Royal Warrant 015: Declaration de Modbury

This Act is translated from the original French in which it was written. This is not a legitimate version.

PEOPLE OF THE KINGDOM;

FREEMEN, LORDS;

HEAR YES THIS DAY, HIS MAJESTY'S MOST SOLEMN DECLARATION TO YOU;

HEED IT WELL, IT WILL BE ENSHRINED IN LAW AS THE FOUNDING STONE OF THIS KINGDOM.

One
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Two
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Three
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Four
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Five
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Six
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Seven
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Eight
(1) Everyone charged with an offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the offence was committed.

Nine
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Ten
(1) All persons over the age of 18 have the right to marry. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

Eleven
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Twelve
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.

Thirteen
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

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

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

Fifteen
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Sixteen
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free and compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

Seventeen
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Eighteen
The people of Molyneux shall, in accorance with their traditions since time immemorial, not fall under the provisions of Fourteen