New Eucalyptian Proposal

[Nathan]

The Commonwealth of Eucalyptia Main Treaty

Section 1.0: The Organization of the Commonwealth
1.1 There shall be three administrative organs of the Commonwealth, each with federal authority over the Commonwealth and the member states.
1.2 The three organs of the Commonwealth are the Secretariat, the Assembly, and the Court.
1.3 The Secretariat shall function as the executive authority.
1.4 The Assembly shall function as the legislative authority.
1.5 The Court shall function as the judicial authority.
1.6 No member of the Secretariat shall also serve on the Court.
1.7 No member of the Secretariat shall be able to vote in the Assembly.
1.8 There shall be a separation of the three organs.
1.9 A Secretary-General, selecting from a rotating pool of Secretariat members, shall serve as the official spokesperson of the Commonwealth, unless he or she waives that position.

Section 2.0: The Commonwealth Secretariat
2.1 The Secretariat shall be composed of the Heads-of-State of all the member nations, who may alternatively be called Secretaries.
2.2 The Secretariat shall carry the executive authority of the Commonwealth.
2.3 The Secretariat can appoint and remove advisors, who shall function like cabinet members, and who shall be called Advising Secretaries.
2.4 Assistant Secretaries cannot vote in the Secretariat, but may advise the Secretariat.
2.5 Each month of the twelve months in a year, based on the Gregorian calendar, shall have a new Secretary-General, who shall be the spokesperson for the Commonwealth and the parliamentary president of the Secretariat.
2.6 The in order in which the Secretaries serve as Secretaries-General depends on the date on which their member nations signed this treaty; the cycle of Secretary-General service begins with the Head-of-State of the earliest signatory nation of this treaty, and ends with the Head-of-State of the latest signatory nation of this treaty, and subsequently looping back to the earliest signatory.
2.7 All major executive decisions of the Secretariat must be done by majority vote.
2.8 Minor decisions of the Secretariat may be devolved to the Secretary-General, a Secretary, or an Advising Secretary; the person/persons that make minor, devolved decisions of the Secretariat is/are called (an) Authority.
2.9 Authorities suggested by but not required by this treaty: an Economic Authority, a Transportation Authority, a Free Speech Authority, etc.
2.10 Executive Decisions of the Secretariat shall be kept on file.
2.11 All Executive Decisions of the Secretariat shall be viewable by any citizen of any member nation of the Commonwealth.
2.12 The Secretariat shall have the power to charge usage fees, but not taxes, in order to finance a Commonwealth Treasury.
2.13 The Secretariat may devolve its power to a Treasurer who would manage the Treasury.
2.14 The Secretariat cannot file suit against any citizen or non-governmental group of citizens of any member nation of the Commonwealth with the exception of those employed by the Secretariat.
2.15 The Secretariat can file suit against one of its employees, or a member state government.
2.16 The Secretariat shall have the power to draft and sign treaties with foreign powers.
2.17 The Secretariat shall mount yearly public relation campaigns to benefit the Commonwealth.
2.18 The Secretariat shall not make decisions with its executive authority that are too specific for any one member nation of the Commonwealth, as such decisions should be made by the individual non-federal state executive authorities of each of the member nations.
2.19 The Secretariat shall not remove one of its own Secretaries from office, or the Secretary-General from office.
2.20 With a majority vote, however, the Secretariat can restrict secretariat voting privileges of any of the secretaries.
2.21 The Secretary-General cannot vote in the Secretariat while in is his or her month of service as Secretary-General.
2.22 The Secretary-General, if he or she is an embarrassment or tyrant, may be temporarily restricted from his or her duties as public relations director/spokesperson and parliamentary president by two-thirds majority of the Secretariat.
2.23 Only Secretaries of the Secretariat may vote in the Secretariat.
2.24 The Secretariat shall have the authority to make and carry out Decisions regarding the promotion of freedom of speech, the economic advancement of the member nations, the Commonwealth international currency (Euca), collective security and defense, collective intelligence-sharing, collective culture and its own parliamentary procedure.

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Section 3.0: The Commonwealth Assembly
3.0 The Commonwealth Assembly shall be composed of all citizens of all the member nations, except for those citizens serving in either the Commonwealth Secretariat or the Commonwealth Court.
3.1 All members of the Assembly shall have the right to vote on any Bill.
3.2 No member of the Assembly shall be censored from his or her speech in the Assembly unless he or she is using profanity or is spreading content not appropriate for children, or if he or she is speaking of nothing that has to do with the purposes (liberally speaking) of the Assembly.
3.3 Any non-censored member shall be able to post a Bill.
3.4 Debate on Bills is required if called for, but debate is not required if it not called for.
3.5 All motions to vote or debate must be seconded to begin.
3.6 The Assembly shall pass Acts only with a majority of the members in favor.
3.7 A majority is hereby considered at least half of the members of the Assembly voting a certain way.
3.8 The Assembly shall have the power to only pass Acts that are applicable to the entire Commonwealth, and not just a several or one of all the member nations.
3.9 The Assembly shall remain continuously in session.
3.10 The Assembly shall give to the Secretariat any powers not ascribed to it in Section 2.0 of this treaty.
3.11 The Assembly shall elect its own parliamentary leaders and procedures.
3.12 Members of political parties are prohibited from soliciting votes or membership in the Assembly.
3.13 The Assembly shall pass no Act abridging the right to free practice of any religion.
3.14 The Assembly shall pass no Act recognizing the establishment of any religion, nor make any religion into an official state or preferred religion.
3.15 The Assembly shall pass no Act that abridges freedom of speech.
3.16 The Assembly shall pass no Act levying a tax.
3.17 The Assembly shall have the power to declare war.
3.18 The Assembly shall have the power to censor one its members.
3.19 Acts of the Assembly void any acts or parts of acts of the legislatures of the member nations that are contradictory.
3.20 The Assembly shall not pass Acts requiring a national legislature to pass a certain Act of its pleasing.
3.21 The Assembly shall pass no act extending the Commonwealth judicial system beyond that described in Section 4.0

Section 4.0: The Commonwealth Court
4.0 The Court shall be composed of three judges who are neither members of the Assembly or the Secretariat.
4.1 Three judges are not required, but at least one judge is.
4.2 Judges must be citizens of any member nation.
4.3 Judges are appointed for 1-year renewable terms by the Secretariat.
4.4 A judge cannot be removed from office, but can have his or her term not renewed.
4.4 The Court can rule whether a Decision of the Secretariat is Treatable (sort of like constitutional, but this is a treaty, so it is “treatable” instead).
4.5 The Court can rule whether an Act of the Assembly is Treatable.
4.6 If something is found to be treatable then it becomes null and void.
4.7 The Court can rule on disputes between member nations.
4.8 The Court can rule on disputes between member nations and non-member nations.
4.9 The Court can rule on disputes between solely non-member nations, as long as the non-member nations agree to use the Commonwealth’s court and its rules.
4.10 The Court can rule on disputes between the Secretariat and its employees, and purely administrative matters that the Secretariat chooses to submit itself to.
4.11 The Court shall not overturn any decision of any court of any member nation that was made in regard to a criminal, ethical, or civil case.
4.12 However, the Court’s decisions on international disputes and foreign policy trump those of the member nations’ own courts.

Section 5.0: Sovereignty

5.0 The Commonwealth of Eucalyptia is a fully sovereign entity and state.
5.1 The Commonwealth of Eucalyptia shall have the power to engage in binding treaties with other nations or organizations, but so shall the member nations of the Commonwealth.
5.2 The member nations of the Commonwealth are fully sovereign entities and states.

Section 6.0: Membership
6.1 The Head-of-State of any member nation of the Commonwealth may withdraw his nation from the Commonwealth at any time with no legal repercussions whatsoever.
6.2 However, once a nation leaves the Commonwealth it shall never be readmitted.
6.3 The Secretariat shall make the Decision as to whether or not to sign a treaty which has been signed by a nation that wants to be a member; such a Decision, if it signs the treaty, makes the nation into a member nation of the Commonwealth.
6.4 Member nations are governed by this treaty.
6.5 After a member nation leaves the Commonwealth, this treaty between that micro nation and the Commonwealth becomes null and void.

Section 7.0: Minimal Freedoms
7.1 No human being shall be barred from due process of the law or the right to representation by a lawyer.
7.2 No human being shall be unjustly prosecuted.
7.3 No human being shall be denied the right to petition.
7.4 No human being shall be denied the right to freedom of the press.

Signing
Signed x____________________________ of member nation _____________________________

Signed x____________________________, representing the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Eucalyptia.

Date (optional) _____________________

[Nathan]

jeeze its long... but this new treaty is influenced by my counter-proposal, called the Natopia Plan .

i only have a problem with section 5.0 that makes the comEu a soveregn state. i wont submit Natopia to a state, it will only join a collection of other states.

other than that, the ComEu government stays largly out of members' governments. i few compromises were made, members only are bound to laws made by a commonwealth assembly, made of citizens of all members... and the com assembly can only make laws to affect all members... it cant "pick on" on or a few members.

and xon made another comment that Natopia was dead

comments?

[Tasneem]

Oh come on, Natopia is so not dead. Grrrrr.....

Wow, that is freakishly long. I read most of it, well, kinda skimmed most of it, you know.

Anyways, since it's kinda long... make sure nothing weird was put in it before you sign it. And don't ever compromise our sovereignty!

[Nathan]

ya know... there really is no way another organization can help Natopia. if we want to stop being seen as "dead" then we need to do some serious internal reorganization.

Natopia will remain in the ComEu, because we already such close allies with its members. But I see no way that the ComEu can possibly do anything to help Natopia. They cannot pass laws targetting one member, so they cant even "forcefully reform" us.

[Tasneem]

Well... funnily enough, I think that Natopia had more posts over this weekend than Lavalon did! So we're not as dead as we seem to be

[Nathan]

i think ur right! haha! take that fancy-pants Lavalon!!