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The Royal Constitution
BE IT ENACTED by the King's most Excellent Majesty, and with the advice and consent of the most honourable Privy Council, by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Parliament
(1) Parliament shall consist of:
(a) The House of Commons, (b) The House of Lords, and (c ) The Monarch.
(2) A bill does not become an Act of Parliament unless:
(a) The House of Commons passes the bill with an absolute majority, (b) The House of Lords passes the bill with an absolute majority, and (c ) The Monarch grants the bill royal assent.
(3) Acts of Parliament are statutes and law. They override any other legislative enactment and can only be amended, or repealed, by another Act of Parliament. This document shall be considered an Act of Parliament.
(4) The House of Commons shall be composed of Members of Parliament through a method of election provided for by the Monarch, which may be regulated for by an Act of Parliament.
(5) The House of Lords shall consist of Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual. Lords Temporal shall be peers of the realm granted a peerage by the Monarch as a Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount or Baron. The number of peerages is unlimited. Peerages can be inherited primogeniture, unless the Monarch chooses to dissolve a peerage. The Monarch may prevent a peer sitting in the House of Lords, but may not strip them of their title. The Monarch may create further styles of peerage at His pleasure. Lords Spiritual shall usually, but not necessarily exclusively, be senior clergy of the Church of England, appointed for the duration of their time spent in a certain position, by the Monarch.
(6) The House of Commons may elect a Speaker to be presiding officer from among its own ranks. The Speaker may rule on procedural issues. The House of Lords shall be presided over by the Lord Chancellor.
(7) The Monarch may open and dissolve parliament as he sees fit. When dissolved, Parliament may not sit and elections should occur to elect Members of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons in accordance with a schedule provided by the Monarch.
2 The Monarch
(1) The Monarch is Head of State and Head of Government, with supreme executive authority over all other institutions. The Monarchy shall be inherited through primogeniture.
(2) The Monarch shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, though he may delegate such functions to his ministers to exercise on his behalf. He shall be a Field Marshal ex officio.
(3) The Monarch has a power of clemency, which allows him to grant pardons or reprieves, that commute a sentence given by a court wholly or partially, or substitute with a lesser penalty.
(4) The Monarch shall have responsibility for the appointment and dismissal of all ministers, including the Lord Chancellor, a great officer of state, the First Lord of the Treasury, a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State, the Ministers of State and the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State.
(5) The Monarch may direct foreign policy, with the power to declare war and peace, sign and ratify treaties, in consultation with his Government as he deems appropriate.
(6) The Monarch has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. However the Crown, as in His Majesty’s Government and its ministers, may be sued in civil actions, though Parliament is sovereign and has privilege against any form of action, and the Monarch personally cannot be a defendant in any case.
(7) The Monarch is entitled to the style “His Majesty”. Other members of the Royal Family may be styled “His Royal Highness”, though the use of this style can be regulated by His Majesty.
(8) The Monarch may designate a Prime Minister to be primus inter pares among other ministers, the Government’s representative in Parliament and chief counsellor on all matters to the Monarch.
(9) The Prime Minister will be appointed First Lord of the Treasury. The Prime Minister should normally be a Member of Parliament or a Peer of the Realm capable of maintaining the confidence of the House of Commons.
(10) The Prince of Wales shall be the titled conferred upon the designated successor of the Monarch. At any time at his pleasure, the Monarch may establish and rescind regency, at his pleasure. During regency, the Prince of Wales will reign as Prince Regent, with all powers of the Monarch, save the duty to grant royal assent to bills.
(11) The Prince of Wales will be guaranteed access to all forums and administrative access, with the Monarch. The Prince of Wales may take on other responsibilities as the Monarch directs.
(12) The Monarch shall be responsible for the granting and denial of citizenship as he sees fit.
(13) At times when regency is not in operation, the Monarch may appoint and dismiss Counsellors of State who may be delegated any of his powers and privileges, wholly or partially, as he chooses and directs, save that to grant royal assent to Acts of Parliament.
14) The Monarch shall forever be regarded as the Fount of Justice and the Fount of Honour.
15) The Monarch shall be the Sovereign Governor of the Church of England, which shall be the established religion.
3 His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council
(1) The Privy Council shall consist of Privy Counsellors, appointed to the Council by the Monarch. Appointments to the Council are for life, unless the Monarch removes a Privy Counsellor, and it shall be practice to appoint all those having been appointed to any cabinet ministerial or judicial office to the Council.
(2) The Cabinet, a committee of the Privy Council consisting of senior ministers chosen by the Monarch, shall, amongst themselves and the Monarch, discuss matters of state and offer counsel to the Monarch with regard to the discharge of executive functions. The Prime Minister will lead these discussions and chair the Cabinet.
(3) The Monarch may make prerogative Orders-in-Council which shall qualify as primary legislation, though lesser in authority than statutes. The Monarch may also make statutory Orders-in-Council, as delegated legislation, in accordance with the provisions of Acts of Parliament. Acts of Parliament may make provisions for His Majesty’s ministers to introduce regulations through Statutory Instrument.
(4) Privy Counsellors are entitled to the style “The Right Honourable”.
(5) Two Privy Counsellors, one of whom must be the Lord President of the Council, a great officer of state and a minister appointed by the Monarch, may make Orders of Council.
(6) The scope of prerogative Orders-in-Council shall only extend to all public services, including, but not limited to, the civil service, the intelligence services and the armed forces in all their aspects, diplomatic relations, the honours system, emergency powers, civil contingencies and the administration of the forum.
(7) The scope of statutory Orders-in-Council and regulations established through Statutory Instruments, delegated legislation rather than primary legislation in their own right, shall not exceed the authority granted by the Act of Parliament that made provisions for ministers to introduce them in a specific circumstance.
(8) The scope of Orders of Council shall extend only to the regulation and bylaws of non-government, non-judicial, professional bodies and corporations that might be established by statute or Royal Charter.
(9) Where Acts of Parliament and any legislative enactment under this section conflict, the Act shall prevail, with the exception of prerogative Orders-in-Council introduced with the stated express purpose to apply in emergency situations and civil contingencies. Orders-in-Council may be repealed or amended by Orders-in-Council of the same type in the future. Orders of Council may repeal or amend earlier Orders of Council.
10) Where there is no Parliament, excluding the Monarch, the Privy Council shall be the highest body capable of creating law.
4 The Courts
(1) The Royal Courts of Justice shall comprise:
(a) The Crown Court, which shall have jurisdiction over criminal cases of all types, except the trial of peers. A jury may sit to return a verdict, which shall be unanimous or of two-thirds of them at least, and it shall be an offence to inappropriately influence them. The judge shall give judgments on applications by parties, evidence admissibility, remands to bail or custody, adjournment, summing up to the jury and if necessary, sentence.
(B) The High Court of Justice, which shall have jurisdiction in contract, tort, and equity, civil and financial matters, as well as judicial review of public decisions founded on matters of illegality and whether a decision is so outrageous in its defiance of logic no sensible person would have taken it. Decisions of the Monarch may not be challenged by Judicial Review, though actions taken on His Majesty’s behalf by ministers may be so challenged. No decision of the Crown Court can be subject to a judicial review.
(2) The Monarch shall appoint Lord Justices on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, who shall be responsible for the allocation of cases to individual judges, one per case. In the High Court, trial is always by judge alone, rather than by jury, as civil matters are more of law than fact. Lord Justices shall exercise the jurisdiction of, and may preside over, the Crown Court and the High Court. The Monarch will be a Lord Justice ex officio.
(3) The Lord Chancellor shall select already appointed Lords Temporal to sit on an Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, which shall not exceed five in number, which he shall preside over. It has appellate jurisdiction over the Crown Court and High Court. They shall rule by majority, with the Lord Chancellor presiding and breaking any tie if necessary. It also has first instance jurisdiction over the trial of peers of the realm, where appeal shall go to the Monarch. The Lords Temporal on this committee are Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The lower courts, namely the High Court of Justice and the Crown Court, are bound by decisions on matters of law by the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the highest court in the land.
(4) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council shall hear appeals from any colonial courts that may be established, cases at first instance that relate to qualifications and returns of the House of Commons, and cases challenging the validity of bills passed by in colonies. The committee shall consist of the Lord Chancellor and all the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary who are Privy Counsellors, who shall try cases on behalf of the Crown.
(5) Jury selection in criminal cases shall be overseen by the Monarch, and jurors should be impartial, with no interest in the case or significant bias to any party. They shall not exceed five in number per case, or less than three in number. The trial judge may stand down jurors if he judges it necessary.
(6) To ensure the independence of the judiciary, Justices of the High Court can only be removed by a motion calling for their removal passed by an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament and agreed to by the Monarch. Lords of Appeal in Ordinary can be removed by the Lord Chancellor.
5 Rights
(1) No citizen shall be deprived of his liberty save in accordance with the judgment of a court or essential forum administrative requirements, as determined by the Monarch.
(2) Every citizen indicted for crimes is entitled to a just and open, save where the interests of regional security require otherwise as determined by the trial judge, trial within a reasonable time by an autonomous and neutral tribunal. Every citizen indicted for crimes will be regarded as innocent until and unless proven guilty.
(3) Retroactive prosecutions of citizens are prohibited.
(4) All people are entitled to privacy for their real life details and their personal messages unless they choose to disclose such details on the forum, or explicitly permit someone else to. If they do they forfeit their right to privacy in that instance.
(5) Every citizen has the right to their own beliefs and religion, though the exercise of their beliefs and religion can be justifiably restricted where it conflicts with law, regional security or forum requirements.
(6) All citizens are entitled to freedom of speech and freedom of expression, subject to restriction imposed by law, the interests of protecting classified information, and forum administrative requirements.
(7) All citizens are free and able to associate as they please, subject to such limitations that may be allowed by law, the judgments of a court and forum administrative requirements.
(8) Any general right or provision of this section that conflicts with a specific provision of another Act of Parliament, or this document as a whole, shall be subordinate to the provisions of that statute for the purposes of determining the law in any proceedings or context.
6 Offences
(1) A citizen shall be guilty of an offence if they commit acts of espionage or sabotage against UKB and will be liable to imprisonment for life, or a lesser sentence of imprisonment not less than two days.
(2) A citizen shall be guilty of an offence if they attempt to depose the Monarch or Monarchy, or attempt to unlawfully depose, his Government and will be liable to imprisonment for life, or a lesser sentence of imprisonment not less than two days.
(3) A citizen shall be guilty of an offence if they harm the region with intent to do so.
(4) A citizen shall be guilty of an offence for speaking in either House of Parliament without being entitled to do so by virtue of their position as a Member of Parliament or Peer of the Realm respectively, unless they have the permission of the Speaker of the House of Commons or the Lord Chancellor respectively.
7 Repeals, Amendments and Notes
(1) All previous Acts of Parliament, Orders-in-Council and Regulations are repealed.
(2) This Act does not alter the key common law principles and constitutional conventions that underpin the political system of UKB, which should be observed by all parties to it as part of our uncodified part of our constitution. This includes, but is not limited to the rule of law, parliamentary sovereignty (subject to the Monarch, the Head of Parliament, in all circumstances), the royal prerogative insofar as it is unaffected by the provisions of this Act, and the basic principles of contract, tort and equity law.
3) This Constitution may only be amended with a unanimous majority in the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and with Royal Assent.
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