for a
NEW AGE
Whereas To this end, institutions of governance shall be established and maintained for
the purpose of formulating, promulgating, applying, and as may be necessary
enforcing, such laws, rules, regulations and administrative systems as shall
accurately and consistently define and prevent injury in any and all matters
arising between individuals, business enterprises, and organs of governance.
In matters of Production, Trade & Commerce, Governance shall ensure that trade is Fair, Honest, and that
participation in economic activity is open to all. First, a standard system for establishing Fair
Value in Trade shall ensure that remuneration is just and consistent with work
contributed. Second, regularly updated
Production and Service Standards shall be maintained to which productive
enterprises may contribute, and with which they should comply. Third, a standard public facility for recording
debt and credit shall be maintained in order to facilitate trade and commerce,
and so regulated as to ensure that potential creative resources are fully
utilized.
Governance shall regulate the use of Land and Natural
Resources so to ensure that all human needs are met while
maintaining respect for the natural environment. First, Actual and Anticipated requirements of
residential and commercial development and transportation should be planned in
such a way as to minimize footprint and environmental imposition while
providing maximum possible satisfaction of human individual and social needs.
Second, agriculture and exploitation of
resources must likewise be conducted so as to minimize environmental impact.
The rights of all animals and other lifeforms to live in their natural state
shall be respected and protected. Third, all
forms of human waste shall be eliminated at source or treated so as to
minimize environmental impact; any potential air or atmospheric pollution
shall likewise be eliminated at source through appropriate treatment.
Governance shall likewise ensure that Liberty of Person and
Lawful Property is protected from harm or injury. Governance
may restrict Individual Liberty only to prevent harm or injury to another or
others.
The Legislature shall attempt, through
research, forethought, observation and public debate, to define from day to
day actions which may be harmful or injurious. After full and thorough
investigation, laws prohibiting such actions shall be drafted, and forwarded
to the Constitutional Executive for verification and ratification.
The Constitutional Executive shall
exercise and apply the following criteria when verifying proposed legislation.
First, it being the purpose of law and
governance to prevent injury, the validation of a legislative proposition
requires that it must address a clearly identified imminent or present injury
which it must then eliminate or minimize. If there is no injury, there can be
no law, for unnecessary, superfluous, invasive or intrusive law is itself a
cause of injury. Second, each proposed law
must have been thoroughly researched, and fully debated, all those with an
interest in the law having been given ample opportunity to present their
opinions and viewpoints; the law must then be drafted in such a way as to be
simple, readily comprehensible, and unambiguous. Third, it being the Duty and Purpose of the
Legislature to prevent injury, the Constitutional Executive shall ensure
through its own observation that any injury imminent or present is given
prompt attention by the Legislature. Following successful
verification, proposed laws are then formally ratified,
promulgated, applied and administered. Confirmation of each law's validity is
transmitted to the Agencies of Enforcement, Justice and Restoration. A Department of Audit shall be established for the
purpose of continually monitoring the performance and finances of all
Departments and Agencies of Governance so to ensure that they perform their
duties in timely fashion, productively, with maximum citizen satisfaction and
minimum cost.
The Agencies of Enforcement, Justice and
Restoration are responsible for enforcing the law, for
establishing guilt where a law has been transgressed and injury committed, and
for restoring the wrong or equivalent thereof to the injured party. No law
shall be enforced without prior verification and sanction of the
Constitutional Executive.
The Courts of Justice shall remain aware at all times and in all cases before them,
that any and every law has authority only in that it prevents present or
imminent injury. The Courts may return a law for reconsideration if this
condition is not fully and unambiguously complied with. In any exceptional
case where there is nominal illegality but no perceivable injury, there is no
illegality.
The Agencies of Enforcement may return a
law for reconsideration if it is difficult to enforce, or if in the
enforcement of it unwarranted intrusion or invasion is involved. The
Constitutional Executive shall have responsibility of ensuring that the
methods and procedures involved in Law Enforcement cause the minimum possible
injury or intrusion, and are conducted in accordance with such regulations as
shall from time to time be established.
The Restoration by a Party guilty of
injury requires only that the wrong or equivalent thereof be restored by the
Guilty to the Injured Party to such extent and in such a manner as is decreed
by the Court of Justice. The Constitutional Executive shall have
responsibility of ensuring that the rights of the Guilty Party shall in all
other respects be maintained.
Acts of Governance Advise and Recommend
courses of action which will avoid the perpetration of Injury. Any Law, Act,
or Regulation ~ whether or not enacted in accordance with the Procedures
herein proscribed ~ derives its Authority only insofar as it prevents, and protects from, a clear, present,
identifiable injury. If it does so, it is
thereby validated. If it does not, then it is
without Authority and therefore null and void.
The People enjoy Liberty The People enjoy Liberty
when
Governance protects them from Injury by one another.
when
Constitution protects them from Injury by Organs of Governance.