Section 1.1.

All rights of the People enumerated in this Constitution are binding on the Confederate States, the individual States, the Seat of the Government, the Territories, and all other political subdivisions except where stated otherwise within in this Constitution or only by Article of Amendment.

Section 1.2.

(1) 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.

(2) Congress nor any State shall make no law depriving or abridging the right of the People their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press shall be inviolable but may be held liable for unauthorized disclosure of state secrets; any libelous or slanderous words, actions, writings; or inciting violence or terrorism.

(3) Any political or non-political organization, individual, or political party shall have the right to create and distribute political communications; nor be restricted in what they can say and when they can say it; nor be limited in how much they can raise and spend on political communications except where stated elsewhere in this Constitution; but may be held liable for unauthorized disclosure of state secrets; any libelous or slanderous words, actions, writings; or inciting violence or terrorism.

(4) Congress nor any State shall make no law restraining the right of the People from peaceably assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the Congress or any Legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

(5) Any person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State, Territory, political subdivision, or the District that is the seat of the government; subjects, or causes to be subjected, any Citizen of the Confederate States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by this Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.

(6) In suits at common law 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.

(7) Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime, shall exist within the Confederate States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. The Confederate States nor any place subject to its jurisdiction and all private and public organizations or corporations shall not be required to pay any type of reparations for slavery that once existed within the borders of the Confederate States of America.

(8) The People of the individual States shall have the power to recall their State's Representative or Senator in Congress according to the laws of their State and individual Citizens shall have the power to file documented complaints of misconduct by their Senator or Representative in their respective House ethics committee.

(9) No person shall be required to participate in any mandatory government program or carry a national identification card except as a punishment for a crime or otherwise Court ordered, if a legal alien, employed by the Confederate States, or performing military service.

(10) Unless otherwise provided for by law for earlier release all classified or other confidential information held by any level of government shall be released to the public domain seventy-five years after the initial creation of said information. If the information contains any adverse material about any person then release to the public domain shall be seventy-five years after their death.

(11) Officers and employees in the Civil Service, including members of the Armed Forces, shall not engage directly or indirectly in partisan political activities or take part in any election except to vote.

(12) Any lawful person who, without malice and in good faith and not part of the same conspiracy or crime, reports on any potential criminal, terrorist, or other illegal action regardless of legal outcome shall be immune from all civil and criminal actions.

(13) Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the Confederate States or any State on account of race, sex, color, ethnicity, religion, handicap, or national origin but this clause shall not apply to any private interests or commence, private schools and colleges, private businesses, or private organizations.

(14) Deviant behavior of homosexuals, transvestites, and other sexually disordered persons shall not become a protected right under this Constitution but this clause shall not be construed to deny above said persons all other rights and protections enjoyed by all lawful Citizens.

(15) To clarify the laws and statures of the Confederate States legal marriage shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. The Congress shall not have the power to require that marital status, adoption, or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon same sex or unmarried couples not meeting this requirement. Each individual State shall have the power to define marriage, domestic partnerships, adoption, or the legal incidents thereof; but neither the Confederate States nor any State shall ever be required under this Constitution to recognize any marriage, domestic partnerships, adoption, or the legal incidents thereof contrary to their laws.

(16) Pornography in any format is not considered to be protected speech under this Constitution. Therefore the States, any political subdivision, or community has the power to define and restrict or prohibit the sale, display, and distribution of pornography in their jurisdiction except for procession in private homes. Pornography of underage subjects shall be prohibited within the Confederate States or any place subject to its jurisdiction including procession in private homes.

(17) The Citizens, through the process of referendum as stated elsewhere in the Constitution, shall have the right to vote no confidence in the political leadership of the Confederate States and, if passed by a majority vote, the offices of President, Vice President, and all Representatives shall be declared open and elections held within ninety days. The incumbents shall be denied reelection and be ineligible for a period of four years to hold any elected Confederate States public office. Senators shall be replaced within ninety days by their home State according to their laws and shall be ineligible for a period of four years to hold any Confederate States public office.

(18) Any record created by any public entity, excluding third party requests of records of a personnel nature that pertains to an individual not giving his consent for release, ongoing criminal investigations, or state secrets, shall be made available for public inspection and the public entity may charge a fee that shall not exceed the actual costs of release within ninety days of request.

(19) During any transaction the personal information of one individual shall not be obtained by a second individual or organization without the expressed consent of the first.

(20) The exceptions here or elsewhere in this Constitution, made in favor of particular rights, shall not be so construed as to diminish the just importance of other rights retained by the People; or as to enlarge the powers delegated by this Constitution; but either as actual limitations of such powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution.

Section 1.3.

(1) To secure the People's right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of their conscience the People retain the right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage and traditions on public property provided that no person is compelled to participate against their will.

(2) The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship; nor shall any Confederate States or State religion be established; nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience by in any manner, or on any pretext infringed. The Confederate States nor any State or any political subdivision shall show neither favoritism nor hostility against religious expression.

(3) Neither the Confederate States nor any State or any political subdivision shall compose any official prayer or compel joining in prayer, or discriminate against religious expression or belief. The exercise, by the People, of any freedoms under this Constitution shall not constitute an establishment of religion.

(4) Neither the Confederate States nor any State or any political subdivision shall abridge the freedom of any person or group, including students in government public schools and colleges, to engage in prayer or other religious expression in circumstances in which expression of a non-religious character would be permitted; nor deny benefits to or otherwise discriminate against any private person or group on account of religious expression, belief, or identity; nor shall the prohibition on laws respecting an establishment of religion be construed to require discrimination against anyone on account of the religious character of their speech, ideas, motivations, or identity.

(5) Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to forbid the Confederate States or any State to give public or ceremonial accommodation to the religious heritage, beliefs, or traditions of the People, or shall prohibit acknowledgments of the religious heritage, beliefs, or traditions of the People, or prohibit student-sponsored prayer in government public schools and colleges.

(6) No Court shall have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of Confederate States, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official or personal capacity), by reason of that element's or officer's acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, government, or natural rights.

(7) This Section shall not be construed to use the color of religious freedom as a cover or justification for sedition, forced imposition of religious laws on its individual members against their will, shelter illegal aliens, terrorism, or other criminal acts either inside or outside of the Confederate States and may be held liable for unauthorized disclosure of state secrets; any libelous or slanderous words, actions, writings; or inciting violence or terrorism.

(8) No person or organization, public or private, shall be forced to perform any activity if such activities are in conflict against their religious beliefs.

(9) Any State whose Constitution contains a variation of the Blaine Amendment that was required by the United States Congress as a condition of their admission to the United States is hereby declared null and void unless a State, by law, takes action to reaffirm it.

Section 1.4.

(1) The right of a Citizen or permanent resident over the age of eighteen to keep and bear arms (open or concealed), ammunition, or participate in a private militia is an individual right and shall not be licensed, prohibited, infringed, or regulated by the Confederate States, any individual State, or any political subdivision except if under lawful arrest, as a punishment for a crime, mental incompliancy, or if an illegal alien. Any person under the age of eighteen may bear arms under the supervision of a parent, guardian, or other person or organization authorized by the parent or guardian provided that the parent or guardian has the right to keep and bear arms.

(2) Privately owned and lawfully used firearms or ammunition shall not be registered, microstamped, or tracked in any way. A State may, by law, conduct background checks on gun buyers before purchase provided that said background check does not exceed one business day, allow a mandatory sales transaction if no negative information is discovered, and all said records of positive background checks are immediately purged from all databases and lists. Only the actual cost incurred by the investigating authority shall be charged for processing background checks.

(3) Every person shall have the inherent and natural right of defending their own or another's life, liberty, or property using whatever force is necessary, through whatever means available, including the use of deadly force; therefore any person who lawfully uses any weapon in self-defense shall not be liable for any crime or lawsuit, civil or criminal; nor shall a person have a duty to retreat if they are at home or place of business, in a vehicle, or at any other place where they have a right to be; nor shall arms be taken from any lawful person during times of national emergencies or within disaster areas.

(4) The rights of the People to hunt, trap, and fish are a valued part of our heritage and shall be forever preserved to the People, subject only to reasonable regulation as prescribed by the State Legislature (except on Confederate States property in which case the Congress shall regulate), and shall be free of unlawful harassment by the government or other persons. Consistent with the public trust to conserve birds, fish, game and wildlife, traditional methods may be used to take non-threatened species traditionally pursued. Public hunting, fishing and trapping shall be the preferred means of managing and controlling non-threatened wildlife consistent with the duties of the Confederacy and States to protect this heritage and their duty to conserve wild animals, birds, and fish on public lands. Nothing in this Clause shall be construed to modify any provision of common law or statutes relating to trespass, eminent domain, or any other property rights.

(5) The bearing or use of arms or hunting, trapping, or fishing may be prohibited or regulated on private property only by the property holder but no person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity shall establish any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person who can lawfully process firearms from transporting and storing firearms secured or locked in private vehicles on any property set aside for parking nor shall the aforementioned property owner be liable in any civil or criminal action for any firearm related crime or accident by an employee, visitor, or another third party on private property except if the property or owners are involved in a crime.

(6) The bearing of arms may be prohibited or regulated within sensitive public enclosures approved by legislation provided that provision shall be made to safely secure such arms before entering.

(7) No person exercising their rights under this Section shall have their right to keep and bear arms denied without due process and the Confederate States, each individual State, and all other political subdivisions may create a nationwide database listing those persons denied the right to keep and bear arms regardless of any other laws that may impede the creation and maintenance of said database.

(8) Any manufacturer, supplier, seller, or producer of arms and ammunition shall not be held liable without fault for the deliberate misuse of said arms and ammunition nor if used in a crime.

(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this Section, the name of a veteran or other person suffering from a mental disability may be made available to an instant background check database only pursuant to a finding of a Judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority. It shall be unlawful for any background check database to maintain the name of any person or veteran (who was discharged under honorable conditions) and who has not been subject to a finding of a Judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority pursuant to the provision of law or of this Section and shall removed within ninety days upon his petition in a Court.

(10) This Section voids all statutes, international treaties and agreements, laws, court decrees, executive orders, and legislative acts that restrict the rights stated in this Constitution that pertains to the keeping and bearing of arms by lawful Citizens or permanent residents.

Section 1.5.

(1) In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State 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.

(2) Excessive bail shall not be required; nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

(3) The right of the People to be secure in their movement or travel, DNA, lands and property, computers and communications, records, persons, houses, vehicles, businesses, papers, and effects against monitoring, searches, arbitrary registration, electronic surveillance, national computer databases, invasiveness, seizures, compulsory self-incrimination, and checkpoints on public highways, 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 or monitored, and the persons or things to be seized. Evidence obtained in violation of this clause shall not be admissible in any Court against any person.

(4) Except upon valid warrants or orders issued by a Court of law in compliance with this Constitution all information related to all aspects of the life of an person is the sole private property of that person and no entity; private, public, or government; may collect, transfer, or destroy any such information without the express legal authorization of that Citizen, their authorized heirs, agents, or successors. Persons shall have a right to full access to information, files, and records that any entity may keep on individuals and to file rebuttals to correct any errors or false information within. Entities shall insure that records shall not be released to third parties without permission of the person or persons cited. Appropriate security measures shall be taken against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, and accidental loss or destruction of personal records.

(5) The burden of proving guilt, both mens rea and actus rea, on any matter; civil, tax, or criminal; shall be on the government. Prosecutors shall follow the rules of strict construction in that if there is a reasonable doubt as to interpretation of laws, the doubt shall be resolved in favor of the accused. Prosecutors shall not use any form of strict criminal liability or "responsible corporate officer" doctrine or maium prohibitum; nor shall a person be put on trial for the same offense after a verdict of not guilty through the use of concurrent and successive prosecutions by Confederate States or State agencies.

(6) 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 Armed Forces, National Guard, or 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.

(7) No person charged with a crime shall be compelled to pay any costs, fees, or fines before a judgment of conviction has become final. A person not found guilty of a crime shall not be assessed fees or costs to recover property seized as evidence or otherwise held, impounded, or stored by the government and may recover all his expenses incurred on behalf of his defense. Any DNA samples that may have been taken from the person upon arrest or investigation but not found guilty or not accused of any crimes shall be destroyed.

(8) The Congress or any State or any political subdivision shall not have the power to seize any private property or any other type of asset forfeiture from a person not convicted of any crime. Nor shall private property or any other type of asset forfeiture be seized from a person convicted of a crime that was not a fruit of the said crime. Forfeiture of assets can only be enforced after conviction of the property owner as a penalty for the crime and property and assets may be forcibly sold for fair compensation to satisfy any fines, Court fees, or compensation with any monies left over returned to the defendant. Such forfeitures shall follow full due process of law under criminal prosecution standards.

Section 1.6.

(1) In any criminal trial, the Court shall inform the jury of its right to judge both law and facts in reaching a verdict. The Court shall also inform jurors deciding civil trials of their right to judge the law as well as the facts whenever the government or any agent of the government is a party to the trial. Failure to inform the jury, or any other infraction of the rules of procedure, is grounds for mistrial and another trial by a new jury or dismissal of charges.

(2) The prosecution shall prove, in the presence of the jury, that the Court has jurisdiction in the case before the main trial begins.

(3) The presiding Judge shall not forbid the defense to inform juries of their right and power to decide the law, or to penalize them for doing so and the defense may be ruled incompetent if it does not inform the jury of its right and power to decide the law, or to raise the issue of jurisdiction of the Court in the case.

(4) Neither the presiding Judge or either side of a case has the right to exclude a juror during voir dire who is aware of his right and power to decide the law or shall not be excluded on the basis of his superior knowledge of the law.

(5) Jurors shall not be prevented from obtaining copies of the Constitution, statutes, and case law in a case, or doing research in a law library and shall be provided any legal documentation they request or need.

(6) The jury shall not be excluded from being present during arguments over the law in the case and shall be provided all legal pleadings in the case, including amicus curiae briefs.

(7) The jury shall be allowed to ask questions of the presiding Judge or any party, including amicus filers, on any pertinent matter, and get answers to those questions.

(8) In all criminal prosecutions in which the law in question contradicts the principles of this Constitution or which the government or any of its agents has violated this Constitution to obtain evidence or to establish a conviction, or if the prosecution suppresses evidence favorable to a defendant or withholds exculpatory evidence, the case may be dismissed or the jurors shall be encouraged to acquit.

Section 1.7.

(1) The sovereign authority and the legislative power of Citizens of the Confederate States to enact, repeal, and amend public policy, laws, charters, and constitutions by local, State, and national initiatives shall not be denied or abridged by the Confederate States or any State.

(2) A petition of one percent of the registered voters of any one-fourth of the States shall be sufficient to place a referendum before the electorate of all the States to be voted upon at the next national election provided that said referendum addresses only one subject which shall not be modified by the Congress, the Courts, or any government official. If a two-thirds majority of votes favors the referendum, it shall be fully implemented within one year; otherwise it shall be rejected with no further action nor shall it be re-petitioned for a period of five years.

(3) A referendum may repeal any law passed by the Congress, make a law provided that said law is not in violation of this Constitution, remove from office any appointed official or Judge of the Confederate States, amend this Constitution or ratify or withdraw a pending or extant Article of Amendment to this Constitution. Such referenda are not subject to review by the Congress or any Court nor a presidential veto.

Section 1.8.

(1) The People shall have a right to work and the choice to join or not to join a union, reject unwanted union representation, nor to have mandatory withholding of dues from their paychecks but unions shall not be required to represent any worker who is not a member except if allowed by a union contract.

(2) Non-union member employees shall have the right to make their own employment contracts without the consent or representation of a union except if prohibited or restricted by a union contract.

(3) The terms of all agreements between public service unions and political subdivisions shall be made available for public inspection and the People may, by referendum, ratify or reject the contract. Public service unions shall not have the power to strike.

(4) The terms of all bargaining agreements between unions and their employers shall be made available for the membership's inspection and the membership may, by referendum, ratify or reject the contract.

(5) Unions shall not be exempt from any laws nor receive special privileges that is not available to any other organization and may be held liable for any criminal acts committed on their behalf by their members.

(6) Unions shall not have the power to compel employers to bargain with them nor have the right to trespass on an employer's private property except if allowed by a union contract.

(7) All campaigning, financial, business, and other records pertaining to the operations of a union shall be made available for inspection by its membership.

(8) The Confederate States, any State, nor any political subdivision shall have the power to require that public works be assigned only to union members.

(9) Employers shall have the right to replace striking workers except if prohibited or restricted by a union contract.

(10) Union members shall have the right to direct how their dues are spent on political campaigns and all records shall be made available for inspection by its membership.

(11) Elections to certify or decertify union representation or selection of union leadership shall be only by secret ballot and, upon demand of ten percent of the membership or the union leadership, any election on any subject may be by secret ballot and all elections shall be supervised by a disinterested third party.

(12) All extant labor contracts in effect before the adoption of this Constitution may continue in force until termination by the contracted parties or normal expiration according to the terms of the agreement.

Section 1.9.

(1) Parents or guardians shall have the ultimate responsibility for the conduct, discipline, welfare, medical care, and monitoring the activities of their minor and unemancipated children or wards.

(2) The right of parental notification that pertains to minor children shall not be infringed by any school, medical clinic, or other private or public entity for any reason.

(3) Parents or guardians shall have the ultimate responsibility for the education of their children and shall have the right of school choice whether it is government or private education or home schooling.

(4) This Section shall not be construed to deny any State the legal duty to take custody of children in cases of abuse or neglect from the care of unfit parents or emergency medical care when the parents cannot be located.

Section 1.10.

(1) All Citizens of the Confederate States, who are eighteen years of age or older, meet the qualifications as stated elsewhere in this Section, and are not disqualified for cause by Confederacy or State laws, shall have the privilege to vote in any national primary and general election for President, Vice President, Representative, or national referendum only in the jurisdiction in which they reside. Each State may, by law, impose additional conditions on voters for voting in State and local elections provided that such regulations are not in violation of this Constitution.

(2) All Citizens of the Confederate States who register to vote shall show proof of citizenship in the form of a notarized birth certificate, a valid Confederate States passport, or notarized naturalized citizenship papers issued by the Confederate States and either showing the above, a tamperproof State-issued voter card, or other identification as provided by for by State law at their designated precinct before casting a vote. Voter registration shall end ten business days before election day.

(3) A voter shall not be mentally incompetent, be able to understand and answer questions about the election, and one vote shall be cast only in the precinct where the voter is registered. Congress may, by law, require additional qualifications for voting only in national elections which shall take effect after the next election.

(4) The dates and times for primary and general national elections shall be determined by Congress and shall be uniform throughout the Confederate States. States that register voters by political party shall hold closed primary elections. The Congress may prescribe, by law, the time, places, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Ballots shall be only in English and any official languages of the State. No provisional or early balloting (except for legitimate absentee ballots to be counted on election day) shall be allowed and all machine-readable ballots shall be backed up by an evidentiary chain of readily readable paper copies to be held for a period of time as Congress may, by law, provide for.

(5) Primary elections for President, Vice President, and contested Representative seats shall be held within a six month time period and all States shall be divided as evenly as possible into six regions and each region shall be assigned an election month and date. At each presidential election cycle the order of the said regions shall be rotated so each region shall have its turn to hold the first primary election nine months before the general election.

(6) The locations and opening and closing times of all primary and back-up polling places shall be mandated by State law not less than ninety days before an election and shall not be changed by any official or Court within those ninety days. The manner of holding such elections and inclusion of other non-national issues or candidates on the ballot shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations.

(7) The Confederate States or any State may establish regulations narrowly tailored to produce efficient and honest elections. No person of foreign birth, not a Citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote in any election or for any officer, civil or political, State or Confederate States nor run for any elected office.

(8) States may, by law, provide for the restrictions and restoration of voting privileges for felons that shall not be challenged by the Congress or any Court.

(9) Political party affiliations of candidates running for public office shall not be shown on the ballot.

(10) A petition of one percent of the registered voters of a State shall be sufficient to place a number of Electors for President and Vice President on the ballot provided that said petition is presented 180 days before the primary or general election date. If any candidate for President or Vice President qualifies to be placed on the primary ballot on at least one State in their region then they shall be listed on all State primary ballots in the entire region.

Section 1.11.

(1) Private property shall not be taken for public use or restricted without just compensation or the value of the private property after the taking or restriction (whichever amount is greater) and may be taken or restricted only when necessary for the possession, occupation, and enjoyment of land by the public at large, or by public agencies. Except for privately owned public utilities or common carriers, private property shall not be taken for private commercial enterprise, for economic development, or for any other private use without the consent of the owner.

(2) Private property shall not be taken from one owner and transferred to another on the grounds that the public may benefit from a more profitable private use nor shall taken property be made available for profitable private use for a period of twenty years after the taking. Whenever an attempt is made to take property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated is truly public shall be a judicial question, and determined as such without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public.

(3) If any non-tax or non-penalty action by the Confederate States or State government or any of its agencies or political subdivisions reduces the fair market value of real or personal private property, the owner of said property shall have a claim against the Confederate States or State government or relevant agency or political subdivision for compensation for such loss, except that no compensation shall be required as follows:

(4) If the action results merely in a diminution of the value of the property but does not otherwise destroy, damage, trespass upon, or take the property or prohibit any rightful use of the property; or

(5) If the action prohibits uses of the property that are injurious or potentially injurious to others or to the public, as defined by zoning laws, common law, statute, regulation, or rule, provided that such injurious or potentially injurious uses shall not be construed to include uses the prohibition of which would confer a benefit on others or on the public, for which compensation is required under this Section; or

(6) If the action produces benefits to the owner equivalent to or greater than any loss to the owner as determined by the fair market value of the property before and after the action.

(7) This Section applies to all non-tax and all non-penalty statutes, regulations, rules, administrative decisions, and judicial.

(8) This Section shall be enforced through administrative procedure, suit at law, or both, at the option of the owner. All enforcement costs, including attorney's fees, shall be borne by the State or the relevant agency or political subdivision, except that an owner who does not prevail in a final action for compensation shall bear their own enforcement costs and a pro-rata share of any administrative or Court costs, and an owner who does not prevail in an action for an increase in a previously adjudicated compensation award shall bear the like costs in the same proportion for any such subsequent actions.

Section 1.12.

(1) All rights as set forth by this Constitution shall not be construed to apply to any corporation, business entity, association, or other fictitious entity but only to natural persons. Corporations, business entities, associations, or other fictitious entities are the creations of the States who charter them, and therefore are subject to the jurisdiction of the States only with the rights granted to them in their Charters and the laws of the State where they are incorporated.

(2) Corporations, business entities, associations, or other fictitious entities (except political parties) are prohibited from attempting to influence the outcome of Confederate States elections, legislation, or government policy through the use of aggregate resources or by rewarding or repaying employees or directors to exert such influence; nor contribute, directly or indirectly, any money, property, free service of its officers or employees or goods and services in lieu of cash to any political party, organization, committee, or individual for any political purpose whatsoever; nor for the purpose of influencing legislation of any kind, or to promote or defeat the candidacy of any person for nomination, appointment, or election to any political office.

(3) The individual States may, by law, limit the lifetime of a corporation or business entity or revoke its charter and The individual States shall reserve the exclusive rights to grant charters of incorporation, establish any reasonable restriction upon the activities of chartered entities, revoke with or without cause the charter of any fictitious entity, and establish duration of such charters. Chartered entities domiciled within one State may conduct business within any other State only when licensed by that State and only in accordance with the laws of such State and no corporation or business entity shall have any power to override any constitutional rights of its directors and employees except by their agreement.

(4) Corporations or business entities shall have the right to sue and to be sued. No corporation or business entity may initiate legal proceeding against Citizens or groups of Citizens, including unions, opposed to the operation or expansion of that entity unless there was criminal activity on the part of the group.

(5) No foreign interests or international commercial organization shall control, regulate, or own more than fifty-one percent of any corporation, business entity, or land within the Confederate States.

(6) Corporations domiciled in foreign states shall not do business within the Confederate States, other than to contract to purchase products or services, unless they are also either domiciled within one of the several States or operating by license from one or more of the several States as a foreign corporation subject to State control, restriction, taxation, and revocation of license.

(7) International, multinational, transnational, or other non-governmental agencies, bodies, or organizations may have the power to restrict, regulate, or tax chartered or licensed entities engaged in international commerce according to treaties and other international agreements. The Congress may impose additional restrictions and regulations on the activities of corporations, associations, and fictitious entities, and may tax such activities but the Congress shall not allow them to usurp or overrule the rights, laws, restrictions, and regulations of the individual chartering or licensing States or of any political subdivision of the States or of their Citizens. Nor shall the Congress or any international, multinational, transnational, or non-governmental entity take away or limit the rights of individual Citizens of the several States (in whom ultimate sovereignty rests) to bring action against chartered or licensed entities and to seek redress of grievances.

(8) Within ten years after adoption of this Constitution all corporations or business entities shall be in full compliance with this Section but this Section shall not apply to residential or other non-commercial land owned by foreign persons for private use nor businesses or homes owned by resident aliens.

Section 1.13.

(1) No soldier shall, in time of peace, 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.

(2) Women shall be excluded from compulsively military service and combat where they would be required to seek out, close with, and destroy an enemy and from all combat aircraft, warships, direct frontline combat, special/elite military forces, and combat forward support units that have a high risk of direct contact with an enemy nor shall homosexuals be allowed to serve in the Armed Forces, National Guard, and other military reserve forces that Congress may, by law, provide for.

(3) The Armed Forces or National Guard shall at all times be subordinate to the civil authority and shall never be placed under the direct command of any international organization or foreign state.

(4) The Armed Forces (Coast Guard, National Guard, or Militia not under Confederate States control excluded) shall not, in whole or part, be deployed as any part of a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by this Constitution or by act of Congress.

(5) The President shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this Section does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Armed Forces in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law.

(6) Within the restrictions of this Constitution the Defense Department, with the approval of the State or States involved, shall be the lead Confederate States agent in any natural or manmade disaster except in the case of an act of war or terrorism.

Section 1.14.

(1) No license, permit, or any other form of prior permission shall be required by the Confederate States to engage in any lawful activity except as stated in this Constitution or a law made by the Legislature of a State, within which the activity takes place, shall expressly require the same.

(2) All such laws shall enumerate the grounds upon which the permission is deniable, which enumeration shall be construed as exhaustive, and which grounds shall be objective; and if no such grounds are enumerated, then no permission required under that law shall be denied. Likewise, all such laws shall enumerate the grounds upon which the permission is revocable, which enumeration shall be construed as exhaustive, and which grounds shall be objective; and if no such grounds are enumerated, then no permission required under that law shall be revoked. The burden of proof for denial or revocation shall rest on the authority so doing.

(3) Engaging in an activity without the required permission shall be a crime only in the specific instances where the permission was lawfully deniable in the particular case in question, where the permission has been duly revoked, or public safety is threatened.

(4) No person shall be required to surrender any documents pertaining to a granted permission, except when revoked for cause. Officials desiring to examine said documents may only require that they be displayed.

(5) Only the actual cost incurred by the issuing authority shall be charged for processing permit and license requests.

Section 1.15.

(1) Personal autonomy and the right to privacy, life, and liberty, from the moment of fertilization to natural death without regard to age, health, or condition of dependency and is a paramount and most fundamental right of a person therefore any unrestricted right to abortion, assisted suicide, or euthanasia is not secured by this Constitution and that every person has the right to be let alone, not to endure attacks upon his honor and reputation, and be free from governmental intrusion and infringement into their life except if justified by a compelling state interest.

(2) The Congress and the several States shall have the concurrent power to restrict or prohibit abortion provided that a law of a State which is more restrictive than a law of Congress shall govern.

(3) No person shall clone or attempt to clone a human being, nor shall no human blastocyst be produced by fertilization solely for the purpose of stem cell research, nor shall any human genes be combined with any non-human genes.