The Great Works of Kylaris [Kylaris | Canon | IC ]

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The Great Works of Kylaris is a regionally-sponsored thread devoted to showcasing the creative talents of great Kylarites from around the world. If your nation has a Great Work of art or literature, be it poetry or prose, a short story or even a painting, this colloquium is for you! Consider this thread a resource for helping to showcase the artistic talents of some of the great persons in your nations' histories.

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[Caille-Sartoux and the Azure Coast]

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La République Souveraine de la Côte d'Azur



— Name of the Work —
Les Rivages d'Azur, The Shores of Azure

—Type of Work —
Azurenne Sonnet

— Name of the Work's Creator(s) —
Darcy Culai d'Aguillon

— Date of the Work's Creation —
Circa 1601-1602

— Brief Synopsis of the Work —
Gaullican explorers had first set foot upon the shores of what is now Côte d'Azur in May 1560, sailing from the northern shores of Asteria Inferior in an effort to circumnavigate the continent. The dream of finding a land route through the mighty Southern Asterian Range remained elusive however for another forty years, until a scientific expedition from Sythes (in modern day Satucin) managed to cross into the Skybreaker Mountains along the southern face, emerging into the Thauvin River Valley that would take them to the lush coastal plains and the Gaullican trading post of Sartoux.

One of the members of the 1601-1602 expedition into the Skybreakers was the chronicler Darcy Culai d'Aguillon, who was tasked with taking detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna encountered along the route into the southern country. In his private journals however, the writer committed numerous poems to posterity, recording in vivid detail his experiences coming into the ‘land of azure shores’. His most famous, Les Rivages d’Azur, encapsulates the spirit of adventure and exploration that drew many of the first Gaullican colonists to the country.

Culai d’Aguillon was among a number of early Gaullican poets who would popularize the Azurenne Sonnet. Instead of fourteen lines written in five-foot iambic pentameter, the Azurenne Sonnet would combine twenty-eight lines, following a reverse rhyming scheme (ABAB | BCBC | CDCD | EE | FF | GHGH | HIHI | IJIJ). Though many poets continued keeping to the traditional pentameter, some – like d’Aguillon – would vary his meters depending on the subject, establishing the Azurenne Sonnet as a more versatile entry into the world of Kylarite poetry.


Portrait of Darcy Culai d'Aguillon by Emilian de Couthiers, 1610.

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‘Twas light which brought to thine eyes majesty;
Upon the grand redoubts we stood in awe,
To spoil this land would be a travesty!
Thy azure shores as renowned as His Law!
We set upon her soil before the thaw,
Towering crests bid us on through the pass;
So unworthy, we men of thatch and straw,
Bask in His handiwork of clay and grass!
Verdant fields and valleys long did amass,
Like empyrean dreams waxing might’ly;
We hearken to her shores, seas smooth like glass,
As if Eden doth manifest o’ so brightly!
Do mine eyes deceive me with such splendor?
We shall tarry here in God’s great render!

O’ that I may remain in this glory,
The picturesque setting of our story,
To find the gates to Heaven, praises be!
Were we kept from this land, shackled and blind?
In this country the waters set us free!
Should we leave here, what left is there to find?
Blessed be the Creator, o’ so kind!
Thine eyes are open, ready to receive
That which Satan could never hope to bind,
Paradise, which the worm wouldst deceive
To keep us bound, wert not His great reprieve.
Draw forth and trek, ye pilgrims, now draw near!
For all that seek grandeur, dare to believe;
In this country you shall find mercy here.

[Imagua and the Assimas]

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Imagua and the Assimas



— Name of the Work —
It's The End Of The World As We Know it (And I Feel Fine)

—Type of Work —
Short story

— Name of the Work's Creator(s) —
Phil Waterhouse

— Date of the Work's Creation —
2023

— Brief Synopsis of the Work —
A family living in a plush fallout shelter under their mansion in Cuanstad runs out of food. This story was made aspiring author Phil Waterhouse during the crisis surrounding the near-miss naval confrontation between Shangea and Senria that threatened to end the world as we know it.

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After what felt to be several weeks after receiving the alert that fallout from Vanö was heading towards Imagua, the Ashworth family seemed to have gotten used to life in their fallout shelter. Whereas the people up above have either died due to the radiation and fallout, the Ashworths seemed to be perfectly fine: sure, there was no radio, television, or internet, but they still had electricity that powered their supplies. Their household, plus their assorted servants who are in their employ were all safe in the fallout shelter. As for everyone else... as the head of the household, Raymond, said, "their fate is all up to the Almighty Lord."

As the Ashworth family were in the middle of playing another fulfilling campaign of Shadowstriders at their dining room table, Isobel, their cook, approached Raymond.

"I don't know how to put this," Isobel said, "but we are out of food."

Raymond raised his eyebrow: this surely cannot be right. They had enough food to last them for a year, right? After what felt like an eternity to him, he asked "have you checked the back of the cupboards?"

Isobel responded in the affirmative.

Raymond's wife, Vanessa said "I don't think you checked the back of the cupboards hard enough: there's surely something we can eat."

Isobel headed back to the kitchen to try and see if there's even the slightest can of soup kicking around. After looking in there for a couple of minutes, Isobel returns to the dining room.

"There is absolutely nothing left," Isobel said. "I'm afraid the only option is to exit our fallout shelter and see if there's any food up above, but..."

"Get up there: I'm confident there's some food we can take," Raymond ordered.

"...fine, but I cannot guarantee that I will find anything or that I will even make it back," Isobel said.

As Isobel left the fallout shelter, the mood over the dining room table was somber: he, his wife, and their two kids were beginning the long road to starving to death. Sure, maybe they shouldn't have eaten so lavishly while inside the fallout shelter, but perhaps the problem was that they did not stock up enough...

"I hope she comes back soon," Charlotte says. "Maybe things will have cleared up."

Raymond wanted to reassure her that things up above will have cleared up and that it was safe to go outside. But he knew for sure that it probably would not be safe for at least several more months. Probably years or decades at this rate. As days slowly progressed, and with no sign of Isobel coming back with the food, the family began to lose hope.

Then the power went out. The Ashworths had just about as much fuel as they had food: absolutely none whatsoever. Even if Isobel was still alive and was able to find food for the Ashworths to keep living the way they were, what is there to live for in this new world?

Nothing.

[Asase Lewa]

[OOC: Below can be found the Asalewan Constitution. This is primarily based on constitutions from real socialist and African countries. The 1918 and 1936 Soviet Constitutions are the biggest sources of inspiration, but there's also much inspired by the 1975 Mozambican Constitution, the contemporary South African Constitution, and to a lesser extent the 1954 and 1975 Chinese Constitutions, the 1977 Soviet Constitution, and the Tanzanian Constitution.]

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Asase Lewa



— Name of the Work —
Constitution of Asase Lewa

—Type of Work —
Legal document and constitution

— Name of the Work's Creator(s) —
The People's Constituent Assembly of Asase Lewa, with later amendments from the Supreme Workers' Council and Asalewan Section of the Workers' International (in practice, primarily written by the politicians Edudzi Agyeman, Kayode Temidare, and Klenam Vullor

— Date of the Work's Creation —
Originally written in 1969, with later amendment since then, primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s

— Brief Synopsis of the Work —
The Constitution of Asase Lewa was adopted on May 1, 1969. Previously a single-party state under the rule of the Asalewan Section of the Workers' International, during the Protective-Corrective Revolution—when Edudzi Agyeman, the charismatic and powerful leader of the Asalewan Section, called for a revolutionary mass movement to overthrow "capitalist-roaders," primarily Equalist members of the Section opposed to Edudzi's ultimately councilist vision—Asase Lewa underwent a transition to a council republic, as rebel organizations established workers' councils in much of Asase Lewa that overthrew the local Section bureaucracy. Amidst substantial chaos and fighting, both between rebels and the Section bureaucracy, and amongst rebels themselves, Edudzi Agyeman, the dominant rebel organizations, and much of the Section bureaucracy initiated negotiations that led to formation of a constituent assembly and a new Asalewan Constitution. Very much a compromise between rebels and the Section, the Constitution established a council republic in which workers' councils were ultimately supreme, yet retained the Asalewan Section of the Workers' International as an institution able to exercise limited veto over candidates for office, appoint political commissars, lead political education of the Asalewan masses, and establish semi-autonomous mass organizations, such as the Revolutionary Councilist Defence Committees, the Women's Federation, and the Junior and Pioneer Workers' Leagues, that would mobilize the Asalewan masses along the Section's ideological lines.

Since 1969, the core of the Asalewan Constitution, i.e., establishing a council republic with Section veto powers that would guarantee a participatory-economic framework and substantial economic and social rights, has remained basically unchanged. However, the Constitution has undergone some notable amendments since then, most notably in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the late 1970s, a burgeoning civil rights movement amongst pygmies and other traditionally nomadic groups led to the establishment of Non-Territorial Workers' Councils, guaranteeing national personal autonomy for these nomadic minority groups. Furthermore, in the early 1980s a self-coup by Kayode Temidare, the Asalewan Section's General Secretary after Edudzi's death, followed by substantial strikes and resistance in urban workers' councils that were dominated by former PCR rebels, led to widespread negotiations and constitutional amendments. These amendments formalized and limited Kayode's actions as a legal state of exception under the "Perpetual-Cyclical Revolution," provided the Supreme Workers' Council with substantially greater checks and oversight over the Section, directed the state to invite electoral observers from other socialist countries (primarily in response to voter intimidation by PCR rebels being a widespread phenomenon in the 1970s), and modified some of the Constitution's most radical provisions, notably by replacing an explicit call for family abolition with calls for the repeal of patriarchal family structures and establishment of workers' crêches, and by replacing the hardline state atheism of the 1960s and 1970s (though not repealing the term) with a milder laïcité. The most recent version of the Asalewan Constitution as of 2024 can be found below:

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BAHIAN COUNCIL REPUBLIC OF ASASE LEWA

PREFACE

The Constitution of Asase Lewa is the supreme law of Asase Lewa. It cannot be overridden by any other law or action, and it is a document that equally applies to all Asalewans regardless of any socioeconomic or cultural status, and has equal applicability throughout the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa.

The following copy of the Constitution of Asase Lewa is the current and most recent copy of the Constitution of Asase Lewa, and is applicable throughout the country; any other copies of the Constitution that differ in any way are illegitimate. The physical location of this copy, and the official depository of the Constitution of Asase Lewa, may be located at the People’s Archives in Edudzi Agyeman City.

PREAMBLE

The ancient and fair lands of Asase Lewa have been inhabited by our forebears and antecedents for millennia. We stand tall and proud knowing the ancient, rich, and inalienable cultural heritage and legacy the Asaalewan masses, the toiling classes of worker, peasant, and hunter-gatherer, have created and strengthened over the millennia—in poetry, in song. in dance, in art, in architecture, in wisdom— reflecting the product of millennia of toil, in body and mind, by the Asalewan and Bahian masses in deep connection to the lands of Asase Lewa and Bahia, and we build upon and continue that legacy today.

At the same time, however, we must also recognize that the heritage of the Asalewan masses, of our forebears and ancestors, is one inextricably marked and stained by the centuries of tribal, Houregic, colonial, and comprador-bourgeois oppression we have endured. From the tribalists, we endured blood feuds and superstition; from the Houreges, enslavement and conquest; from the colonists, exploitation and racism; from the comprador-bourgeoisie, betrayal and underdevelopment. We remember and mourn the countless millions of our compatriots whose lives were lost to, or were never truly lived in the face of, the exploitation of man by man, the oppression of class by class, and the enslavement, impoverishment, and underdevelopment of the country by empire.

But rather than remain cowed and subdued in the face of such horror and evil, the Asalewan masses have instead chosen to stand up and demand an end to the exploitation and oppression of man by man, now and forever. Under the leadership of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International and comrades Adelaja Ifedapo and Edudzi Agyeman, and guided by the dialectical-materialist logic of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism, the Asalewan masses have engaged in heroic struggle to overthrow the colonial and capitalist mode of production and rule of the country by colonial, tribalist, and comprador-bourgeois forces, putting an end to the exploitation of man by man and forever placing the country under the rule of Asase Lewa’s working-class, peasantry, and hunter-gatherers.

For the past sixteen years, the Asalewan masses, having overthrown colonial, tribalist, and comprador-bourgeois rule, have successfully established a socialist society that has forever abolished class antagonisms, the exploitation of man by man, and made great strides in overcoming the historic underdevelopment of the country that is the legacy of centuries of tribalism and colonialism. Now, having overthrown residual tribalist and capitalist-roader elements during the Protective-Corrective Revolution under the leadership of comrade Edudzi Agyeman, the time has come to begin the transformation to a communist society, in which capitalist and comprador-bourgeois oppression shall be abolished in not just Asase Lewa, but in all of Bahia and indeed Kylaris, in which underdevelopment and poverty shall be a thing of distant, ancestral memory, and in which not just class antagonisms but the remaining social classes themselves shall cease to exist.

Just as when we struggled to establish a socialist society, our struggle to establish this communist society will inevitably be long, arduous, and difficult. But just as when we struggled to establish a socialist society, the Asalewan masses—so long as we are firm and unyielding in waging class struggle, as guided by the dialectical-materialist logic of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism—are destined and condemned to victory. As the first step in the transformation to a stateless, classless, moneyless communist society, we must inaugurate the establishment of a council republic, in which political power shall be vested not just in the most-politically advanced section of the Asalewan masses, as reflected through the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, but in the entirety of the masses themselves.

It thus that, WE, THE MASSES OF THE BAHIAN COUNCIL REPUBLIC OF ASASE LEWA, the toiling classes of worker, peasant, and hunter-gatherer UNITED IN CLASS STRUGGLE under the banner of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism, IN ORDER to permanently liberate ourselves and our fellows from the state of underdevelopment and indigence, to promote unity in diversity amongst the various nationalities and groups of people within the country, to deepen and realize socialist democracy through a councilist political system, to ensure equality between man and woman, to promote international proletarian solidarity and emancipation, to abolish the exploitation of man by man and the existence of social class, and to eventually establish a stateless, classless, moneyless communist society, DO HEREBY ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION OF THE BAHIAN COUNCIL REPUBLIC OF ASASE LEWA;

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CHAPTER I - THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE STATE AND SOCIETY

SECTION I - BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE STATE

Article I

1. The Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa, the culmination of centuries of class and national liberation struggle by the Asalewan masses and the heroic, victorious struggle of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International against tribalism, capitalism, colonialism, and the comprador-bourgeoisie, is a socialist and councilist state ruled by the Asalewan working-class, peasantry, and hunter-gatherers.
   
2. The basic character of the state and the country is proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian, and such character is inviolable.

Article II

1. All power in the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa belongs to the toiling masses and proletariat of Asase Lewa, the classes of worker, peasant, and hunter-gatherer, forever united under the banner of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism in shared solidarity and struggle against the exploitation of man by man, and the oppressive capitalist and colonial mode of production.
   
2. The Constitution is the supreme law of Asase Lewa, and the Asalewan proletariat’s mastery over the state is guaranteed through the establishment of a council republic; greater still, however, is the inalienable reality of the dictatorship of the proletariat, realized through the daily practice of class struggle and the mass line, as dictated by the dialectical materialist logic of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism.

Article III

1. The territories of the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa correspond to the territories of the Bahian People’s Republic of Asase Lewa as defined in the Constitution of 1953.
   
2. The Bahian Council Republic’s sovereignty is inviolable. The Bahian Council Republic is indivisible and it shall never grant land to another power, except through the process of subsumption into a Bahian, Coian, or global workers’ state, as realized through the process of international class struggle and with the consent of the Asalewan people by vote of their Workers’ Councils and popular referenda.

Article IV

1. The Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa has the following objectives;
   
   1. The elimination of tribalist, colonial, and comprador-bourgeois structures of oppression and systems of exploitation, and the ideologies supporting such structures of oppression;
      
   2. The extension and promotion of popular power and mass political participation by the working-class, the peasantry, and the hunter-gatherers, as realized through the Workers’ Councils, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International;
      
   3. The elimination of all inequalities and distinctions in gender norms, and the abolition of patriarchal and oppressive family structures;
      
   4. The elimination of the distinction between manual and physical labor, and by extension the distinction within the proletariat between agricultural and industrial workers on the one hand, and technical workers and the working intelligentsia on the other;
      
   5. The elimination of the distinction between city and country, and between the Lowlands and Highlands, and the privileged position, power, and wealth of those in city or the Lowlands relative to their counterparts in country or the Highlands;
      
   6. The development of the Asalewan economy and productive forces, self-reliant from other countries, equitably-developed within the country and relative to other countries, and assuring prosperity and well-being to all the Asalewan people, as part of their equal enjoyment in the common heritage of humankind;
      
   7. The promotion of unity and celebration of diversity amongst all Bahians, regardless of culture, language, ethnicity, religion, or nationality, and the political and social unification of all Bahia under the banner of Pan-Bahianism, Councilism, and Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism;
      
   8. The defense and consolidation of independence, both political, economic, and cultural;
      
   9. The continuation of the international class struggle, against colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism, throughout Bahia and Kylaris;
      
   10. Its ultimate withering away, and the establishment of a stateless, classless, and moneyless communist society.

SECTION II - ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

Article V

1. In accordance with the principles of Councilism and socialism, the means of production and all property within Asase Lewa shall be held in common by the Asalewan people through their Workers’ Councils as part of their equal enjoyment in the common heritage of humankind.
   
2. The Bahian Council Republic does not recognize property rights of any kind except the right of the people to hold all property in common; the private ownership of property and exploitation of man by man is abolished forever.
   
3. Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed as prohibiting the ability of the Workers’ Councils to lease land or capital to trade unions, mass organizations, or the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International; but such leases must be permitted and revocable by a simple majority of the Workers’ Councils, and such leases must be used for public benefit, rather than private profit.

Article VI

1. In accordance with the principles of Councilism and socialism, Asase Lewa’s economy shall be structured according to the principles of participatory economics.
   
2. The consumption, investment, and planning of all property and means of production is a right and duty of the Asalewan people in the form of their elected Workers’ Councils.
   
3. The Asalewan workers shall enjoy the right to manage and oversee their own workplaces through their trade unions and in accordance with the principle of workers’ self-management.

Article VII

1. Both the Workers’ Councils and the trade unions shall be elected according to a council-based delegate model of representation, in which the people directly participate in decisionmaking at the local level and each level of representation elects the level of representation above it through single-transferable vote. The process of election and representation levels shall be defined by law.
   
2. Both the Workers’ Councils and the trade unions shall be elected according to an imperative mandate, in which the lower level may recall and replace the higher level of representation at any time. The process of recall and replacement shall be defined by law.

Article VIII

1. The consumption decisions of the Workers’ Councils and the production decisions of the trade unions shall be reconciled through the Facilitation Board, which is elected by, and recallable to, the Supreme Workers’ Council through single-transferable vote.
   
2. The Supreme Workers’ Council shall be empowered to, with the consultation of the Facilitaation Board, set minimum national savings and investment rates, and to direct the investment of labor and capital into strategic sectors and regions as defined by law.

Article IX

1. In addition to the participatory sector of the economy, the predominant economic sector in Asase Lewa, local Workers’ Councils may chose to establish, or not establish, a small private economy of individual peasant and hunter-gatherer households for the purpose of their own subsistence and based on their personal labour, precluding the exploitation of the labour of others.

Article X

1. All citizens who are of sound mind and body have the right and duty to work, in accordance with the socialist principles “they who do not work, neither shall they eat,” and “from each according to each their ability, to each according to their work.”
   
2. All Asalewans of sound mind and body shall have the right and duty to participate in both physical and mental labor; the abolition of this distinction is a necessary precondition for the establishment of a communist society.

SECTION III - MISCELLAENOUS PROVISIONS

Article XI

1. The Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall play a leading role in Asalewan society and politics, and in the the political development and education of the Asalewan masses, as defined by law and by latter sections of this Constitution.
   
2. Though it comprises the most politically advanced section of the masses, the Section exists in dialectical relationship with, and ultimate subordination to, the entirety of the Asalewan masses and their interests, in accordance with the mass line.

Article XII

1. The Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa is a federal multiethnic and multinational state of, by, and for, all Bahian peoples. All Bahian ethnicities, languages, and nationalities are equal; ethnic, linguistic, or national chauvinism is prohibited.

Article XIII

1. Asalewan, Ajaizo, Ashana, Gundaya, and Lokpa are recognized as the national and official languages of the state.
   
2. Other Bahian languages, including Pygmy languages and sign language shall enjoy protection and recognition as prescribed by appropriate legislation.
   
3. Asalewan shall be the language of the central government. Authorities at lower levels of administration may use the other official languages of the state, or other Bahian languages commonly used and preferred by their residents.
   
4. Recognizing the historically diminished use of the indigenous languages of our people, the state shall take positive measures to elevate and advance the status and use of the national languages, and all other Bahian languages indigenous to Asase Lewa, including Pygmy languages and sign language as prescribed by appropriate leglsation.

Article XIV

1. There is a common Asalewan citizenship.
   
2. All citizens are equally entitled to the rights, privileges, and benefits of citizenship, and equally subject to the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
   
3. All persons born to at least one citizen of Asase Lewa shall be entitled to citizenship and all the rights and responsibilities thereof.
   
4. All persons born in the sovereign territory of Asase Lewa shall be entitled to citizenship and all the rights and responsibilities thereof, unless that person:
   
   1. Is the child of an agent of a foreign state or corporation, registered or unregistered;
      
   2. Is the descendant of at least one (1) person whose Asalewan citizenship was voluntarily or involuntarily revoked by the Bahian People’s Republic of Asase Lewa from 1953 to 1960.
5. Notwithstanding any and all revocations of citizenship undertaken by the Bahian People’s Republic from 1953 to 1960, the Asalewan state may not revoke citizenship, or permit a citizen to renounce their citizenship, if in so doing it would render that citizen stateless.

SECTION IV - NATIONAL SYMBOLS

Article XV

1. The national motto of Asase Lewa shall be Serve the People.
   
2. The national anthem of Asase Lewa shall be the Internationale, as sung in all official languages of the country as defined by appropriate legislation.
   
3. The national animal of Asase Lewa shall be the gorilla, which frolics freely in the country’s many lush forests.

Article XVI

1. The national flag of Asase Lewa is red-and-gold; the background shall be red and the symbol of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, the hammer, machete, and torch, in gold in the upper corner near the staff. Above the hammer, machete, and torch shall be a five-pointed red star bordered in gold. The relation of the width to the length is 1-2.
   
2. The red of the Asalewan flag represents the color of the international workers’ movement and the blood our martyrs shed in our struggle for liberation; gold represents the wealth of our country’s rich heritage and culture, and corresponds with the rays of the sun that inaugurate our dawn.
   
3. The hammer, machete, and torch represents the spirit of the Asalewan masses and ruling classes; the hammer represents the working-class, the machete the peasantry, and the torch both hunter-gatherers and the indomitable spirit of Pan-Bahianism that guides us. The star represents the dawn, and the north star of hope that guided our indomitable people to victory.

Article XVII

1. The capital of the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa shall be Edudzi Agyeman City.

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CHAPTER II - DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE ASALEWAN PEOPLE

It is precisely because rights and duties are a social construct—ordained neither by divine providence, nor by universal, natural law, nor by eternal and invincible documents, but rather by the human being, through the process of class struggle—that they are so precious and so crucial to the establishment of a free and socialist society. During humanity’s prehistory, the period of class society—during which the mediation of human need and want with material reality occurs not through benevolence and comradeship, but through the inhuman reality of class dominion and politics, created by, but determining the conditions and actions of, the human being—any statement of human rights or duties is a dead letter when faced with the reality of class dominion.

The masses of Asase Lewa know this reality well; though the colonial and comprador-bourgeois regimes proceeding the Revolution nominally afforded extensive rights to their subjects, in reality such bourgeois legalism served only as a cover for their extensive violation; the reality of bourgeois political strength, and proletarian political weakness, meant that such rights were never extended to, nor enjoyed by, Asase Lewa’s working-class, peasant, and hunter-gatherer majority.

Yet in class society, as in classless society, the human need for rights and duties—the right to enjoy, and duty to protect and guarantee, life, liberty, equality, fraternity, justice, social dignity, and resistance to oppression—remains. As the slave values freedom far more than the enslaver, so do we, the masses of Asase Lewa, hold rights so dear not because we have enjoyed them, but because we have not; as the lion values meat far more than the vulture, so do we, the masses of Asase Lewa, holds rights so dear not because we have discovered them, but because we have created and invented them.

We, the masses, declare these rights not because we delude ourselves into thinking that this declaration alone protects them. Rather, we declare them as a promise, to ourselves, to our posterity, and to those tribalists, colonists, or capitalists that would destroy them: that these rights are ones we deserve, more than does the tribalist, the colonist, or the capitalist, and that we shall defend them through our lives, our labor, and our struggle.

SECTION I - BASIC RIGHTS TO ENSURE LIBERTY

Article XVII

1. The right to life and personhood before the law is inviolable. No person shall be deprived of life or personhood by fiat of the state or agents thereof, except as punishment for a crime whereof the person shall have been duly convicted.
   
2. The Bahian Council Republic shall consider preventing any and all loss of life within the Bahian Council Republic its supreme duty, as further specified by other sections of this Constitution and by statute.
   
3. Nothing in this Article of the Constitution shall be interpreted so as to prohibit the ability of the state to:
   
   1. Defeat an armed insurrection against the Bahian Council Republic or the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.
      
   2. Defeat an invasion by a foreign country staged against the Bahian Council Republic.
      
   3. Intervene or assist in the armed revolutionary class and national-liberation struggles of other peoples, particularly other Bahian peoples.
      
   4. Terminate an individual who poses a clear and present danger to the lives of others or who is absconding from lawful custody or detention.

Article XVIII

1. All persons shall have the right to freedom. Slavery, concubinage, forced labor, indentured servitude, and all forms of bondage are to be prohibited throughout the Bahian Council Republic.
   
2. The Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall take all steps necessary to enforce this right.

Article XIX

1. Human freedom and dignity is of the self is inviolable and inalienable; all persons are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and should act towards one another in a spirit of harmony, cooperation and brotherhood.
   
2. All persons shall have freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, degrading treatment, or a callous disregard for human life and dignity.

Article XX

1. Freedom of thought, of conscience, of religion, and non-belief, is essential to any moral or free society and is an inalienable right for all citizens.
   
2. The Asalewan state is founded upon state atheism; no law shall be made privileging any religion or faith above any other, or above non-belief.

Article XXI

1. Freedom of expresson, speech, of the press, of assembly, of mass meetings, of street processions and demonstrations, of petition, and of association is inviolable.
   
2. This freedom does not extend to language that incites violence, hatred based on ethnicity, gender, religion, or nationality, or constitutes a clear and present danger to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.
   
3. Nothing in this Article shall be constituted as prejudicing the ability of the state, the mass organizations, or the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International to promote councilist and Nemtsovist-Tretyakist-Adelajist-Edudzist thought amongst the people.

SECTION II - POLITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

Article XXII

1. All Asalewans at or above the age of eighteen (18) shall have the right and duty to cast a secret ballot in elections for the relevant Workers’ Council where they live, to recall members of the Workers’ Council through processes defined by appropriate legislation, and to freely deliberate and vote on all affairs concerning their immediate, communal Workers’ Council.
   
2. All Asalewans shall have the right for the equitable representation of their voice at all levels of administration through the proportional representation of their Workers’ Council at higher levels of administration relative to the population that Council represents.
   
3. Nothing in this Constitution shall be implied as restricting the ability of the courts to restrict the suffrage of Asalewans convicted of a crime whose conviction leads to the suspension of that Asalewans’s electoral rights for the duration of their prison sentence, or to suspend the electoral rights of Asalewans who have been convicted of having committed treason against, or engaged in an armed insurrection against, the Bahian Council Republic, or of having attempted to alter the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.

Article XXIII

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to participate in the civic life of the country through membership in the mass organizations relevant for their station in life, including but not limited to the Revolutionary Councilist Defence Committees for all Asalewans, the Women’s Federation for all women, the Junior Workers’ League for all youth, and the Pioneer Workers’ League for all children.
   
2. The mass organizations shall establish relevant recreational, sporting, co-operative, and cultural leagues and associations for their membership.
   
3. Membership in the mass organizations is not compulsory but is strongly encouraged, and the state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall take all necessary steps to promote the mass organizations and citizen participation in them.

SECTION III - SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND WORKERS’ RIGHTS

Article XXIV

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to work and to fair and equitable remuneration of their labor.
   
2. All Asalewan workers shall enjoy the right to the self-management of their workplace through their participation and membership in the trade union that manages their workplace, and their right to elect and recall representatives in that trade union through processes defined by appropriate legislation.
   
3. All Asalewan workers shall enjoy the right to strike if such a strike is sanctioned by a majority of workers in a relevant trade union, and through processes defined by law, unless such a strike would pose a clear and present danger to the security of the Bahian Council Republic’s people, or to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.

Article XXV

1. All Asalewan workers shall enjoy the right to rest and leisure, as ensured by the reduction of the working day to no more than eight hours for the overwhelming majority of workers, the right of workers to set their own schedules through their trade unions in concert with the Workers’ Councils, and the provision of adequate vacation, medical, and parental leave.
   
2. The Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall establish appropriate recreational and leisure facilitiesf or their members.

Article XXVI

1. All Asalewans who are unable to work—the young, the old, the sick, and the disabled—shall receive appropriate care and welfare from the state and the community.
   
2. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall establish wide-ranging social security and benefit systems covering the young, the old, the sick, and the disabled.
   
3. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall establish establish adequate healthcare and care facilities free and open to all Asalewans in need of these facilities.

Article XXVII

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to education as ensured by universal, compulsory primary and secondary education and free education at all levels, including tertiary education for the working intelligentsia and vocational education for relevant agricultural, industrial, and technical workers.
   
2. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall ensure this right to education through adequate instruction in both the native language of the student and in Asalewan, the establishment of adequate facilities for schools, the training of an adequate number of teachers as needed by the people, and the provision of adequate adult-education facilities for citizens who came of age before education was guaranteed.

Article XXVIII

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to an adequate standard of living, defined as adequate access to clean water, nutrition, and decent and safe housing.
   
2. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall take appropriate steps to enforce this right through its attempts to ensure the economic and social development of the country, and the provision of adequate infrastructure and subsidies to ensure that water, nutrition, and shelter are accessible to all.

SECTION IV - RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Article XXIX

1. Women are granted equal rights with men in all spheres of life.
   
2. Any and all institutions that contribute to inequality in marriage and the family, including polygamy, dowereis, dowers, and bride prices, are hereby prohibited.
   
3. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall endeavor to ensure that women and men enjoy an equal right and duty to work and an equitable remuneration of their labor.
   
4. Female genital mutilation, which shall be defined as the “partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons”, shall be prohibited under all circumstances throughout the Bahian Council Republic.
   
5. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall endeavor to ensure that the labor of social reproduction is equally distributed amongst the sexes and adequately-renumerated, by socializing childcare to the maximum extent possible through the establishment of workers’ childcare facilities and crêches throughout the country, and socializing housework to the maximum extent possible through the establishment of communal dining halls and communal housing throughout the country.

Article XXX

1. All children, defined as those under the age of eighteen, are to be granted certain special rights.
   
2. All children shall have the right to an identity from birth and to full and complete knowledge of their parentage.
   
3. All children shall enjoy the right to socialized childcare and childrearing through the establishment of workers’ childcare facilities and crêches throughout the country.
   
4. Access to clean water, nutrition, shelter, and healthcare is a right of all, but children must receive first priority in the allocation of these resources.
   
5. Children are prohibited to perform work or provide services inappropriate for their age, or as would result in the endangerment or degradation of their person, or would inhibit their ability to pursue education or their spiritual, physical, mental, or social development.
   
   1. It is prohibited for children under twelve years of age to participate in any work, except as part of agricultural or technical education or during the harvest season in rural areas, but such work may not exceed eight hours per week.
      
   2. It is prohibited for children between the age of twelve and sixteen years of age to participate in any work in mineral extraction or in industry except as part of vocational and technical education, or to engage in any work exceeding twelve hours per week.
6. Children may not serve in the People’s Revolutionary Army, the People’s Revolutionary Militia, or any other armed organization under any circumstances.
   
7. Children enjoy the right to be protected from abuse, neglect, maltreatment, or degreadation, and the state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall take appropriate steps to enforce this right.
   
8. In any legal matter concerning a child, such as custody or abuse law, the child’s interests shall be the paramount concern, notwithstanding the necessary enforcement of other laws to ensure the security of the Bahian Council Republic and its people, and the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.
   
9. Castration and emasculation outside of prevention of cancer shall be prohibited throughout the Bahian Council Republic.

Article XXXI

1. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International guarantees special protection to orphans and other dependents of the martyred soldiers of the People’s Revolutionary Army, especially those martyred during the Asalewan Revolution, and special protection to all veterans of the People’s Revolutionary Army mutilated or disabled in the course of their service to the Revolution and the country.

SECTION V - JUDICIAL RIGHTS

Article XXXII

1. All persons are guaranteed inviolability of person.
   
2. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of court or with the sanction of a procurator, nor may be detained for a period lasting longer than seventy-two hours before being informed of any and all criminal charges being placed against them, unless that person is a prisoner of war engaged in armed insurrection or attack against the Bahian Council Republic.

Article XXXIII

1. All persons shall enjoy the right to a fair and speedy trial.
   
2. All persons shall enjoy the right to adequate legal representation if they are accused of a crime.
   
3. All proceedings and outcomes of a trial shall be made public information, and free access shall be allowed to members of the public, unless a public trial would entail the release of information that seriously jeopardize the security of the Bahian Council Republic and its people.
   
4. All persons shall have the right of presumption of innocence until guilt is proven.

Article XXXIV

1. All persons shall have the right to remain silent during an interrogation, and shall be properly informed of this rights and state their full knowledge of these rights during an arrest and interrogation.
   
2. All persons shall have the right against self-incrimination or incrimination against their spouse or immediate family.

Article XXXV

1. All persons shall have the right to freedom from ex post facto laws, or the retroactive enforcement of laws against actions legal at the time, which are hereby prohibited.
   
2. All persons shall have the right to freedom from bills of attainder, or the criminalization of individuals by legislative fiat, rather than by due process and trial.

Article XXXVI

1. All persons shall enjoy the right to inviolability of their homes of citizens and secrecy of correspondence; unlawful searches and seizures are prohibited.

SECTION VI - RIGHTS OF BAHIAN PEOPLES AND COLLECTIVE RIGHTS

Article XXXVII

1. All persons shall have the right to asylum within the Bahian Council Republic if they are fleeing from persecution for engaging in the class struggle of the proletariat or in the struggle for national or social liberation.
   
2. All persons who are a member of the Bahian diaspora shall enjoy the right to return to their ancestral homeland of the Bahian Council Republic.
   
3. Nothing in this Constitution shall be constituted as preventing the state from extraditing persons who have engaged in criminal activity unrelated to the class struggle of the proletariat or the struggle for national or social liberation, or from prohibiting the immigration of persons whose entry into the Bahian Council Republic would pose a clear and present danger to the security of the Bahian Council Republic’s people, or to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.

Article XXXVIII

1. All persons shall enjoy the right to intergenerational equity.

Article XXXIX

1. All Bahian peoples shall enjoy their right to existence, to their ethnic, cultural, and linguistic expression as they fit.
   
2. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall endeavor to promote and ensure each Bahian people’s right to such ethnic, cultural, and linguistic expression.
   
3. All persons enjoy the right to use and be provided a linguistic interpreter in any court or Workers’ Councils proceedings should they require them.

Article XL

1. All Bahian peoples shall enjoy the collective right to social, economic, and cultural equality, to cultural and social autonomy and self-determination, and to pursue their social and cultural development according to the policy they have freely and democratically chosen.
   
2. The state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall establish appropriate mechanisms and institutions to promote and ensure each Bahian people’s right to such equality, autonomy, and self-determination.

Article XLI

1. All peoples shall enjoy the right to freely dispose of their wealth and natural resources, and to their economic, social, and cultural development as part of their equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind.

Article XLII

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to freedom of internal movement within the country.
   
2. The mass expulsion or forced population transfer of Bahian peoples is prohibited.

Article XLIII

1. All Asalewans shall enjoy the right to a healthy environment, and nature shall enjoy the right to respect for its existence, and its protection, rebirth, regeneration, and restoration.
   
2. The prevention of environmental damage, the promotion of ecologically and socially-sustainable development, and the restoration of wilderness lost to the Asalewan people and nature during the periods of tribalist, colonial, and comprador-bourgeois rule shall be a priority of the state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International.

SECTION VII - RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AND DEFEND THE COUNTRY

Article XLIV

1. All Asalewans of sound mind and body shall enjoy the right to acquire, maintain, and bear arms, and any infringement on this right may be resisted by the people using any means necessary.
   
2. The state may only regulate the exercise of the masses’ right to arms if the restriction in question:
   
   1. Regulates the time, place, or manner in which arms may be carried or acquired;
      
   2. Suspends the right to arms of any prohibited person who:
      
      1. Is currently categorized as mentally unfit by a court of law;
         
      2. Has been committed to a mental institution within the last 12 months;
         
      3. Is a fugitive from justice;
         
      4. Has engaged in or supported an act of insurrection against the Bahian Council Republic, or against its state and non-state allies;
         
      5. Would, if armed and as determined by a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt, pose a clear and present danger to the security of the Bahian Council Republic’s people, or to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country;
         
      6. Is subject to an order of restraint by a court of law, or;
         
      7. Has been found guilty of a felony offense, and has not yet completed or been released from their court-mandated sentence.
   3. Establishes a system of registration of arms, so as to ensure that each member of the People’s Revolutionary Militias enjoys adequate arms and ammunition, and adequate firearms training, as needed to ensure the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.
3. In all cases, legislation regarding arms and ammunition must:
   
   1. Meet a compelling and unavoidable need that cannot be accomplished through any other means;
      
   2. Be accomplished using the narrowest and least restrictive means possible, and;
      
   3. Not place an undue burden on the people's right to arms.
4. Mass access to arms, alongside the mass mobilization of the population in the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, is the chief way by which the masses and the proletariat defend the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country; under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the masses must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Article XLV

1. All Asalewans of sound mind, body, and ideology shall have the right to participate in the People’s Revolutionary Militias, which the Workers’ Councils and Revolutionary Councilist Defence Committees shall establish and organize for their members.
   
2. The People’s Revolutionary Militias shall provide their members with adequate arms and ammunition free of charge, and to free basic training in firearm safety, self-defense, and guerrilla warfare.
   
3. Each local People’s Revolutionary Militia shall exist under the control and oversight of their local Workers’ Council, which shall elect and appoint all officers for that Militia.
   
4. To promote and protect the People’s Revolutionary Militias, the People’s Revolutionary Army shall:
   
   1. Enjoy the right to veto Workers’ Council nominees for that Militia through provisions defined by law;
      
   2. Ensure the adequate coordination of local Militias regionally and nationally.
5. The Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall establish a system of political commissars in Militias to ensure that each Militia protects and strengthens Councilist and Nemtsovist-Tretyakist-Adelajist-Edudzist thought amongst the people.

SECTION VIII - FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES

Article XLVI

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to abide by the Constitution of the Bahian Council Republic, to observe its laws, to maintain labor discipline, and to perform their public and social duties honestly and without private gain.

Article XLVII

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to respect and treat their fellow countrymen and workers with the utmost respect, dignity, honesty, and kindness, in the spirit of comradeliness, solidarity, and community that is the friend of every worker and enemy of every capitalist across the globe.

Article XLVIII

1. All Asalewans of sound mind and body, in the the spirit of comradeliness, solidarity, and community, shall have the duty to care, to labor, and to provide for the well-being of those in their community unable to care for themselves.

Article XLIX

1. All Asalewans of sound mind, body, and ideology shall have the duty to serve the county through national military and non-military, through full-time service to the People’s Revolutionary Army from the ages of 18 to 19, full-time civilian service to the country from the ages of 19 to 20, and part-time service in the People’s Revolutionary Militias from the ages of 20 to 60.
   
2. To defend the country and the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country is the sacred honor and duty of all Asalewans. Treason to the country—violation of the oath, desertion to the enemy, impairing the military power of the country, or espionage—is punishable with all the severity of the law as the worst of crimes.

Article L

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to uphold the principles of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism and Councilism, the ideology that has enabled the Asalewan masses to successfully class and national liberation struggle and shake off the centuries-long chains of tribalism, imperialism, comprador-bourgeois rule, and capitalism and establish a free, socialist society founded on the principles of equality, democracy, liberty, fraternity, and social dignity.

Article LI

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to value and preserve the rich heritage of all Bahia’s constituent cultures, ethnicities, and nations, and value such heritage equally, privileging or valuing no Bahian people above another in the spirit of harmony, brotherhood, and Pan-Bahianism.

Article LII

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to protect and improve the natural environment as necessary for its protection, rebirth, regeneration, and restoration, and to have compassion for all living creatures, especially those indigenous to Asase Lewa.

Article LIII

1. All Asalewans shall have the right and duty to develop the scientific method and to engage in scientific experimentation in their course of their labor and daily practice, as part of the dialectical-materialist practice of proletarian science necessary for the development of Asase Lewa’s people and productive forces, and the development and attainment of ultimate truth.
   
2. To promote and ensure this right and duty, all technical workers and the working intelligentsia shall have the right to engage in adequate experimentation, research, and education as necessary for their practice, and the duty to engage in the dialectical-materialist practice of proletarian science, defined as:
   
   1. Mediating theory and practice, as achieved by synthesizing the wisdom of the intelligentsia and manual workers alike with practice, into science through the materialist dialectic;
      
   2. Seeking truth from facts;
      
   3. Scientific workers’ participation in manual labor;
      
   4. Mass participation in scientific experimentation;
      
   5. Focusing scientific experimentation and innovation on those innovations that would best serve the people.

Article LIV

1. All Asalewans shall have the duty to strive towards constant excellence and improvement, both individual and collective, in the spirit of socialist emulation and in recognition of the fact that the development of the country and the productive forces is impossible without a concommitant development of the Asalewan masses.

Article LV

1. All Asalewans shall have the collective right and duty of resistance and revolution, violent or nonviolent, against any forces—either imperialists from without, or tribalist, comprador-bourgeois, and capitalist-roaders from within—that attack the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country, or seek to prevent—once the toil and struggle of the Asalewan, Bahian, and Kylarite working-class, peasantry, and hunter-gatherers have finally enabled it—the transition of Asalewan society, and Bahian and Kylarite society more broadly, to a stateless, classless, and moneyless communist society.
   
2. The right and duty of resistance and of revolution shall be ensured and safeguarded by the state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International through the mass empowerment of the masses, as ensured by adequate political education in Councilist Nemtsovist-Tretyakist-Adelajist-Edudzist thought, mass membership and participation in the mass organizations, suffrage and participation in the Workers’ Councils and the trade unions, and the adequate arming and training of the people in the People’s Revolutionary Militias.

[Asase Lewa]

Since the entire Constitution exceeds the character limit, below can be found the rest of the Asalewan Constitution:

CHAPTER III - THE ASALEWAN SECTION OF THE WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL AND THE MASS ORGANIZATIONS

Article LVI

1. The Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, a leading force in Asalewan society and politics and in the political development and education of the masses in dialectical relationship with, and ultimate subordination to the rest tof the Asalewan masses, represents the most politically advanced section of the Asalewan masses, and the Asalewan branch of the international workers’ movement.
2. As with the Bahian Council Republic as a whole, the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, hereafter referred to as the Asalewan Section, adopts and reflects the theories of Nemtsovism-Tretyakism-Adelajism-Edudzism and Councilism, and shall play a leading role in the propagadtion of this thought, both amongst the Asalewan masses and internationally.

Article LVII

1. As the representative and ultimate servant of the Asalewan masses, the membership of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, hereafter referred to the Section, shall generally reflect the demographic composition of the masses more broadly, including with respect to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and vocation.

Article LVIII

1. The Section’s internal governance shall be specified by law and by an internal Section Constitution, but shall be structured according to the organizational principles of councilism and democratic centralism, with its highest decisionmaking being a national Section Congress.
2. The Presidium and Central Committee of the Section shall oversee Section affairs when the Section Congress is not in session, and shall be comprised of members elected by the Section membership, by the mass organizations, the working intelligentsia, the People’s Revolutionary Army, and by elected officials.
3. To protect the Section’s councilist and democratic centralist character, the Supreme Workers’ Council enjoys the right to veto changes to the Section’s constitution by two-thirds vote.

Article LIX

1. The Section is the Asalewan affiliate of the international workers’, Pan-Bahian, and anti-colonial movements and shall serve as the Asalewan branch of the Workers’ International and shall send an annual delegation to the Congress of the Workers’ International.
2. The Section shall take a leading role in Asase Lewa’s foreign policy; all Asalewan diplomats and officials tasked with foreign members must be Section members in good standing, and the Section shall establish an International Department tasked with fostering connections with the international workers’, Pan-Bahian, and anti-colonial movements, and with appointing political commissars, or Section members appointed by the Section tasked with ensuring political education and ideological rigor, at all levels of the Bahian Council Republic’s diplomacy and foreign policy.

Article LX

1. The mass organizations, including the Revolutionary Councilist Defence Committees, the Women’s Federation, the Junior Workers’ League, and the Pioneer Workers’ League, are affiliations and extension of the Section’s outreach and mobilization of the masses, but organizationally separate from it.
2. The mass organizations shall be organizationally structured according to councilist principles, with all adult members of the mass organizations enjoying the right to elect the mass organizations’ leadership through a delegate-based model of representation and single-transferable vote.
3. The Section enjoys the right to veto candidates for mass organizations’ leadership, and national and regional leaders of the mass organizations must be Section members in good standing.
4. The Section shall establish a system of political commissars for the mass organizations at all levels of leadership.

Article LXI

1. Though political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, it is the working-class collectively, not the soldiers themselves, who must command the gun. As such, the Section shall establish a system of political commissars for the People’s Revolutionary Army at all levels of leadership.
2. All military officers at or above the rank of lieutenant, or naval and aeronautical equivalents, must be Section members in good standing.
3. The Section enjoys the right to veto and to dismiss the officers of the People’s Revolutionary Army.
4. The Supreme Workers’ Council shall enjoy the right to override the Section veto and dismissal of military officers by two-thirds vote, and to veto Section appointments for political commissars by two-thirds vote.

Article LXII

1. The Section shall enjoy the right to veto candidates for the Workers’ Councils, their Presidiums, and the trade unions; but in any given election for a Workers’ Council, Presidium, or trade union, the Section may veto no more than one-third of candidates, unless that election occurs in a jurisdiction that has witnessed, as determined by law, an outbreak of tribalist or comprador-bourgeois violence within the past five years, or an armed insurrection against the Bahian Council Republic within the past ten years.
2. The Supreme Workers’ Council shall enjoy the right to override the Section veto of a candidate by two-thirds vote.

Article LXIII

1. The Presidium of the Section shall enjoy the right to overturn laws passed by the Workers’ Councils contrary to this Constitution, especially Chapter I and II of this Constitution, by two-thirds vote.
2. The Section Congress shall enjoy the right to override such an overturned vote by a simple majority, and the Supreme Workers’ Council shall enjoy the right to override such an overturned vote by two-thirds vote.

Article LXIV

1. The Section shall establish study groups for the political education and development of the Asalewan masses in Councilist and Nemtsovist-Tretyakist-Adelajist-Edudzist ideology, open to all Asalewans free of charge.
2. The Section shall take appropriate steps to ensure the maximum accessibility of all Section study groups, taing care to establish study groups adequately accessible to Asalewans regardless of their working hours and schedules, geographic location, languages spoken, or physical or mental disabilities.

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CHAPTER IV - THE WORKERS’ COUNCILS

SECTION I - ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS AND MEETINGS

Article LXV

1. The Workers’ Councils are the supreme organ and basic foundation of the state, with each level of Workers’ Councils electing the level above it.
2. The levels of Workers’ Councils shall be defined as follows:
   
   1. The Supreme Workers’ Council, comprised of at least one delegate for every 50,000 inhabitants and elected by the Workers’ Councils of the constituent republics;
   2. The constituent republics, comprised of at least one delegate for every 10,000 inhabitants, whose borders shall be fixed by law and whose delegates shall be elected by the Workers’ Councils of the provinces and the Free Cities;
   3. The provinces and the Free Cities, comprised of at least one delegate for every 5,000 inhabitants, and no more than 750 delegates, except in cases of Free Cities with borders fixed by law, and whose delegates shall be elected by the Workers’ Councils of the counties and towns;
   4. The counties and towns, comprised of at least one delegate for every 1,000 inhabitants and no more than 250 delegates, and whose delegates shall be elected by the municipal Workers’ Councils;
   5. The municipal Workers’ Councils, comprised of at least one delegate for every 100 inhabitants and no more than one hundred delegates, and whose delegaates shall be elected directly by the citizens, through the communal Workers’ Councils;
   6. The communal Workers’ Councils, which shall be comprised of no more than five hundred inhabitants, and which all resident citizens of voting age shall have the right to participate in directly.
3. The borders and jurisdictions of the Workers’ Councils shall be set in accordance with population as determined by the annual Census, except for the borders of the constituent republics and the Free Cities, which shall be fixed by law of the Supreme Workers’ Council.
4. The Supreme Workers’ Council may additionally fix the borders of provinces, counties, and towns, insofar as such borders respect the maximum population for each of these jurisdictions as specified by this Article.
5. Free Cities denote jurisdictions of urban areas autonomous from local provinces and counties, with powers equivalent to the provinces, as elected by constituent towns and chartered by the Supreme Workers’ Council.

Article LXVI

1. The Workers’ Councils of the communities, municipalities, counties, and towns shall meet once a month for legislative sessions lasting at least two hours, and the Workers’ Councils of the provinces, Free Cities, constituent republics, and the Supreme Workers’ Council shall meet at least thrice a year, for legislative sessions lasting at least two months.

Article LXVII

1. Members of Workers’ Councils meeting monthly do not serve on the Workers’ Conucils as a position of full-time employment, though Workers’ Councils at lower levels may vote to compensate elected delegates with a small amount of compensation relative to the amount of hours worked; but the hourly wage for these delegates may not exceed the median hourly wage in the jurisdiction of the Workers’ Council they represent.
2. Members of Workers’ Councils meeting for extended periods of time are full-time workers and shall be compensated as such; but the wage for these delegates may not exceed the median wage of the jurisdiction of the Workers’ Council they represent.

SECTION II - ELECTIONS TO THE WORKERS’ COUNCILS

Article LXVI

1. Each level of Workers’ Council shall enjoy the right to elect an appropriate number of delegates for their higher level of Workers’ Council, proportionate to the percentage of the higher level’s population that lives within that lower level’s administrative territory, as determined by law.

Article LXVII

1. The lower levels of Workers’ Councils shall elect their delegates to the higher level through single-transferable vote, may vote to recall their delegates at any time if at least one-twentieth of members of that Workers’ Council sign a petition to trigger a recall election, and elect new ones through single-transferable vote if a simple majority vote to recall their existing delegates.

Article LXVIII

1. All votes and elections at the level of the communal Workers’ Council shall be conducted through secret ballot, and all votes and elections at all other levels of Workers’ Councils shall be conducted through open ballot.

Article LXVIII

1. At all levels of election to the Workers’ Councils, separate electoral rolls shall exist for women and for men, such that one-third of all seats at all levels of the Workers’ Councils will be held by women and elected by women, one-third held by men and elected by men, and one-third elected by both genders and with no restrictions on the gender of delegates elected by this roll.

Article LXIX

1. Eligible voters serving in the People’s Revolutionary Army, or eligible voters serving in non-military national service, have the right to vote and be elected on equal terms with all other eligible voters, and may choose to vote in either their place of current residence, or the last place they lived as a civilian.
2. Notwithstanding their inability to participate in the communal Workers’ Councils’ public deliberation, the state and the People’s Revolutionary Army shall provide adequate infrastructure to ensure the right of soldiers and non-soldiers in national service who choose to vote in their last place of civilian residence.

Article LXX

1. Candidates may be nominated for election by either the mass organizations, the trade unions, other civic associations, or their fellow citizens unaffiliated with any organization, through procedures established by law.
2. The law may require no more than ten nominations by their fellow citizens for an individual to be eligible for election as a communal Workers’ Council’s delegate to their local Workers’ Council
3. The law may require no more than five nominations by elected members of a Workers’ Council for an individual to be eligible for election as that Workers’ Council’s delegate to that jurisdiction’s higher level of Workers’ Council.

Article LXXI

1. It is compulsory for citizens to vote in a communal Workers’ Council’s election of delegates to the local level of Workers’ Council, and the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall take all appropriate steps to enable and encourage citizens to otherwise participate in communal Workers’ Councils, and the administration of the state more broadly, to the maximum extent possible.

Article LXXII

1. Elections for Workers’ Councils shall occur at least every three years on days fixed by law.
2. Elections for communal Workers’ Councils’ executive committee and delegates for local Workers’ Councils shall be a national holiday, with as many workers permitted a day of rest as is possible without posing a clear and present danger to the security of the Bahian Council Republic or its people.
3. Workers who are unable to enjoy a day’s leave during elections, or who are otherwise unable to physically vote in the communal Workers’ Council they are registered to, shall have the option of voting remotely or during the week before the day of election.

Article LXXIII

1. Elections take place in the presence of election committees and representatives from local Workers’ Councils.
2. The state shall invite and welcome electoral observers from other countries, whether diplomatic representatives from other workers’ states, representatives from workers’ parties, trade unions, or mass organizations, or private citizens, that share Asase Lewa’s goal of international proletarian and Pan-Bahian liberation and revolution.

Article LXXIV

1. Higher-level Workers’ Councils shall appoint commissions to verify elections and may declare elections void if they were irregularly-carried out.
2. As no higher-level Workers’ Council exists ith regards to verifying elections to the Supreme Workers’ Council, the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International shall have the task of determining whether or not elections to the Supreme Workers’ Council were free and fair.
3. If an election’s result is declared to be void, a new election shall be carried out.

SECTION III - JURISDICTION OF STATE POWER

Article LXXV

1. The Supreme Workers’ Council, and its Presidium, shall have the following powers:
   
   1. Representation of the Bahian Council Republic in international relations, questions of war and peace, and international treaties, in consultation with the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International and its International Department;
   2. Oversight and control of the People’s Revolutionary Army, in consultation with the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International and its political commissars;
   3. Supervision over the observation of this Constitution, and ensuring that the laws and decisions of lower Workers’ Councils are in accordance with this Constitution and all other laws passed at the federal level;
   4. Establishing the borders of the constituent republics and the Free Cities, and ratifying the borders of all lower levels of administration, as set by the Census and by the constituent republics;
   5. Chartering new Free Cities;
   6. Foreign trade on the basis of state monopoly;
   7. Safeguarding the security of the Bahian Council Republic and its people, and the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country;
   8. Appointment of the Facilitation Board, and, with the Facilitation Board’s consultation, setting minimum national savings and investment rates, and directing the investment of labor and capital into strategic sectors and regions as defined by law;
   9. Setting and establishing a central education curriculum and system, which all schools in local regions must follow, in accordance with Article XXIX of this Constitution;
   10. Establishing appropriate systems of social security, welfare, and benefit, in accordance with Articles XXV through XXX of this Constitution;
   11. Establishing appropriate systems to subsidize basic goods and ensure their affordability throughout the country, in accordance with Article XXVIII of this Constitution;
   12. Ensuring the adequate and equitable development of the country throughout rural and urban, Highland and Lowland, geographies, in accordance with Articles XL and XLI of this Constitution;
   13. Ensuring the protection of the environment and adequate regeneration of nature lost during the periods of colonial and comprador-bourgeois rule, in accordance with Article XLIII of this Constitution;
   14. Ensuring harmony and equality between members of various national, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic groups, and preventing outbreaks of tribalist violence or sentiment;
   15. Administration of the monetary, credit, and banking systems;
   16. Administration of transport and communication;
   17. Financing and setting the united state budget of the Bahian Council Republic;
   18. Establishing the basic principles of land and property tenure, including of leasing land and property to trade unions, mass organizations, and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International;
   19. Overseeing and governing the relationship between the Workers’ Councils and the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International;
   20. Citizenship and immigration law;
   21. Organizing a uniform system of national economic accounting;
   22. Establishing national minimum and maximum wages and working-hours for workers, with the understanding that actual wage and hour-setting shall be determined by the workers themselves through their trade unions and lower-level Workers’ Councils;
   23. Establishing national criminal and civil codes, and governing the judicial system and judicial procedure;
   24. Establishing a national system for overseeing the elections and votes of the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, and the mass organizations;
   25. Establishing proper procedure for meetings and deliberation that the lower levels of the Workers’ Councils must follow;
   26. Issuing acts of pardon and amnesty throughout the Bahian Council Republic.
2. The Supreme Workers’ Council may choose to devolve its decision-making powers to the constituent republics, or to lower-level Workers’ Councils.
3. Granting the powers in subclauses(k), (l), (m), and (n) to the Supreme Workers’ Council and its Presidium shall not be implied as preventing the constituent republics and lower-level Workers’ Councils from also enjoying these powers.

Article LXXVI

1. The Workers’ Councils of the constituent republics shall enjoy those powers not explicitly granted to the Supreme Workers’ Council, or to lower-level Workers’ Councils.

Article LXXVII

1. The Workers’ Councils below the level of constituent republics shall have the following powers and duties:
   
   1. The carrying out and implementation of orders from the higher level of government;
   2. Taking appropriate steps to ensure cultural, social, and economic development within their jurisdiction;
   3. The decision of all questions of local importance within their jurisdiction;
   4. Ensuring the public order, and security of the Bahian Council Republic and its people, within their jurisdiction;
   5. Directing the activities of organs of public administration subordinate to them within their jurisdiction;
   6. Overseeing the consumption, investment, and planning of the economy within their jurisdiction, in consultation with the trade unions, the Facilitation Board, and higher organs of the Workers’ Councils and in accordance with Asase Lewa’s participatory-economic system;
   7. Determining the local budget of public administration and of the means of production, in consultation with the trade unions and the Facilitation Board;
   8. Determining those local affairs devolved to it by the Workers’ Council of their relevant constituent republic, or by the Supreme Workers’ Council.

Article LXXVIII

1. The Workers’ Councils shall generally seek to devolve decision-making power to as local an authority as possible, notwithstanding the general imperatives of the Supreme Workers’ Council and the state as defined in Articles IV and LXX of this Consistution.

Article LXXIX

1. In those cases where the laws and decisions of lower and higher Workers’ Councils conflict, the authority of the higher-level Workers’ Council is supreme.

SECTION IV - THE PRESIDUM AND STATE ADMINISTRATION

Article LXXX

1. Every level of Workers’ Council shall elect a Presidium through single-transferable vote, the membership of which shall not exceed:
   
   1. For the communities and municipalities, ten;
   2. For the counties and towns, twenty;
   3. For the provinces, Free Cities, and constituent republics, twenty-five;
   4. For the Supreme Workers’ Council, thirty.
2. The Presidium shall serve as the executive organ of each level of Workers’ Council, and shall enjoy decisionmaking power when the Workers’ Councils are not in session.

Article LXXXI

1. The Workers’ Councils shall enjoy the right to override any decisions made by their relevant Presidium in between sessions by simple majority vote, and the Presidium shall carry out all decisions of the Workers’ Councils.
2. The Workers’ Councils are the supreme power; the Workers’ Councils may vote to revoke their Presidium through a simple majority vote, and to elect a new Presidium through single-transferable vote.

Article LXXXII

1. Each Presidium shall elect from amongst its members a General Secretary, with the consent of the Workers’ Council, who shall facilitate meetings of the Presidium and of the Workers’ Council, and shall serve as first among equals among members of the Presidium, and a Deputy General Secretary, who shall facilitate meetings of the Presidium and of the Workers’ Council when the General Secretary is unable to do so.
2. The Presidium shall determine amongst itself, with the consent of the Workers’ Council, the division of executive tasks, duties, and administrative appointments amongst its members.
3. Members of any given Presidium shall be hereafter referred to as People’s Commissars, and the ministries and administrative appointments they are assigned to shall be hereafter referred to as People’s Commissariats.
4. The Workers’ Councils may veto the Presidium’s decision to appoint a People’s Commissar to a specific People’s Commissariat, and may instead direct the Presdium to appoint members to another Commissariat.

Article LXXXIII

1. The Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council is the highest organ of administrative and executive power in the Bahian Council when the Supreme Workers’ Council is not in session.
2. Though able to determine additional administrative appointments and division, the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council must consist of, at minimum, the following standing People’s Commissars:
   
   1. The General Secretary;
   2. The Deputy General Secretary;
   3. The People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Proletarian Revolution, and Bahian Liberation;
   4. The People’s Commissar for Finance;
   5. The People’s Commissar for the Economy, who shall serve in an ex officio role as the Chair of the Facilitation Board;
   6. The People’s Commissar for Defence;
   7. The People’s Commissar for the Interior;
   8. The People’s Commissar for Justice;
   9. The People’s Commissar for Social Welfare;
   10. The People’s Commissar for Education;
   11. The People’s Commissar for Labor;
   12. The People’s Commissar for the Environment;
   13. The People’s Commissar for Heavy Industry;
   14. The People’s Commissar for Light Industry;
   15. The People’s Commissar for Transport;
   16. The People’s Commissar for Agriculture;
   17. The People’s Commissar for Health;
   18. The People’s Commissar for Anti-Tribalist Affairs and Bahian Equality;
   19. The People’s Commissar for Indigenous and Pygmy Affairs;
   20. The People’s Commissar for Women’s Affairs;
   21. The People’s Commissar for Mass Organizations.

Article LXXXIV

1. At all levels of government, individual People’s Commissars shall have the initial ability to decide on questions under the jurisdiction of their People’s Commissariat; but the Presidium collectively shall have the authority to overrule an individual People’s Commissar’s decisions.
2. Should they disagree with the Presidium’s collective decision, a People’s Commissar may seek for the Workers’ Council to overrule the Presidium’s decision, and the decision of the Workers’ Council shall be final.

SECTION V - CONSULTATION, INITIATIVE, AND REFERENDA

Article LXXXV

1. Workers’ Councils shall seek to incorporate maximum potential public consultation and input before the enactment of legislation.

Article LXXXVII

1. The Workers’ Councils shall have the right to refer proposed legislation to referendum within their jurisdiction; if the Workers’ Council chooses to do so, the result of that referendum shall be binding and its passage, or failure, shall be determined by simple majority vote.

Article LXXXVIII

1. Notwithstanding the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International’s ability to veto laws that violate this Constitution in accordance with Article LXII, a vote of one-twentieth of communal Workers’ Councils within a relevant jurisdiction shall trigger a referendum on proposed legislation within that jurisdiction, either of legislation proposed by that jurisdiction’s Workers’ Council or on legislation collectively proposed by all communal Workers’ Councils that seek to trigger the referendum.
2. The result of any referendum proposed within this way shall be binding by simple majority vote.

Article LXXXIX

1. Meeting minutes of the Workers’ Councils and the Presidiums at all levels shall be public, and the Workers’ Councils and Presidiums shall provide appropriate opportunities for public comment and popular consultation in all deliberations and votes, except in cases where the Supreme Workers’ Council, or its Presidium, is discussing matters whose public disclosure would constitute a clear and present danger to the security of the Bahian Council Republic and its people, or to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country.

Article XC

1. The state shall endeavor to establish appropriate meeting halls for the Workers’ Councils and for their Presidiums.

SECTION VI - SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR PYGMIES AND NOMADIC PEOPLES

Article XCI

1. In addition to their ability to participate in the Workers’ Councils relevant to their locale, the state recognizes the ability of pygmies and other members of traditionally nomadic groups and historically oppressed minorities, as defined by law, to form Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils on the basis of non-territorial, national personal autonomy that shall exercise jurisdiction over:
   
   1. The educational, social, and cultural development of the community, and preserving the community’s traditional cultural and linguistic heritage;
   2. The resolution of legal disputes if such disputes occur between members of the community;
   3. The administration and regulation of resources extracted by the community according to the traditional hunter-gatherer economy, in concert with the trade unions and with neessary environmental protections, subsidies, and controls on pricing passed by higher Workers’ Councils;
   4. Advising the other Workers’ Councils on those practices that might best be used to manage and steward the traditional environments such minorities traditionally inhabit;
   5. The promotion of tourism that would affect the community;
   6. The promotion of the mass organizations and sports, leisure, and recreational activities within the community.
   7. The levying of taxes on on members of the Non-Territorial Workers’ Council and on the private hunter-gatherer economy that such members are a part of, and setting a budget funding by both taxation and adequate subsidy from other Workers’ Councils.

Article XCII

1. Pygmy, nomadic, and oppressed minority populations whose numbers exceed the maximum threshold for communal Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils shall additionally form local Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils; and the same is true for populations who exceed the threshold for local-level Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils and thus necessitate county-level Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils, and for populations who exceed the threshold county-level Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils and thus necessitate provincial-level Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils.

Article XCIII

1. Given the geographically dispersed and traditionally-nomadic nature of such populations, the division of pygmy, nomadic, and oppressed minority Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils shall be set by law, and may occur on the basis of either modern geography, or historic kinship and geographic divisions.

Article XCIII

1. Communal and local Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils shall meet at least thrice a year, rather than monthly.
2. The trade unions shall grant their pygmy, traditionally nomadic, and oppressed minority populations adequate leave to travel to meet and participate in their communal Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils, and for their employees who are elected elected to local and county-level Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils.
3. Because the Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils are not defined on the basis of territory, maximum wages for elected officials in the Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils may not exceed the median national rate.

Article XCIV

1. In addition to Non-Territorial Workers’ Councils created on the basis of affiliation with a specific pygmy, nomadic, or historically-oppressed minority group, the state recognizes the establishment of a Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council, comprised of the Workers’ Councils of all groups entitled to a Non-Territorial Workers’ Council and on a level of administration equivalent to that of the constituent republics.
2. The Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council does not elect candidates to the Supreme Workers’ Council, with pygmy, nomadic, and historically-oppressed minority workers instead exercising this right through the regular, territorial Workers’ Councils.

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CHAPTER V - THE JUDICIARY AND SOCIALIST LAW

Article XCV

1. The basic character of the legal system is based upon Solariarn, Gaullican, and Weranic civil law and the councilist political system.
2. Asase Lewa’s courts shall follow an inquisitorial, non-adversarial method of adjudication and investigation.

Article XCVI

1. Justice in the Bahian Council Republic is administered by the following courts:
   
   1. The Constitutional Court;
   2. the Supreme Court of the Bahian Council Republic;
   3. the Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and the Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council;
   4. The provincial courts;
   5. The Pepole’s Courts;
   6. The Workers’ Courts;
   7. Special courts established by law.
2. The Workers’ Councils may additionally choose to establish Workers’ Courts, People’s Courts, and provincial courts that follow judicial procedure and precedent rooted in ancient, pre-colonial customary law and procedure as defined by law, that may hear disputes that both parties agree to try according to customary law and procedure rather than civil law and inquisitorial procedure.
3. Legal disputes regarding the family, sexuality, and gender must be tried according to civil law and inquisitorial procedure rather than customary law and procedure.

Article XCVII

1. The Constitutional and Supreme Court shall both consist of eleven judges, each appointed for an eleven-year term by the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council, with the advice and consent of the Supreme Workers’ Council, the Judicial Services Commission, and the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International.
2. The terms for members of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts shall be staggered, such that one new judge is appointed each year. Members’ terms may be renewed once.
3. All cases of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts must be heard by all eleven judges.
4. The Constitutional and Supreme Courts shall elect a General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary from among their membership; the General Secretary shall oversee the proceedings of the Court and serve as a first among equals, and the Deputy General Secretary shall oversee the proceedings of the Court when the General Secretary is unable to do so.

Article XCVII

1. The Constitutional Court is responsible for adjudicating all matters of constitutional importance within the Bahian Council Republic. The people are real; the cases are real; the rulings are final; this is the Constitutional Court, the highest court of the Bahian Council Republic.
2. Matters of constitutional importance include:
   
   1. Disputes between levels of Workers’ Councils concerning the constitutional status or powers of different levels of Workers’ Councils;
   2. The constitutionality of proposed legislation at all levels of government, if at least one-third of members of the Workers’ Council that passed the disputed legislation, one-third of members of the Supreme Workers’ Council, or one-tenth of communal Workers’ Councils within the relevant jurisdiction, petition the Constitutional Court on the grounds that the proposed legislation is unconstitutional;
   3. The constitutionality of proposed amendments to this Constitution, if at least one-quarter of members of the Supreme Workers’ Council assert that such an amendment is contrary to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and country or is contrary to the entrenched, eternal articles of this Constitution, as described in Article CXIX of this Constitution;
   4. Whether or not the Workers’ Councils have failed or met their constitutional obligations;
   5. A petition by an individual, trade union, or mass organization arguing that their rights, as enumerated in Chapter II of this Constitution, have not been properly respected by the Workers’ Councils or by other rulings of the courts, or that a court ruling concerning them has been contrary to other sections of this Constitution, if the Constitutional Court chooses to hear the petition.

Article XCVIII

1. The Supreme Court of the Bahian Council Republic is the final court of appeal for all non-constitutional matters within the Bahian Council Republic, and is tasked with overseeing the judicial system of the country and supervising the judicial and legal activities of all other courts in the Bahian Council Republic.
2. The Supreme Court may hear any non-constitutional disputes appealed from the Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council, or other legal matters referred to it in circumstances defined by law.

Article XCIX

1. The Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and the Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council shall consist of eleven judges appointed by their relevant Workers’ Council Presidium, with the consent of the Constituent Workers’ Council, for staggered eleven-year terms, renewable once.
2. The Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and the Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council shall hear matters appealed from the provincial courts if they decide to hear such cases, or other legal matters referred to it in circumstances defined by law.

Article C

1. The provincial courts shall consist of judges, whose number shall be determined by law but may not exceed eleven, by the Provincial Workers’ Council Presidium, with the consent of the Provincial Workers’ Council, for a length of time determined by law not exceeding eleven years and on the basis of staggered terms. Judges of the provincial courts may not serve for a period of time exceeding twenty-two years.
2. The provincial courts shall hear matters appealed from the People’s Courts and the Workers’ Courts if they decide to hear such cases, or other legal matters referred to it in circumstances defined by law.

Article CI

1. The People’s Courts shall consist of three judges elected by the communal Workers’ Councils in their jurisdiction as defined by law, for staggered terms of three years. Judges of the People’s Courts may be re-elected for up to four terms.
2. The People’s Courts shall serve as the courts of first instance in the Bahian Council Republic, except for matters of constitutional importance decided by the Constituional Court, and matters decided by the Workers’ Courts as defined by law.

Article CII

1. The Workers’ Courts shall consist of ordinary workers, who serve only in a part-time capacity, elected by communal Workers’ Councils in their jurisdiction as defined by law, for staggered, non-renewable terms of three years.
2. The Workers’ Courts shall hear cases involving minor offenses and civil infractions as defined by law, and may impose punishments of a fine up to, but not exceeding, the average monthly salary of their jurisdiction, or may refer matters to the People’s Courts.

Article CIII

1. Judges are independent and subject only to law.
2. Judges may be removed from office only if the Workers’ Council of their jurisdiction votes to remove the judge by a two-thirds vote, or if the Judicial Services Commission votes to remove the judge by a two-thirds vote in cases of gross misconduct or incompetence as defined by law.
3. Judges may not have their salaries, allowances, and benefits reduced; but their salaries may not exceed the median wage of their jurisdiction.

Article CIV

1. Judges shall broadly reflect the demographic composition of their jurisdiction, including with respect to gender, ethnicity, geographic location. At least one-third of the judges at all courts must be women, and at least one-third must be men.
2. Any appropriately-qualified individual of sound mind, body, and ideology may be appointed as judge; but all judges of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court must have previously served as judges in another court for at least three years.

Article CV

1. The state recognizes the authority of the People’s Procuratorate of the Bahian Council Republic, tasked with supervision over the execution of laws passed by the Supreme Workers’ Council and with procuratorial authority over all organs of the state, the Workers’ Councils, the trade unions, the mass organizations, the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, and private citizens.
2. The People’s Procuratorate shall establish and exercise jurisdiction over a central-level procuratorate, and over lesser procuratorates covering the jurisdictions of the constituent republic and provincial, county, and local Workers’ Councils, as prescribed by law.

Article CVI

1. The People’s Procuratorate shall be headed by the Procurator-General of the Bahian Council Republic, who shall be appointed by the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council, with the consent of the Supreme Workers’ Council and the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, for a term of five years.
2. The Procurator-General’s term may be renewed up to four times.
3. The Procurator-General may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the Supreme Workers’ Council.

Article CVII

1. The People’s Procuratorates are only subordinate to the Procurator General and to the Supreme Workers’ Council, or to the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council when the Supreme Workers’ Council is not in session; the People’s Procuratorates are independent from lower-level Workers’ Councils and organs of the state.

Article CVIII

1. There shall be Judicial Services Commission, consisting of:
   
   1. The General Secretary of the Constitutional Court, or the Deputy General Secretary if the General Secretary is unable to serve;
   2. The General Secretary of the Supreme Court, or the Deputy General Secretary if the General Secretary is unable to serve;
   3. Two members of the Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council, as elected by the constituent republics’ Supreme Courts;
   4. The People’s Commissar of Justice;
   5. The Procurator-General;
   6. Two practicing attorneys, as elected by practicing attorneys through their trade union;
   7. One law professor at an Asalewan university, as elected by law professors through their trade union;
   8. One private citizen, who is not a practicing attorney, law professor, or judge, as determined by sortition;
   9. One individual elected by the Supreme Workers’ Council.
2. The terms of those individuals appointed to the Judicial Services Commission, without serving in an ex officio role entitling them to serve on the Commission, shall be appointed for a non-renewable term of five years.

Article CIX

1. The Judicial Services Commission shall advise the state and the judiciary on all matters concerning the administration of justice.
2. The Judicial Services Commission shall advise the Supreme Workers’ Council, and lower-level Workers’ Councils, on all appointments to the judiciary, and may veto proposed appointments to the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Courts of the constituent republics and Constituent Non-Territorial Workers’ Council, by a simple majority.

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CHAPTER VI - STATE OF EMERGENCY AND CYCLICAL REVOLUTION

Article CX

1. In the event of a grave emergency that constitutes a clear and present danger to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country, whether due to foreign invasion, counter-revolutionary insurrection, natural disaster, or economic collapse, the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council may proclaim a state of emergency by a four-fifths vote of its membership, which both the Supreme Workers’ Council and the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International must approve by three-quarters votes of their membership.
2. The Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council may proclaim a state of emergency covering either the entirety of the country or only a part of the country.

Article CXI

1. A state of emergency will expire three months after its proclamation, unless renewed by the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council by a four-fifths vote, and by the Supreme Workers’ Council and the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International by three-quarters votes, for another three-month period.
2. A state of emergency may not occur for a period lasting longer than ten years.
3. Upon the end of a state of emergency, the Bahian Council Republic shall immediately new elections for the Workers’ Councils in all areas affected by the former state of emergency, and shall invite an adequate number of international electoral observers in accordance with Article LXXIII of this Constitution.

Article CXII

1. During the duration of the state of emergency:
   
   1. The Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council may decree new laws by a simple majority vote, which the Supreme Workers’ Council may veto by a simple majority vote;
   2. The law-making and executive power of the Supreme Workers’ Council and its Presidium shall extend beyond the parameters enumerated beyond Article LXXV of this Constitution, to powers normally afforded to lower levels of Workers’ Councils
      
      1. Any laws covering subjects that a lower-level Workers’ Council normally has jurisdiction over must be approved by that lower level after the state of emergency’s end.
   3. The Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council may direct lower-level Workers’ Councils to exercise executive power in a manner that it directs;
   4. The normal rights of initiative, referendum, and recall shall be suspended, if the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council deems it necessary;
   5. Elections shall be suspended, if the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council deems it necessary;
   6. Enforcement of Article XXXII, XXXVI, XLII, and XLIV of this Constitution by the Constitutional Court shall be suspended, if the Presidium of the Supreme Workers’ Council deems it necessary.
2. All rights suspended during the state of emergency must be restored in full after the state of emergency ends.

Article CXIII

1. In addition to the state of emergency, the Bahian Council Republic recognizes, in accordance with the Nemtsovist-Tretyakist-Adelajist-Edudzist notion of Perpetual-Cyclical Revolution, the ability of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International to proclaim a period of Cyclical Revolution, or a period of intensified class struggle against tribalist, comprador-bourgeois, and capitalist-roader elements constitute a clear and present danger to the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country, if such elements by a four-fifths vote of the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, which the Congress of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International must approve by a three-quarters vote.
2. The Supreme Workers’ Council may vote to end a period of Cyclical Revolution by a two-thirds vote at any time.

Article CXIV

1. A period of Cyclical Revolution may last no longer than three years; and periods of Cyclical Revolution may not occur within a span of twenty-five years of one another.
2. A period of Cyclical Revolution may not be proclaimed if a state of emergency is already in effect, and vice versa.
3. A period of Cyclical Revolution will end three months after its proclamation, unless renewed by the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International by a four-fifths vote, and by the Section Congress by a three-quarters vote.

Article CXV

1. During a period of Cyclical Revolution:
   
   1. The Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International may decree new laws by a simple majority vote, which the Section Congress may veto by a simple majority vote, and the Supreme Workers’ Council may veto by a two-thirds majority vote;
   2. The law-making power of the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International extends to powers normally afforded to all levels of the Workers’ Councils;
      
      1. Any laws covering subjects that the Supreme Workers’ Council has jurisdiction over must be approved by the Supreme Workers’ Council after the Cyclical Revolution’s end
      2. Any laws covering subjects that a lower-level Workers’ Council normally has jurisdiction over must be approved by that lower level after the Cyclical Revolution’s end.
   3. The Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International may direct the Workers’ Councils to exercise executive power in a manner that it directs;
   4. The Section Constitution’s restrictions on the expulsion of Section members are suspended.
   5. The Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International’s special ability and duty of political education of the masses, as defined by Article LXIV of this Constitution, is only deepened.

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CHAPTER VII - AMENDMENTS TO THIS CONSTITUTION

Article CXVI

1. This Constitution may be amended only by a law of the Supreme Workers’ Council expressly amending or supplementing its text.
2. International treaties that modify this Constitution, or whose ratification may be precluded by this Constitution as currently written, may be ratified without risk of being overturned by this Constitution by ratifying the treaty according to the procedures of constitutional amendments specified in Article CXVII of this Constitution, and adding the treaty to the list of ratified treaties in Article CXVIII of this Constitution.

Article CXVII

1. Any amendment to this Constitution must be approved by the Supreme Workers’ Council by a two-thirds vote, and ratified by a simple majority of the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, and at least three-fifths of the electorate in a public referendum in which participation shall be compulsory.
2. Amendments to Chapters I and II of this Constitution must be approved by the Supreme Workers’ Council by a three-quarters vote, and ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International, and at least two-thirds of the electorate in a public referendum in which participation shall be compulsory.

Article CXVIII

1. The following international treaties are recognized as legally and constitutionally-binding, regardless of any provisions in them that might conflict with the Constitution as currently written:
   
   1. The Charter of the Community of Nations;
   2. The Declaration of Universal Natural Rights, excepting Statute IV, which the Bahian Council Republic does not recognize;
   3. The Charter of the Congress of Bahian States;
   4. The Treaty of Shanbally, or the Treaty for the End of Nuclear Armament Proliferation in the World;
   5. The Treaty of Priedīši, or the Charter of the Association for International Socialism;
   6. The Charter of the International Forum for Developing States;
   7. The Charter of the Bank of Bahia.

Article CXIX

1. No amendment to this Constitution may be passed, nor an international treaty ratified, if such an amendment or treaty:
   
   1. Alters the proletarian, free, councilist, and Bahian character of the state and the country, or impedes the ultimate withering away of the state and the establishment of a stateless, classless, and moneyless communist society;
   2. Alters, repeals, or is contrary to the principles of the entrenched, eternal articles of this Constitution, namely Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, XII, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XXII, XL, L, LV, CXIX, and CXXI.

Article CXX

1. The Constitutional Court shall have the power to determine if an amendment to this Constitution, or an international treaty, is contrary to Article CXIX through the processes described in Article XCVII of this Constitution.

Article CXXI

1. This Constitution, and the Bahian Council Republic, may cease to exist only under the following conditions:
   
   1. The process of subsumption into a Bahian, Coian, or global workers’ state, as detailed in Article III of this Constitution, or;
   2. The withering away of the Bahian Council Republic, and of the state, and the establishment of a stateless, classless, and moneyless communist society.
2. The abolition of the Constitution and the Bahian Council Republic may only occur through the consent of the Workers’ Councils, including a two-thirds majority of the Supreme Workers’ Council and two-thirds of the communal Workers’ Councils, and a two-thirds majority of the electorate through a compulsory public referendum.
3. The society succeeding the Bahian Council Republic—whether a Bahian, Coian, or global workers’ state, or a stateless, classless, and moneyless communist society—must be in accordance with the principles of the entrenched, eternal articles of this Constitution, as described in Article CXIX of this Constitution.

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CHAPTER VIII - COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION

Article CXXII

1. The entirety of this Constitution of the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa, and all Chapters, Sections, Articles, Clauses, and Subclauses therein, was drafted by the People’s Constituent Assembly of Asase Lewa, chosen by the Asalewan people through their Section of the Workers’ International, embryonic Workers’ Councils, and rebel mass organizations inspired by the spirit of the Protective-Corrective Revolution and leadership of Edudzi Agyeman, and approved and legitimized by the Asalewan people through public referendum and the mass line.

Article CXXIII

1. The Constitution was finalized by the People’s Constituent Assembly on January 17, 1969, was approved in public referendum on March 2, 1969, and shall come into effect on May 1, 1969, precisely fifty-six years, nine months, and twenty-one days after the Asalewan people initiated their emancipation through the formation of the Asalewan Section of the Workers’ International on July 10, 1912, and precisely sixteen years after the Asalewan people realized their emancipation and seized control of their destiny through the end of comprador-bourgeois rule and establishment of the Bahian People’s Republic on May 1, 1953.

Article CXXIV

1. The Bahian Council Republic shall hold elections for all levels of Workers’ Councils as soon as possible.
2. The People’s Constituent Assembly shall serve as the temporary Supreme Workers’ Council, and shall elect a temporary Presidium from amongst its membership, until a new Supreme Workers’ Council is elected.

Article CXXIV

1. The Bahian Council Republic is the successor state of the Bahian People’s Republic and shall assume all the treaty obligations and debts thereof, and recognizes no treaty obligations and debts except those incurred by the Bahian People’s Republic.

Article CXXV

1. This Constitution of the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa may alternatively referred to as the Constitution of Asase Lewa, which shall be designated as the official short title of this Constitution.

Article CXXVI

1. This Constitution shall be translated into all languages designated as official languages of Asase Lewa as designated by Article XIII of this Constitution.
2. A calligraphic and artistic version of this Constitution shall also be commissioned and published, to be located in the People’s Archives in Edudzi Agyeman City.