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Article 26 & Article 27 Amendments, Ratification and Initial Provisions.

Amendments, Ratification and Initial Provisions.

Article 26 – Amendments

Section 1 Amendment by Parliament

Parliament, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution which shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several Realms including a majority of the Principal and Larger Realms, or by an absolute majority of the voters in a referendum, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by parliament.

Section 2 Amendment by Convention

On the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several Realms, Parliament shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments which shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several Realms including a majority of the Principal and Larger Realms, or by an absolute majority of the voters in a referendum, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by parliament.

Article 27 – Ratification and Coming into Force

Section 1 Ratification

This constitution shall come into force upon the ratification of the same either by the act of the legislatures or by convention or by referendum of the people of a majority of the Realms named in the preamble.

Section 2 Implementation

Upon notice that the aforementioned act of ratification has occurred, her/is majesty shall issue writs of election for the House of Commons and Senate and issue letters patent to members of the House of Peers and there by set a date for their meeting. That upon that date appointed, the Members of the Federal Council, Peers, Senators, and Representatives should convene at the Time and Place assigned and should, without Delay, proceed to execute this Constitution

Section 3 Oaths

The Peers, Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several Realm Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the Commonwealth Federation and of the several Realms, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the Commonwealth Federation, except as to the Monarch.

Done in convention, those hereinafter named and many others being witness, at the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines on the 15^th Day of June in the XX^th Year of the reign of our gracious queen, Elizabeth II and from the sealing of the Great Charter the XXX^th.

Article 25 – Inferior Courts

Article 25 – Inferior Courts

Section 1 Number

Parliament shall establish by law such inferior courts, both of original jurisdiction and of appeals, as it shall from time to time consider necessary.

Section 2 Composition

The inferior courts shall have a number of judges as shall be established by law. Parliament may choose to make the courts of the member realms inferior courts of the Federation, but all Federal Judges shall hold their offices during good behavior.

Article 24 – The High Courts of Appeal

Article 24 – The High Courts of Appeal

Section 1 Number

There shall be three High Courts of Appeal one at each of the Administrative Capitals.

Section 2 Jurisdiction

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which both parties are Realms, the High Court of Appeal shall have original Jurisdiction for cases arising within the time zones closest to their place of meeting. In all the other Cases, the High Court of Appeal shall have appellate Jurisdiction from the inferior courts in the areas aforementioned, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Parliament shall make.

Section 3 Composition

Each High Court of Appeal shall be composed of its Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Chief Justice shall be elected by the other Justices when a vacancy occurs. 

Article 23 – The Supreme Court

Article 23 – The Supreme Court

Section 1 Composition

The Supreme Court shall be composed of the Chief Justice of the Commonwealth Federation, and the Chief Justice and the senior Associate Justice of each of the High Courts of Appeal.

Section 2 Jurisdiction

The Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact from the other courts of the Commonwealth Federation, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Parliament shall make.

Section 3 Meetings

The Chief Justice shall convene the Court by electronic communications as necessary to issue orders etc. The Court shall meet to hear cases at the court room of one of the High Courts of Appeal in rotation for two weeks twice a year.

Article 22 – The Judicial Power

The Judiciary

Article 22 – The Judicial Power

Section 1

The judicial Power of the Federation, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, the High Courts of Appeal and in such inferior Courts as Parliament may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Section 2 Jurisdiction

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the Federation, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under its Authority;—to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;—to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;—to Controversies to which the Federation shall be a Party;—to Controversies between two or more Realms;—between a Realm and Citizens of another Realm; —between Citizens of different Realms, —and between a Realms, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

Section 3 Criminal Process

No Felony prosecution shall proceed except by grand jury indictment, except in cases of impeachment. The trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the Realm and Vicinage where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any Realm, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Parliament may by Law have directed.

Section 4 Extradition

A Person charged in any Realm with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another Realm, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the Realm from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the Realm having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

Article 21 – Space Exploration and Development

Article 21 – Space Exploration and Development

Section 1 Purposes

The Purpose of the Space Program is to encourage the exploration, resource utilization, and settlement of space by citizens of the Realms.

Section 2 Establishing Prizes

The Federal Parliament shall establish a series of prizes for achievements in space exploration, resource utilization, and settlement, open to companies that are majority owned by Realm citizens.

Section 3 Establishing Property Rights

The Federal and Realm governments shall work with other nations to establish as system of property rights in space based on use and occupation.