GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL
Repeal "The Right to a Lawful Divorce"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal | Resolution: GA#39 | Proposed by: Christian Democrats
The General Assembly,
Recalling that this Assembly, in Resolution 205, Freedom of Contract, affirmed "a fundamental right to liberty, which includes the freedom to choose, think, and act as an individual,"
Further recalling that this Assembly, in that same resolution, recognized that "a person's freedom to voluntarily and willfully make agreements with others is an important part of their fundamental right to liberty,"
Recognizing that Resolution 39, the Right to a Lawful Divorce, grants a spouse unfettered license to dissolve a marriage regardless of the terms of the marital contract to which that individual earlier agreed,
Believing that Resolution 39 thus infringes on the fundamental liberty of contract because it requires that divorces be made available "without let or hindrance" irrespective of the terms that the spouses contracted out of their own individual sovereignty,
Realizing that Resolution 39 unreasonably denies individuals their fundamental right to commit themselves voluntarily to interpersonal, romantic relationships with binding (legally enforceable) terms, including lifelong unions or even unions for shorter periods of time, since any party to a marriage can dissolve the contract "with promptitude" and with "[n]o penalty of any kind,"
Expressing its vehement opposition to Resolution 39, a law that unjustly intervenes in personal romantic relationships, because it violates freedom of contract and freedom of choice: the liberty to choose for oneself the terms on which one enters a marital union,
Convinced that romantic partners who choose to marry are perfectly capable and should be allowed to determine freely the exit clauses of their own unions without unnecessary involvement by the national or subnational government, let alone an international body,
Seeking to resolve the irreconcilable tension between the so-called right to divorce and the fundamental right to contract,
Repeals Resolution 39, the Right to a Lawful Divorce.