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ARTICLE III: Authorization of laws
The government shall make authorized laws to the extent necessary to insure (if so written) or otherwise reasonably provide for the aims of the authorization.
A) Non-felonies
No arbitrary or plenary power of lawmaking exists under this constitution. Excepting the body of existing common law, and its continuing interpretation and expansion; no law may be made except those specifically authorized, and such authorization shall be taken to be only so broad as can be compelingly justified within the framework of a free and democratic society which desires the most limited government tolerable. No superstatute may authorize any further law not authorized in this article.
The government shall have the power to make and enforce laws at the regulatory, authorizing, infraction, misdemeanor and other non-felony levels, or likewise delegate such power to localities for the following purposes:
- To protect and inform the worker and the consumer
- To regulate commercial business
- To insure the availability of and public access to utilities, modern
communication, transportation, education and health care.
- To protect real, personal, intangible, and intellectual property
rights.
- To insure the removal of criminal enterprise from vice through
legalization and regulation, and to insure the purity, labeling,
and availability of psychoactive chemicals.
- To implement other provisions of this constitution to the extent
necessary and proper, to protect the civil rights of all persons,
and provide for an orderly and constitutional government.
- To provide for public safety and prevent widespread disorder.
- To improve the quality of life, however this shall be limited to the ability to delegate to local authorities the right to create
infractions and authorizing legislation.
- To insure the protection and preservation of natural resources and
the environment.
- To provide for the enforcement of existing treaties, laws and
regulations by authorizing legislation.
- To insure the safe, humane and rehabilitative treatment
of inmates.
- To insure compliance with international standards
- To provide for the fair distribution of inheritances
- To encourage public service and participation in the political
process.
- To provide for rules of bankruptcy.
- To provide for idiots and the insane.
- To provide for the education of children and insure the protection
of children from forced labor, military service, abuse, and
neglect.
- To insure free and fair elections through regulation and public
funding, and insure that each party's rules for the selection of
candidates are constitutional, fair, impartial, and well-formed.
- To insure access for all citizens to food, housing, and other
necessities.
- To standardize contracts and to simplify the processes of drafting
and negotiation, and to improve their intelligibility through
statutes providing a choice of standard "boilerplate" provisions,
favorable to various parties, for incorporation by reference.
- To insure the privacy and security of business transactions and of the communications system.
- To provide for the enforcement of Article I rights against persons
other than the government.
- To insure a free and competitive market.
- To require that members of skilled professions posses the requisite
skills, follow the rules of conduct of their professions, and be
licensed upon proof of such.