Constitution of the Technate of Orion

We, the people of Orion having solemnly resolved to constitute Orion into a Sovereign, Progressive, and Technocratic state, bring to force the following Constitution.
Article I
Section I
All executive and legislative powers shall be vested in a Central Executive Committee, which shall consist of 17 Ministers. The Central Executive Committee shall be elected during the first session of every State Assembly.

Section II
The Central Executive Committee shall be composed of members elected by simple majority from fellow members of the State Assembly. No person who has not attained to the age of thirty-five years and have been seven years a citizen of Orion shall be a member of the Central Executive Committee. No person who has attained the age of eighty or older shall be eligible to be a member of the Central Executive Committee. No person who has been deemed ineligible by the Ombudsperson and their Committee for Meritocracy shall be a member of the Central Executive Committee.

Section III
The Central Executive Committee shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises after submissions from the State Assembly; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout Orion;

To borrow money on the credit of Orion;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standards of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of Orion;

To establish post offices and post roads;

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 with exception for discoveries found to be necessary for the heath and security of the citizens and state.

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas;

To declare war and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support Armies;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To provide and maintain an Air force;

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

Section IV
The Central Executive Committee shall appoint from one of their rank a Commander in Chief. The Commander in Chief shall also serve as the chairman of the Security Council.

The Security Council shall be composed of top officers from the Army, Navy, and Air Force as well as certified experts in security as accepted by the Ombudsperson and their Committee for Meritocracy. There shall be a maximum of twelve members of the Security Council, with more than five and no fewer than three being civilian security experts. No person who has attained the age of 70 shall be a member of the Security Council and no person who has been deemed ineligible by the Ombudsperson shall be a member of the Security Council.

The Security Council shall have no legislative, military, or executive functions. The Security Council shall regularly determine the readiness, necessities, and deficiencies of the Armed Forces of Orion and provide the Central Executive Committee with a report every year.

The Central Executive Committee shall have to the power to declare war after a unanimous vote for such a declaration.

Section V
The Central Executive Committee shall have the power to appoint and dismiss officials to positions under the purview of the Committee;

To authorize, sign, or ratify treaties;

To appoint diplomats to other nations and states;

To appoint experts to the Central Bank of Orion – and;

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

Section VI
To exclude the possibility that the government may be held captive by special interests, members of the Central Executive Committee shall keep detailed records of their contacts with special interest groups and representatives of said groups;

Members of the Central Executive Committee shall be required to disclose their financial interests and assets including the assets of close family members;

Members of the Central Executive Committee and all civil Officers of Orion shall be removed from Office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Article II
Section I
The State Assembly shall be vested with the powers and responsibilities described in this article.

Section II
The State Assembly shall be composed of members selected from local Technical Committees. The State Assembly shall be elected every four years and shall convene in the months of February, June, and October.

No person that has not attained the age of thirty shall be a member of the State Assembly. No person that has not had seven years of experience in a technical position or as a member of a local Technical Committee shall be a member of the State Assembly. No person that has not achieved at least a four year bachelor’s degree in the fields of science, technology, or the social sciences shall be a member of the State Assembly.

The State Assembly shall have the power to censure and expel members of the Assembly on the basis of a decision of the Ombudsperson.

Section III
The State Assembly shall have the responsibility of selecting the members of the Central Executive Committee from their ranks, ratified by a sixty percent majority.

Section IV
The State Assembly shall have the power to pass bills for raising revenue and spending. The State Assembly shall have the power to suggest policies for the consideration of the Central Executive Committees. The State Assembly shall have the power to write bills for the laying and collecting of taxes, duties, and excises to be submitted to the Central Executive Committee.

Section V
Members of the State Assembly shall be required to disclose their financial interests and assets including the assets of close family members. Members of the State Assembly shall be barred from accepting employment at the heads of private firms or as a lobbyist for life.

Article III
Section I
All Judicial and Enforcement powers shall be vested in one Supreme Court and in such lower courts as the Central Executive Committee 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 stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

The Supreme Court shall consist of five Justices. These justices shall be appointed by the Central Executive Committee.

No person shall be a Supreme Court Justice if they have not attained 40 years of age. No person shall be a Supreme Court Justice if they have not attained fifteen years of experience as a judge on a lower court. No person shall if deems ineligible by the Ombudsperson be a Supreme Court Justice.

Section II
The Supreme Court shall serve as the highest arbitrator of the wider Orion Court System. The ruling of the Supreme Court shall be the final decision in any case…

Section III
The Supreme Court shall have the power to oversee local policing efforts and gives local prosecutorial agencies legitimacy…

Section IV
No person shall be tried in absentia. In order for a case to be tried, the defendant shall be present, offered a public attorney,

Article IV
Section I
No person that has not attained the age of 35 shall be eligible for Ombudsperson. No person that has not had ten years or more of legal experience shall be eligible for Ombudsperson. No person that has been found guilty of any crime shall be eligible for Ombudsperson. A person who is eligible for Ombudsperson must

Nominees for Ombudsperson shall be required to disclose their financial interests and assets including the assets of close family members. Nominees for Ombudsperson shall never have accepted employment at the head of a private firms or as a lobbyist. Ombudspersons shall be barred from accepting employment at the heads of private firms or as a lobbyist for life.

The Ombudsperson shall have the power to investigate public servants, including members of the Supreme Court, Central Executive Committee, and State Assembly, for the purpose of reprimanding, bringing charges against, or beginning impeachment proceedings of lawbreaking, unconstitutional, and corrupt persons.

The Ombudsperson may begin investigations on their own initiative or on the basis of formal complaints. Complaints may be from fellow members of the government or by a reasonable number of formal complaints submitted by the public.

After an investigation and completed reprimand, the Supreme Court shall take up the case with a twelve-person jury.

The Ombudsperson shall be chosen by a joint assembly of members of the Central Executive Committee, the State Assembly, and the Supreme Court. The Ombudsperson shall be elected and installed after a three-fourths vote in the joint assembly. The Ombudsperson shall serve one term of ten years.

If the Ombudsperson is found to act in bad faith or committing crimes, two members of the Central Executive Committee and twenty members of the State Assembly may file a formal complaint to the Supreme Court to force a trial. If the Ombudsperson is found guilty of a crime or found to be acting in bad faith, they shall be immediately discharged and a new Ombudsperson shall be elected within the month.

Article V
Section I
No person that has not attained the age of 19 shall be eligible to vote. No person that has not attained at least a high school diploma or legal equivalent shall be eligible to vote. Else, all citizens shall be eligible to vote in local council elections for the slate they prefer.

Section II
Any person who is born on Orion soil is a citizen of Orion. Else, any person who has legally resided in Orion for ten years may apply for Orion citizenship. Any person with Orion citizenship shall not have the citizenship of any other body.

Any person living in the territory of Orion on or after January 1st, 1953, is a citizen of Orion.

Section III
All citizens have the right of civil equality and may not be discriminated against based on class, race, sex, or ethnicity by the state or other civil individual or cultural actor.

Section IV
The state shall not retroactively punish a citizen for the crimes of their family, kin, or ancestors, nor shall the state try a citizen for the same crime more than once. The state shall not sentence a person to a cruel or unusual punishment. No person shall be sentenced to forced labor, nor shall any incarcerated person be subjected to forced labor.

Section V
The state shall protect all citizens from harm or attack from outside forces, lawlessness, and mayhem.

The state shall guarantee the right of all citizens to continue or end their life in accordance with their own wishes. Decisions of life and death made by other must be made by a person with prior power of attorney;

The right of all persons with failing health to negotiate with their medical care a comfortable way to end their lives;

The right of all persons to choose whom and whether to marry;

The state shall guarantee all citizens access to a restorative judicial system that attempts to ameliorate damages done to all parties by a crime and as much as possible restore the social order that existed before said crime was committed;

The right of all persons to an education to the extent that can be provided by society regardless of class, race, sex, finances, or other social continuity;

The right of all persons to access health care to the extent that can be provided by society regardless of class, race, sex, finance, or other social continuity;

The right of all persons to adequate housing to the extent that can be provided by society regardless of class, race, sex, finance, or other social continuity;

The right of all persons to employment to the extent that can be provided by society regardless of class, race, sex, finance, or other social continuity – and;

The right of children to education, legal standing and due process, safety from bodily harm, and adequate medical care.

Section VI
There shall be no law or regulation respecting an establishment of religion.

Section VII
Insofar as appropriate, constitutional rights are applicable horizontally to the interactions of individuals and are thus binding for individuals.

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