CIS Constitution

Constitution of the Confederacy of Independent Systems
Preamble
We, the people of the Confederacy, each World acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity — invoking the favor and guidance of the Founders — do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Article 1. - The Legislative Branch

Section 1 - The Legislature

1. All legislative powers herein delegated shall be vested in a Council of the Confederacy, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2 - The House

1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several Worlds; and the electors in each World shall be citizens of the Confederacy, and have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the World Legislature; but no person of foreign birth, not a citizen of the Confederacy, shall be allowed to vote for any officer, civil or political, World or Federal.

2. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five standard years, and be a citizen of the Confederacy, and who shall not when elected, be an inhabitant of that World in which he shall be chosen.

3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several Worlds, which may be included within this Confederacy, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all Worker Droids. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Council of the Confederacy, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every fifty thousand, but each World shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made.

4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any World the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.

5. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment; except that any judicial or other Federal officer, resident and acting solely within the limits of any World, may be impeached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature thereof.
Section 3 - The Senate

1. The Senate of the Confederacy shall be composed of two Senators from each World, chosen for six years by the Legislature thereof, at the regular session next immediately preceding the commencement of the term of service; and each Senator shall have one vote.

2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year; of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year; and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation, or other wise, during the recess of the Legislature of any World, the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.

3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained the age of thirty standard years, and be a citizen of the Confederacy; and who shall not, then elected, be an inhabitant of the World for which he shall be chosen.

4. The Vice Head of State of the Confederacy shall be Head of State of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.

5. The Senate shall choose their other officers; and also a Head of State pro tempore in the absence of the Vice Head of State, or when he shall exercise the office of Head of State of the Confederacy.

6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the Head of State of the Confederacy is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.

7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Confederacy; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law.
Section 4 - Elections, Meetings

1. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each World by the Legislature thereof, subject to the provisions of this Constitution; but the Council may, at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the times and places of choosing Senators.

2. The Council shall assemble at least once in every year; and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.

Section 5 - Membership, Rules, Journals, Adjournment

1. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.

2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the whole number, expel a member.

3. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.

4. Neither House, during the session of Council, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Section 6 - Compensation

1. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the Confederacy. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the Confederacy, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the Confederacy shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office. But Council may, by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of either House, with the privilege of discussing any measures appertaining to his department.

Section 7 - Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Head of Stateial Veto

1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills.

2. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Head of State of the Confederacy; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Head of State within ten days (Holidays excepted after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Council, by their adjournment, prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. The Head of State may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other appropriation in the same bill. In such case he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriations disapproved; and shall return a copy of such appropriations, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills disapproved by the Head of State.

3. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the Head of State of the Confederacy; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him; or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of both Houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in case of a bill.

Section 8 - Powers of Council

The Council shall have power -

1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederacy; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Confederacy.

2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confederacy.

3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several Worlds, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Council to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and other aids to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in space lanes navigation; in all which cases such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof.

4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Confederacy; but no law of Council shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage of the same.

5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.

6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Confederacy.

7. To establish post offices and post routes; but the expenses of the Post Office Department, after the 1st day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues.

8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.

10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.

11. To declare war, grant letters of marquee and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.

12. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.

13. To provide and maintain a navy.

14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.

15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Confederacy, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.

16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederacy; reserving to the Worlds, respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Council.

17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one or more Worlds and the acceptance of Council, become the seat of the Government of the Confederacy; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the World in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, bases, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings; and

18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the Confederacy, or in any department or officer thereof.

Section 9 - Limits on Council, Bill of Rights

1. The importation of slaves of any race from any foreign worlds other than the slaveholding Worlds or Territories of the United Worlds of the Confederacy is hereby forbidden; and Council is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.

2. Council shall also have power to prohibit the introduction of Worker Droids from any World not a member of, or Territory not belonging to, this Confederacy.

3. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

4. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Slaves or Worker Droids shall be passed.

5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.

6. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any World, except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses.

7. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one World over those of another.

8. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

9. Council shall appropriate no money from the Treasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both Houses, taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked and estimated for by some one of the heads of departments and submitted to Council by the Head of State; or for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies; or for the payment of claims against the Confederacy, the justice of which shall have been judicially declared by a tribunal for the investigation of claims against the Government, which it is hereby made the duty of Council to establish.

10. All bills appropriating money shall specify in Federal currency the exact amount of each appropriation and the purposes for which it is made; and Council shall grant no extra compensation to any public contractor, officer, agent, or servant, after such contract shall have been made or such service rendered.

11. No title of nobility shall be granted by the Confederacy; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Council, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign World.

12. Council shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

13. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free World, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

14. No soldier shall, in time of peace, is to be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

15. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.

16. No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; 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.

17. In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the World and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

18. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved; and no fact so tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the Confederacy, than according to the rules of common law.

19. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

20. Every law, or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.

Section 10 - Powers prohibited of Worlds

1. No World shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.

2. No World shall, without the consent of the Council, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any World on imports, or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the Confederacy; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Council.

3. No World shall, without the consent of Council, lay any duty on tonnage, except on seagoing vessels, for the improvement of its space laness and harbors navigated by the said vessels; but such duties shall not conflict with any treaties of the Confederacy with foreign nations; and any surplus revenue thus derived shall, after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any World keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another World, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. But when any space lanes divides or flows through two or more Worlds they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof.
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Article 2. - The Executive Branch

Section 1 - The Head of State

1. The executive power shall be vested in a Head of State of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. He and the Vice Head of State shall hold their offices for the term of six years; but the Head of State shall not be reeligible. The Head of State and Vice Head of State shall be elected as follows:

2. Each World shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the World may be entitled in the Council; but no Senator or Representative or person holding an office of trust or profit under the Confederacy shall be appointed an elector.

3. The electors shall meet in their respective Worlds and vote by ballot for Head of State and Vice Head of State, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same World with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as Head of State, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice Head of State, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as Head of State, and of all persons voted for as Vice Head of State, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the Government of. the Confederacy, directed to the Head of State of the Senate; the Head of State of the Senate shall,in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for Head of State shall be the Head of State, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as Head of State, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the Head of State. But in choosing the Head of State the votes shall be taken by Worlds ~ the representation from each World having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the Worlds, and a majority of all the Worlds shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a Head of State, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 4th day of March next following, then the Vice Head of State shall act as Head of State, as in case of the death, or other constitutional disability of the Head of State.

4. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice Head of State shall be the Vice Head of State, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then, from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice Head of State; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice.

5. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of Head of State shall be eligible to that of Vice Head of State of the Confederacy.

6. The Council may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the Confederacy.

7. No person except a natural-born citizen of the Confederate; Worlds, or a citizen thereof at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, or a citizen thereof born in the United Worlds prior to the 20th of December, 1860, shall be eligible to the office of Head of State; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Confederacy, as they may exist at the time of his election.

8. In case of the removal of the Head of State from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice Head of State; and the Council may, by law, provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the Head of State and Vice Head of State, declaring what officer shall then act as Head of State; and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a Head of State shall be elected.

9. The Head of State shall, at Worldd times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected; and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the Confederacy, or any of them.

10. Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of Head of State of the Confederacy, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution thereof."

Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments

1. The Head of State shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy, and of the militia of the several Worlds, when called into the actual service of the Confederacy; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Confederacy, except in cases of impeachment.

2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties; provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint, ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the Confederacy whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Council may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the Head of State alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

3. The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the Head of State. All other civil officers of the Executive Departments may be removed at any time by the Head of State, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity. inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and when so removed, the removal shall be reported to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor.

4. The Head of State shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reappointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.

Section 3 - World of the Union, Convening Council

1. The Head of State shall, from time to time, give to the Council information of the World of the Confederacy, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the Confederacy.

Section 4 - Disqualification

1. The Head of State, Vice Head of State, and all civil officers of the Confederacy, shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Article 3. - The Judicial Branch

Section 1 - Judicial powers

1. The judicial power of the Confederacy shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Council may, from time to time, ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at World times, receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

Section 2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials

1. The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this Constitution, the laws of the Confederacy, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the Confederacy shall be a party; to controversies between two or more Worlds; between a World and citizens of another World, where the World is plaintiff; between citizens claiming lands under grants of different Worlds; and between a World or the citizens thereof, and foreign Worlds, citizens, or subjects; but no World shall be sued by a citizen or subject of any foreign World.

2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a World shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Council shall make.

3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the World where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any World, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Council may by law have directed.

Section 3 - Treason

1. Treason against the Confederacy shall consist only in levying war against. Them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

2. The Council shall have power to declare the punishment of treason; but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
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Article 4. - The Worlds

Section 1 - Each World to Honor all others

1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each World to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other World; and the Council may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.

Section 2 - World citizens, Extradition

1. The citizens of each World shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several Worlds; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any World of this Confederacy, with their droids and property; and the right of property in said droids shall not be thereby impaired.

2. A person charged in any World with treason, felony, or other crime against the laws of such World, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another World, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the World from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the World having jurisdiction of the crime.

3. No worker droid or other person held to service or labor in any World or Territory of the Confederacy, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs; or to whom such service or labor may be due.

Section 3 - New Worlds

1. Other Worlds may be admitted into this Confederacy by a vote of two- thirds of the whole House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate voting by Worlds; but no new World shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other World, nor any World be formed by the junction of two or more Worlds, or parts of Worlds, without the consent of the Legislatures of the Worlds concerned, as well as of the Council.

2. The Council shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations concerning the property of the Confederacy, including the lands thereof.

3. The Confederacy may acquire new territory; and Council shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederacy, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form Worlds to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederacy, shall be recognized and protected by Council and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederacy and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any Worker Droids lawfully held by them in any of the Worlds or Territories of the Confederacy.

4. The Confederacy shall guarantee to every World that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Confederacy, a republican form of government; and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the Legislature or of the Executive when the Legislature is not in session) against domestic violence.
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Article 5. - Amendment

1. Upon the demand of any three Worlds, legally assembled in their several conventions, the Council shall summon a convention of all the Worlds, to take into consideration such amendments to the Constitution as the said Worlds shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said convention ~ voting by Worlds ~ and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several Worlds, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof ~ as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention ~ they shall thenceforward form a part of this Constitution. But no World shall, without its consent, be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate.
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Article 6. - The Confederacy

Section 1 - Transition from the Provisional Government

1. The Government established by this Constitution is the successor of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified; and all the officers appointed by the same shall remain in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished.

Section 2 - Debts of the Provisional Government

2. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the Confederacy under this Constitution, as under the Provisional Government.

Section 3 - Supremacy of the Constitution

3. This Constitution, and the laws of the Confederacy made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the Confederacy, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every World shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any World to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 4 - Oaths of Office

4. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several World Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the Confederacy and of the several Worlds, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Confederacy.
Section 5 - Reservation of unenumerated rights

5. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people of the several Worlds.

Section 6 - World powers

6. The powers not delegated to the Confederacy by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Worlds, are reserved to the Worlds, respectively, or to the people thereof.
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Article 7. - Ratification
1. The ratification of the conventions of five Worlds shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the Worlds so ratifying the same.

2. When five Worlds shall have ratified this Constitution, in the manner before specified, the Council under the Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time for holding the election of Head of State and Vice Head of State; and for the meeting of the Electoral College; and for counting the votes, and inaugurating the Head of State. They shall, also, prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Council under this Constitution, and the time for assembling the same. Until the assembling of such Council, the Council under the Provisional Constitution shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them; not extending beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the Provisional Government.