The Lost Constitution is Found

[Publius Crabgrass]

As the RA Archivist, I have updated the CDS Constitution on the wiki and in the books found in the Rathaus and Praetorium (as well as in Sudane's shop on the Platz). The books now dispense notecards with prior versions of the Constitution as amended, with the most recent on being the Constitution as of 3 August 2008. I am working with Arria and the Portal group to update the Constitution on the new Portal pages.

For now, the Constitution (with all amendments) is found at http://www.aliasi.us/nburgwiki/tiki-ind ... nstitution and the Constitution as Amended is found at http://www.aliasi.us/nburgwiki/tiki-ind ... as+amended.

Please note that the version found at http://neufreistadt.info/id25.html is entirely outdated.

(The phrase "The Lost Constitution" is a sarcastic reference to an ongoing debate in U.S. constitutional law circles as well as the mass market mystery/thriller of the same name.)

[Claude Desmoulins]

Publius,

Thank you so much for your work on this. However, there's something I think may have been missed:
Among its many bits and pieces, the infamous JA included:

12. Article VI of the Constitution shall be replaced with the following text:

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Article VI - Citizenship

1. A citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators is a resident of SecondLife who has been granted title to any land by the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, and who holds title under the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, for as long as he or she holds such title.

2. Without prejudice to any rule of law entitling any institution of government to substitute, or empower another person or body to substitute any land held by any citizen for any other land the holding of which would continue to entitle the person whose land has been substituted to be a citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, no citizen shall be deprived of citizenship in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, nor shall any person, whether a citizen or not, be banished from any public land in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, without trial in accordance with law, or consent not to be so tried.

3. Section 2 above is subject to any rule of law whereby a person is deemed to have consented not to be tried by having failed within reasonable time to respond or respond fully to any notice sent to that person in respect of any such prospective trial, nor any rule that specifies what shall constitute a reasonable time.

4. Section 2 above shall be without prejudice to any rule of law whereby a person may summarily be banished by any citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators appointed for such a purpose by any duly ratified Act of the Representative Assembly (or by any person or body deriving her his or its power to do so from any such Act), for up to fourteen consecutive days (but without revocation of citizenship or forfeiture of any asset).

5. Section 2 above shall be without prejudice to any rule of law whereby a person may be banished temporarily by Order of a Court of Common Jurisdiction pending such a trial as is mentioned therein (but without revocation of citizenship or forfeiture of any asset).

6. Any citizen may cease to become a citizen by submitting a notice in a form that may be prescribed by any duly ratified Act of the Representative Assembly (or, if no such form is specified, by notifying the Chancellor in writing) seven days in advance of the date on which that person is to cease to be a citizen.

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13. The Terms of Service shall be amended as follows: –

(a) the title shall be amended to "The Confederation of Democratic Simulators Terms of Service", and all references to "Neufreistadt" or "Neualtenburg" shall be replaced with "The Confederation of Democratic Simulators";

(b) the following text in Section 1.1: –

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“...your compliance with the posted City Standards on the Neualtenburg website, and adherence to all in-world laws, covenants, and guidelines.”

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shall be amended to the following:

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“...your compliance with the posted City Standards on the Confederation of Democratic Simulators website, and adherence to all in-world laws, covenants, and guidelines, [i:35dhekt2]as they change and develop over time[/i:35dhekt2].”

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(c) the following shall be added to the end of Section 1.1: –

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"The Confederation of Democratic Simulators operates its own, comprehensive, in-world judicial system. Any disputes arising out of the subject-matter of this agreement, or anything related thereto, shall be resolved exclusively by that judicial system, in accordance with the in-world laws of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators"; and

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(d) the following shall be added to the end of Clause 8: –

Amendment 19 repealed :

a) Article I, Section 7 from " The Representative Assembly may vote by simple majority: – (a) to commence impeachment proceeding.."
b) Article III, Section 7 in its entirety
c) Article II, Section 4 from "With respect to the Judiciary..."
d) Article III, Section 8 from "With respect to the Judiciary..."
e) Article VII in its entirety

and made changes to article III

Thus , for example there are JA changes to Article Vi which were not repealed by amendment 19. There are probably a number of things like that, and we need to go back over the JA to see what else it did that Amendment 19 didn't undo.

[Publius Crabgrass]

Thus , for example there are JA changes to Article Vi which were not repealed by amendment 19. There are probably a number of things like that, and we need to go back over the JA to see what else it did that Amendment 19 didn't undo.

I think I captured both the Amendment 19 changes to Article III as well as the inclusion of Article VI on Citizenship in the "Constitution as amended", but please check over the text again to see if there is anything I may have missed.

Article III, Section 6 now reads:

Chairs of the SC will ratify bills passed by the Representative Assembly by simple majority vote and may resubmit the bill with modifications for vote.

The SC shall act as the Court of Common Jurisdiction, with the Dean of the SC appointing Chairs of the SC to hear specific trials, under the Code of Procedure previously passed by the RA, with any appeals heard by the full SC.

Article VI now reads:

Article VI - Citizenship

1. A citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators is a resident of SecondLife? who has been granted title to any land by the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, and who holds title under the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, for as long as he or she holds such title.

2. Without prejudice to any rule of law entitling any institution of government to substitute, or empower another person or body to substitute any land held by any citizen for any other land the holding of which would continue to entitle the person whose land has been substituted to be a citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, no citizen shall be deprived of citizenship in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, nor shall any person, whether a citizen or not, be banished from any public land in the Confederation of Democratic Simulators, without trial in accordance with law, or consent not to be so tried.

3. Section 2 above is subject to any rule of law whereby a person is deemed to have consented not to be tried by having failed within reasonable time to respond or respond fully to any notice sent to that person in respect of any such prospective trial, nor any rule that specifies what shall constitute a reasonable time.

4. Section 2 above shall be without prejudice to any rule of law whereby a person may summarily be banished by any citizen of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators appointed for such a purpose by any duly ratified Act of the Representative Assembly (or by any person or body deriving her his or its power to do so from any such Act), for up to fourteen consecutive days (but without revocation of citizenship or forfeiture of any asset).

5. Section 2 above shall be without prejudice to any rule of law whereby a person may be banished temporarily by Order of a Court of Common Jurisdiction pending such a trial as is mentioned therein (but without revocation of citizenship or forfeiture of any asset).

6. Any citizen may cease to become a citizen by submitting a notice in a form that may be prescribed by any duly ratified Act of the Representative Assembly (or, if no such form is specified, by notifying the Chancellor in writing) seven days in advance of the date on which that person is to cease to be a citizen.

Please let me know if I have missed anything.

[Claude Desmoulins]

You did in fact. Many apologies.