The General Assembly, through the democratic agreement of its Member States and the Delegates thereof, operating through all the months of the calendric year,
ACKNOWLEDGING both the urgency with which GA #2:
Rights and Duties of WA States was collated into a draft, following the catastrophic, unexpected, and inexplicable consequences of an interdimensional fireball colliding with international law, as referenced in GA #1:
The World Assembly, and the various flaws in GA #2 which necessitated a repeal in GA #637:
Repeal “Rights and Duties of WA states”;
BELIEVING that the General Assembly has advanced greatly in the years since GA #2 was passed, from tackling such topics as the
right to a fair trial, to focusing on such issues as access to
comfortable pillows, from being controlled by a narrow group of elites, to being controlled by a slightly different, perhaps more likeable, narrow group of elites, and that this change requires new legislation to address the basis of the relationship between the General Assembly and its members;
KNOWING that it is the responsibility of the international community to work together to improve the world, one resolution at a time;
Therefore SUBMITS the following as statements of undeniable and perfect veracity:
- Membership of the General Assembly is and ought to be entirely voluntary. It is an agreement into which nations enter by choice, for a variety of reasons, out of their own freedom and sovereignty.
- When a nation joins the General Assembly, it delegates some of its freedom to make legislative decisions to the international community. There is a duty for nations to release this power, and there is a correspondent right for nations to vote on which proposals become international law.
- The General Assembly is a multiversal, international, hyperplanar collection of diverse, wonderful, and exciting countries. Each one has unique and sometimes challenging political needs, which can be addressed through collective, binding action which works with, rather than against, this astonishing diversity.
Hence, by the almighty power bestowed upon it by natural law, and in defiance of those who wish chaos upon these assembled nations, the General Assembly DECLARES the following:
- Member nations have the freedom to determine their own affairs, including the joining of binding international treaties, within the limitations of the law of the General Assembly.
- Every member nations has choice of its own system of government, of its own borders, and of its own legislation, within the boundaries of international law to which it is signatory, and the law of the General Assembly.
- All member nations shall be regarded as equal under the law of the General Assembly, such that no resolution shall bind some but not others, and such that no resolution shall expel a member nation from the Assembly.
- Likewise, member nations are entitled to a basic level of respect in their international affairs. Member nations ought to treat one another in this respectful manner, and they have a consequent right not to be subject to arbitrary, capricious, and unnecessary fines, embargoes, and sanctions.
However, these rights carry therewith correspondent duties:
- Each member nation must, to the absolute best of its ability, in complete good faith, and without any preventable delay, fully comply with all extant legislation of the General Assembly.
- All member nations must recognise the supremacy of the law of the General Assembly over all their national and subnational law, regardless of constitutional status. Furthermore, the law of the General Assembly shall be regarded by member nations as supreme over all other bodies of customary, international and religious law.
- Member nations are urged to consider themselves under a duty to advocate membership of the General Assembly to their allies, where those allies are not members of the General Assembly.
The General Assembly has a unique role in ensuring that the principles of international cooperation are maintained:
- All legislation of the General Assembly shall be carefully and thoroughly drafted, with due attention to such principles as clearly categorising legislation by its scope, creating demands only upon its members, and ensuring that its resolutions are neither contradictory nor duplicatory.
- The General Assembly shall have the power to enforce compliance with its mandates through such measures as fines, embargoes, and sanctions.
- Legislation shall be clearly and openly promulgated. No member nation shall have to comply, nor be punished for failing to comply, with legislation which is not yet or which is no longer in force.
Be this founding law enacted by the Assembly of Worlds, according to the democratic principles by which its legitimacy is upheld.
