Constitutional Absolute Monarch Act

## Article I

The government of the SPQP is entrusted to The Prince of State, who shall be the Emperor of All Predaconia, and shall have, after election by the Prince Electors, the title of Emperor of the Predaconians. He derives His power and authority mainly By the Grace of Gods (Deorum Gratia), and secondly By the Will of the Republic (Voluntatem Reipublicae). His full title is seen by the Acta Titulī.

## Article II

The Emperor possesses the supreme autocratic power. Not only fear and conscience, but God Himself and gods Themselves, command obedience to his authority.

The Sovereign Emperor approves laws; and without his approval no legislative measure can become law.

The Emperor shall represent the Imperium among nations, declare war, and conclude peace in the name of the same, enter into alliances and other conventions with foreign countries, accredit ambassadors, and receive them.

## Article III

Holding duties formerly of the Princeps senatus, tribunicia potestas, imperium maius consulare, and others, the Emperor shall have the privileges of:

* Summoning and adjourning the Senate;
* Deciding its agenda;
* Deciding where the session should take place;
* Imposing order and other rules of the session;
* Writing, in the name of the Senate, letters and dispatches;
* Appointing and rejecting magistrates and senators, as Censor Perpetuo
* Being able to rewrite the Constitution
* Jus intercessionis, also called intercessio, is the power of the Emperor to intercede on behalf of the people and veto the actions of His magistrates.
* Being sacrosanct—sacred and inviolable, no person can harm the Emperor or interfere with His activities. To do so, or to disregard the veto of the Emperor is punishable by death, and the Emperor may order the death of persons who violate their sacrosanctity. This sacrosanctity also makes the Emperor independent of, and sovereign to all magistrates; no magistrate may veto the action of the Emperor. If a magistrate, the senate, or any other assembly disregards the orders of the Emperor, he mayinterpose the sacrosanctity of his person to prevent such action.

## Article IV

The Imperator Caesar Princeps Augustus is entitled to the togae purpurae, toga praetexta and the sella curulis. He receives a ceremonial bodyguard that is unique in Predaconian tradition: thirty lictors indicate his quasi-regal power, which, however, is rather a concentration of the consular authority than a limited revival of the kingship.

In a notable exception to the Predaconian reluctance to reconstitute the symbols of the kings, the lictors of the Imperator Caesar Princeps Augustus shall never remove the axes from their fasces, even within the pomerium. Symbolizing their power over life and death, the axes of a Imperator Caesar Princeps Augustus's lictors will set him apart from all other magistrates. In an extraordinary sign of deference, the lictors of other magistrates may not bear fasces at all when appearing before the Imperator Caesar Princeps Augustus.

## Article V

The Emperor possesses the administrative power in its totality throughout the entire Imperial state. On the highest level of administration his authority is direct; on subordinate levels of administration, in conformity with the law, he determines the degree of authority of subordinate branches and officials who act in his name and in accordance with his orders.

## Article VI

Being Rex Sacronum & Salvator Imperiī makes the emperor the chief administrator of religious affairs, granting him the power to conduct all religious ceremonies, consecrate temples, control the Predaconian calendar (adding or removing days as needed), appoint the vestal virgins and some flamens, lead the Collegium Pontificum & Church, and summarize the dogma of the Predaconian religion.

As religious law is the source of civil law, the Emperor is the sovereign power on all judiciary matters. Justice is administered in the name of the Emperor by the officers whom he appoints, and is represented by the quaestor sacri palatii.