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The Constitutive Charter of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States

Description

This legal Document, in constituting the concentrated Powers of this chartered political Union of the autonomous and self-governing Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, enables the member countries of this Union to re-establish and work towards common purposes, to secure the ability to appropriately provide redress concerning related grievances, to create commissioned Offices, Councils, Departments, and Mediation Forums (as is necessary), to make known the Union’s ability to delegate related tasks to and prescribe relevant positions to officials of matter supportively, to form common measures for protecting the countries within and their peoples for enjoying the sought security, to welcome duly incorporated Associates in satisfying the sanctioned purposes, to evolve the supranational Institution’s organs to strengthen its political identity and political competence, and to act in accordance with their common and democratic agreements.

Preamble

From autonomous and sovereign countries, ones capable of determining their own distinctive paths as determined by their respective Peoples, we, as unified Citizens of these Eastern Caribbean States, per this concerted act (formed in solicited representation via our duly elected representatives), choose to act in consideration of the articulated will of our Peoples.  We have constructed this Charter for producing fine resolutions, regularly and competently, for removing all apparent obstacles to agreed-upon purposes, those established for satisfying the communicated wishes.  The following language serves as a response to our circumstances and as an appeal to ourselves, constituents and representatives alike, in response to humane and popular desires.

In remaining true to universal principles, ones which have parented our common freedoms and values, we respect the maxim which provides that all of humankind is blessed with the fruition and knowledge of our equality in creation and that this manifestation, prompted, directed, and evidenced by our trusted Creator, results in profound rights, securities, and protections of the individual, the few, and the populous.

The Peoples of our now more congruent Union of independent Eastern Caribbean States and Territory Members, by way of our formal agreement, effected upon the enactment of this Charter, shall establish and maintain programs required to uphold the force of Justice, to ensure that Peace, Harmony, and Tranquility are maintained throughout, to ensure the enjoyment of Liberty, to assist sectors of innovation and technological production, to develop our infrastructures and industries, to ensure preservation of the cultural and distinct attributes of our indigenous peoples and our diverse communities (humanely) and our heritage, to assist in the protection of the natural environment and wildlife by reasonable and responsible means, to responsibly maximize the healthy utility of our natural resources, to advance the social security and General Welfare of our Peoples, to maintain free forums for discourse concerning the general-public and distinct sectors, to encourage the prosperity of Civil Society and private institutions, to empower private enterprises, to protect universal suffrage, to borrow and settle monies (and other certified instruments of financial value) to induce economic development, to responsibly regulate commercial practices between the several countries of this Union, to ensure the freedom of our Peoples to access our free market and external ones, to address housing issues, to promote and maintain internal and international diplomacy, to support the fundamental priority of international peace, to protect our civil and human rights, to support adequate adherence to the national or territorial Constitution of the respective country of membership (each), to support the rule of law, to support the motive of proper Health and [Food] Security, to administer proper medical standards, to ensure universal access to healthcare, to promote education and the Sciences, to enshrine the equality of our countries, to secure our popular form of government within democratic societies, to provide for the common defense, and to secure the sovereign integrity of each Member.  It is a duty of this Union to ensure the success of the benefactor programs and their subsidiary initiatives.  The Collective Peoples do activate the Powers of the Constitutive Charter of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States for ends aforementioned and those provided in the following.

Article 1—The Structure of the Governance of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States

Part 1—The Abilities of the Governance Institution of this union of Eastern Caribbean States

Any and all power(s) to construct legislative language, as sanctioned by the Revised Treaty of Basseterre and any untouched or unaffected language of the preceding Document, the original Treaty of Basseterre of 1981, along with the superseding and active language of this Document, shall be vested in Two Houses, the Council of the Presidents and the Assembly of the First Ministers, now collectively known as the General Assembly of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States, primarily stated as General Assembly throughout the Constitutive Charter of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States.  These are to be recognized by all autonomous and self-governing Eastern Caribbean States serving as full members (also referred to as state[s], Member State[s], or [member] countries) of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and by all Associate Members and Member Territories.

Part 2—The Role of the Council of the Presidents of the General Assembly (Council of the Presidents)¹⁶

The upper house of the General Assembly, the Council of the Presidents, will comprise of the highest presiding official from each self-governing and autonomous Member State—the President of each independent Member State and the Governor of any non-independent Member serving as a Protocol Member State. (The Head of State is often referred to as the Chief of State of the respective independent and sovereign country.)  (The Governor of a non-independent Member State, for matter of efficiency, shall be referenced as a member, representative, Head of State, or President within the Council of the Presidents in later parts of this Charter when referencing the Council - a non-independent Member State is a territory or constituent country given broad independent powers, those of relation, by its parent nation for serving as a full Member.  The election or appointment of Governors should be competent such as by legislature confirmation.  For efficiency purposes, national legislature, when focused on the Council of the Presidents, also refers to the territory legislature of non-independent Member State[s].)

Head of State

The Head of State of each of the independent Member States of the Union shall now be represented by a President and this official shall forge no allegiance and shall maintain no nominal or political tie to any other government authority of any other State or entity outside that of his/her respective State.  This premier official shall act as the sole occupier of the Office of the Head of State of the respective State.

The newly created Office of the President shall be fashioned after the Office of the President of the Commonwealth of Dominica regarding the office’s exclusive role (in relation to constitutional duties, prescribed abilities, and social tasks), as promoted by the national legislature of Dominica.  The Office of the President is free to acquire duties and responsibilities which were not attended to by the former Governor General. The incorporation, towards the Office of the President, of the adapted duties and responsibilities aside the former duties and responsibilities of the former Governor-General, does not warrant the alteration of fundamental law(s) as established by the national Constitution of the respective independent Member State or other [formal] legislative records of the particular independent Member State.¹⁷

The President of each independent Member State shall serve as the presiding official of the general-government of the particular Member State, the Prime Minister being the chief executive officer, officially representing state culture, and shall ensure proper recording of the laws of parliament and the state’s compliance with enacted laws per the legislative records of the national legislature, the national Constitution foremost, and any of the [parishional or] local legislative councils or entities serving as law-making bodies upon being duly sanctioned by provision(s) of legislation allowed by the national Constitution.  He or she shall ensure the continued operation of the respective legislature and state apparatus.

All presidential guidelines shall adhere to limits duly established and shall adhere to the rule of law (respecting uniformly sanctioned international authorities).  The President will exercise the right to appoint executives to direct government entities not under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister. These government entities shall regularly report to the President. The President’s performance of this task shall not abridge the right of any individual employed by or outside these entit(ies).  The 1) practices, 2) active policies, and 3) the extent and limits of initiatives/measures pertaining to these public entit(ies) shall be reported to the President of the particular Member State regularly and transparently.  The President, in committing to these duties, shall reserve the right to consult with formal advisors and may present report(s) of perceived violation(s) by any unit of (or other party contracted to) such government entities to the appropriate law enforcement agency, domestic or supranational, for initiating proper legal response and for maintaining adherence to the rule of law.  The findings and the official responses of the notified law enforcement unit(s) shall be reported to the President.

The President of each Member State may request advice from and/or speak with any and all member(s) of the national legislature of the respective Member State regularly.  The President may request advice from and/or speak with the executive officer of any of the local governments of the respective Member State regularly.

In respecting the limits of the national Constitution of the respective Member State, the President of each Member State may negotiate and form treaties where two-thirds formal support is achieved within the country’s national legislature (per treaty).  In committing to negotiating and forming a treaty, the President shall consult with the legislature’s members.  (Still, the President may not refute the Prime Minister’s separate power to establish treaties.  The Prime Minister in applying his or her power to sign treaties into law shall not breach limits enacted by the national legislature specifically in its competent and expressed interpretation of constitutional law.)

In general, the President of a Member State shall not diminish the purposes of the Prime Minister regarding the designated duties, roles, and responsibilities of the office, as duly prescribed by the national Constitution of the respective Member State.

The national legislative branch, meaning the national legislature of the Member State solely, shall not be inhibited in prescribing 1) the ability of the President to issue any constitutional initiative or measure and 2) the limits to such an ability.  The national legislature shall serve as the only entity of the Member State which is allowed to sanction Presidential abilities and limits.  Such prescribed abilities and limits shall not diminish the powers of the other branches of government, as detailed in the national Constitution, and shall be reasonable, recognizing the perpetuity of the republic form of government and the liberal democratic processes of the government and constituencies of the State.  The President shall not serve as a national legislator; he or she shall maintain his or her supervisory parliamentary duties, however.  (The President shall not serve in any other public office, whether at the local or national level, during his or her time in office as President.  His or her participation within this Union and any other supranational construct may only supplement his or her constitutional duties and powers.)

The powers and responsibilities associated with nominating and electing the Head of State shall be held by the national legislature of the respective independent State, the popularly-elected [voting] members of the national legislature precisely.  The Governor-General, at the time of ratification, will serve as the first President of the newly-enfranchised State for the remaining period of his or her term beginning at the time of the ratification of the Constitutive Charter, however.  (The popular constituencies of each Member State will continue to directly elect the Prime Minister and the other [voting] members of the respective national legislature regularly.)

(The Head of Government of each Member State, the Prime Minister per each independent Member State and the Premier per each non-independent Member State, will act on behalf of the established government of the respective Member State, will serve as its chief minister and officer, and will continue to act in compliance with the given powers and set limits prescribed by the Constitution of the particular Member State.)

The duties of the President shall be reserved in perpetuum including while abroad. 

The establishment of the Office of the President and the new or additional duties of the President of each Member State, as found in Article 1, Part 2, may be added to the national Constitution of the ratifying Member State upon ratification of this Document (via amendment).¹⁸

The President of each Member State shall act within his or her regulated discretion in performing his or her duties, shall not be directed or coerced in committing to these duties.  The President shall not be counseled or advised to act outside the limits of those duties while serving as President.

The President of each Member State, in ensuring [proper] application of his or her duties and in meeting the addressable demands of the country-of-representation, may only appropriate or expend funds/resources allowed within the annual budget as sanctioned (yearly) by the national legislature.  However, the President shall not disrupt any organ of the general-government, local or national, from committing to its prescribed duties and obligations.  (Emergency funds may be accessed per formal guidelines.)

The President’s membership or non-membership within any political party shall not serve to diminish the prescribed duties of the Office of the President and shall not serve to incite treatment against the President degrading his or her powers as President.  The President, like other public officer-holders within the Member State, shall be engaged non-discriminately by public entities.  (Any and all impeachment proceeding[s] are to be fair and discreet.)

The minimum qualifications for President, the head public official, are as follows:

Being a natural born or naturalized citizen of the Member State of which he or she represents,

Having officially and habitually resided in the Member-State-at-issue for at least five consecutive years, in establishing bona fide residential status, immediately prior to the term,

At least forty years of age,

Not serving in any other public office when taking office,

Holding no other kind of office of compensation on the first day of taking office,

Holding no effectual interest in the general-government of any other country,

Not inhibited by legal-rehabilitation (regarding criminal penalties) during time of pertinent government service, and

Holding no kind of active quasi-employment position or institutional position in a foreign country.

In Case of the Possibilities of Length of Term Discrepancies and Additional Rules

In the event of a removal, the decease, or the resignation of a member of the Council of the Presidents, the respective state will abide by its formal proceedings in selecting the replacing individual to serve as the Head of State of the particular country.

If there is ever a removal, the decease, or the resignation of an active President while serving as the Speaker of the Council, the term for serving as the Speaker of the Council shall be completed by the incoming Head of State of the Presiding Member State for the duration of the specific term.

If there is, at any time, a difference in the length of serving term(s) for any one of the sitting Presidents of the Council of the Presidents, meaning situations in which the sitting representative to the Council of the Presidents does not serve for a five-year term due to the procedure(s) of the Member-State-at-issue, the Member State shall effectively adhere to the guidelines of the Council of the Presidents in terms of Council mechanics concerning the council-seat’s timely change of guard in the face of discrepancies.  The application of lawful domestic procedures, concerning domestic elections/appointments, shall not be disrupted, however, and their legitimacy shall not be disputed.  (The Council’s mechanics shall ensure that each Member State is represented by a genuine Representative at all times. The guidelines should respond to all discrepancies wisely.  The guidelines shall ensure that the duly elected or appointed & confirmed official is enfranchised timely.)

No enumeration of law(s) shall inequitably add to exclusionary civic abilities of citizens concerning electing or serving as the Prime Minister of the respective Member State and other privileges.  For example, naturalization requirements should not become overly burdensome.

The General Assembly shall allow formal political caucuses to represent combined political parties, of aligned principles regarding the various Member States, per the discretion of political parties, within the General Assembly.  The appropriation of discoursal freedoms, concerning these caucuses, shall defer to the principle of the equality of nations.  The related privileges need to be sanctioned by the General Assembly prior to their application.  (The Presidents may participate fully within these caucuses.)

Part 3—The Role of the Assembly of the First (Government) Ministers of the General Assembly (The Assembly of the First Ministers)

The lower house, known as the Assembly of the First Ministers, will consist of two members from the Member State legislatures each, the Prime Minister (or Premier concerning non-independent Member States) and the Opposition Leader from each of the self-governing and active Member States.  (The Premier of a non-independent Member State, for matter of efficiency, shall be referenced as a member, representative, Head of Government, or Prime Minister within the Assembly of the First Ministers in later parts of this Charter when referencing the Assembly of the First Ministers - a non-independent Member State is a territory or constituent country given broad independent powers, those of relation, by its parent nation for serving as a full Member.  The election of the Premier, as with the other voting members of the territory legislature, should be by continued popular election.  For efficiency purposes, national legislature, when focused on the Assembly of the First Ministers (or the encompassing General Assembly), also refers to the territory legislature of non-independent Member States.)

Presiding over the Assembly of the First Ministers will be the Prime Minister of each serving Member State in a rotating order of eight and a half months (based on the current membership count), allowing each Prime Minister to preside over the Assembly of the First Ministers over a given five-year period.  If the number of States establishing membership increases, the length of time given to the Prime Ministers to preside shall be altered, in an appropriate manner, allowing for an equal period of serving time for each Prime Minister per five-year period. The Presiding Prime Minister shall be called the Speaker of the Assembly. The Head of State of the same Member State shall serve as the Speaker of the Council simultaneously (and Joint Speaker denoting ambassadorial representation of the General Assembly).  (The Speaker of the Assembly shall maintain Chairmanship duties.)

The Joint Speaker shall serve as the chief ambassador of the General Assembly (without precluding the duties of the Chief Official or the Commissioner regarding external affairs).  The Speaker’s schedule, concerning foreign visits, shall be determined by the General Assembly.  As the Joint Speaker, the Member States’ Presidents shall serve within equal intervals per the five-year period.

The Speaker of the Assembly will preside over the formal proceedings of the Assembly

of the First Ministers and shall keep the members of the Council of the Presidents informed on the agendas and plans of the lower house, as deemed appropriate.  The Speaker of the Assembly shall lead enactment proceedings and shall officialize final legislative drafts prior to related voting proceedings concerning the lower house.  (He or she is obligated to officialize drafts when commonly requested by Representatives.)

In Case of the Possibilities of Length of Terms Discrepancies

In the event of a removal, the decease, or the resignation of a serving First Minister, the respective state will abide by its formal procedures in identifying the replacing individual who will serve as the representative to the Assembly of the First Ministers.

If there is ever a removal, the decease, or the resignation of a Prime Minister while serving as the Speaker of the Assembly, the speaking term will be completed by the incoming Head of Government of the Presiding Member State.

If there is ever a removal, the decease, or the resignation of an Opposition Leader, the term of five years, meaning the remaining duration of the specific five-year term, will be completed by the incoming Leader of the Opposition of that Member State, the duly identified replacement.

If there is, at any time, a difference in the length of serving term(s) of any one of the sitting members of the Assembly of the First Ministers from any Member State, per the procedure(s) of the Member State, meaning where the elected member to the Assembly of the First Ministers does not serve for a five-year term, the Member State shall effectively adhere to the guidelines of the General Assembly where discrepancies create undue obstacles. The application of lawful domestic procedures, concerning domestic elections/appointments, shall not be disrupted, however, and their legitimacy shall not be disputed.  (The Assembly’s mechanics shall ensure that each Member State is represented by genuine Representatives at all times.  The guidelines should respond to all discrepancies wisely.  The guidelines shall ensure that the duly elected minister is enfranchised timely.)

Part 4 – The Procedures for Election or Appointment & Confirmation

The national legislature of each Member State of this Union will remain responsible for establishing the governing procedures concerning the election or appointment & confirmation of the three Representatives from the respective Member State (for the purpose of serving in the Assembly of the First Ministers and the Council of the Presidents of the General Assembly). 

The three elected or appointed & confirmed representatives shall continuously be elected or appointed & confirmed from the Member-State-of-representation. (If the President is appointed by member(s) of the national legislature, per any provision of law, then subsequent parliamentary confirmation is necessary.  The Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader shall continue to be elected into the national legislature by popular election.)

Part 5 – The General Decision-Making Process for the Enactment of Legislative Acts

The General Assembly, as the legislative branch of this Union, operating for the issuance of legislative acts as its primary duty, consists of the two councils of the General Assembly, technically named the Council of the Presidents and the Assembly of the First Ministers.  Together, these two houses will enact new Acts and regulations and will delegate tasks to the constructed Offices and under-Offices operating within the space of the governance system of the Union of Eastern Caribbean States (also stated as governance [of the Union]).  The General Assembly shall issue the annual Budget yearly and shall issue financial codes for regulating the activities of the Governance concerning resources.  All Acts, Regulations, and Guidelines are to adhere to the provisions of the Constitutive Charter.  A Legislative Act issues either legislative-polic(ies) or a special legislative act concerning sanctioned concentration(s) of affairs which, during their mandatory codification, both become substantive laws of all Member States.

All proposals and drafts of possible legislative acts up for enactment are to be first reviewed, edited, and re-drafted into a formal draft by the Assembly of the First Ministers to begin the enactment process.  The Assembly of the First Ministers may begin the enactment process subsequent to suggestions made by the Council of the Presidents.  For the final draft to be reviewed and voted on by the members of the Council of the Presidents, a vote on the particular draft, by the Assembly of the First Ministers, is required where the necessary 100% minimum standard is satisfied (pertaining to the Assembly portion of the standard).

To be considered a 100% minimum standard vote in favor of a proposed Act, concerning both policy-oriented and special legislative Acts, the support standard of either 1) the Member State’s representative within the Council of the Presidents (meaning the President) and at least 45% of the voting members of the respective national legislature, 2) 0 member of the Council of the Presidents from the Member State and both a) at least 45% of the non-Prime Minister [voting] members of the respective national legislature and b) the Prime Minister within the Assembly of the First Ministers from the respective country, 3) 0 member of the Council of the Presidents from the Member State and both a) at least 40% of the non-Prime Minister & non-Opposition Leader voting members of the respective national legislature and b) the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader, or 4) at least 50.1% of the voting members of the respective national legislature, must be met regarding all Member States.

However, where two-thirds of the Member States of the Union record the President of the respective Member State’s vote in favor, where the Prime Minister from the national legislature of the respective Member State votes in the same manner (regarding each of the two-thirds), where 100% of Member States demonstrate gained support of 45% of the voting members of the national legislature of the respective Member State (each), the 100% minimum standard is satisfied as an exception. (If the necessary amount for enactment is not met, the Council of the Presidents may request that the proposed legislative act be sent back to the Assembly of the First Ministers with recommendations for language modification, for the purpose of compromising on terms, and/or for re-initiating debate.)

If the General Assembly is unable to meet the minimum vote percentage in the second instance or is unable to vote for a full second instance within a two-month period concerning the proposed Act, the specific draft of the legislative act shall be stored until it is later proposed again, if ever, waiting at least one calendar year, 365 days, before retaining eligibility to be brought before the General Assembly for enactment proceedings.

Regarding the necessary 100% minimum standard, Member States do not have to meet the general form of the minimum standard circumstantially, meaning if duly enacted provisions alter it. Any alteration of the standard explained in the two previous paragraphs ought to compliment the following (as the active maximum standard): 1) where all Member States meet the 1-0 form (where at least one from the Council of the Presidents per country and at least 50% of the voting members of the respective national legislature demonstrate formal support), 2) where all of the Member States meet the 0-1 form (where none from the Council of the Presidents, the Prime Minister within the Assembly of the First Ministers per State, and at least 50% of the non-Prime Minister voting members of the respective national legislature demonstrate formal support), 3) where all of the Member States meet the 0-2 form (where none from the Council of the Presidents and both [a] at least 45% of the voting members of the respective national legislature and [b] the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader within the Assembly of the First Ministers per country demonstrate formal support), or 4) where all of the Member States meet the special 50.1% form (where at least 50.1% of the voting members of the national legislatures each demonstrate formal support).  The General Assembly may allow Member States to satisfy this maximum standard where all satisfy one of these four options diversely and simultaneously per voting instance, meaning Member States wouldn’t all have to satisfy the same option.

The enactment process shall not exceed two months per voting instance. 

All official Acts signed and enacted by the General Assembly shall first be recognized, drafted, and passed in the Assembly of the First Ministers.  However, members of the Council of the Presidents may present proposed drafts for the purpose of review of language and ideas to the Assembly of the First Ministers to begin enactment procedures and proceedings.

No other supranational law-making entity (composed of the domestic legislatures/representatives or other electees of the Member States) shall derive from or form as a consequence of the enactment of the Constitutive Charter.  Other supranational legislature(s) shall operate under their respective charter(s) but these charter(s) shall not seek to abolish this Union or its organs.

All enacted legislative acts of the General Assembly, upon entry into the national legislatures of Member States for the purpose of mandatory codification, shall be up for codification continuously until each enacted legislative act is codified.  Codification shall be timely.  (Codification is explained within the language of Noted General Purpose of Legislative Act in the next few paragraphs).

No part(s) of any enacted legislative act (or passed supplement/attachment/appendix) shall be inhibited from observation by the general-public of the Member States of the Union.

(Each Member State shall make a good-faith effort to attend all [General Assembly] voting sessions. Any absence ought to be for sound reason[s].)

Noted General Purpose of Legislative Act

Each draft of a proposed legislative act, up for enactment, shall provide the summarized general purpose of the proposed legislative act in plain and clear language.

A general legislative act provides legislative-polic(ies), denoting legislative principle(s), adopted via the satisfaction of the 100% minimum standard within the General Assembly.  The regulatory reaches shall not infringe upon established national and supranational laws – the provisions are to regulate current and contemporaneous powers of governments, individuals, and entities. The General Assembly will legislate such Acts upon ratification of the Constitutive Charter.

Special legislative Acts, meaning ones sanctioned to supersede national and sub-regional laws concerning certain concentration(s) of affairs, denoting legislative principles, adopted via the satisfaction of the 100% minimum standard within the General Assembly per instance, shall be respected.  The General Assembly may be contracted to perform the duty of legislating such Acts at any time.  This power shall be prescribed by treaty per [inceptual/new] concentration(s) of issues.

Codification of an enacted legislative act, here in this paragraph and where found elsewhere in the Constitutive Charter, refers to the official implementation of the enacted law into the national legislative records of the respective Member State, a mandatory procedure.

Law enforcement units and executives of the national government shall reasonably act to prohibit/prevent infringement of the rights of persons and private institutions, as detailed in the language of the enacted legislative act, upon enactment, before and during codification.

All Member States shall genuinely act to satisfy codification of each legislative act passed by the General Assembly in a timely manner and shall notify the public.

The enactment and codification processes shall be reviewed by a national committee of at least three active members of the national legislature of each Member State, purposed with meeting with the Prime Minister, the Opposition Leader, and the President of the respective Member State prior to the voting procedure (per each instance) and shall ensure speedy implementation of Acts.  The meetings may be held separately, regarding committee members, shall be held in a timely manner, and shall only be purposed with providing good-faith advice, consultation, and insight to General Assembly representatives.  Each Member State will determine its selection procedures.

No changes to the language of the enacted legislative act may be made in the national legislature or any other organ of the general-government of any Member State.  No foreign country (meaning a non-Member of the Union) or foreign entity shall be enlisted/hired/selected to create or make changes to the language of the legislative act and no foreign country (meaning a non-Member of the Union) or foreign entity shall be enlisted/hired/selected to form any binding conclusion interpreting the language of the Constitutive Charter or any legislative act. The dealings of the Union and its Member States shall remain free from such interferences. (Any change requested by Member[s] or domestic activist(s) can only be enacted via proceedings of the General Assembly.)

Each legislative act shall, in each draft, express its compliance with the specific motives of the Constitutive Charter and shall note the Constitutive Charter’s stated motive(s) which support the language.

Part 6 – Additional Privileges and Duties of the General Assembly

Both the Assembly of the First Ministers and the Council of the Presidents will determine all Rules and Sub-rules of Proceedings, Procedures, and Standards of the General Assembly and may temporarily suspend individual members of their respective house for overly detrimental or disruptive behavior.  These will only be valid where there is at least one-half support in the General Assembly in favor of such a decision (per instance) – these decisions shall prevent the penalized representative(s) from co-passing non-legislative acts within the General Assembly (where the Constitutive Charter does not prohibit the General Assembly from acting in such a manner).  No representative may be prevented from voting on legislative Acts.  Only domestic impeachment may remove a representative and, in such circumstances, his or her