Constitution

Government System

# THE CORPORATE REPUBLIC OF SHELL CONSTITUTION

***We, the people of Shell, in order to form a more perfect organization, officially establish The Corporate Republic of Shell. Every citizen is declared a shareholder of the C.R.S with their share held in trust by the Council Board. Every shareholder labors to bring about justice, domestic tranquility, the common defense, and the general welfare for their fellow comrades.***
## **Article 1. The Council Board**

### Section 1. Organization

1. There is hereby established a Council Board, composed of the Chief Executive Officer, one Director per department, and any other members which the Council Board may prescribe by a ⅔ supermajority Council Board vote.
2. The Council Board shall have, at minimum, five Directors as prescribed by law, and at maximum, ten Directors to the best of the government’s ability.

### Section 2. Powers

1. The Council Board shall possess the authority to make any and all laws or policies.
2. The Council Board shall possess all executive authority not devolved to other individuals by this Constitution or as prescribed by Council Board vote.
3. The Council Board may override any order or authority of any person or thing.

### Section 3. Membership

1. Directors require a successful Council Board vote to be appointed.
2. Vice Directors must be nominated by the department’s respective Director (unless one does not exist), have a successful Council Board vote to be appointed, and retain being Vice Director in order to retain membership.
3. Directors require a successful Council Board vote to be removed.
4. Vice Directors shall be allowed to fill the seat of an incapacitated or absent Director. This expires as soon as the standard Director is physically and mentally able to work again or a new one is appointed.
5. An individual may temporarily be promoted to an Acting position via successful Council Board vote when one needs to be filled. This expires as soon as the standard Director or Vice Director is physically and mentally able to work again.
6. A Vice Director or Acting Vice Director must nominate an Acting Vice Director upon assuming the position of Acting Director.
7. Only one Director, Acting Director, Vice Director, or Acting Vice Director seat may be held by a single individual at any given time.

### Section 4. Voting

1. The Council Board shall utilize a weighted voting system, whereby Directors possess one vote, those with seniority possess an additional vote, Founders Tommy Martiac and Joshua Rader are granted an additional vote, and the Chief Executive Officer shall be granted an additional vote as well. Additional votes shall stack.
2. Seniority shall be granted if an individual has possessed membership of the Council Board for a period of longer than eight weeks and seniority has been affirmed by a ⅔ supermajority Council Board vote.
3. All legislation and actions by the Council Board shall require a ⅔ supermajority vote unless specified elsewhere in the Constitution.
4. All votes shall be held until they reach the required affirmative ⅔ majority of the whole membership of the Council Board or until a week has passed since the vote was initiated.
5. During votes, Councilors shall either vote in favor, against, or abstain. An abstinence will be counted against a proposal except for Article 1, Section 4.9.
6. The creation of additional voting points towards the weighted voting system is only permitted by a ⅔ supermajority Council Board vote.
7. A Vice Director or Acting Vice Director may vote in their Director’s or Acting Director’s place but will not count towards the affirmative supermajority.
8. A Chief Executive Officer’s one vote that is assigned for being Chief Executive Officer goes to the Vice Chief Executive Officer and not the Chief Executive Officer’s department when the Chief Executive Officer abstains from a proposal.
9. Abstained votes at the end of the voting period are not counted towards votes required to appoint a new Director into an empty chair.

### Section 5. Passed Policy

1. As soon as a Council Board vote passes it goes into effect.
2. If a vote result requires action, the action must be followed immediately to the best of your ability.
3. If a vote result requires inaction or ceasing, you must not act or cease to act immediately to the best of your ability.
4. There may be a valid urgent reason to disregard a Council Board decision and then try to overturn a Council Board result.
	1. (a.) A Director may try to conduct a Council Board meeting as soon as possible to try to sway enough of the Council Board to reverse the decision but the Chief Executive Officer must be present for this Council Board meeting.
	2. (b.) If your case is unable to sway the Council Board by the end of the meeting you may no longer delay following the Council Board result and may be charged with Grand Defiance.
	3. (c.) The Chief Executive Officer determines the end of the Council Board meeting.

## **Article 2. The Chief Executive Officer**

### Section 1. Organization

1. There is hereby established the position of Chief Executive Officer, who shall be elected to their position by a successful Council Board vote.
2. The Chief Executive Officer may only be removed by a successful Council Board vote.
3. There may only be one Chief Executive Officer and they must also hold a Director seat.
4. A Vice Chief Executive Officer (or Acting Vice Chief Executive Officer) must be nominated by the (Acting) Chief Executive Officer (unless one does not exist), and pass a successful Council Board vote to be appointed.

### Section 2. Powers

1. The Chief Executive Officer shall be given the power to manage the general executive functions of the federal government in addition to any other functions given to them by law.
2. The Chief Executive Officer may give orders to all citizens and employee-citizens as long as it does not violate anything passed by the Council Board, judicial results, Shell Law, or diplomatic status with entities. The Chief Executive Officer’s orders take priority in action and must be performed to the best of one’s ability.
3. The Chief Executive Officer may order the issuance of Executive Law, which goes into effect immediately.
	1. (a.) Executive Law may be revoked by a successful Council Board vote or by the Chief Executive Officer themselves.
	2. (b.) Executive Law grants the Chief Executive Officer the authority to ignore Shell Law, judicial results, and diplomatic status with all entities.
	3. (c.) While Executive Law is in effect all of this document except for Article 1, Article 3,   and Article 2, Section 2, 3a through 3e, and Section 2, 6 is suspended concerning the Chief Executive Officer or for any individual’s violations when carrying out the Chief Executive Officer’s orders.
	4. (d.) Executive Law actions may not contradict passed Council Board votes or attempt to disallow the Council Board from convening to pass policy.
	5. (e.) The Chief Executive Officer may not issue Executive Law if it has been within 7 days of the last time that Executive Law has been ended.
4. The Chief Executive Officer has veto authority for all diplomatic proposals coming from the Public Relations department.
5. The Chief Executive Officer shall have authority to access the federal government budget at will, set the wages for federal government occupations, and dictate the use of all federal resources on behalf of the welfare of the company.
6. The Vice Chief Executive Officer retains all powers that the Chief Executive Officer possesses and is an appropriate substitute for the Chief Executive Officer in matters that may require the Chief Executive Officer's authority. In these aforementioned cases relating to the Chief Executive Officer powers, they may be overridden by the actual Chief Executive Officer as if it were the Chief Executive Officer’s department.

## Article 3. Representative Congress

### Section 1. Organization

1. There is hereby established a Representative Congress, composed of elected Representatives based on their department, and any other members which the Council Board may prescribe by a Council Board vote.
2. The Representative Congress shall have twelve elected Representatives, two per department, at all times to the best of the government's ability.

### Section 2. Powers

1. The Representative Congress shall possess the authority to make or edit policies, Shell Law, diplomatic status, yet excluding anything from The Constitution, judicial results, and certain decisions from the Council Board - if a proposal is passed by the Council Board and it specifies that the Representative Congress cannot alter it then it must not be altered by them.
2. The Representative Congress may override a Director’s or Chief Executive Officer’s orders with a successful vote during normal operations unless their rights over such are granted to them in the Constitution. During Executive Law The Representative Congress may not override orders given by any Director.

### Section 3. Membership

1. The Congressional Representative must be A-Class or higher, must hold an occupation for the department that they’re running for, and then win that election for their department. Directors are barred from being a Representative.
2. A member of the Representative Congress may only hold one Congressional seat at a time but may inherit all of a department seat’s power under certain conditions.
3. In order to retain a Congressional Representative seat they must constantly retain the above conditions in Article 3, Section 3.1. If they lose any of the required qualifications they will be removed immediately.
4. There will be elections on the 1st of every month for every department that will last until the end of the 7th day in order to determine who will be the new Representative for that seat. The candidates for each election will be the A Class in their respective department. Each Congressional seat has a 2 month term, meaning each month the election for “Seat 1” and “Seat 2” will rotate.
5. When voting for Congressional members, a voter has only one vote weight, can only vote once per election, and must be of the respective department that the Congressional Representative is representing in order to vote in that election.
6. Congressional Representatives will have a \* in front of their occupation that they’re representing such as \*Lieutenant, \*Engineer, or \*Chief Physician in order to signify their Congressional Representative position.. This Congressional Representative position does not count as an additional occupation.

### Section 4. Voting

1. The Representative Congress shall utilize an equal weighted voting system, whereby each Congressional Representative seat possesses 1 vote.
2. All legislation and actions by the Representative Congress require 2/3 votes to pass.
3. All votes shall be held until they reach the required affirmative majority of the whole membership of the Representative Congress or until a week has passed.
4. During votes, Representatives shall either vote in favor, against, or abstain. If both Congressional seats in a department are empty both will count as abstaining. If there is only one Congressional Representative representing a department they will inherit both seat’s voting power .If a department has no Representative’s their seats will count as an abstain on all proposals.
5. Anything passed by the Representative Congress may be overturned by the Council Board at 1/3 or more Council Board vote weight.
6. If a proposal was overturned within the past 30 days by the Council Board the exact same proposal must not be re-proposed. A new proposal must be distinctly different.

### Section 5. Passed Policy

1. As soon as a Representative Congressional vote passes it goes into effect.
2. If a vote result requires action, the action must be followed immediately to the best of your ability.
3. If a vote result requires action or ceasing, you must act or cease to act immediately to the best of your ability.
4. There may be a valid urgent reason to disregard a Representative Congressional decision and then try to veto it with a Council Board vote.
	1. (a.) A Director may try to conduct a Council Board meeting as soon as possible to try to sway enough of the Council Board to reverse the decision but the Chief Executive Officer must be present for this Council Board meeting.
	2. (b.) If your case is deemed insufficient at the end of the Council Board meeting you may no longer delay following the Representative Congressional result and may be charged with Grand Defiance.
		1. (i.) The Chief Executive Officer determines the end of the Council Board meeting.

## **Article 4. Departments**

### Section 1. Organization

1. The Council Board is the ultimate authority and shall be given the power to override normal department operation or form any and all additional departments.
2. The Chief Executive Officer may order departments to securely store and use resources that the federal government has purchased. The department may not utilize or dispose of these federal resources without the Chief Executive Officer’s approval.

### Section 2. Department of Public Relations

1. The Department of Public Relations shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the sole body for centralizing legal forms and foreign intelligence.
2. The Director of Public Relations must be informed of all critical information involving a foreign entity or national security, and all planned operations or ongoing operations relating to a foreign entity or national security.
3. The Director of Public Relations shall propose diplomatic changes that will be passed or vetoed by the Chief Executive Officer.

### Section 3. Department of Asset Protection

1. The Department of Asset Protection shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the sole official law enforcement body, military organization, and domestic intelligence within the C.R.S government.
2. The Department of Asset Protection shall handle all enforcement, prosecutorial, and military duties for the C.R.S government.
3. The Director of Asset Protection must be informed of all critical information relating to national security, and all planned operations or ongoing operations relating to national security.
4. The Director of Asset Protection shall be able in times of war to issue orders to other departments of Shell concerning the use of their federal stockpile, the labor and items concerning the federal stockpile must be given freely, as long as it is used for the war effort.
5. The Department of Asset Protection has the sole right of employee-citizens to carry out protection or combat contracts. All contract costs must be at a uniform price across departments. The Department of Asset Protection has the sole right within the C.R.S government to purchase the aforementioned services from non-employee citizens.

### Section 4. Department of Research and Development

1. The Department of Research and Development shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the sole body for scientific progress, slime breeding, arms development, and artifact gathering within the C.R.S government.
2. The Department of Research and Development has the sole right of employee-citizens to produce and sell items from the protolathe, circuit-printers, exosuit fabricator, and slimes. All sales must be at a uniform price across departments. The Department of Research and Development has the sole right within the C.R.S government to purchase the aforementioned items from non-employee citizens.

### Section 5. Department of Medicine

1. The Department of Medicine shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the principal body for healthcare and development of pharmaceuticals within the C.R.S government.
2. The Department of Medicine shall be responsible for the healthcare of all Shellians and paying customers within the C.R.S. All sales must be at a uniform price across departments, taking the severity of the injury into account.
3. The Department of Medicine has the sole right of employee-citizens to produce and sell medical chemicals, charge for health care, and to produce and sell items from bio-printers. All sales must be at a uniform price across departments. The Department of Medicine has the sole right within the C.R.S government to purchase the aforementioned items from non-employee citizens.

### Section 6. Department of Industry and Finance

1. The Department of Industry and Finance shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the sole body for industrial manufacturing and resource gathering within the C.R.S government.
2. The Department of Industry and Finance shall be responsible for producing industry goods for other departments within the C.R.S government. All sales must be at a uniform price across departments.
3. The Department of Industry and Finance has the sole right of employee-citizens to produce and sell items from industrial machines, excluding machines dedicated to other departments, most of which are listed in this legal document. The Department of Industry and Finance also has the sole right of employee-citizens to mine and sell resources. The Department of Industry and Finance has the sole right within the C.R.S government to purchase the aforementioned items and services from non-employee citizens.
4. Should a national currency ever be created the loan office and duties shall be given to the Department of Industry & Finance. The Department of Industry & Finance will utilize secondary titles to assign personnel for the loan office.
5. The authority of the national bank or treasury that prints and stockpiles money goes to the Council Board while The Department of Industry and Finance personnel shall carry out many of the more basic operations.

### Section 7. Department of Engineering

1. The Department of Engineering shall be headed by a Director and Vice Director, and shall be the principal body for engineering, construction, and maintenance.
2. The Department of Engineering will have the sole responsibility for constructing federal buildings and ships, and maintaining the infrastructure for the C.R.S government.
3. The Department of Engineering has the sole right of employee-citizens to carry out construction contracts of any type. All construction costs must be at a uniform price across departments. The Department of Engineering has the sole right within the C.R.S government to purchase the aforementioned services from non-employee citizens.

## **Article 5. Judiciary**

### Section 1. Guaranteed Director Rights

1. The right to unconditionally physically change their own department layout whenever the owning Director deems it necessary.
2. The right to unconditionally buy land or trade/give some of their department with another Director’s department.
3. The right to impose departmental S.O.P restrictions on their own personnel.
4. The right to unconditionally set wages for their own departments personnel.
5. The right to promote or demote their own personnel. If Public Relations rejects a background check on an individual then there may be certain limitations regarding the rejected individual.
6. The right to unconditionally hire or fire any of their own personnel.
7. The right to unconditionally attend Council Board meetings.
8. The right to be provided a ballot when imprisoned by C.R.S within 24 hours of a vote expiring.
9. The right for a Vice Director to be provided a ballot when the Director is M.I.A within 24 hours of a voting expiring.
10. The right to unconditionally override their own Vice Director’s vote on an active Council Board proposal.
11. The right to search and arrest within reason determined by the Council Board.
12. The right to unconditionally assign their allotted classes to their own personnel and change them as long as it is within the bounds of their allotted amount.
13. The right to own all weapons and operate all mechs with no limit, unless a Council Board vote restricts this.
14. The right to wear all forms of protection at all times.
15. The right to unconditionally set a department's buy/sell price but it may not discriminate against a department or a Director.
16. The right to unconditionally deny services or goods but it may not discriminate against a department or a Director.
17. The right to give orders to all Shellians with order priority being the Chief Executive Officer, their primary department Director, their secondary department Director, and lastly all other Directors, while operating under normal conditions.

### Section 2. Guaranteed Shellian Rights

1. All citizens shall have the right to an organic natural life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
2. The right to freely execute one’s religion or lack thereof shall not be infringed.
3. The right to free speech, press, and expression shall not be infringed.
4. The right against cruel and unusual punishment shall not be infringed.
5. No bills of attainder or ex post facto laws may be created, barring the revision process.
6. The right to be secure in one’s person, house, papers, and effects shall not be violated.
7. No person shall be subject to be prosecuted twice for the same offense, nor shall be compelled to be a witness against themself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
8. In criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a criminal trial for appealing moderate crimes and a criminal trial to be convicted for high crimes, but high crimes may only be appealed via a revision. The accused also shall be informed of the nature and cause of accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against them, to have a process for obtaining witnesses in their favor, and to seek out the assistance of counsel for their defense.
9. The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage rights retained by Shellians.
10. All citizens shall enjoy the right to privacy and dignity.
11. The right to not be forcefully conscripted into a combat role shall be protected.
12. The right to own and possess unlimited non-chemical stun weapons of the citizen’s choice.
13. The right to own unlimited guns as long as a permit for arms is currently legally possessed for the citizen.
14. The right to equality in treatment regardless of human ancestry, religion, sex, and sexuality.

### Section 3. Judicial Process

1. Judges are nominated by the Chief Executive Officer and must be affirmed by a successful Council Board vote to be appointed.
2. Judges will be removed by a successful Council Board vote.
3. In the event that a judge is not available, a Director may serve as a judge as appointed by the Chief Executive Officer.
4. Upon the deliverance of a criminal verdict after a trial, the accused may request a mistrial from the Chief Executive Officer.
5. During a criminal trial, the judge may request a mistrial from the Chief Executive Officer.
6. Upon the deliverance of a criminal verdict, any Director may invoke a revision, which shall deliver the case to the Council Board. Upon a vote, the Council Board may overturn the decision of the criminal court and institute their own verdict and, if the new verdict is guilty, issue their own punishment within the statutory minimums and maximums.

## **Article 6. Misc.**

### Section 1. Process

1. This Constitution may be amended by a successful Council Board vote.

### Section 2. Federal Law

1. Council Board decisions, The Constitution of The Corporate Republic of Shell, diplomatic status, and Shell Law shall legally bind Judges.

### Section 3. Federal Occupation Information

1. You must be an approved Shellian by passing a background check conducted by Public Relations. Federal jobs count as an occupation. Some federal jobs are only available to A-Class. If an employee fails to receive and hold A-Class they may not be eligible for some federal occupations.
2. Directors are a federal occupation and their federal pay, if any, shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer from the federal budget. Directors are automatically granted Class S while actively Directors. See Article 1 for more information.
3. Chief Executive Officer is a federal occupation and their federal pay, if any, shall be determined by themselves from the federal budget. The Chief Executive Officer is automatically granted Class S as they’re a Director. See Article 2 for more information.
4. Congressional Representatives are a federal occupation and their federal pay, if any, shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer from the federal budget. Only A-Class may be any form of Representative. See Article 3 for more information.
5. Judges are a federal occupation and their federal pay, if any, shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer from the federal budget. They are not directly under a Director and so orders generally fall to the Chief Executive Officer. Any class (except E) may be nominated as a Judge by the Chief Executive Officer.
6. Shell Shield is a federal occupation and their federal pay, if any, shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer from the federal budget. They are not directly under a Director and so primary orders fall to the Chief Executive Officer. Any class may be appointed to Shell Shield by the Council Board.