Chqpter Fifty Six: The Constitution

/ constitution n. the mother of all laws /

The cloaked man was sitting behind his massive desk; it was dark and night time, and the stars are out. The only illumination from the room was coming from a single lighted candle, but that is just enough to read the parchment that he was studying before, the source of his obsessive curiosity since yesterday.

THE ARTICLES OF THE COMMISSION

The title of the document says it all. He knew all too well how politics should work, and he was readying the circumstances up to that fateful moment where the Constitution would finally recognize a deceitful revolution as a legally binding move to overthrow the Commission, and lead the States into the enlightenment, where equality is embraced and authority is no more.

He started to read again.

Article I.

The Appointed Powers

Sec. 1. The Commission on Appointments is hereby created to be the sole, highest authority of all appointed powers, whether it is a permitted exercise of parochial concerns or an extension of its authority.

Sec. 2. The States, Dominions, Realms or Provinces shall retain their sovereignty with respect to the powers appointed to them, which shall be exclusive to them and within their borders, while the laws enacted by the Commission shall be appointed to them as well with the same efficacy as to their local bills and ordinances.

Sec. 3. The Commission on Appointments shall have existing and solemn appointed jurisdiction as to these statutes:

A. To produce coins, monetary bills, legal tender, to levy taxes and regulate commerce parochial or outside the Commission, without prejudice to the appointed protection to the States or Dominions or Realms, whose monarchs, governors, president or all other leaders shall reign or govern as to their respective Kingdoms or territories with no intervention from the Commission other than its extended authority arising from obligatory legal controversies;

B. To discipline the several States or Provinces or Realms as to their relations to each other, to arbitrate disputes, and to implement laws relating to such relationships, to determine whether cases from such causes shall merit the same instance to be heard;

C. To carry out foreign affairs while respecting the individual appointed sovereignty, to defend the territories within the Commission, and to manage and exercise jurisdiction in the District of Peace;

D. To create standing armies, declare war, levy defense payments from all States or Kingdoms or Provinces according to law, and to safeguard peace within or without its borders;

E. To be loyal to the appointments where power emanates, and to elect within themselves qualified individuals to lead all Secretariats of the Commission that will carry out its mandated powers and extended authority, including that where it may be appointed elsewhere, but within the context of the reach of its jurusdiction;

He paused for a while, trying to understand the vagueness of the articles, desperately locating the weakness where the lack of clarity may be exploited. Although this legal battle may seem unnecessary, their plans necessitate this cumbersome process. This is as important as a war or invasion can be.

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