Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: The Eternal Kawaii
The World Assembly,
RECOGNIZING that the nations of the world are composed of diverse kinds of people;
ACKNOWLEDGING that people of one kind might not consider people of another kind as "persons" due to differences in their substance or behavior;
REALIZING that for a rational debate on personal rights to take place, a commonly accepted definition of "person" is needed;
DECLARES that there exists a transcendental and self-evident concept, referred to here as "personhood", that is independent of the substance or behavior of the being that possesses it;
DEFINES for the purpose of this legislation a "person" to be an individual being that reasonably asserts its possession of personhood, or whose personhood is asserted for it by the members of its people;
DEFINES for the purpose of this legislation a "people" as any group of individual beings that possess substance and behaviors commonly shared between them that distingish them from other groups, and whose members normally meet the above definition of person;
DECLARES that no person may be required to accept inclusion within a people without said person's consent;
REQUIRES the WA to maintain a record of all known peoples within its member nations;
REQUIRES every WA member nation to submit an accurate accounting of the peoples within it for this record;
DECLARES that any being has the right to make an assertion of its personhood to the WA;
REQUIRES the WA to accept any reasonable assertions of personhood from beings not recognized as persons by WA member states, and to add these beings to its record;
REQUIRES all WA member nations to recognize the members of every people in this record as persons, and to extend to them all personal rights, freedoms, privileges and entitlements guaranteed under international law.
