Amendment 2
Secretarial Duties
No nation may hold two positions on the Politburo at the same time. They must resign from one to use the power of another.
All Secretaries are allowed and encouraged to create their respective sub-region in order to centralize their efforts. However, all information, as to passwords and decisions within these regions are to be reported directly to the General Secretary. The sub-region must pertain to the objectives of that office and are under the direct authority of the legislation of the UPFS.
Amendment 3
Mechanisms of the Unity-Army
The Unity-Army may be legally deployed in an ideologically aligned region that may have come under attack or is in dire need of defense.
All defensive pacts or treaties must be voted on through the People’s Referendum.
Voluntary Brigades are defined as groups of individual nations within UPFS that organize to liberate or invade other regions. Voluntary Brigades do not belong to the Unity-Army.
Voluntary Brigades may be made by nations within the UPFS. The Voluntary Brigades do not represent the viewpoint of the UPFS. Members of Voluntary Brigades are considered volunteers and may be recruited within UPFS, only when the organizer has received permission from the Politburo. To give permission, the Secretary of Defense must put it to vote by telegrams in the Politburo. A majority vote decides the outcome. These are the following guidelines that Politburo members must consider:
1) The action should not have foreseeable repercussions affecting the wider region of the U.P.F.S.
2) The proposal has feasible achievements.
3) The proposal should not damage the image of the U.P.F.S. abroad. In ideologically aligned regions and any regions which we have diplomatic ties to or trying to develop.
Amendment 4
The Party System
Political parties within the UPFS are defined as organizations that promote a set of issues to better the structure and system of the UPFS. They are organizations that seek to win elections or pass legislation to seek their goals.
Political parties are required to create their own factbook.
Links to the factbooks will be provided in a sub-region called the UPFS Party HQ, managed by the Secretary of Internal Affairs.
The UPFS Party HQ will also post links to other party documents or forums if asked.
Links to debates between political parties are encouraged to be posted on the regional message board of UPFS.
Political parties may be formed without the consent of the People’s Referendum, however are restricted by the Constitution. Every three months the political party must submit, on the regional message board, a Statement of Loyalty pledging that it seeks to build up the UPFS and will do nothing to undermine the security or the Constitution of the UPFS.
Nations within political parties are still subject to the law and its consequences.
Political parties with the UPFS may take any stand on any issue. It may also structure itself in any way it deems necessary; however it may not exclude certain types of nations and cannot undermine the rights of nations as defined by the Constitution.
Political parties may create sub-regions and must report their existence in their factbook.
Failure to remain loyal will result in the forced disbanding of the party and prosecution of its leadership and accomplices.
Amendment 5
Elections and Voting
In the event of a tie at the end of a vote on a proposal, edit, or amendment, the proposal, edit, amendment is given the status of failed and can be brought back to vote through new edits.
In the event of a tie during an election, the Secretary of Recruitment, Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of International Affairs will decide in a 2/3 majority vote the outcome. If, for what ever reason, the vote cannot be made then the position will go unfilled, until a new election is resumed within 10 days. In the event that the General Secretary’s position goes unfilled, then the Founder must assume the position and have a new vote within 10 days from assuming power.
All nations within UPFS have the right to vote on proposals, edits, and elections, unless convicted by trial.
All nations within UPFS have the right to run for any position of office, unless convicted by trial.
No nation is allowed to have a vote be counted twice, especially by puppet.
