Sverenian Constitution

The Constitution:

**CONST!TUTE**

## Chapter I: The state, the territory and the King.

=Article 1=

The Kingdom of Sverenia is a democratic, independent and indivisible State.

=Article 2=

The boundaries and chief towns of the judicial or administrative provinces may only be changed by virtue of a law.

=Article 3=

The Crown of the Kingdom of Sverenia is hereditary within the family of Froberg conforming to the accession of the throne after the country was created on the 26th of July 2020.

=Article 4=

The person of the King is inviolable.

=Article 5=

1)The King attains his majority of fifteen years of age. When he accedes to the throne, he takes, as soon as possible the following oath:

2) "I swear to observe the Constitution and the laws of the Kingdom of Sverenia, to maintain the national independence and integrity of the territory, as well as public and individual freedom.

3) After taking the oath the King receives the Crown Jewels.

=Article 6=

If on the death of the King, His successor is a minor, the regency is exercised confirmed to the throne of the Royal Family.

=Article 7=

If the King finds it impossible to reign, the regency is provided for as in case of minority.

In the case of vacancy of the throne, the Chamber provides for the regency provisionally. A new Chamber, convoked with the double numbers within thirty days, provides for the vacancy definitely.

=Article 8a=

When he enters into his functions, the Regent takes the following oath:

"I swear fidelity to the King. I swear to observe the Constitution and the laws of the country."

=Article 8b=

The King may never be replaced, in any way, unless His Majesty steps down.

The King has the right to veto any law passed by Parliament.

## Chapter II: Public Freedoms and Fundamental rights

=Article 9=

The status of Sverenian is acquired, retained and lost in accordance with the rules determined by civil law.

This Constitution and other laws concerning political rights determine those who are, beyond this quality, conditions necessary for the exercise of these rights.

By derogation of the preceding paragraph, the law can confer the exercise of political rights on non-Sverenians.

=Article 10=

1) Sverenians are equal before law.

2) They are admissible to all public, civil and military employment; the law determines the admissibility of non-Sverenians for such employment.

=Article 11=

1) The State guarantees the natural rights of the human person and of the family.

2) Women and men are equal in rights and duties. The State sees to active promotion of elimination of impediments which may exist in matters of equality between women and men.

3) The State guarantees the protection of private life, save the exceptions established by the law.

4) The law guarantees the right to work and the State sees to assurance to each citizen of the exercise of this right. The law guarantees the syndical freedom and organises the right to strike.

5) The law regulates as to their principles: social security, the protection of health, the rights of workers and the struggle against poverty and social integration of citizens affected by a handicap.

6) The freedom of commerce and industry, the exercise of liberal professions and of agricultural labour are guaranteed, save for the restrictions established by the law.

In matters of exercise of the liberal professions, the power to make regulations may be granted to professional organs endowed with civil personality.

The law can submit these regulations to procedures of adoption, amendment or suspension without prejudice to the attributions of judicial or administrative tribunals.

=Article 12=

Individual freedom is guaranteed. No one may be prosecuted except in cases specified by the law and in form which it prescribes. No one may be arrested or detained except in cases specified by the law and in the form which it prescribes. Except in case of flagrante delicto, no one may be arrested except by virtue of a substantiated order of a judge, which must be served, at the moment of the arrest, or at the the latest within 24 hours. Every person must be informed without delay of the means of legal recourse they have at their disposal to recover their freedom.

=Article 13=

No one may be deprived against his will of the judge that the law assigns to him.

=Article 14=

No penalty may be established or applied except by virtue of law.

=Article 15=

The domicile is inviolable. An intrusion can only be made in the cases specified by the laws and in the forms that it prescribes.

=Article 16=

One may only be deprived of his property for a reason of public utility and consideration of a just indemnity, in the case and in the manner established by the law.

=Article 17=

The penalty of the confiscation of property may not be established.

=Article 18=

The death penalty may be established.

=Article 19=

The freedom of religions, that of their public exercise, as well as the freedom to manifest religious opinions, are guaranteed, save for the repression of crimes commited on the practise of these freedoms.

=Article 20=

No one may be forced to take part in the acts of ceremonies of a religion or to observe its days of rest.

=Article 21=

Civil marriage must always precede the nuptial benediction.

=Article 22=

The intervention of the State in the nomination and the installation of the leaders of religions, the mode of nomination and dismissal of other ministers of religions, the faculty of the former or latter corresponding to their superiors and of publication of their acts, as well as the relation between the Church and the State, are subject to conventions submitted to the Chamber of Deputies for the provisions which necessitate its intervention.

=Article 23=

The State sees to the organization of primary education, which will be obligatory and

free and to which access must be guaranteed to every person inhabiting the Kingdom. Medical and social assistance is regulated by the law.

-Compulsory education

-Free education

It creates establishments of free secondary instruction and the necessary courses of higher education.

The law determines the means of supporting public instruction as well as the conditions of supervision by the Government and the provinces; it regulates additionally all matters concerning education and provides according to the criteria that it determines, a system of financial aid in favour of pupils and students. Anyone is free to study in the Kingdom or abroad and to attend the universities of his choice, subject to the provisions of the law on the conditions of admission to employment in, and to the exercise of certain professions.

=Article 24=

The freedom to manifest one's opinion by speech in all matters, and the freedom of the press are guaranteed, save the repressions of offenses commited on the occasion of the exercise of these freedoms. -Censorship may never be established.

=Article 25=

The Constitution guarantees the right to assemble peacefully and unarmed in compliance with the laws that govern the exercise of this right, without having to be submitted to a prior authorisation. -This provision is not applicable to open-air political, religious or other meetings; these meetings will remain entirely submitted to the laws and regulations of the police.

=Article 26=

The Constitution guarantees the right of association, in compliance with the laws that govern the exercise of this right without having submitted to a prior authorisation.

=Article 27=

Everyone has the right to address to the public authorities, petitions signed by one or more persons. -The contituted authorities alone have the right to address petitions collectively.

=Article 28=

The secrecy of correspondence is inviolable. The law determines those agents responsible for the violation of the secrecy of correspondence entrusted to the postal services.

The law regulates the guarantee to be given to the secrecy of telegrams.

=Article 29=

The law regulates the use of languages in administrative and judicial matters.

=Article 30=

No prior authorisation is required to exercise proceedings against public  functionaries, for faults in their administration, save that which is established in this regard the members of the Government.

=Article 31=

The public funtionaries, to whatever order they belong, the members of the Government expected, may only be deprived of their functions, honours and pensions in the manner determined by the law.

## Chapter III: The Sovereign Power

=Article 32=

1)The sovereign power resides in the Nation.

The King exercises it conforming to this Constitution and to the laws of the country.

2) He has no powers other than those formally attributed to him by the Constitution, and all without prejudice to Article 3 of this Constitution.

3) In the matters reserved to the law by the Constitution, the King can only make the regulations and orders to this end, under the conditions and following the modalities specified by law.

4) However, in the case of international crises, the King can, if there is any urgency, act in any matter concerning the regulations, likewise in derogation of existing legal provisions. The duration of the validity of these regulations is limited to 3 months.

/Section 1: The Prerogative of the King/

=Article 33=

The King is the Head of State, symbol of its unity and guarantor of the national independence. He exercises the executive power conforming to the Constitution and to the laws of the country.

=Article 34=

The King Promulgates the law within 3 days of the vote of the Chamber.

=Article 35=

The King appoints to civil and military posts in conformity to the law, and save the exceptions made by it.

A salaried function can only be created by the State by virtue of a legislative provision.

=Article 36=

The King makes the regulations and decisions necessary for the execution of the laws.

=Article 37=

The King makes the treaties. The treaties will not have effect before having been approved by the law and published in the forms specified for the publication of the laws. The treaties referred to in Chapter III, are approved by a law voted under the conditions of Article 95.

Secret treaties are abolished. The King makes the regulations and orders necessary for the execution of the treaties in the forms which regulate the measures of execution of the laws with the eggects which are attached to these measures, without prejudice to the matters which are reserved by the Constitution to the law. Cession, exchange to addition of territory can only take place by virtue of a law or military.

The King commands the armed force; he declares war and the cessation of the war after having been so authorised by a vote of the Chamber taken under the conditions of Article 95, of the Constitution.

=Article 38=

The King has the right to remit or reduce the penalties pronounced by the judges, save that which is established concerning the members of the Government.

=Article 39=

The King has the right to mint money in execution of the law.

=Article 40=

The King has the right to confer titles of nobility without ever having power to attach any privilege to them.

=Article 41=

The King confers civil and military orders, observing in this regard that which the law provides.

=Article 42=

The King may have Himself represented by a Prince of the blood, who shall bear the title of Lieutenant of the King and who shall reside in the Kingdom.

This representative shall take an oath to observe the Constitution before exercising his powers.

=Article 43=

The civil list is fixed at 10 Kröne per month.

It may be changed by the law at the commencement of each reign. The budgetary law may allocate each year to the Sovereign House the sums necessary yo cover the expenses of representation.

=Article 44=

The Royal Palace is reserved for the residence of the King.

=Article 45=

All provisions of the King must be countersigned by a member of the Government.

/Section 2: Of Legislation/

=Article 46=

The assent of the Chamber of Deputies is required for each law.

=Article 47=

The King addresses to the Chamber the proposals or bills of law he wishes to submit to adoption.

The Chamber has the right to propose bills of law to the King.

=Article 48=

The interpretation of the laws by way of authority may only take place by the law.

/Section 3: Of Justice/

=Article 49a=

Justice is rendered in the name of the King by the courts and the tribunals.

The orders and judgements are executed in the name of the King.

/Section 4: Of international powers/

=Article 49b=

The exercise of the attributions reserved by the Constitution to the legislative, executive and judicial powers may be temporarily vested by treaty in institutions of international law.

## Chapter IV: Of The Chamber of Deputies

=Article 50=

The Chamber of Deputies represents the country. The Deputies vote without referring to their constituents and may only have in view the general interest of the Kingdom.

=Article 51=

1) The Kingdom of Sverenia is placed under a regime of parliamentary democracy.

2) The organisation of the Chamber is regulated by law.

3) The Chamber is composed of 3 Deputies. A law adopted under the provisions of Article 95 establishes the number of Deputies to be elected in each of the circumscriptions.

4) The election is direct.

5) The Deputies are elected on the basis of universal suffrage and simple, on a party list ballot, following the rules of proportional representation, conforming to be the principle of the smallest electoral quotient and following the rules to be determined by the law.

6) The country is divided into three electoral circumscriptions:

-The east with the province of Capital Area

-The centre with the province of Ängelstrand

-The west with the province of Gammelholm

=Article 52=

To be an elector, it is necessary:

1) To be a Sverenian

2) To enjoy civil and political rights

3) To have completed 15 years of age

To these three qualities shall be added those determined by the law. No tax condition may be required.

To be eligible, it is necessary

1) To be a Sverenian

2) To enjoy civil and political rights

3) To have completed

15 years of age

4) To be domiciled in the Kingdom

No other condition of eligibility may be imposed.

=Article 53=

The following may neither be electors nor eligible:

1) People sentenced to criminal punishments

2) Those who, in a correctional matter, are deprived of the right to vote by their sentence

No other case of exclusion may be specified.

The right to vote may be restored by the way of pardon to the people who have lost it by penal sentence.

=Article 54=

1) The mandate of Deputy is incompatible:

  1) with those of member of the Council of State

  2) with those of magistrate of the Judicial Order

  3) with those of member of Court of Account

  4) with those of district commissioners

  5) with those of collector or accounting officer of the State

2) The functionaries who find themselves in a case of incompatibility have the right to choose between the mandate confided in them or their functions.

=Article 55=

The incompatibilities specified in the preceding article are not an impediment to the others which the law establishes in the future.

=Article 56=

The Deputies are elected for 1 month.

=Article 57=

1) The Chamber verifies the credentials of its members and judge the disputes which arise on the subject.

2) On entering their functions, they take the following oath:

"I swear fidelity to the King, obedience to the Constitution and the laws of the State."

3) This oath is taken at a public sitting presided over by the President of the Chamber.

=Article 58=

The Deputy, appointed by the Government to a salaried post which he accepts, ceases immediately to sit and resumes his functions only by virtue of a new election.

=Article 59=

All the laws are submitted to a second vote, unless the Chamber, in agreement with the Council of State, in a public sitting decides otherwise. -There shall be an interval of at least 3 days between the two votes.

=Article 60=

At each session, the Chamber approves that the Prime Minister and Deputy PM composes its Bureau.

=Article 61=

The sittings of the Chamber are public, save for the exceptions determined by its regulations.

=Article 62=

The Chamber may only take a resolution when the majority of its members are present.

=Article 63=

The sittings of the Chamber are held in the place of residence of the administration of the Kingdom. If someone cannot come online, it is okay via Instagram.

=Article 64=

1) The Chamber meets each month in ordinary session at the time specified by regulations

2) Every session is opened and closesd by the King in person, or in his name.

=Article 65=

The King can dissolve the Chamber.

New elections are held 1 day within the dissolution.

## Chapter V: Of the Government of the Kingdom

=Article 66=

The King regulates the organisation of his Government, which is comprised of 3 members at least.

=Article 67=

The King appoints and dismisses the members of the Government.

=Article 68=

Both the King and the Prime Minister can dissolve the Government

=Article 69=

There is no intermediate authority between the members of the Government and the King.

=Article 70=

Members of the Government have access to the Chamber and must be heard when they demand it.

The Chamber may demand their presence.

=Article 71=

The King may only padon a member of the Government at the request if the Chamber.

## Chapter VI: Of Justice

=Article 72=

Disputes which have civil rights as their object are exclusively of the resort of the tribunals.

=Article 73=

Disputes which are political rights as their object are of the resort of tribunals, save the exceptions established by the law.

=Article 74=

Every judgement is substantiated. It is pronounced in public hearing.

=Article 75=

The justices of peace and the judges of the tribunals are appointed by the King. The councillors of the Court and presidents and vice presidents of the provinces are appointed by the King on the advice of the Superiour Court of Justice.

=Article 76=

Judges may be suspended, dismissed or transferred in the event of infirmity or misconduct.

=Article 77=

The salaries of members of judicial orders are specified by the law.

=Article 78=

Particular laws regulate the organisation of the military tribunals, their attributions, the rights and obligations of the members of these tribunals and the duration of their functions.

=Article 79=

The courts and tribunals only apply general and local orders and regulations when these comply with the laws.

Chapter VII: Of the Public Force

=Article 80=

All which concerns the armed force is regulated by the King or the law.

=Article 81=

The organisation and the attributions of the forces of public order is the subject of law and the King.

=Article 82=

A Civil Guard, whose organisation is regulated by the Prime Minister, may be formed.

## Chapter VIII: Of Finances

=Article 83=

A tax for the benefit of the state may only be established by a law.

=Article 84=

The taxes for the benefit of the State are voted monthly.

=Article 85=

No privilege may be established in matters of tax. Exemprion or reduction may only be established by a law.

=Article 86=

The following people do not pay taxes:

1) Royals

2) Members of Government

3) The Chamber

=Article 87=

Payment may be required of citizens or of public establishments, only under the title of taxes for the benefit of the State or province.

=Article 88=

Persons with a pension pay only half of taxes of what a normal citizen pays.

=Article 89=

Each month, the Chamber adopts the law of accounts and votes the budgets of each company.

## Chapter IX: Of the Provinces

=Article 90=

Each Province has its own section of Parliament and votes on anything regulated by the law and the main Government.

## Chapter X: General Provisions

=Article 91=

The City of Guldhavn is the Capital of the Kingdom and the seat of Government. The seat of the Government may only be transferred temporarily for grave reasons.

=Article 92=

Every foreigner in the territory of the Kingdom enjoys the protection granted to persons and to property, save the exeptions established by the law.

=Article 93=

A law, a decree or a regulation of general or provincial administration is only obligatory after having been published in the form determined by the law.

=Article 94=

No provisions of the Constitution may be suspended.

=Article 95=

No revision will be adopted if it has not obtained at least 2/3 of the votes of the member of the Chamber.

=Article 96=

During a regency, no change can be made to the Constitution concerning the constitutional prerogatives of the King, his status as well as the order of succession.

## Chapter XI: Transitory and Supplementary Provisions

=Article 97=

Until provided by a law, the Chamber of Deputies shall have the discretionary power to accuse a member of the Government, and the Superior Court of Justice shall judge him.

=Article 98=

From the day the Constitution is executory, all the laws, all the decrees, orders, regulations and other acts which are contrary to it are abrogated.

=Article 99=

Pending the conclusion of the conventions referred to in Article 22, the current provisions concerning religions remain in force.

=Article 100=

Until the promulgation of the laws and regulations referred to in the Constitution the laws and regulations in force continue to be applicable.