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 the right to a fair trial, in GA #3, to focusing on access to comfortable pillows, in GA #600, 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 the foundational statements of the General Assembly:
- Membership of the General Assembly is and ought to be entirely voluntary, for this is how the power of the General Assembly is justified. It is an agreement into which nations enter by their own 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 political needs, which can be addressed through collective, binding action which works with, rather than against, this astonishing diversity.
Hence, by the suzerain power bestowed upon it by the voluntary union of its constituent states, and through the majoritarian vote of the delegates of those assembled nations, the General Assembly DECLARES the following:
- Member nations have the freedom to determine their own affairs, including the joining of international treaties, within the limitations of the law of the General Assembly.
- Every member nation 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 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.
- Each member nation shall refrain from the use of military force against other member nations, except for an extraordinarily compelling cause declared clearly and openly, and subject to the restraints and controls set by the General Assembly.
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 the type or nature of that law. Furthermore, the law of the General Assembly shall be regarded by member nations as supreme over all other bodies of law that may otherwise be deemed to affect those nations.
- Member nations are urged to advocate membership of the General Assembly to their allies, where those allies are not already members.
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 drafted, to ensure such principles as clear categorisation of legislation by scope, creating binding demands only upon member nations, and ensuring that 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.
- Where and to the extent mandated by extant resolutions, the General Assembly shall have the ability to delegate its powers, responsibilities, and duties to committees.
- All legislation of the General Assembly shall be clearly and openly promulgated.
Be this founding law enacted by the Assembly of Worlds, according to the democratic principles by which its legitimacy is upheld.
