Practice not yet in law
This system enforces rules that no law and no Article of the Constitution authorizes. They were decided by whoever wrote the software, which is not how a union with a written constitution is supposed to make rules.
This page is generated from the code itself, so it cannot quietly go out of date, and an entry disappears the moment the citizens adopt a law covering it.
Practice with no law behind it
10 outstanding.
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Registered Names
A citizen can apply for an artist or professional name that goes on their passport and binds them in contracts and public office. It is implemented and no statute creates it.
A draft of IPR-008 is written and waiting to be proposed.
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Copyright
The Union has no copyright law at all. Members make things and license them out, and nothing says who owns what, for how long, or what happens to work made with software.
A draft of IPR-001 is written and waiting to be proposed.
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Trade marks
No register and no rule. In particular nothing forbids using the registered symbol for a mark held only here, which would be a false statement of registration in the places members actually publish.
A draft of IPR-013 is written and waiting to be proposed.
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The citizen number
On every document. Nothing says it is permanent, never reallocated, or that quoting it proves nothing about who is quoting it.
Nothing drafted yet.
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Documents, and what the Union holds about you
Five year validity, replacement, the encryption, the destruction of identity documents after a decision, the access log and the right to erasure. All of it practice with no legal basis.
Controlled by
passport_validity_years. A draft of CIT-008 is written and waiting to be proposed. -
How a vote is run
That the text is frozen once published, that you may change your vote until the close, that a tie carries nothing, that certification is automatic and final, and that a proposal must be open to comment first. The Constitution fixes the weights and says nothing about any of this.
Controlled by
vote_notice_days. A draft of GGL-004 is written and waiting to be proposed. -
That the officers' votes are published
A real decision about somebody's privacy, currently made in a settings table.
Controlled by
officer_ballots_public. A draft of GGL-004 is written and waiting to be proposed. -
The duty to publish acts of state
The Gazette is published because the software publishes it. Nothing obliges it and nothing stops it being switched off.
A draft of GGL-005 is written and waiting to be proposed.
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The continuity rule
After 180 days of presidential inactivity with the Vice Presidency vacant, the registry publishes an election itself. That rests on a reading of Amendments III and V, which is an argument rather than a decision.
Controlled by
continuity_lapse_days. A draft of GGL-005 is written and waiting to be proposed. -
The office of registrar
Registrars decide applications and issue documents. The post appears in no statute and in no Article. Nothing is drafted, because it is a real question: an administrative post the President creates, or an office the Union should define?
Nothing drafted yet.
Built, and switched off
Powers that do not exist yet. The code for them is written and inert; a vote adopting the law turns each on, and nothing else can - not a registry staff, not the President, not whoever holds the database password.
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E-residency · not in force
A digital identity for people who are not citizens. Built, and inert until the citizens create it.
Waits on CIT-006.
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Citizen-initiated votes · not in force
Letting a petition that reached the Amendment IV threshold become a vote. Amendment IV obliges the President to answer such a petition; it does not turn it into a ballot, so the power does not exist until it is granted.
Waits on GGL-006.
What to do about it
The drafts are written and sit in the registry at
private/drafts/. Each is a law text with
the reasoning behind it and the arguments against it, ready to be published
at proposals, argued with for a comment period,
answered, and put to a vote.
They are deliberately separate. A citizen who dislikes one of them should not have to reject the Public record in order to say so.