The World Assembly,
Concerned that the provisions GA 37 do not protect inhabitants of member nations from being punished or found guilty of crimes they were not charged with without any semblance of due process,
Believing that not permitting such actions implicitly condones state behaviours restricting the citizen freedom, contravenes the obligations of a society to its citizens, and impinges on the fundamental principle that those who should be punished with crimes are in fact those who have, on sober and truthful reflection, actually committed them,
With more preamble forthcoming, hereby:
1. Bars member nations from:2. Mandates that when member nations create penal laws, they shall:
- imposing any penalty upon or finding guilt of any person subject to their jurisdiction without a fair trial, as may be defined by this Assembly in past or future legislation, and
- outlawing or penalising a specific person or class of persons for being descendants or antecedents of another, except where there exists a dependent relationship in which it can be established beyond a reasonable doubt that the person penalised exerts control over the actions of the person taking the action for which penalty was imposed;
3. Prohibits member nations from imposing any punishment on any person not subject to their jurisdiction.
- do so in a manner which provides reasonable notice for the populace as a whole to avoid or adjust to now-prohibited actions and
- only penalise acts or omissions rather than states of being;