A Petition to the SC

Today I submitted the following to the SC:

I hereby petition the SC that Article IV section 4 of the constitution violates the Preamble of the Neualtenburg Constitution ("All branches of the government are bound to serve the public before
themselves and to uphold the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights..." by violating the UDHR as follows.

Article 19.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.


IV,4 specifically restricts the media through which information and ideas may be imparted.

Article 21.

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

By restricting political speech, the rights of citizens to take part in government are violated.

Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

By restricting the manner of political speech, Iv, 4 discriminates against those whose RL country of origin is in a time zone other than the majority of the city population.

That right exists but it is regulated, so there is no conflict. Hence campaign laws in the U.S. existing alongside the First Amendment.

Political speech is unrestricted but regulated, so there is no conflict. See above.

There is no law forbidding those in other time zones from participating, so there is no conflict. However, I've been concerned that the RA might use difficult meeting times to exclude members from a vote. That's why I was working on an online voting system right before I left, to allow members to vote in absentia.

~Ulrika~