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Elemental Act
Contents
PART I -- Proletarian Council
CHAPTER ZERO -- Purpose and Definition of the
Proletarian Council
CHAPTER ONE -- Electoral Procedures in the
Proletarian Council
PART II -- Administrative and
Representative Offices
CHAPTER ZERO -- Executives
PART III -- Adjudication
CHAPTER ZERO -- People's Tribunals
CHAPTER ONE -- Standards of Proof During
People's Tribunals
CHAPTER TWO -- Procedure for Review of
Complaints
PART IV -- Membership Acts
CHAPTER ZERO -- Special Rules for Membership
Acts
CHAPTER ONE -- Amending Membership Acts
PART V -- Autonomous Spaces and
Microcommunities
CHAPTER ZERO -- Establishment and Limitations
CHAPTER ONE -- Dissolution
PART VI -- Displacement and Amendment
CHAPTER ZERO -- Resolution of Inconsistencies
CHAPTER ONE -- Amendments
CHAPTER TWO -- Leniency Bias
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Note 1: The
pronouns "ze", "hir" and "hirs"
shall for the purposes of this document describe any person or
thing henceforth mentioned or implied; and shall be understood
according to the context in which used.
Note 2: For brevity, the
abbreviation "URC" shall stand for "United Radical
Communities".
The fundamental goal of any emancipated community of peoples is the practice of freedom. By "freedom" is meant the irrevocable right of individual persons to endeavour for personal development and fulfillment by any means they may desire to employ, on the sole condition that such employment does not threaten the equal right of freedom existing for any and all other persons. Freedom, by its nature, may not exist unless existing equally for all persons.
Pursuant with the practice of freedom is the existence of a functioning democracy, whereby each adult person has an exactly equal proportion of influence over the affairs and policies of their community as compared to any other adult person.
Also pursuant with the practice of freedom is the right of self-determination and freedom of association for all members within a community, and the right to establish free and separate private spaces.
Let it be resolved that our organization of the United Radical Communities shall always, before all else, endeavour to respect, protect and facilitate freedom for all of its members.
In order to protect and facilitate freedom, and to provide for our common interests, we establish this following document prescribing our internal procedures, self-government and elementary structure.
CHAPTER ZERO -- Purpose and Definition of the Proletarian Council
Section 1:
The central authority of the United Radical Communities shall be the Proletarian Council.
1-1:
The Proletarian Council shall consist of all active members of the URC.
1-1-1:
A member of the URC who does not vote on any proposal or in any public poll at any time shall become an "inactive" member and shall not be counted in future Proletarian Council voting quorums.
1-1-2:
An inactive member may at any time become an active member by voting on any proposal or in any public poll, except as otherwise noted in this document.
1-2:
All members of the URC have the right to vote and to make proposals in the Proletarian Council.
1-3:
The Proletarian Council shall have the authority to enact community regulations, to appoint temporary administrators and representatives, to set community policies, to enact community resolutions and motions, to amend this document, to amend the Declaration of Human Rights, to amend or repeal regulations, to recall persons or groups elected, and to excercise any other authority unless prohibited from doing so by this document or by the Declaration of Human Rights.
1-4:
Any member of the Proletarian Council may put forth a proposal to be considered by the Proletarian Council as a whole, unless that proposal (a)seeks to overturn the decision of a People's Tribunal; (b)has already been defeated within sixty days of its being proposed.
1-4-1:
For the purposes of this document, a member of the Proletarian Council who has introduced a proposal shall also be referred to as the "introducer".
CHAPTER ONE -- Electoral Procedures in the Proletarian Council
Section 1:
Establishment of the Public Secret Ballot
1-1:
The Proletarian Council shall elect, as needed, a person or persons to serve as its electoral officer(s).
1-1-1:
The duty of the electoral officer(s) shall be to determine, via public polling and at least once every two calendar months as-needed, whether proposals and/or candidates within the Proletarian Council meet the established criteria to be ratified or elected (as described in Section 2 of this CHAPTER). They shall determine this through use of a public poll whereby the absolute secrecy of the vote of each individual member who participates in that poll is unequivocally protected, and all ballots in that poll are published and open to full public auditing.
1-2:
Members of the URC must be given at least seven days to vote in any public poll.
1-3:
The electoral officer(s) must make every reasonable effort to inform all active members of new public polls.
1-4:
Any member of the Proletarian Council who requests that their proposal be put on the next scheduled public poll must be obliged by Proletarian Council electoral officer(s). If at any time an electoral officer willfully refuses to oblige that Proletarian Council member, that officer shall be considered in violation of this regulation and may be removed from office by a People's Tribunal.
1-5:
Should a minimum twenty-five percent of the Proletarian Council sign a public petition expressing the opinion that there were irregularities, errors or negligence in any public poll undertaken as described in this Section of this CHAPTER, then the results of that poll shall automatically be invalid and the poll must be retaken.
1-5-1:
Should a minimum twenty-five percent of the Proletarian Council sign a public petition demanding the recall of any electoral officer, that officer shall automatically be recalled.
1-6:
Section 1 of this CHAPTER may be forgone as described in Section 3 of this CHAPTER.
Section 2:
Criteria for Ratification of Various Proposals.
2-1:
In order for the Proletarian Council to assent to any proposal, except those proposals described elsewhere in this document and for which alternate criteria are established, the following criteria must be met; (a)At least four-days must have passed since the introduction of the proposal; (b)a quorum of at least sixty-six percent of all active members must have voted either in favour of the proposal, in opposition to the proposal, or in neutrality to the proposal; (c)out of those active members who voted either in favour of or in opposition to the proposal, a miminum of seventy-five percent must have voted in favour of the proposal. If said proposal does not meet said criteria, that proposal is considered defeated.
2-1-1:
In order for the Proletarian Council to assent to any proposal which seeks to amend the Declaration of Human Rights or this document, the following criteria must be met; (a)At least four-days must have passed since the introduction of the proposal; (b)a quorum of at least seventy-five percent of all active members must have voted either in favour of the proposal, in opposition to the proposal, or in neutrality to the proposal; (c)out of those active members who voted either in favour of or in opposition to the proposal, a miminum of eighty-five percent must have voted in favour of the proposal. If said proposal does not meet said criteria, that proposal is considered defeated.
2-1-2:
In order for the Proletarian Council to elect any person or group of people to administrative or representative positions, the following criteria must be met; (a)At least four-days must have passed wherein any person could propose themselves as candidates in an election for said positions; (b)at least four-days must have passed since the beginning of polling for that election; (c)a quorum of at least sixty-six percent of all active members must have voted for or against candidates or in formal neutrality in that election; (d)out of those active members who voted for or against candidates in that election, a total seventy-five percent must have voted for the same candidate or for the same group of candidates. If any candidate or group of candidates in said election meets said criteria, that candidate or those candidates shall be considered elected. If no candidate or group of candidates in that election meets said criteria, then no candidate shall be considered elected.
2-1-2-1:
A person or persons may be elected to administrative or representative positions by the Proletarian Council only when those positions shall definitely be unoccupied at the date upon which elections for them are concluded, or when hir or their election is explicitly predicated on the disoccupation of the position(s) being contested within no more than sixty days after the date upon which that election is concluded.
2-1-2-2:
If a group of people were elected to occupy the same administrative or representative positions, only the entire group may be recalled, and no one member of that group may be recalled individually without also recalling all other members of that group.
2-1-3:
In order for the Proletarian Council to assent to any proposal which seeks to repeal or recall regulations, motions, resolutions, or a person or group of people who were elected to public office, the following criteria must be met; (a)At least four-days must have passed since the introduction of the proposal; (b)a quorum of at least sixty-six percent of all active members must have voted either in favour of the proposal, in opposition to the proposal, or in neutrality to the proposal; (c)out of those active members who voted either in favour of or in opposition to the proposal, a miminum of twenty-five and one-tenth percent must have voted in favour of the proposal. If said proposal does not meet said criteria, that proposal is considered defeated.
2-2:
In decisions regarding any single proposal or candidate, a voter shall have three choices on the ballot, those being, to vote in favour, to vote against or to formally abstain.
2-3:
In decisions regarding multiple competing proposals or multiple competing candidates where there can be only one winner, a voter shall be able to rank them in order of hir preference, to formally abstain on any of them and to rank some of them in order of hir preference and vote against all of the rest; and hir preferences shall be distributed via an instant-runoff, and the winner(s) of the instant-runoff shall be whichever proposals or candidates, if any, first achieve the criteria they require in order to be ratified or elected as outlined in this Section.
2-4:
In decisions regarding multiple competing candidates where there can be more than one winner, a voter shall be able to rank them in order of hir preference and to formally abstain on any of them; and hir preferences shall be distributed via an instant runoff, and the winner(s) of the instant runoff shall be whichever proposals or candidates, if any, first achieve the criteria they require in order to be ratified or elected as outlined in this Section.
Section 3:
Alternate Failsafe Electoral Procedures.
3-1:
If, and only if, at any time, there are no means by which the Proletarian Council may engage in secret public polling as described in Section 1 of this CHAPTER, then the polling means described here in this Section may be used instead, and a secret ballot system shall not be required.
3-2:
An introducer reserves the right to set the period of time during which valid votes either for or against hir proposal may be collected (known also as the "voting-period") on condition that hir set voting-period is not less than four standard days and not more than thirty standard days.
3-3:
An introducer may open hir own poll to determine whether any proposal or candidate has met the required established criteria for ratification or election, so long as that poll is absolutely transparent and taken in full view of the voting public.
PART II -- Administrative and Representative Offices
Section 1:
Administrative or Representative Executives of the United Radical Communities may be elected on a temporary basis according to procedures described in Part I of this document.
1-1:
No Executive may at any time be granted any power that pre-empts or replaces the descision-making powers enjoyed solely by the members of the URC through the Proletarian Council as described in Part I of this document.
1-2:
No Executive may at any time be granted adjudicative decision-making powers.
1-3:
No Executive may hold hir position for a term exceeding one-hundred-eighty days without the consummation of new elections for the position of that Executive.
1-3-1:
Regulations establishing Executive offices within the URC may also prescribe maximum term lengths for persons occupying those offices on the condition that those term lengths are never more than one-hundred-eighty days. Should a regulation establishing an Executive office not prescribe a maximum term length for persons occupying that office, the maximum term length shall default to one-hundred-eighty days.
1-4:
An Executive may be granted the status of official representative of the URC, of public administrator of such duties as, but not limited to, official website maintenance and archiving public records, and any other status or duty not directly or indirectly prohibited by URC regulations.
1-5:
An Executive may resign hir Executive position(s) at any time.
CHAPTER ZERO -- People's Tribunals
Section 1:
Regulatory disputes and complaints within the United Radical Communities shall be resolved by People's Tribunals operating in compliance with the Declaration of Human Rights.
1-1:
A People's Tribunal may be convened to penalize or censure an individual or organization by any party or parties seeking acknowledgement and/or redress for suffering violations of the Declaration of Human Rights, or violations of URC disciplinary and conduct regulations.
1-2:
A People's Tribunal may be convened by any concerned individuals or organizations at any time to decide whether or not a regulation, resolution or election is in compliance with past adjudicative precedents, the Declaration of Human Rights and/or this document, or whether or not to declare an election invalid due to polling irregularities.
1-3:
If a People's Tribunal cannot be convened while still remaining in compliance with URC regulations, the Declaration of Human Rights and this document, it may not be convened at all.
1-4:
Once requested by an individual or group in accordance with this Section, a People's Tribunal may be appointed by either a consensus of the complainant(s) and defendant(s) involved in the dispute (as further detailed in Section 1-4-1 of this CHAPTER) or by the initiative of the complainant(s) (as further detailed in Section 1-4-2 of this CHAPTER).
Appointment by Consensus
1-4-1:
If the complainant(s) and defendant(s) in a dispute all indicate, by consensus, a preference for a particular list of jurors to constitute the People's Tribunal which is to examine or re-examine their dispute, then those jurors shall constitute that People's Tribunal, and the appointment process described in Section 1-4-2 of this CHAPTER shall be forgone.
1-4-1-1:
If, within five days after a legal complaint has been publicly filed, the complainant(s) and defendant(s) fail to a come to a consensus on a mutually acceptable People's Tribunal as described above in Section 1-4-1, then a People's Tribunal may be appointed by the initiative of the complainant(s) instead as described below in Section 1-4-2.
Appointment by Initiative
1-4-2:
In order for the complainant(s) to appoint a People's Tribunal to examine a dispute, the complainant(s) must introduce a Complaint to the Proletarian Council.
1-4-2-1:
In order to be valid, a Complaint must describe specific incidents of misconduct alleged to have been committed by a specific person or group, cite specific regulations that the complainant believes were transgressed by that misconduct and request specific reparations or injunctions from a People's Tribunal. In addition, it must recommend at least one person and no more than fifty percent of the active membership of the URC to constitute the People's Tribunal which is to examine the Complaint, in order of preference.
1-4-2-1-1:
If a valid Complaint (as detailed above in Section 1-4-2-1) has been introduced to the Proletarian Council, then the defendant(s) named in that Complaint may also recommend, in order of preference, at least one person and no more than fifty percent of the active membership of the URC to constitute the People's Tribunal which is to examine the Complaint.
1-4-2-2:
If a valid Complaint (as detailed above in Section 1-4-2-1) has been introduced to the Proletarian Council, and the defendant(s) named in the Complaint have not, within four days after its introduction, recommended any jurors in addition to those jurors already recommended by the Complaint itself, then all of the jurors recommended by the Complaint shall constitute the People's Tribunal which is to examine that Complaint.
1-4-2-3:
If a valid Complaint (as described above in Section 1-4-2-1) has been introduced to the Proletarian Council, and the defendant(s) named in the Complaint have, within four days after its introduction, recommended jurors, any one of whom was not already recommended by the Complaint itself, then, if the Complaint and the defendant(s) each recommended more than one juror, the People's Tribunal shall consist of the first two jurors recommended by the Complaint and the first two jurors recommended by the defendant(s) named in the Complaint; elsewiseit shall consist of the first juror recommended by the Complaint and the first juror recommended by the defendant(s) named in the Complaint if either recommended only one juror.
1-4-2-4:
Should two or more members of the URC, who are not involved in a dispute, declare that a person who was appointed by 'initiative' to examine that dispute, is a friend or close acquaintance to a complainant or defendant involved in that dispute, or should three or more such members of the URC all cite the same aspect of that dispute or the same statement made by that person as reason to suspect that person is biased regarding that dispute, or should four or more such members of the URC simply declare that person is biased regarding that dispute, or should that person hirself admit a conflict of interests due to an aspect or party involved in that dispute, then that juror shall be disqualified from serving on the People's Tribunal which is to examine that dispute.
1-4-3:
Upon being appointed, either by consensus or by initiative (as described above in this Section), a People's Tribunal must be presented with a Complaint by the complainant describing specific incidents of misconduct alleged to have been committed by the defendant(s), citing specific regulations that the complainant believes were transgressed by that misconduct and requesting specific reparations or injunctions. If a People's Tribunal is not presented with such a Complaint by the complainant within seven days after having been appointed, it shall automatically be dissolved.
1-4-3-1:
Upon receiving a Complaint from the complainant in a dispute (as described above in Section 1-4-3), a People's Tribunal shall convene itself as it sees fit and proceed to examine the dispute outlined in the Complaint presented to it, through procedures established by this document, the Declaration of Human Rights and any related URC disciplinary regulations, and may examine and resolve the dispute as it sees fit, within established legal limits.
1-5:
The decision of a People's Tribunal may be appealed once, and the opportunity to appeal at least once all decisions convicting persons or organizations or declaring regulations, resolutions or elections null and void is prerequisite for any People's Tribunal to go forward.
1-5-1:
A person may not more than once ever serve to hear and decide upon the same dispute, that is, concerning the same parties, regulations, resolutions or elections and for the same reasons occurred at the same time as originally.
1-6:
A People's Tribunal must decide on all matters before it by consensus determination.
1-7:
A People's Tribunal may select a Judge from its membership, by consensus. A Judge may help oversee and manage a particular case.
1-8:
A People's Tribunal is required to be wholly impartial and to decide upon matters before it based solely on merit of evidence and facts presented to it.
1-9:
A People's Tribunal is required to observe all URC regulations and guidelines in procedure, decisions and sentencing except when those regulations are under legal dispute.
1-10:
A People's Tribunal has no powers except those powers granted to it by URC regulations or this document.
1-11:
Persons directly involved in a dispute under review, such as, but not limited to, the accused, the accusers, the author or authors of a regulation or resolution under judicial question, or parties intimately involved in a public poll under scrutiny, may not be appointed to a People's Tribunal reviewing that dispute.
1-12:
A People's Tribunal may not issue a preliminary injunction, that is, an injunction issued before the conclusion of a final decision on a dispute, except where the safety of a person or animal is in question.
1-13:
A People's Tribunal may not deliberate for a period longer than two weeks before coming to a decision on any particular question before it, such as, but not limited to, granting injunctions or sentencing.
1-13-1:
No People's Tribunal may examine a dispute for a period longer than thirty days or for a period shorter than four days.
1-14:
Only a member of the URC may convene a People's Tribunal; a complainant who is not a member of the URC must have hir or their Complaint sponsored by a member in order for it to be examined by a People's Tribunal.
1-15:
All active members of the URC are required to duly serve on a People's Tribunal if appointed to one. Should an active member at any time after having been appointed to a People's Tribunal, fail or refuse to actively examine the relevant dispute and work with any and all other jurors on the People's Tribunal to resolve that dispute, that member shall be considered inactive for a period of six months proceeding.
CHAPTER ONE -- Standards of Proof During People's Tribunals
Section 1:
The burden of proof is always on the complainant; all defendants are legally innocent of all crimes until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, all regulations and resolutions are consistent with this document and/or the Declaration of Human Rights until proven inconsistent beyond a reasonable doubt and all elections are valid until proven invalid beyond a reasonable doubt.
Section 2:
Any statements made by any text, audio, visual or verbal communication and either manually or electronically recorded are admissible to a People's Tribunal as evidence of wrongdoing or innocence when relevant to a particular complaint being examined by that People's Tribunal.
Section 3:
Past records, activities or conditions of the complainant(s) are irrelevant and inadmissible to a People's Tribunal as evidence of a defendant's innocence or guilt.
Section 4:
Arguments relying on stereotypes, generalizations, statistics, bigotry, prejudices or biological determinism are invalid and inadmissible and may not be considered by a People's Tribunal as evidence of a defendant's guilt or innocence.
Section 5:
Should a defendant confess to violating any established regulations in the URC, a People's Tribunal must move to penalize said defendant immediately thereafter; a defendant who confesses to transgressing URC regulations may not be acquitted.
Section 6:
Personal testimonies are admissible to a People's Tribunal as evidence of wrongdoing or innocence.
CHAPTER TWO -- Procedure for Review of Complaints
Section 1:
Any victim(s) of behaviour prohibited by URC regulations may file a complaint and request restitution from a People's Tribunal as described by this document and allowed by related disciplinary and conduct regulations.
Section 2:
People's Tribunals are required to determine penalties based on the severity of transgressions and are also required to give strong consideration and partiality to any penalty scheme preferred by the complainant; in the event of a conviction, the penalty of the complainant's preference shall be administered unless egregiously unreasonable and inconsistent with the gravity of the harm caused by the convicted defendant.
Section 3:
Different plaintiffs may agree to conjoin their complaints if both of their complaints are against the same defendant(s) regarding the same alleged regulatory violations, punishable by the same allowed penalties.
3-1:
Should a complainant offer to submit hir complaint to the People's Tribunal of another complainant whose Complaint is against the same person(s) for same alleged regulatory violations, and should that other complainant consent to this offer, their complaints shall be considered conjoined and must be heard simultaneously by their mutually agreed upon People's Tribunal, and the People's Tribunal of the conjoining complainant shall be considered dissolved.
Section 4:
Once a People's Tribunal is convened to review any complaint, said Tribunal must first consider the arguments, testimonies and other admissible evidences of the complainant(s), and then must hear the arguments, testimonies and other admissible evidences of the defendant(s); then, first the complainant(s), and then the defendant(s), are each entitled to one rebuttal of each other.
Should a People's Tribunal, or its elected administrator, grant permission for additional rebuttals, they must be of equal number for both the complainant(s) and defendant(s). For example, if a complainant is granted four rebuttals, a defendant must also be granted four rebuttals.
Complainant(s) and/or defendant(s) may, at any time, waive hir or their right to make a rebuttal or to submit evidences.
Section 5:
A People's Tribunal may determine guilt or innocence in any particular dispute at any time after following the procedures outlined in Section 4 of this CHAPTER. A People's Tribunal must agree by consensus on the guilt of any defendant in order to convict that defendant, and must agree by consensus on the innocence of any defendant in order to acquit that defendant.
5-1:
Should a People's Tribunal declare itself unable to come to consensus regarding the guilt or innocence of any defendant accused of transgressing community regulations, or should that People's Tribunal be unable to come to such consensus within the legally specified time limit for hearing and resolving complaints, that People's Tribunal will be considered a "hung jury" and will be automatically dismissed.
In such an event, if the complainant still wants to proceed with the complaint, another People's Tribunal with all new members must be appointed within a reasonably short period of time as outlined by CHAPTER ZERO of this Part.
Should the second People's Tribunal also declare itself unable to come to a consensus regarding the guilt or innocence of the defendant(s), or should said second People's Tribunal be unable to come to such consensus within the legally specified time limit for hearing and resolving complaints, it will also be considered a "hung jury" and will be automatically dismissed.
In such an event, the defendant(s) in said complaint shall be considered innocent.
5-2:
Should a People's Tribunal declare a defendant innocent of particular charges, said defendant may not be tried again on the same charges occurred at the same time and under the same circumstances as originally.
5-3:
Should a People's Tribunal declare a defendant guilty of particular charges, said People's Tribunal must impose on said defendant a legally allowable penalty before the end of the legally specified time limit for hearing and resolving complaints. In order to impose a penalty on a convicted defendant, a People's Tribunal must have consensus on the justness and applicability of the penalty.
Should a People's Tribunal be unable to come to a consensus on a penalty, another People's Tribunal may be appointed to determine a penalty, and the process outlined in Section 5-1 of this CHAPTER may be exhausted.
5-3-1:
Should two successive People's Tribunals be unable to come to a consensus on a penalty for a convicted defendant, that convicted defendant shall not be penalized.
Section 6:
Should a People's Tribunal achieve a consensus for a preliminary injunction, an acquittal, a conviction and/or a penalty scheme, it must collectively author a summary opinion describing the reasoning behind those decisions and present that summary to the public no later than seven days after a dispute is resolved.
CHAPTER ZERO -- Special Rules for Membership Acts
Section 1:
An Act granting a person membership in the United Radical Communities cannot be repealed or annuled except by the outspoken request of the person to whom it applies or by the decision of a People's Tribunal.
Section 2:
An Act granting a person membership in the United Radical Communities must state the name of the person to whom membership is to be granted, and may include any other appropriate unique contact information about that person.
CHAPTER ONE -- Amending Membership Acts
Section 1:
A person may, at any time, change the name and/or the contact information on the Act granting hir membership in the United Radical Communities by publicly declaring hir desire for such change. No one shall have the right or ability to make these changes to anyone elses Membership Act.
Part V -- Autonomous Spaces and Microcommunities
CHAPTER ZERO -- Establishment and Limitations
Section 1:
Any person may establish an autonomous microcommunity within the United Radical Communities at any time by publicly declaring so.
Section 2:
Each microcommunity is entitled to democratic self-determination of its own internal policies, regulations and affairs, and to selectively admit or expel its own members as it sees fit.
2-2:
A microcommunity is required to govern itself by means of a majoritarian or consensus based democratic system.
2-1:
A member of any microcommunity may not hold any rights in the Proletarian Council or be considered a member of the URC unless ze has also been made a URC member by a Membership Act as described in Part IV of this document.
Section 3:
A microcommunity and any members therein are bound by all regulations established by the United Radical Communities as a whole and may not engage in policies or actions which transgress those regulations in any way, but may establish any internal regulations which do not conflict with larger community regulations.
Section 4:
A microcommunity reserves the right to make its own resolutions or policy statements, including those criticizing or condemning policies, resolutions, regulations or other aspects of the larger community, or of other microcommunities.
Section 5:
If a person is convicted of violating United Radical Communities regulations and is subsequently expelled from the United Radical Communities, ze shall also be considered expelled from all microcommunities and autonomous spaces within the United Radical Communities under the same conditions, and it shall be considered a violation of community regulations to continue to provide membership to such a person in any of those autonomous communities, for which persons responsible for providing such membership or privilege could be held to account by a People's Tribunal.
Section 1:
A microcommunity shall be considered dissolved within the United Radical Communities if all of its members who are also active members of the United Radical Communities unanimously declare its dissolution or resign from that microcommunity or resign from the United Radical Communities.
PART VI -- Displacement and Amendment Clause
CHAPTER ZERO -- Resolution of Inconsistencies
Section 1:
Should any future United Radical Communities regulation or resolution be judged by a People's Tribunal to be inconsistent with the this document or the Declaration of Human Rights, that regulation or resolution shall be amended and annuled only to the extent of the inconsistency.
Section 1:
This document, the Declaration of Human Rights and any regulation or resolution in the United Radical Communities, excepting regulations granting persons membership in the United Radical Communities, may be amended at any time by the Proletarian Council as allowed by this document.
Section 1:
Should any regulation establish new penalties or new prohibitions, they may never be applied retroactively.
Section 2:
Should an amendment (as described in CHAPTER ONE, Section 1 of this Part) or a determination of inconsistency (as described in CHAPTER ZERO, Section 1 of this Part) eliminate a certain penalty for violations of any United Radical Communities regulation, any convicts currently serving such a penalty for transgressing that regulation shall be entitled to appoint for hirself a one-person People's Tribunal, to which ze may appeal for a penalty of lesser severity. The complainant(s) in the dispute in which said convict(s) faced conviction shall have the right to appoint no more than two additional members of hir or their own choosing to such a People's Tribunal.
In the event of such an appeal, a People's Tribunal must always grant a penalty of lesser severity. Should a People's Tribunal be unable to come to a consensus on the nature of the new penalty of lesser severity in the case of such an appeal, the convict shall be able to choose a new penalty from the relevant portion of the regulation which ze was judged to have violated originally. If ze refuses in that event to choose a new penalty, ze shall continue to serve the obsolete penalty.
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