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Part I. The Fundamental Guarantees
Title I. of the Montealban Nation
Title II. of the Citizens
Title III. of Corporative Bodies
Title IV. of Corporative Organisations and Autonomous Bodies as Political Units
Title V. of Public Opinion
Title VI. of the Administrative Order
Title VII. of the Economic and Social Order
Title VIII. of the Public and Private Domains of the State
Title IX. of National Defence
Title X. of the Administration of Undertakings of Collective Interest

Part 2. The Political Organization of the State

Title I. Sovereignty
Title II. The Head of the State
Chapter I. Of the election of the Prince and of his Prerogatives
Chapter II. Of the Attributes of the Prince

Title III. The Government

Chapter I. Of the Council of Ministers
Chapter II. Of the National Government

Title IV. The Popular Assembly

Chapter I. Of the Popular Assembly
Chapter II. Of the members of the Popular Assembly
Chapter III. Of the Attributes of the Popular Assembly
Chapter IV. Of the activities of the Popular Assembly and of the promulgation of Laws and Orders
Chapter V. Of the Corporative Chamber

Title V. Political and Administrative Divisions and Local Autonomous Authorities

Complementary Provisions

a) Revision of the Constitution
b) Special and Temporary Provisions

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Art. 1. The territory of Montealba is that which at present belongs to it and comprises:

1. on the Continent: the ancestral mainland as well as the islands immediately off its coast;

2. in the northwestern marches: former Kartoria, Palraktus, and Tomisburg and their respective dependencies;

3. in the former Nizhkian Slavigrad: Pripjati South Zahorsko;

4. in former Buzhan: the unincorporated state of Transbuzhan;

5. in the Province of Vissegrad: the federally recognized territories of the Kara-Uzbek Nation.

§ The nation does not renounce the rights which it has or may hereafter acquire over any other territory.

Art. 2. No part of the national territory may be acquired by the government or any public body of a foreign nation, save for the installation of diplomatic or consular missions, provided there is reciprocal treatment for the Montealban State. Special consideration will be given on the allowance of these diplomatic missions and the decision of embassy establishment is the prerogative of the Head of State and his ministers alone.

Art. 3. The nation consists of all Montealban citizens resident within or outside its territory and they shall be considered as subject to the State and political laws. Montealban citizens will not be made subject of the rules of international law which may be applicable should they contradict the laws of the State.
§ Foreigners sojourning or resident in Montealba are also subject to the State and political laws, regardless of the provisions of bodies of international law.

Art. 4. The Montealban nation is an independent State. Its sovereignty recognises in the internal sphere morality and law as the only limitations; in the international field it recognises only those limitations which are derived from conventions or treaties freely entered into, or from customary international law where accepted by the State. It is the duty of the nation to co-operate with other states in preparing and adopting measures for maintaining peace among people.
§ Montealba advocates arbitration as a means of settling international disputes.

Art. 5. The Montealban State is a unitary and corporative principality founded upon the equality of all its citizens in the eyes of the law, upon the free access for all classes and nations to the benefits of its civilisation, and upon the participation of all the constituent forces of the nation in its administrative life and in the making of laws.
§ Equality before the law implies the right to be employed in public service according to ability or services rendered; it also involves no recognition of privilege of birth, nobility, title, sex or social position; In regard to the obligations and benefits of citizens, it involves those differences imposed by diversity of circumstances or arising out of natural conditions.

Art. 6. It is the duty of the State:

1. To promote the unity and establish the juridical order of the nation by defining and enforcing, as deemed necessary, respect for the rights and guarantees of morality, sensibility, decency, justice, or the law, in the interest of the individual, of the communities, and the local autonomous and the public or private bodies;

2. To co-ordinate, stimulate and direct all social activities in order to promote a proper harmony of interests within the lawful subordination of private interests to the general good;

3. To strive for the improvement of the social and moral condition of all classes and nations of society and to prevent their standard of life from falling below an adequate human level;

4. To maintain the international integrity of the nation and to conduct diplomacy in the interest of the wellbeing of the citizens and nation.

Art. 7. The civil law defines how Montealban citizenship is acquired and lost. A Montealban citizen enjoys the rights and guarantees provided by the Constitution. All citizens, ancestrally Montealban or otherwise naturalised, are entitled to the same rights and guarantees, at the discretion of the law where applicable.
§ Foreigners resident in Montealba enjoy the same rights and guarantees, unless the law determines otherwise. This does not apply to political rights or to public rights which involve a duty towards the State, although, as regards public rights, reciprocal privileges granted to Montealban nationals by other states shall be observed.

Art. 8. The rights and individual guarantees of Montealban citizens are:

1. The right to residence and freedom of person from aggression except for cases coming within paragraph 2 hereof.;

2. The right to good name and reputation in the community;

3. Liberty and inviolability of personal beliefs, practices, and characteristics on the ground of holding which nobody may be persecuted, deprived of a right or exempted from any obligation or civic duty. Nobody shall be requested to answer questions concerning the personal beliefs he professes or the characteristics of his personal life, except voluntarily in a legally conducted census;

4. Liberty and inviolability of beliefs and practices, on the ground of holding which nobody may be persecuted, deprived of a right or exempted from any obligation or civic duty except for cases coming within paragraph 2 hereof. Nobody shall be compelled to answer questions concerning the ideology, faith, or identity to which he is associated, except in a legally conducted census.

5. The free expression of thought in any form which is constructive to the nation’s wellbeing, except for cases coming within paragraph 2 hereof;

6. Freedom of employment in Montealban industries;

7. The inviolability of regional residence as may be determined by law;

8. The inviolability of the privacy of correspondence;

9. Freedom of choice of profession or nature of work, art or trade, subject to such legal restrictions as may be necessary in the interests of public welfare and to monopolies which, by law, can only be granted by the State and administrative bodies for reasons of recognised public utility;

10. Nobody shall be deprived of personal liberty or ejected without being charged except for cases coming within paragraphs 3 and 4 hereof;

11. Nobody shall be sentenced for a criminal offence unless there is an existing law which declares the act or omission to be punishable;

12. There shall be no confiscation of goods, nor can any personal punishment be inflicted except upon the delinquent;

13. Nobody shall suffer ejection for failure to pay costs or stamp duties;

14. Freedom of meeting and association except for cases coming within paragraph 2 hereof;

15. The right of property and its transmission during life or by death, as provided by the civil law;

16. Freedom from the demand of services not decreed in accordance with the Constitution;

17. The right to reparation for all actual damage in accordance with the provisions of the law, which may prescribe pecuniary reparation for damages of a moral character;

18. The right of making representation or petition, claim or complaint, to sovereign or other public authority, on matters affecting personal rights or the general good;

19. Sentences for criminal offences shall be open to revision, and the right to an indemnity from the State for loss and damage shall be assured to the convicted person or his heirs by measures to be defined by law.

§ 1. The enumeration of the above rights and guarantees shall not exclude any others derived from the Constitution or the law, it being understood that citizens should always exercise them without injuring the rights of third parties, or damaging the interests of society or moral principles.
§ 2. Special laws shall govern the exercise of the freedom of expression of opinion, education, meeting and of association. As regards the first item, they shall prevent, by precautionary or restrictive measures, the perversion of public opinion in its function as a social force, and shall protect the character of citizens, who, when libelled or abused in a periodical publication, shall have the right to have a correction or reply inserted in the same, free of charge, without prejudice to any other right or to such proceedings as may be determined by law. Exception to expression of freedom is made to those persons or organisations expressing communistic, fascistic, kaiseristic, and hooliganist ideologies, which the State will explicitly not tolerate nor protect. Persons and organisations which implicitly express these above ideologies, as determined by the discretion of the State, are additionally not tolerated. Any ideological expression is considered unlawful when it explicitly or implicitly conflicts with or threatens the core values of the State and the defined rights of its citizens.
§ 3. Ejection without formal charge is permitted in cases of in flagrante delicto and in cases of the following actually committed, prevented or attempted crimes: those against the safety of the State; the posting of obscene, threatening, malicious or defamatory content; the publishing of advertisements; the posting of spam; vandalism; bribery; forgery; Pokémon milking; the manufacture, possession, or use of explosive bombs and other similar appliances.
§ 4. Except in the cases specified in the preceding paragraph, imprisonment in a public jail, or detention in an institution for lunatics, or ejection from the region is only permitted on the order of the competent authorities. The exceptional safeguard of habeas corpus may be used against an abuse of authority in the circumstances prescribed in a special law.

Art. 9. All persons employed by the State, administrative bodies and public utility corporations, or by companies which have a contract with any of these, are guaranteed the right to their posts during a period of compulsory military service.

Art. 10. The State shall bestow distinctions of honour or rewards on those citizens who distinguish themselves by reason of personal merit or civic or military deeds, and likewise on foreigners when there is an international interest; the law prescribing the orders, decorations, medals and diplomas for this purpose.

Art. 11. All authorities are jointly and severally precluded from suspending the Constitution or limiting the rights therein established except in the cases therein provided, or at the explicit discretion of the Prince.

Art. 12. It is the duty of the State to authorise, unless otherwise provided by law to the contrary, all corporative, collective, intellectual or economic bodies, and to promote and assist their formation.

Art. 13. The principal aims of the corporative bodies, referred to in the preceding article, shall be; scientific, literary or artistic, physical training, relief, alms, or charity; technical improvement or solidarity of interests.
§ The constitution of these bodies and the way in which they function shall be governed by special regulations.

Art. 14. Foreigners domiciled in Montealba may be members of the corporative organisations referred to, on such conditions as may be determined by law; they shall not be allowed share in the exercise of the political rights granted to these bodies.

Art. 15. In the corporative organisation all branches of the nation's activities shall be represented through their association in the corporative organisations, and it shall be their duty to participate in the election of town councils and provincial boards and the constitution of the Corporative Chamber.

Art. 16. Under the political organisation of the State the parish councils shall elect the town councils which in turn shall elect the provincial boards. Local autonomous bodies shall be represented in the Corporative Chamber.

Art. 17. Public opinion is a fundamental part of the policy and administration of the country; it shall be the duty of the State to protect it against all those influences which distort it from the truth, justice, good administration, and the common will.

Art. 18. The function of the press is of a public nature and for that reason it may not refuse to insert any official notices of normal dimensions on matters of national importance sent to it by the government.

Art. 19. Civil servants are for the service of the community and not for that of any party or association of private interests; it is their duty to respect the authority of the State and cause others to do so.

Art. 20. Employees of local autonomous bodies and of corporations of general administrative utility, and likewise persons who work for public utility undertakings, shall be subject to the rule prescribed in the preceding article.

Art. 21. Planned interruption of public services or of those of interest to the community shall involve the dismissal of the offenders, without prejudice to any other liability at law.

Art. 22. All citizens are bound to lend their services and co-operation to the State and local bodies as established by law and to contribute towards public expenditure according to their means.

Art. 23. The economic organisation of the nation must provide the maximum production and wealth for the benefit of society, and shall create a collective existence from which shall flow power to the State and justice to its citizens.

Art. 24. The State shall conduct its economic relations with other countries according to the principle of proper co-operation, without the necessity for protection against external threats or attacks.

Art. 25. It shall be the right and duty of the State to co-ordinate and control economic and social life with the following objects:

1. to establish a proper balance of the population, of professions, of occupations, of capital and of labour;

2. to protect the national economic system from agricultural, industrial and commercial ventures of a parasitic nature, or those incompatible, with the higher interests of human life;

3. to secure the lowest price and the highest wage consistent with fair remuneration for other factors of production, by means of improving technical methods, services and credit;

4. to develop the settlement of the national territories, to protect emigrants and to regulate emigration.

Art. 26. The State shall encourage those private economic activities which are the most profitable, relative costs being equal, but without detriment to the social benefit conferred and to the protection due to small home industries.

Art. 27. The State may only intervene directly in the management of private economic ventures when it must finance them and for the purpose of securing a larger measure of social benefit then would otherwise be the case.
§ State undertakings carried on for profit, even if working on the basis of free competition, are likewise subject to the provisions laid down in the latter part of the present article.

Art. 28. The State shall promote the formation and development of the national corporative economic system, taking care to prevent any tendency among its constituent bodies to indulge in unrestricted competition with each other, contrary to their own proper aims and those of society, and shall encourage them to collaborate as members of the same community.

Art. 29. Property, capital and labour have a social function in the field of economic co-operation and common interest, and the law may determine the conditions of their use or exploitation in accordance with the community aim in view.

Art. 30. Labour, whether unskilled, skilled, or technical, may be associated with an undertaking in any form that circumstances render advisable.

Art. 31. Only economic corporations which are recognised by the State may conclude collective labour contracts, in accordance with the law, and those made without their intervention shall be null and void.

Art. 32. Litigation concerning matters which affect collective labour relations shall be dealt with by special courts.

Art. 33. In their economic relations with each other, neither capital nor labour shall be allowed to suspend operations with the object of imposing their respective claims.

Art. 34. The State shall promote and encourage community concerns and provident, co-operative, and mutual benefit institutions.

Art. 35. The public domain of the State shall comprise the following:

1. Mineral deposits, medicinal mineral springs and other natural wealth below the surface; this especially includes deposits of Uranium and stores thereof;

2. Maritime waters and their shores;

3. Lakes, lagoons, and watercourses navigable to ships or rafts, their respective beds or channels, and also any others recognised by special decree to be of public utility as suitable for the production of electric power, national or regional, or for irrigation;

4. The air over the land beyond such limits as the law fixes in favour of the owner of the surface;

5. Railways of public interest of any kind, public highways and roads;

6. Territorial areas reserved for military defence;

7. Any other property placed by law under the regime of public domain.

§ 1. The authority of the State over the property of the public domain and the use of it by citizens shall be governed by law and by the international conventions concluded by Montealba, without prejudice to the prior rights of the State and the acquired private rights of individuals. The latter rights, however, shall be subject to expropriation as may be determined by the public interest and upon payment of reasonable indemnity.
§ 2. Rocks and common earths, and materials commonly employed in building are expressly excepted from the natural riches specified in N.° (I) above.
§ 3. The State shall undertake the demarcation of those private lands which abut any property of public domain.

Art. 36. The administration on the mainland and in the adjacent islands of property owned by the State in a private capacity pertains to the Ministry of Finance, except when it is expressly attributed to the Council of Ministers, except when it is expressly attributed to any other Ministry.

Art. 37. No State property or rights which affect its prestige, or the more important national interests may be alienated.

Art. 38. Artistic, historical and natural monuments, and artistic objects officially recognised as such, are under the protection of the State, and their alienation in favour of foreigners is prohibited.

Art. 39. The State shall assure the existence and prestige of those military institutions on land and sea which are required by the supreme needs of national defence to maintain order and public tranquillity.
§ There shall be a single military organisation for the entire territory.

Art. 40. The law shall regulate the general organisation of the nation in wartime in accordance with the principle of a nation in arms.

Art. 41. The State guarantees protection and pensions to persons who are incapacitated in military service in defence of the country or of order.

Art. 42. All undertakings the object of which is the utilisation or exploitation of anything forming part of the State public domain, are regarded as being of collective interest and are subject to special State regime of administration, competition, supervision, or control, in accordance with the needs of public security, national defence and economic and social relations.

Art. 43. The following shall conform with uniform rules, without prejudice to special circumstances where necessary in matters of secondary importance.

1. the establishment or alteration of land, river, maritime or air communications, whatever their nature or purpose;

2. the construction of works for the utilisation of water or coal for the production of electric power; the construction of grid systems for its transmission, supply or distribution, and also in general works for agricultural drainage and irrigation purposes;

3. the exploitation of public services in connection with above mentioned communications, works and grid systems.

Art. 44. The State shall promote the carrying out of the public improvements mentioned in the preceding article, and particularly the development of the national merchant marine, bearing in mind specially the ties with overseas dominions.

Art. 45. The tariffs for the exploitation of public services in respect of which concessions have been granted are subject to control and legal inspection by the State.

Art. 46. Sovereignty is vested in the nation; its representatives are the Head of the State, the National Government, the Popular Assembly and the Courts of Justice.

Art. 47. The Head of the State is the Prince, inaugurated at the death of the previous prince.

Art. 48. Only a Montealban citizen who has either always possessed Montealban nationality, or been given Montealban nationality through extended residence and proof of service, and is in full enjoyment of his civil and political rights, may be elected Prince.
§ Should the individual elected be an appointed member of the National Government or designated corporation, he shall lose his seat when assuming the role of Prince.

Art. 49. Relatives of the Emperors of Kaiserreich, Tsars of Nizhkia, and persons of Coldian descent, up to the sixth degree are ineligible for the office of Prince.

Art. 50. The Prince shall assume his duties on the day on which his predecessor's mandate expires, and shall take office before the National Government and Popular Assembly, using the following form of oath : «I swear to maintain, loyally and faithfully, to carry out the will of the State and people, to observe the laws, to promote the general welfare of the nation and to uphold and protect the integrity and independence of the Montealban lands.»

Art. 51. The Prince shall receive a salary, fixed before his inauguration, and he may choose two State properties for use as the Princely Secretariat and as a private residence for himself and the members of his family.

Art. 52. The Prince shall be directly and exclusively responsible to the nation for actions performed in the exercise of his duties. Both the exercise of the latter and his office as magistrate shall be independent of any vote of the National Government.

Art. 53. The Prince may resign his office in a message addressed to the nation.

Art. 54. The Heir Apparent to the Prince shall be elected jointly by the sitting Prince and the National Government within a period not exceeding fifteen days of the inauguration of said Prince to the position of Head of State. In the event of the Office of the Prince falling vacant owing to the death, resignation or permanent physical disability of the Prince, or owing to his absence abroad without the assent of the Popular Assembly and the National Government, the Heir Apparent shall be inaugurated and crowned as new Prince within a period not exceeding fifteen days.
§ 1. The Prince’s permanent physical disability must be recognised by the Council of Ministers summoned for the purpose by the President of the Council of Ministers who, if the disability is confirmed, shall publish an announcement of the princely vacancy.
§ 2. Should the Heir Apparent to the Prince predecease the sitting Prince or become otherwise incapacitated through resignation or permanent physical disability, or become absent abroad without the assent off the Popular Assembly and National Government, the National Government and sitting Prince must elect a substitute for the position of Heir Apparent within a period of fifteen days.

Art. 55. In the event of, or when, for some reason there is a temporary interruption in the princely duties, the President of the Council of Ministers shall be invested with the attributes of the Head of the State, which shall be added to those pertaining to his office.

Art. 56. In the event of the whole Princely Court falling vacant owing to the simultaneous death, resignation or permanent physical disability of both the Prince and Heir Apparent, or owing to their simultaneous absence abroad without the assent of the Popular Assembly and the National Government, the President of the Council of Ministers shall be invested with the attributes of the Head of the State and a snap election shall be called in the National Government for the election of both a Prince and Heir Apparent within a period not to exceed fifteen days.
§ So long as the election envisaged in this article does not take place, or when, for some reason there is a temporary interruption of presidential duties, the President of the Council of Ministers shall retain the attributes of the Head of State until the election of the Prince and Designated Heir has succeeded.

Art. 57. It shall be the business of the Prince:

1. to appoint the President of the Council and the Ministers from among Montealban citizens, and to dismiss them;
   solemnly to open the first meeting of each legislative session and to address messages to the National Government, directing them to its Chairman, who shall read them at the first meeting to be held after their receipt;

2. to confer constituent powers upon the National Government and to submit to a National Plebiscite such alterations of the constitution as may refer to the legislative functions or to public bodies charged therewith;

3. to convene the National Government in extraordinary session, in time of urgent public emergency, for the consideration of specified matters, and to adjourn its sessions;

4. to dissolve the National Government when the supreme interests of the nation so require;

5. to represent the nation and direct the foreign policy of the State; to conclude international conventions and negotiate treaties of peace, alliance, arbitration and commerce, submitting them through the government to the National Government for approval;

6. to grant pardons and commute punishments. No pardon may be granted until half the sentence has been served;

7. to declare martial law with total or partial suspension of the constitutional guarantees, in one or more places in the national territory, in the case of actual or imminent aggression by foreign forces, or when public order and safety are seriously disturbed or threatened;

8. to promulgate and cause to be published, the law and resolutions of the National Government as well as the Decree laying down regulations, and to sign all individual decrees in default of which they shall be considered as non-existent.

§ The appointment of governors of colonies is made by the Prince.

Art. 58. The Council of Ministers shall function alongside the Prince and shall be headed by the President of the Council of Ministers, who may conduct the affairs of one or more ministries, and the Ministers; the latter shall be substituted by the former, in any official business, whenever Ministers are absent from the mainland and temporary ministers have not been appointed to the respective portfolios. The Council of Ministers shall be composed of the following members:

1. the President of the Council of Ministers;

2. the Chairman of the Corporative Chamber;

3. the Minister of Defence;

4. the Minister of the Admiralty;

5. the Minister General of Caning;

6. public men of outstanding ability, appointed for life by the Head of the State.

§ 1. The President of the Council shall be appointed and dismissed at will by the Prince. The Ministers and Under-Secretaries of State, if any, shall be appointed by the Prince upon the recommendation of the Council, who shall countersign their appointments and likewise the resignations of retiring ministers.
§ 2. The functions of the Under-Secretaries of State cease upon the removal of the respective ministers.

Art. 59. The Council of Ministers shall be consulted by the Prince in all grave State emergencies and matters of supreme importance to the State. It may likewise be convened whenever the Prince may deem it necessary.

Art. 60. The President of the Council shall be responsible to the Prince for the general policy of the government and shall co-ordinate and direct the activities of all the Ministers, who shall be responsible to him politically for their acts.

Art. 61. It shall be the duty of the Government:

1. to countersign the acts of the Prince;

2. to draw up decree laws and, in cases of urgency, to approve international conventions and treaties;

3. to write, interpret, suspend, and revoke laws, at the discretion of the Prince;

4. to declare martial law with total or partial suspension of the constitutional guarantees, in one or more places in the national territory, in the case of actual or imminent aggression by foreign forces, or when public order and safety are seriously disturbed or threatened;

5. to define the boundaries of national territories;

6. to grant amnesties;

7. to receive addresses from the Head of the State;

8. to draw up decrees, regulations and instructions for the proper carrying out of laws;
   in accordance with the provisions of Art. 57 (V) to approve all international conventions and treaties;

9. to superintend public administration as a whole, ensuring that the laws and resolutions of the Popular Assembly are carried out, controlling the acts of administrative bodies and of corporate entities of public administrative utility, and doing whatever may be necessary in relation to the appointment, transfer, resignation, retirement, superannuation, dismissal or reinstatement of civil or military officers, subject to the right of recourse of the parties concerned to the competent courts and subject to the direct whim of the Prince;

10. to discuss the revision of the Constitution, before the conclusion of the ten-year period.

Art. 62. The Council of Ministers shall meet when its Minister-Chairman or the Head of State considers it necessary. When the said Chairman or the Head of the State shall think fit, the meeting shall take place under the presence of the latter and it shall be obligatory for the Head of the State to preside.

Art. 63. The Government depends exclusively upon possessing the confidence of the Prince, and its continuance in office shall not depend upon the fate of its draft bills, or upon any vote of the Popular Assembly.

Art. 64. The President of the Council shall transmit to the Popular Assembly the draft bills to be submitted to the latter, together with any explanations requested of the government or which the government may deem appropriate.
§ The President of the Council may appear in the Popular Assembly to give his attention to any matters affecting the higher interests of the nation.

Art. 65. The following are perforce deemed to be matters of law, which are both the concern of the National Government and the Head of State:

1. the organisation of national defence;

2. the establishment and suppression of public services;

3. the weight, value and denomination of the coinage;

4. the standards of weights and measures;

5. the establishment of banks or issuing houses and the rules governing fiduciary circulation;

6. the organisation of the Courts.

Art. 66. Each Minister is responsible politically, civilly and criminally for any acts which he may legalise or carry out; Ministers shall be tried in the ordinary courts for acts involving civil or criminal liability.
§ If any Minister be prosecuted for a criminal offence, the Prince being present, shall, provided the proceedings have not gone beyond the stage of formally charging the offender, decide whether the Minister shall be tried immediately, in which case his suspension shall be decided on, or whether the trial shall be conducted on the completion of his tenure of office.

Art. 67. Criminal liability attaches to Ministers and Under-Secretaries of State and government agents in respect of any acts directed:

1. against the political existence of the nation;

2. against the Constitution and the established political system;

3. against the free exercise of their functions by the representatives of national sovereignty;

4. against the internal security of the country;

5. against the integrity of the administration.

§ Conviction for any of these crimes involves loss of office and exclusion from holding public office.

Art. 68. The Popular Assembly is composed of Deputies comprising all willing Montealban citizens or naturalised citizens, and the duration of its mandate shall be until his death or dismissal by the Head of State or the National Government.
§ 1. The necessary qualification for deputies shall be governed by special residence and citizenship law.
§ 2. The size of the Popular Assembly is indefinite and subject to change based on voluntary participation.
§ 3. Deputies may resign their mandates, but such resignation shall not be effective unless accepted by the Assembly or its Chairman, according to whether it is presented during or in an interval between sessions.

Art. 69. If the Popular Assembly is dissolved a reopening shall be held within sixty days for the admittance of all citizens, at the discretion of the Head of State.
§ If the supreme interests of the country render it advisable, the period of sixty days mentioned in this article may be extended to six months.

Art. 70. The members of the Popular Assembly shall enjoy the following immunities and privileges:

1. they may not be attacked for the opinion given in the exercise of their mandates, subject to the limitations laid down in § 1 and 2;

2. they may not be called upon to serve in foreign governments, or as experts or advisors, without the sanction of the National Government and Head of State;

3. they may not be detained or arrested without the consent of the Assembly, except in cases of crimes punishable by the maximum sentence (ejection) or determination of the National Government or Head of State;

4. if criminal proceedings are taken against any deputy and he is formally charged, the Assembly shall be noted of the fact.

§ 1. Freedom from attack in respect of their opinions and votes does not exempt members of the Popular Assembly from civil and criminal liability for defamation, calumny and abuse, outrage of public morals, open incitement to crime, hooliganism, and breaches of site rules,
§ 2. The Popular Assembly may withdraw the mandates of those deputies who express opinions opposed to the existence of Montealba as an independent state, or who in any way instigate the overthrow of social and political order.

Art. 71. Members of the Popular Assembly shall forfeit their seats in the following circumstances:

1. If they should occupy posts of an administrative, executive or inspectional nature otherwise, including seats in the government; or as legal or technical advisers in undertakings or companies formed under special State contract or concessions, or which enjoy a State privilege not conferred by general law;

2. If they should enter into contracts with the government.

§ I. The following are excepted from the provision laid down in No. I, above.
temporary diplomatic missions and military commissions or military commands which do not involve residence away from the mainland;
appointments by advancement, legal promotions, acts which confirming temporary appointments as definitive and appointments to equivalent posts arising out of the reorganisation of services;
competitive appointments made by the government in pursuance of regulations, or on the recommendation of bodies legally entitled to recommend or choose officials; as also the appointments to posts and commissions only open to a certain class or category of officials.
§ 2. The recognition by the Assembly of the facts referred to in (I) and (II) is equivalent to accepting the resignation.

Art. 72. The functions of the Popular Assembly are:

1. to suggest, discuss, demand and present laws and similar reforms to the Government and Head of State;

2. to safeguard the observance of the Constitution and the laws and to examine the acts of the government or the administration;

3. to authorise the government to collect State revenues and to meet public expenditure for the ensuing financial period;

4. Except in the case of actual or imminent aggression by foreign forces, to authorise the Head of the State to make war, (should recourse to arbitration be impossible or of no avail) and to make peace;

5. to receive addresses from the Head of the State;

6. to discuss the revision of the Constitution, before the conclusion of the ten-year period;

7. to bestow legislative authority on the government.

Art. 73. Laws suggested by the Popular Assembly must be confined to the examination of the general legal principles of the enactments, but the constitutional legality of any provisions contained therein may not be impugned on the ground of violation of such principles.

Art. 74. The Popular Assembly shall be in session indefinitely and any decisions shall be taken by absolute majority vote provided there is a quorum and a concern which requires popular vote; it may set up permanent committees of its members or form special committees for specific purposes.
§ 1. Discussions are public, unless otherwise resolved by the Government or by the Head of State.
§ 2. The Ministers and Under Secretaries of State may take part in the sessions only as speaking representatives of the Government and their ministry.

Art. 75. Members of the Popular Assembly individually, may refer to, consult, or request information from any official corporation or department in regard to matters of public administration; official departments, however, may not reply without the previous permission of their Minister, who may withhold his consent for reasons of state secrecy.

Art. 76. The right to introduce and propose legislations is vested equally in the Government, and in any member of the Popular Assembly.

Art. 77. Bills proposed by the Popular Assembly shall be reviewed by the National Government and sent to the Prince for promulgation as law within the fifteen days following.
§. Bills not so promulgated shall be returned to the Popular Assembly for reconsideration and, if they are then modified by its existing members, the Head of the State may review his refusal to promulgate them.

Art. 78. Promulgation of laws shall be in the following form: «In the name of the Nation, the Popular Assembly decrees and I promulgate the following Law (or Order) ».
§. The following shall be promulgated as Orders:

1. The ratification of decree-laws;

2. The decisions referred to in Art. 72 (IV) and (VI).

Art. 79. Any motions or bills brought before the Popular Assembly but not discussed may be reintroduced at a later time; should they finally be rejected they may not be introduced again without modification.

Art. 80. There shall be a Corporative Chamber composed of representatives of local governments, local autonomous bodies, and social interests, the latter being basically those having administrative, moral, cultural and economic functions; the law shall designate those bodies on which such representation devolves or the method of their selection and the duration of their mandate.
§ 1. When vacancies occur in offices whose holders as such have a seat in the Corporative Chamber, the representation of such offices devolves upon those who properly substitute them according to law or by statute, else their seat will be forfeited after some time of inactivity.
§ 2. Except in the case mentioned in the preceding paragraph, vacancies occurring in the Corporative Chamber shall be filled in the same manner as the original officer was appointed.
§ 3. The provisions of article 66 and its sub sections shall apply to the members of this chamber; but, the decisions referred to under c) and d) of that article shall be substituted by the authorisation or decision of the Prince.

Art. 81. It is the duty of the Corporative Chamber to report and give its opinion on all proposals or draft bills and on all international conventions or treaties submitted to the Government, before discussion thereof is commenced by the latter.
§ 1. The report shall be given within fifteen days or within such period as the Government or the Assembly shall fix if the matter concerned is considered to be urgent.
§ 2. Should the time limit referred to in the preceding subsection expire before the report has been sent to the Government discussion may proceed immediately.
§ 3. If the Corporative Chamber, while advising on general grounds the rejection of a bill, suggests its replacement by another, the Government or any Popular Assembly Deputy may adopt the bill in question, and it shall then be discussed jointly with the original, without reference to the Corporative Chamber. If the latter proposes alterations to a proposal or draft bill, in matters of detail, any of the deputies may support such alterations.

Art. 82. The Corporative Chamber shall function in plenary sessions or in ad hoc committees; in the latter case two or more or even all of the committees may meet together if the subject matter under examination so demands.
§ 1. The President of the Council, the Minister or Ministers concerned, or their representatives, and the Popular Assembly deputy originating the bill are permitted to take part in the discussion regarding the same.
§ 2. The sessions of the Corporative Chamber are not public.

Art. 83. The government may consult the Corporative Chamber on general decrees to be published or draft bills to be submitted to the Popular Assembly; it may decide that the work of committees shall continue or shall be carried out during the adjournments, interruptions or intervals between legislative sessions, and it may request any or all of the Chamber be summoned in order to address a communication to them.
§ The discussion of a draft bill before the Popular Assembly shall not be dependent upon fresh reference to the Corporative Chamber if the latter has been previously consulted by the government.

Art. 84. It shall be the duty of the Corporative Chamber to examine and recognize the powers of its members, to elect its board, draw up its own internal rules, and to regulate its police.

Art. 85. The privileges conferred by Art. 75 of the members of the Popular Assembly shall likewise apply to committees of the Chamber.

Art. 86. The territory of the mainland shall be divided into boroughs and grouped into districts, provinces, and governorates, the boundaries of all such areas being established by law
§ The Capital Zone borough of Stuyevka is subdivided into wards and acts independent of all other subdivisions.

Art. 87. The administrative activities of local autonomous authorities are subject to scrutiny by government inspectors and the resolutions of their executive committees may be subject to the confirmation of other bodies or authorities and submitted to examination at the discretion of the Head of State and the National Government.

Art. 88. In order to give effect to their resolutions in the Corporate Chamber, and for other purposes specified by law, administrative authorities shall appoint a Local Head or special sub-committee in accordance with the said law.

Art. 89. Administrative authorities enjoy financial autonomy under conditions to be determined by law but town councils are obliged to divide among the parishes and wards for the purpose of rural improvement.

Art. 90. Administrative authorities may only be dissolved in such cases and in such manner as prescribed by administrative enactments.

Art. 91. The Constitution shall be revised every year and the Head of State and National Government whose mandate coincides with the date of revision shall have constituent powers for the said purpose.
§ 1. The revision may be anticipated by six months if this is agreed to by two-thirds of the National Government, and, in this case, the new one-year period will be counted from the date of such revision.
§ 2. No motions or draft bills for the revision of the Constitution may be accepted unless the proposed amendments are clearly defined.

Art. 92. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article, should public interest urgently demand it, the Head of State, after consulting with the President of the Council of Ministers, may by a decree signed by all Ministers:

1. determine that the National Government shall assume constituent powers and revise the Constitution in such parts as specified in the relative decree;

2. submit to a national plebiscite the alterations of the Constitution referring to the government or its instruments; such approved alterations shall enter into effect as soon as the final results of the plebiscite are made public.

Art. 93. A transitional régime shall be adopted for carrying into effect the sole § of Art. 39, with such temporary restrictions as are deemed essential

Art. 94. Until such a time as the corporative organization of the State is completed, temporary measures shall be adopted to give effect to the principle of organic representation laid down in Title IV of Part I.

Art. 95. The Prince now in office is recognized by this Constitution.

Art. 96. The First National Government shall have constituent powers.

Art. 97. Laws and decrees having the force of law, that have been or may be published not later than the first meeting of the National Government shall continue in operation and remain in force as laws insofar as they contain nothing explicitly or implicitly contrary to the principles contained in the present Constitution.

Art. 98. The laws and decrees referred to in the preceding article may nevertheless be revoked by regulating decrees in all matters concerning internal organisation.

Art. 99. Until the necessary laws for the execution of Title V of Part II have been concluded, the territorial division of the districts, provinces, and governorates shall be established based on the expression of local autonomous bodies and shall be the subject of special laws of establishment.

Art. 100. The present Constitution shall enter into force after a national plebiscite and approval by the National Government and Head of State