The Constitution of the People's Republic of Hyranor

We the People of Hyranor, in order to form a more perfect republic, founded on the common ideal of liberty, equality, and fraternity, to establish justice, to ensure domestic peace, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty and prosperity to its people and it’s future descendants – for it is the duty for the government to so enshrine these ideals, to act, serve, and provide for its people, in serve of the people, by the people, for the people, and in doing so ensure the equality of all citizens before the law, without distinction of origin, race, religion, magical ability, martial ability, or divine ability - do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Democratic Republic of Hyranor.

## Article 1

### Section 1

All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a People’s Council of Hyranor, composed of a City Assembly and a National Senate

### Section 2

The City Assembly shall be composed of 10 Members, one representing each city-state of Hyranor. Each Member shall be chosen by the people of their respective state by popular vote, and serve for a term of 5 years and may not serve more than three terms. No person shall be a Representative who is not a citizen of the Republic of Hyranor and must be an inhabitant of the city-state in which they shall be chosen.

Each city-state of Hyranor shall have one Assembly Member. The Assembly shall choose their Speaker and other Officers. The Assembly shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

### Section 3

The National Senate shall be composed of 10 Members. Each Member shall be chosen by the people of the republic by national popular vote, and serve for a term of 10 years and may not serve more than two terms. No person shall be a Representative who is not a citizen of the Republic of Hyranor and must be an inhabitant of the nation.

For each seat in the City Assembly, there shall be a seat in the National Senate, such that the members of the Assembly are equal to the members of the Senate. The Prime Minister shall serve as Speaker for the Senate and shall choose their own Officers. The Senate shall have the sole power to Try all Impeachments. No person shall be impeached without the concurrence of a simple majority of the Senate present.

Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to remove from Service in Office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor.

### Section 4

The time, place, and manner for holding elections for the City Assembly shall be prescribed in each City-State by the city government thereof; but the Assembly may at any time by law make or alter such regulations for time, place, and manner of election, as long as the changes by law do not impose difficulty on the city citizenry in enacting their vote.

The time, place, and manner for holding elections for the National Senate shall be prescribed by the Maevir and Prime Minister of the Executive Office, but the Senate may at any time by law make or alter such regulations for time, place, and manner of election, as long as the changes by law do not impose difficulty on the national citizenry in enacting their vote.

Should vacancy happen in the representation from the City Assembly or the National Senate, the Executive Authority, the Maevir, shall appoint an officer to fulfill the remainder of the term.

### Section 5

The City Assembly and National Senate shall meet at least once every month, and the meeting shall be on the first Tomorrow Day of the month. A Majority of each house shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of business, but a small number of members may adjourn. However, attendance of absent members may be compelled by a simple majority.

The City Assembly and National Senate may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of seven tenths, expel a Member.

The City Assembly and National Senate shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and shall conduct its proceedings under the influence of a *Zone of Truth*, accepted willingly. The journal of proceedings shall be published immediately at the conclusion of each session, and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either the Assembly or the Senate shall be recorded and published and made public for the Citizens of the Republic.

The laws passed by the City Assembly and National Senate shall apply to the Republic in its entirety. The city-states shall have the power to enact and implement its own laws, its own taxes, for its own needs. However, in cases which the National Law and City Law are incompatible, the law of the Nation shall take precedence.

### Section 6

All bills which shall have passed the City Assembly with the approval of a simple majority, and which shall have passed the National Senate with the approval of a simple majority, before it become law, shall be presented to the Maevir of the Republic of Hyranor.

If the Maevir approves, the bill shall become law, effective immediately upon the signature of the Maevir.

If the Maevir objects, the Maevir shall return the bill to the People’s Council for review, with objections clearly stated. The City Assembly and National Senate may reconvene and provide a revised bill, with objections addressed, for the Maevir’s approval. If after reconsideration, the Maevir still objects, if two thirds (or fraction greater) of the People’s Council approve of the bill, it shall be passed into Law.

### Section 7

The People’s Council shall serve the people and the city-states of Hyranor, such that the basic inalienable needs and rights of each person is provided for and protected. Legislation shall serve the purpose of the common ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and shall not infringe upon these needs and rights.

The People’s Council shall have the power to levy and fund a standing military force for the protection of the Republic, which shall be used solely for the protection of the nation's citizens from foreign invasion and monsters.

The People’s Council shall have the power to levy and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the Republic.

The People’s Council shall have the power to promote the progress of science, artifice, magic, and divinity, by securing the limited time of scientists, artificers, wizards, sorcerers, clerics, paladins, fighters, rangers, druids, and fighters.

The People’s Council shall have the duty to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying to execution the powers vested by the Constitution of the Republic.

### Section 8

Under the coalition under the Republic of Hyranor, no City-State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation, coin money, emit bills of credit, pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the obligation of contracts

No City-State shall lay any tax on imports or exports, nor impose any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one City-State from another, nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one city-state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another

No City-States shall keep troops or ships of war, nor enter into any agreement or compact with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless invaded and in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

No title of Nobility shall be granted by the Democratic Republic of Hyranor. And no person holding any office may accept any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatsoever, from any Noble or foreign state.

## Article 2

### Section 1

The executive power shall be vested in the office of Maevir. They shall hold this office during the term of 5 years, with the maximum of three terms.

The Maevir shall be nominated by national popular vote. Each citizen shall have suffrage, and the vote shall be ranked, with each citizen providing a first, a second, and a third nomination.

Upon the tallying of the national vote, the three Maevir- nominés with the great number of votes shall be brought to the People’s Council.

The Maevir- nominés shall be interviewed and evaluated by the People’s Council, such as to determine their fitness to serve. The evaluation shall be conducted under magical scrutiny, and the presence of pacts, promises, and magical contracts shall bar the nominee from service. After three days of scrutiny, the People’s Council shall vote, and the Maevir- nominé with the greatest number of votes shall serve as Maevir.

In case of removal of the Maevir from office, or their death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers of the office of Maevir, the Prime Minister shall act in service of the office through the end of the term until an election can be held.

Before the Maevir enters the Execution of the Office of Maevir, they shall take an oath of affirmation binding them to the service of the Republic, vowing on the spirits of Maevir Eirik and all past monarchs and councilmembers of the kingdom – “I swear and affirm that I will faithfully serve the People of Hyranor and execute the Office of the Maevir of the Democratic Republic of Hyranor, and will to the full extent of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the republic and the Common Ideals of its people.

### Section 2

The Maevir shall have the duty to ensure the administration and enactment of the Legislation passed by the Council, and shall have the power to require the opinion, in writing, of the chief executive officer in each executive department of administration upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices. The Maevir shall have the power to appoint officers and create boards and commissions for the research and advisement of the executive.

The Maevir shall have the power to make treaties, appoint ambassadors, judges, and other offices provided a majority of the People’s Council present concur.

The Maevir shall have the power to convene the People’s Council, and recommend their consideration on measures they judge necessary and expedient.

The Maevir shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Democratic Republic of Hyranor, except in cases of impeachment.

The Maevir shall have the power to appoint a Prime Minister. The Prime Minister shall serve in support of the Maevir in the administration of governance and matters of the executive, but shall not hold the powers vested solely in the Maevir.

### Section 3

The Maevir, Prime Minister, and all officers within the executive shall be removed from office on impeachment if convicted of treason, bribery, manipulation of time, manipulation of existence, or have found to have subordinating contracts, magical or divine, with beings magical or divine against the interests of the Republic or for personal or filial enrichment.

## Article 3: Declaration of Rights of the People of Hyranor

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, and that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights. The rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness are inalienable, yet these common ideals and rights must be clearly stated and enshrined such that they may be protected and freely given to all citizens of Hyranor.

**Article I** – All beings are born and remain free and equal in rights.

**Article II** – The Democratic Republic of Hyranor is founded on the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible common ideals and rights of the people. These rights include, but are not limited to, liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.

**Article III** – The authority of the government resides in the authority given to it by the people. The power of governance is vested not through magical, divine, martial, or mental ability, but by the power vested directly from the people. As such, no individual in governance may exercise authority which does not proceed directly from the people .

**Article IV** – Liberty consists of actions that do not bring harm to others. The natural rights of each person extend to the borders of which each person is assured the fruition of those same rights.

**Article V** – The law can forbid only actions harmful to society and the common good and the common ideals. Anything not forbidden cannot be impeded, and no one can be compelled to act in ways that the law does not order.

**Article VI** – The law and the governments are extensions of the will of the people. Every citizen has the right to contribute personally or through representation, and are equally admissible to all public officials and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than their feats, talents, abilities, and skills. No citizen shall be barred based on Bonds, Ideals, Traits or Flaws.

**Article VII** – No person can be accused, arrested, nor detained except in cases determined by the law and according to the forms in which it has been prescribed.

Any citizen called or seized under the terms of the law has the right to resistance, and the act of resistance does not render culpability. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure each citizen is arrested or detained alive, and is given due process and justice under the law.

**Article VIII** – The law does not serve to enact undue punishment; the law only establishes penalties and reparations that are strictly and evidently necessary, with the priority of making the aggrieved party whole. No one may be punished under a law established and promulgated before the offense.

**Article IX** – The process for the petition of crime shall not be unduly burdensome or complex. It is the duty of the government to serve its people with expediency and simplicity.

**Article X** – No one may be silenced for their opinions provided that their manifestation does not bring about the manifestation of interplanar or interdimensional beings which may threaten the existence of the Republic.

**Article XI** – The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of people: any citizen thus may speak, write, print, sending, scry, magically communicate, telekinetically communicate, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law.

**Article XII** – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity. As such, property can be given freely, and the act of charity, under the conditions of property, is inalienable

**Article XIII** – The guarantee of the rights of man and of the citizen necessitates a public force: this force is thus instituted for the advantage of all and not for the particular utility of those in whom it is trusted.

**Article XIV** – For the maintenance of the public force and for the expenditures of administration, a common contribution is indispensable; it must be equally distributed to all the citizens, according to their ability to pay.

**Article XV** – Each citizen has the right to ascertain, by themselves or their representatives, the need for a public tax, to consent to it freely, to know the uses to which it is put, and of determining the proportion, basis, collection, and duration.

**Article XVI** – The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration.

**Article XVII** – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.

## Referances

1. ↑ Arc 8 Episode 0
2. ↑ Arc 8 Episode 2
3. ↑ Arc 8 Episode 0: Introduction Monologue