the Grémmian Republic to uphold the rights of all people in its jurisdiction.

III The Grémmian Republic derives its legitimacy solely from the citizenry. No insurrection against the legitimate Grémmian Republic, nor governmental attempt to derive legitimacy elsewhere, shall be aided by sworn protectors of this constitution.

IV The Grémmian Republic shall not declare war upon any foreign nation, nor shall it supply any tools of warfare to any belligerent powers, and it is obligated to repel any invasion upon its territory. No belligerents shall be allowed to use Grémmian citizens in military service. No assistance is to be given to belligerent powers in a way that would aid them in warfare.

LEGISLATURE
I All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Landsgemeinde.

II The Landsgemeinde shall be comprised of any willing free citizens who have reached fourteen years of age.

III All members of the Landsgemeinde may propose laws. The Landsgemeinde shall have adequate time to comprehend the proposed law, and then they shall vote. The Landsgemeinde shall have the powers to remove the President or government agents from their offices.

IV Citizens participating in the Landsgemeinde while it is in session shall enjoy immunity from arrest except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace.

V The Landsgemeinde shall meet on the first day which is not a Sunday of every month. The Landsgemeinde may also assemble according to their own agreements or in emergency situations.

VI The quorum of the Landsgemeinde to operate shall be two thirds of the population of the Grémmian Republic.

VII The quorum for establishing any normal law shall be more than half of the Landsgemeinde. The quorum for amending the Constitution of the Grémmian Republic, approving or dissolving agent organizations, or removing representatives from office, shall be two thirds of the Landsgemeinde.

VIII The Landsgemeinde shall carry out it's additional functions, including but not limited to approval and dissolution of agent organizations and impeachments, with the proper quorum and according to the relevant sections of this constitution.

ADMINISTRATIVE
I Administrative powers herein granted shall be vested in the relevant offices.

II The President may establish policies concerning foreign affairs, but is answerable to laws on the subject passed by the Landsgemeinde.

III The President may operate and, with the approval of more than half the Landsgemeinde, establish agent organizations for the public good. These agent organizations must abide by charters approved in their entirety by more than half the Landsgemeinde.

III The President and Deputy president must be free citizens who have reached fourteen years of age and have affirmed to protect this constitution. The President and Deputy President shall be elected by the Landsgemeinde and shall serve a term of six months. At the end of a term, one may be elected again to serve another term. A president or deputy president may resign.

IV If the President dies or otherwise is unable to fulfill their duty while in office, the Deputy President shall become President for the remainder of the original president's term and the Landsgemeinde shall elect a new Deputy President at the next meeting to serve the rest of the former Deputy President's term, unless that term expires before the Landsgemeinde meets.

V The President is the head of state of the Grémmian Republic. The President has the sole privelege to sign international agreements on behalf of the Grémmian Republic with support of more than half the Landsgemeinde.

JUDICIARY
IIt is the duty of the judiciary to preserve Justice, uphold the spirit of the law, correct wrongs, and settle disputes. II

To prevent the abuse of judicial authority, all are presumed innocent unless convicted, and the courts shall use adversarial sessions but never inquisitorial sessions. In misdemeanors where there is no clear victim, the prosecutor shall be the law enforcement agent or agents responsible for arresting the accused. III

The courts, when in doubt of how to procede, may emulate the legal traditions of the Common Law ancestors of the Grémmian Republic.

IV The courts may issue writs only if relevant to an investigation or upon probable cause. Failures to comply with a subpoena shall only be met with imprisonment up to the settling of the subpoena's case. Search or Seizure Warrants shall include a list of all things or people requested to be searched or seized, supported by affirmation, which shall give the authority to search or seize those and only those things or people. They shall also include a description of the specific place where the search or seizure shall take place.

PROTECTION OF RIGHTS
I There shall be no restriction of the freedoms of Speech, the Press, Peaceful Assembly or Petition.

II No law shall establish religion, nor shall the peaceful exercise of religion be abridged.

III To defend the people from invasion or the imminent threat of subjugation, no law shall be made to prohibit the ownership of firearms to those of sound mind and innocent of felony.

IV The right of the people to have their persons, land, residence, papers, and effects free from unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be infringed. The people shall enjoy the right to refuse a search or seizure without a valid warrant.

V Neither citizen, nor alien with clearance to travel inside the borders of the Grémmian Republic, shall be denied free passage through public land, nor across borders, nor be unreasonably hindered from travel.

VI All people shall receive equal treatment before the law and have the right to equal protection and benefit of the law. Neither State nor Person nor Entity shall unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against people on the basis of any peaceful identity or irrelevant traits.

VII The government shall defend and respect the dignity of all people. No law shall deprive anyone of their resources necessary to survive.

VIII The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people.

IXForfeiture shall only be done upon a convicted criminal to the degree limited by statute relevant to the crime commited. X

The terms "person", "persons", and "people" shall refer solely to natural people of flesh and blood. Legal entities and organizations do not enjoy the rights mentioned in this chapter.

CITIZENSHIP
I Any person born within the territory of the Grémmian Republic, or born on foreign soil with both biological parents of Grémmian nationality, shall automatically become a citizen of the Grémmian Republic.

II People may choose to gain Grémmian citizenship by becoming naturalized according to law.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS
I The Grémmian Republic shall not compromise its neutralist policy as described in Article IV of the first chapter of this constitution.

II A signature upon a treaty or other international agreement, from the President or any other officer, which has not been appropriately approved by the Landsgemeinde, is void as it has no proper consent from the legitimate government.

STATE SYMBOLISM
The Flag of the Grémmian Republic is a rectangle twice as long as its height, divided into thirds horizontally. The third nearest the hoist is to be halved horizontally, creating two sixths. The sixth nearest the hoist is black, and the other sixth is red. The middle third is white, and the third nearest the fly is orange.

Included is a right angle black chevron, terminating with ends one forty-eighth the Flag's width inside the white section and forming right angles with the adjacent edges of the chevron, being centered horizontally, placed vertically where the outer terminating points are centered vertically, and is two fifths as thick as the length of an upper outer side of the chevron. The chevron may be omitted for civil flags and ensigns.

The Flag, being flown from a pole, should be flown slightly below the pole's highest point. The proper vertical display is the Flag being turned ninety degrees clockwise from the perspective of the observer, or if the Flag is hanging and observed on both sides, from the perspective of an observer south or west of the Flag.

To show proper respect for the Flag, it should be kept clean, and should not be defaced, nor used on clothing, advertisements, or disposable items. The proper disposal of ragged flags is to burn them privately. The Flag should, in the presence of other national flags, be flown on a separate staff and at equal hight.

Flying the Flag, including a chevron, upside-down shall be recognized as a general distress signal. The flag may be flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning.

The Coat of Arms of the Grémmian Republic shall be a Swiss shield, with the blazon “Gules, a hedgehog passant guardant to dexter Or”. If the Coat of Arms is placed on a flag, the section “to dexter” is omitted.

OTHER PROVISIONS
No policy, treaty, or international structure shall govern the Grémmian Republic without explicit consent from it, nor shall they govern the Grémmian Republic in a way inconsistent with this constitution.

If there is a conflict between translations of the same law, the language of the law as it was passed shall be assumed correct.

To promote the production of creative and scientific works, the creator of a work shall enjoy the sole authority to create copies and distribute the same copies, or provide legal permission to create copies and distribute the same copies to others, in whole or in part, of the work for a period no longer than twenty years after the work's publication. A work may be given extended copyright protection for an additional twenty years thereafter according to law.

Works produced by government officers or employees as a result of their official duties shall be ineligible for copyright protection and shall be released into the public domain.

Works shall not receive copyright protection if they are found by a court to be based, obviously and with negligible creativity, or entirely, upon scientific, philosophical, mathematical, or any other categories of fundamentals of the Universe, or on any other entity which would hinder the functioning of society.

Copyright shall not be recognized as infringed if the unauthorized copy qualifies as a Fair Use. Fair Use of copyrighted works shall be defined as use of copyrighted material in amounts fair and necessary to educate, parody, perform a criminal investigation, report facts to inform, or make critical comment, in a way that does not, by the simple act of disseminating the copy, tarnish the value of the work to the copyright holder.

Treason shall be defined as levying war against the Grémmian Republic, or providing aid or comfort to those who war against the Grémmian Republic. No person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses about the same overt act of Treason. Treason may only be punished by law established by the Landsgemeinde.

No attainder shall cause a Corruption of Blood.