Summary Rights
Whenever this section and another law conflict, this section takes
precedence, however whereever an ambiguity in this section is
clarified or eliminated by language elsewhere in this document, the
more precise language takes precedence.
Each individual physically separate human is a person, and each person
is an individual physically separate human.
A right is conduct that the state must not restrain, impede, or
punish, and any restraint or impeding of which by another person, the
state must restrain and punish at its earliest opportunity.
Each person inviolably enjoys
(1) the right to use prudent violence in defense of himself against
anyone or anything that assails him without his explicit consent in a
manner that threatens or promises bodily injury, and an absolute
immunity to any penalty under law or contract arising from such acts
of defense,
(2) the right not to be assailed without his explicit consent by
another person in a manner that threatens or promises him bodily
injury,
(3) the right to speak truthfully on any matter, and to create
non-ephemeral representations of such speech and distribute them to
consenting people, except as agreed to in contract as described in
this document, and
(4) in the event that it is alleged that he has forfeited one or more
rights, privileges, or entitlements: the right to represent himself or
to be represented by an attorney, in a trial lasting not longer than
one month and starting within one month of the allegation, with a
verdict and sentence decided by a justice on a basis strictly
constrained by law, on rational grounds and by physical evidence, in
public except while state secrets are being presented or the defendant
has publicly requested a period of private trial. Whenever an error
of fact or law is alleged, the recourse of appeal, in which the person
can represent himself or be represented by an attorney, must be
available. A forfeiture can be effected only on the order of a
justice consistent with law, except that an individual in the act of
violating another person in one of the rights enumerated in this
section, or threatening clearly, plausibly, and imminently, to commit
such a violation, or having moments earlier committed such a
violation, forfeits his freedom of movement
Each adult person has a right not to be deprived without his clear,
explicit, informed, and voluntary consent, directly by the act of
another person or people, or to be clearly, plausibly, and imminently
threatened with involuntary deprivation, directly by the potential act
of another person or people, of
(5) body sovereignty, comprising anatomical integrity, freedom from
bodily invasion, and metabolic autonomy excluding the metabolic
correlates of sensation and their metabolic precipitates, except that
while and only while a person threatens clearly, plausibly, and
imminently, to deprive another of body sovereignty, of lawful custody
of a non-adult child (as qualified in (6) below), or of property,
without that person's clear, explicit, informed, and voluntary
consent, he forfeits his right to body sovereignty, Furthermore,
anyone whose right to body sovereignty is intact exercises, by
consensus with another guardian whose right to body sovereignty is
intact (if any), the right to exercise body sovereignty over the body
of any guardee, on behalf of that guardee.
(6) custody of a non-adult child, if the person is a willing adult
person in good standing, and (in order of decreasing priority) either
(a) the person has previously acted in the role of guardian for the
child for at least a contiguous month, and the child explicitly and
consistently expresses a preference for him, or (b) the person is the
biological mother of the child, or (c) the person is the biological
father of the child,
(7) property excluding land and instruments intended for use as deadly
weapons, except that if a person deprives another of property without
that person's clear and explicit consent, he forfeits his right to
property, in a manner specified by law,
(8) freedom from bodily restraint by contact,
(9) freedom to leave the setting of a sensory stimulus,
(10) freedom to have sex with an informed and consenting adult person
in good standing,
(11) freedom to sell, purchase, occupy, and develop property in land,
and to not have another enter or occupy circumferentially walled
constructions and fenced areas thereon without his consent,
(12) freedom to associate, assemble, and trade with adult people in
good standing, and
(13) freedom to move about his land property, if any, about the land
property of another, with that other's consent, and to travel freely
but courteously through unfenced areas and on public ways, except that
a person may forfeit some or all of these rights, in a manner
specified by law, if he deprives another person of one or more of the
rights enumerated in this section.
Each adult person in good standing has (14) a right not to be deprived
by the act of another, of the freedoms to fabricate, sell, purchase,
possess, and employ - in courteous practice and in defense of body
sovereignty, custody of a non-adult child as recognized by (2) above,
or property - military pattern weapons, including all those usable or
used by state soldiers excluding indiscriminate unattended weapons,
and all associated paraphernelia useful in a military setting, and law
enforcement pattern weapons, including all those usable or used by
agents of the state, and all associated paraphernelia useful in a law
enforcement setting. Those who fabricate such weapons and associated
paraphernelia can be required by law to place serial identifiers on,
and forensic taggants within, such items and components thereof when
and only when the components so marked leave usable forensic evidence
when the weapon is operated, and even then, only in a manner that does
not significantly reduce performance, or increase cost by more than
ten percent, provided the state requires the use of the same
techniques on weapons and associated paraphernelia in common use by
state soldiers and law enforcement officers. Those who transfer such
weapons can be required by law to record the identity of the recipient
and the descriptions and serial identifiers (where present) of the
items being transferred, and to confirm that the recipient is an adult
person in good standing, but only in a manner that does not reveal to
others the identity of the supplier or recipient, or the nature of the
transaction.
A person is in good standing so long as he has not violated a person
in one or more of the rights enumerated in this section. A person
cannot be violated in a right he has forfeited. A person who is not
in good standing may be able to return to good standing, in a manner
specified by law. The enumeration of rights in this section cannot be
construed to deny or disparage other rights. The state cannot
predicate rights on payment of any fee or tribute. The state cannot
predicate the rights identified in this section on the filing of any
information with the state, except as specified in this section. A
person has qualified as an adult if he is in good standing, is
sexually mature or at least 18 years of age, has memorized this
section, and has appeared at a site operated by the state, where he
has supplied his name and toe prints, and recreated this section in
its entirety, from memory and without any external assistance, in hand
written or type written form, either word for word but without regard
for typographic nuance, or in language which is identical in its
meaning to the language of this section. In the event that an attempt
at qualification fails, another attempt cannot be made until at least
30 days have elapsed. Testing sites must be provided and advertised
in every town with a population of 1000 people or greater.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, no person has a
right to take or have custody of nuclear, biological, chemical, or
autonomous robotic weapons of mass killing or injury.
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