- prevent the ordinary conduct of other individuals, business, and government.
- government may not support nor restrict any particular lifestyle so long as it does not violate the rights of others.
4. All individuals have the right to worship or not as they choose:
- the government at all levels may not support nor restrict any religion so long as the religion does not violate the rights of individuals.
- businesses may not support, be associated with, nor restrict any religion.
- religions may not support nor operate any businesses in competition with ordinary business nor interfere with the conduct of ordinary legal business or the rights of individual citizens.
5. All individuals have the right to move about freely without restriction except in such cases where the government is acting to protect vital interests by establishing a defense base or other facility where security is required in order to protect the government and its people.
6. All individuals have the right to communicate with other individuals.
7. All individuals have the right to associate with whomever they choose in whatever numbers they may choose so long as they are peaceful.
8. All individuals have the right to own and carry personal weapons in any manner as well as use them for defense.
9. All individuals have the right to freely elect any and all public officials who represent them:
- elections cannot be postponed nor cancelled by action of the individuals elected into public office.
- election districts cannot be designed to keep any political group in or out of power and shall be as compact in design as is possible taking topography into account.
10. All individuals have the right to address their concerns to the government.
11. All individuals have the right to know all charges being placed against them at the time of arrest for all criminal cases.
- an arrest warrant shall be issued only on the oath or affirmation of a named individual or on an indictment by grand jury giving probable grounds indicating an offense has been committed.
- all individuals have the right to due process under the law and to a speedy trial with competent legal representation equal to the abilities of the prosecution.
- all individuals subject to arrest for criminal acts are entitled to trial by an impartial jury in the governing district in which the crime occurred.
- all individuals have the right to not self-incriminate themselves with testimony.
- all individuals have the right to confront their accusers and witnesses.
- all individuals have the right of compulsory testimony by witnesses in his favor.
- all individuals are protected against being tried twice for the same offense, even under a different charge, such other charges for the same offense either being tried at the same time or being forfeited by the prosecution.
12. All individuals have the right to privacy against illegal intrusion.
13. All individuals have the right to own property and to be secure in their possessions and effects against illegal search or seizure:
- a legal search warrant shall be issued only on the oath or affirmation of a named individual giving probable cause.
- the search warrant shall list specifically what or who is being searched for.
- the search warrant shall list what place or individual is to be searched.
14. All individuals have the right to fair compensation for work, products, and property.
- private property taken for public use shall be returned at the soonest opportunity, when possible, and justly compensated for without placing requirements on the individual to apply for such.
15. All individuals have the right to use their work, products, and property in a manner that they see most fitting: - provided that such use does not deprive others of their rights. - provided that such use does not cause outstanding physical harm to the environment, unless the individual erases such harm to the environment afterwards through restoration.
- provided that such use does not cause physical harm to another individual, business, or government.
- provided that such use does not prevent the ordinary conduct of other individuals, business, and government.
16. All individuals have the right to seek redress against any government, business, or other individual.
- the individual shall have the right to seek civil suit to recover just compensation or their work, products, property, and reputation along with punitive awards in either case.
- a jury may be demanded in such civil cases where the value exceeds one percent of the individual's yearly income or affect's the individual's reputation and ability to earn such income.
17. The press shall have the freedom to gather and distribute news without intervention by individuals, businesses, and government:
- provided the press does not disrupt the lawful activities of others nor otherwise violate the law or rights of individuals, businesses, and religions.
- members of the press shall not be subject to arrest without such arrest being announced to the public by warrant followed by public trial.
- the press shall not be subject to any form of censorship unless such censorship is to protect the interests of the government against powers seeking its violent overthrow.
- the press shall be issued a license upon simple application for the sole purpose of identification to the public and not for the purpose of restricting viewpoints, such license being capable of revocation only for criminal behavior determined by conviction by proper trial.
- the press may be required to pool its resources when availing itself of its right to access aboard government warships or on government installations, such pooling to be by lottery and not by the decision of any warship or installation commander.
- the press may be required to remove only such classified information from its reporting which would be detrimental to the preservation of the government by powers seeking its violent overthrow and not to suppress opinion or opposition.
18. Any rights or powers not listed nor specified in the Constitution as belonging to the government belong to the individual and may not be taken by the government at any level without a free election by the people by which they vote by overwhelming majority to give such rights or powers to the government:
- the rights enumerated in this document cannot be voted away, waived, or modified by the individual or government.
- any political entity desiring membership in the Union of Planets must ascribe to these rights in their entirety.
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