PROPOSAL: Second Amendment to the Constitution

Preamble

A Constitutional Amendment to legitimise Royal Decrees and expand the breadth and depth of the legislature.

Article I: Legislature

Section I: Amendments

  1. All Acts may now be directly Amended.
    1. A Direct Amendment is any change to an Act’s text and Law.
    2. Amending an Act requires a Change Log to be included at the bottom of the Act, enumerating all changes made to the Act since its original passing.
    3. Amending an Act requires the same requirements as signing a new Act into Law.
  2. Any Act may define an Indirect Amendment Clause in the Preamble, which shall forbid any Direct Amendments to the Act and any future Acts that Amend that Act.
    1. The contents of the Indirect Amendment Clause shall be “Pursuant to the provisions of Article I, Secion I(2) of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Direct Amendment of this Act is expressly forbidden.”
  3. An Act may define Amendment Terms in the form of a supplementary Future Amendment Notice following the list of Articles and Change Log.
    1. The Future Amendment Notice shall enumerate the extent to which the Act and its subsequent Acts are able to be directly Amended.
    2. By default, an Act with no Future Amendment Notice shall be open to full Direct Amendment.
    3. An Act may be Directly Amended to include a Future Amendment Notice.
    4. The terms of a Future Amendment Notice may not be changed or added.
      1. New terms are permitted to be added by future Direct Amendment.
  4. Changes to the textual content of an Act, the Constitution, or a Constitutional Amendment that do not change the meaning of the text (e.g the correction of typographical errors) may be corrected with no notice in the Change Log or any other procedure.

Section II: Royal Assent

  1. Royal Assent is defined as the process by which the Monarch signs an Act, Constitutional Amendment, or Direct Amendment into Law.
  2. Royal Assent of an Act, Constitutional Amendment, or Direct Amendment that has not met its requirements is expressly forbidden.
    1. Any Law given illegitimate Royal Assent is in and of itself illegitimate.
    2. If a majority of Judges (as defined by the totality of the Body of Judges) rules a Royal Assent to be illegitimate, the procedures defined in Article VI of the Constitution and all pursuant Amendments shall be used to select a Successor.

Article II: Codes

Section I: Structure

  1. A Code is a type of Act that may only be directly Amended pursuant to the terms as described in the terms of Section I(1) of this Document.
    1. The scope, definition, and enactment of punishments shall be defined in the Criminal Code.
      1. The Serious Crimes Act 2025 shall be be terminated once the Criminal Code is enacted.
    2. The scope, method, and consequences of taxation shall be defined in the Tax Code.
      1. The National Minimum Wage shall be defined in the Tax Code once it is enacted.
    3. The rights, obligations, and procedures of civil society shall be defined in the Civil Code.
      1. The Civil Code shall contain provisions for property rights, civil partnerships, civil proceedings, and familial law once it is enacted.
  2. A Code may be made null and void by the introduction of a Code that supercedes it.
    1. The old Code shall no longer be in effect upon the enactment of the new Code.
    2. The new Code may be derived textually from the old Code with no legal implications.
  3. Each Code may have its own internal notation.
    1. No Code’s notation need be compatible or inter-operable with any other Code’s notation.

Section II: Enactment

  1. A Code must be passed through the same means as any other Act.
  2. A Code must be Directly Amended through the same means as any other Act.
    1. Changes to a monetary value in a Code do not require Parliamentary or public approval.
  3. Any Code that is defined in Section I that has not been passed shall be considered to exist, but with no legal weight.
    1. Once all Codes described in Section I have been passed, the above Subsection shall be considered null and void.

Article II: Bill Of Rights (Amended)

  1. All Citizens have the right not to be retroactively incriminated.
    1. Any new Legislation that makes a prior Action(s) illegal shall not be permitted to prosecute any Citizens who performed the Action(s) before the Legislation was signed into Law.
    2. A Royal Decree may create an exception provided no reasonable Individual would believe the Action(s) to be ethical and just or that their self-interest would not harm any other Individual.
  2. All Individuals have the right to dignity and equality of treatment by all other Individuals.
    1. This right shall be considered Inviolable.
  3. The right to refuse conscription as defined in Article II, Section I, Subsection 11 of the Constitution shall be considered Inviolable.
  4. Any right that is considered Inviolable cannot be overturned by Constitutional Amendment.

Article III: Royal Decrees

Section I: Structure

  1. A Royal Decree is a public announcement of intent and legal action by the Monarch.
  2. A Royal Decree shall consist of a free-form statement by the Monarch in a public channel stating an action made on behalf of the Crown as well as the reasoning for its enactment and, if applicable, when the Royal Decree expires.

Section II: Enactment

  1. A Royal Decree shall only be valid if it is delivered in a nationally accessible channel, free-of-charge.
    1. Any Royal Decrees found not to be made in this manner are to be retroactively made null and void.
    2. Royal Decrees made in channels that were publicly accessible when they were delivered are to be considered legally sound.
  2. Royal Decrees must be notated in the format “Royal Decree XXYYZZAA”, with the following values:
    1. XX corresponding to the last two digits of the year the Decree was delivered.
    2. YY corresponding to the number of the month the Decree was delivered.
    3. ZZ corresponding to the number of the day the Decree was delivered.
    4. AA corresponding to the sequence number of the Royal Decree amongst the Decrees made that day, enumerated from 0 to 99.
      1. The Monarch must not deliver more than one hundred Royal Decrees in any given day, due to limitations in the notation system above.
  3. The National Archives is to be tasked with keep a record of all Royal Decrees, past and future, to be publicly accessible on request.
    1. The National Archives is to be tasked with running a Royal Decree Request Service, in which an individual may fill in a postal form and request a copy of any Legal Decree to be delivered to any valid address within the Country.
    2. The Country’s Postal Service shall not charge any postage fee for domestic sending or receiving of any mail pertaining to the Royal Decree Request Service.

Section III: Limitations

  1. No Royal Decree that constitutes the text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any Statuatory Law is permitted.
  2. If any Judge declares a Royal Decree to be Unconstitutional, the following procedure shall be brought henceforth:
    1. If a majority vote in the Body of Judges passes, the Royal Decree is considered null and void.
    2. If the aforementioned vote in the Body of Judges fails but is tied, the Prime Minister shall cast a tie-breaking vote.
      1. The Prime Minister may choose to run a Referendum to defer the tie-breaking vote to the People.
      2. The Prime Minister may choose to defer the tie-breaking vote to Parliament by casting a majority vote in Parliament.
  3. If any Member of Parliament declares a Royal Decree to be Unconstitutional, a vote shall be cast in Parliament.
    1. If a two-thirds vote in Parliament succeeds, the Royal Decree shall be considered null and void.
    2. In the event the two-thirds majority vote is tied, the Prime Minister shall cast a tie-breaking vote.

Section IV: Emergency Decrees

  1. If the Monarch declares a State of Emergency, they shall be permitted to sign Emergency Decrees.
  2. An Emergency Decree is a Royal Decree that pertains to a State of Emergency and may override protections made out by the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Statuatory Law.
    1. Any statutes in the Bill of Rights considered Inviolable or unable to be overturned shall not be violated under any circumstnances.
  3. Emergency Decrees are only valid for the duration of a State of Emergency.
  4. A State of Emergency shall only last three months or less, and is subject to regular renewal.
    1. A State of Emergency shall only be renewed if the Emergency it pertains to remains in effect.
  5. A State of Emergency may only be declared as a result of an imminent threat to the Country and her People or to the Crown.
  6. No State of Emergency shall be declared in order to undermine democratic processes, the Rule of Law, the Peace, or the People.
    1. In the event the Monarch attempts to declare an illegitimate State of Emergency, they shall, upon a successful majority vote from the Body of Judges, be immediately removed from office, and Succession procedures shall be enacted.
    2. If a two-thirds majority of Parliament is successful, a State of Emergency shall be declared as unlawful and the procedure as defined above shall apply.
  7. No Emergency Decree shall serve any purpose other than addressing the Emergency it pertains to.

Article IV: Monarchical Speeches

Section I: Content and Structure

  1. A Monarchical Speech is any public address made by the Monarch stating their position on any matter.
  2. A Monarchical Speech shall officially be referred to based on the following conditions:
    1. If the Monarch identifies as male, the “King’s Speech”;
    2. If the Monarch identifies as female, the “Queen’s Speech”;
    3. In any other case, the “Monarch’s speech”.
  3. A Monarchical Speech shall contain no implication of legal weight or endorsement by any party other than the Monarch.
    1. The official position of the Monarch on a given matter shall be considered the official position of the Country on that matter.

Section II: Liability

  1. The Monarch shall be held legally liable for any false and/or defamatory statements or positions made in a Monarchical Speech as pertaining to all Statuatory Law or the Criminal Code.