Constitution of the Republic

ARTICLE I: Declaration of rights

B) Rights of Privacy

  1. All persons shall have the right to privacy and to the sanctity of their own possessions. The expectation of privacy in the body, the home and it's surroundings is absolute.
  2. The homes, vehicles, persons, papers, correspondences, and effects of all persons in the republic shall remain inviolate, and no surveillance of any person by any means may be conducted, except upon the finding of reasonableness and probable cause by a neutral judge of the trial courts, nor without a warrant issued thereupon describing specifically the places or persons to be searched or surveiled and what evidence may be collected; except with the knowledgeable and free consent of the person.
  3. No corporation may be compelled to provide information about their customers or shareholders, nor may any such information be retained or used for any governmental purpose, without a finding of probable cause by a neutral judge of the trial courts, no law may require the compulsory disclosure of any customer record, however the government shall have the power to limit sharing and disclosure of corporate records.
  4. The right of confidentiality between lawyers, doctors, accountants, psychiatrists, clergy, drug counselors, and their respective clients, and other groups as may be provided by law, shall not be abridged. No person may be compelled to testify to privileged information without the consent of the client. The government shall provide laws for the prevention of breaches of confidentiality.
  5. The government may not keep, compile, or reveal any personal information about any citizen except as punishment for a crime; or to the extent necessary to accomplish another legal end provided that the keeping of such information is both beneficial to the citizen and that the citizen specifically consents, and also provided that such information:
    1. is purged and destroyed as soon as the immediate end is reached or at the end of 5 years (whichever comes first)
    2. may never be transmitted by any non-secure means
    3. never be used for any purpose other than that specifically consented to
    4. nor associated with other data collected for a different purpose (even with consent)
    5. nor used for any law-enforcement or national security purpose.
  6. No information obtained through public video surveillance may be used as evidence in a criminal trial or for any other governmental purpose; however, all police interrogations in custody, public spaces in prisons, trials, proceedings in open session of the Council, Consensus Committees, and Parlaiment shall be videotaped and such videotapes shall be public (except police interrogations not used as evidence in a trial) and may be used for any purpose not inconsistent with other provisions of this constitution or of law.
  7. The government shall respect the dignity of all persons and shall not act in such a way as to unnecessarily embarrass any person, make public any legal private act or deed intended to be kept private, or unduly interfere in the personal or family lives of any person so long as their conduct is lawful.
  8. The state shall issue identification to all citizens, and shall not deny any citizen a passport without a finding of good cause by a judge of the trial courts. However, such identification shall be deemed sufficient in all cases, and information collected for this purpose shall be subject to the other provisions of this constitution and of law.
  9. The privacy of correspondence and the right of encryption shall be honored.
Copyright 2000 Jack Durst, Last modified 7/30/2000 8:46PM PDT