Council of the Ardan Union

[Aquatoria]

To the Member States of the Ardan Union
From Chancellor Yuri von Hessian

I congratulate the various countries on the creation of the first superstate in the history of Taijitu. I ask that the various member states come to Halifax to begin our first orders of business. Our first order is the selection of a AU capital. The second is contributation to the AU Defense Forces and an officer exchange program. The third is the election of the first ever Prime Minister of the Ardan Union. The fourth order is the creation of a single currency

Constitution of the Ardan Union

Article I
DEFINITION AND OBJECTIVES OF THE UNION

Article I-1 Establishment of the Union
1. Reflecting the will of the of the citizens and States of Arda to build a common future, this Constitutio establishes the Ardan Union, on which the Member States confer competences to attain objectives they have in common. The Union shall coordinate the policies which the Member States aim to achieve these objectives, and shall exercise on a Community basis the competences they confer on it.
2. The Union shall be open to all of the Ardan States which respect its values and are commited to promoting them together.

Article I-2 The Union's objectives
1. The Union's aim tis to promote peace, its values and the well-being for its peoples.
2. The Union shall offer its citizens an area of freedom, security and justice with out internal frontiers, and an internal market where competition is free and undistorted.
3. The Union shall work for the sustainable economy of Arda based on balanced economic growth and price stabiliy, a highly competivtive social market economy, aiming at the full employment and social progress and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the enviroment. It shall promote scientific and technological advance. It shall combat social exclusion and discrimination and shall promote social justice and protection. It shall promote econiomic, social, and territorial cohesion and solidarity among the Member States. It shall respect its rich cultural and lingustic diversity, and shall ensure that Arda's cultural heritage is safe-guarded and enhanced.
4. In it's relations with the wider world, the Union shall uphold and promote its values and interests. It shall contribute to peace, security, the sustainable development of Taijitu, solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights.

Article I-3 Relations between the Union and Member States
1. The union shall respect the equality of Member States before the constitution as well as their national identities. It shall respect their essential State functions, including ensuring the territorial integraty of the State, maintaining Law and Order and safe-guarding national security.

Article I-4 Union law
The Constitution and law adapted by the Union in exercising competences conferred on it shall have primacy over the law of the Member States.

Article I-5 Legal personality
1.The flag of the AU will be blue with a number of stars representing each nation. The flag is a symbol of our unification, and will not be identified with any nation in the Union. The capital of the AU will be the Prime Minister's national capital, unless otherwise. The AU currency will be the Canderover and it's symbol will be C$

Article II
CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNION

Article II-1 Citizenship of the Union
1. Every national of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to national citizenship and shall not replace it.
2. Citizens of the Union shall enjoy the rights and be subject to the duties provided by the Constitution. They shall have: (a) the right to move freely and reside freely within the territory of the Member States; (b) the right to vote and to stand as canditates in elections to the office of Prime Minister; (c) the right to enjoy, te territory of a third country in which the Member State of which they are nationals are not represented, the prtotection of the diplomatic and consular authorites of any Member State of which they are nationals is not represented on the same conditions as the nationals of that State.

Article III
THE UNION'S INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES

Article III-1 The Union's institutions
1. The Union shall have an institutional framework which shall aim to:
-promote it's values
-advance it's objectives
-serve its interests, those of its citizens and those of the Member States
-ensure the consistancy, effectiveness and continuity of its policies and actions

This institutional framework comprises:
-The Council of the Ardan Union
-The Court of Justice of the Ardan Union
-The Ardan Central Bank
2. Each institution shall act within the limits of the powers conferred on it in the Constitution, and in comformity with the procedures and set out in it. The institutions shall practice mutual sincere cooperation.

Article III-2 The Council of the Ardan Union
1. The Council shall provide the Union with the neccesary impetus for it's development and shall define the general ploitical directions and priorities thereof. It shall exercise legislative functions and power.
2.The Council of the Ardan Union shall consist of the Heads of State or Government of the Member States, together with the Prime Minister.
3.The Council shall meet quarterly convened by its Prime Minister. When the agenda so requires, the members of the Council may decide to be assisted by a minister. When the situation so requires, the Prime Miister shall convene a special meeting of the Council of the Ardan Union.
4. Except when the COnstitution provides otherwise, desicions of the Council shall be taken in consensus.

Article III-3 The Prime Minister of the Ardan Union
1. The Council shall decide on consensus what country the next Prime Minister will be elected from. Then the citizens of the Union shall elect the Prime Minister among all qualified candidates. The Prime Minister can only be elected once.
2. The Prime Minister of the Ardan Union: (a) shall chair it and drive forward its work.; (b) shall endeaver to facilitate cohesion and consensus with in the Council. The Prime Minister shall at his/her level and in that capacity ensure the external represenation of the Ardan Union.
3. The Prime Minister of the Ardan Union shall not hold a national office until their term has ended

Article III-4 The Court of Justice of the Ardan Union
1. The Court of Justice will uphold the laws of the Union based on the Constitution. The Court of Justice will be a panal of judges, one from each Member State.

Article III-5 The Ardan Central Bank
1. The Ardan Central Bank, together with the national banks, shall conduct the monetary policy of the Union

Artile III-6 The Ardan Supreme Command
1. The Ardan Supreme Command is the highest station in the Ardan Defense Forces. It will be made up of a panel of the highest ranking officers in the Member States' military. Three will represent each Member State: a general or field marshal, an air marshal, and an admiral.
2. The Ardan Supreme Command will coordinate the efforts of the combined Ardan Defense Forces.

Signed:

EMPIRE OF CANADA ________________________

KINGDOM OF QUEBEC_________________________

LIBERTARIAN MONARCHY OF MYRORIA _______________________

NOMADIC PEOPLES OF WHERESOEVER________________________

[Tacolicious]

*Tribes lead Tacolicious steps off the Blimp "Zephersaurus" after it arrives safely in Halifax and procedes directly to the gathering*

As the one who spearheaded this union I'd like to nominate the esteemed representative of Canada to be the first Prime Minister of the AU.

I'd like to suggest that the capital of the AU rotates with each election to the capital of the AU PM

Wheresoever offers 25% of it's defensive forces to the AU defense force and will leave the details of the officer exchange program to be worked out by the AU defense force once it is fully organized.

I'd like to suggest that we combine the name of our great nations to create the name of our common currency: The Canberover to be represented by the symbol "C$"

[Myroria]

"Myroria would prefer to continue to use the Kolonialreich mark, if possible."

OOC: Like how Britain continues to use the pound even though its part of the EU.

[Aquatoria]

Myroria, you can still use your money if you want. I like the name of the AU currency. It's orignial. I also will accept the title of Prime Minister of the AU, but I don't want to have my national capital as the capital of the AU because of the recent coup that almost destroyed the city. So I'm am going to have the first capital of the AU be the place of it's birth, Halifax. Canada will also offer 25% of it's forces to the AU defense forces. And the moment that Myroria tells us how many soldiers he is commiting, then I will tell where the perfect place to test them out is. As Prime Minister, I am ordering the building of an AU Central Building in each of the three capitals of the member-states and in Halifax. You can send in a picture of what you want the Central building to look like in your country.

ooc: these are the Canadian buildings

Winnipeg



Halifax

[Myroria]

Myroria will dedicate 80,000,000 troops to the AU military, or roughly 24 to 25 percent.

[Aquatoria]

Alright then, these are the images of the AU Defense Forces:

AU soldiers recieving their uniforms


Commander of the AU Defense Forces, General Henry Nolte

[Delfos]

AU military? pffft!

[Aquatoria]

As Prime Minister of the Ardan Union, I ask the Council that New Delfos joins our glorious union.

[Delfos]

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What do i have to agree with? Can i also make agreements for the entrance of my beautiful nation into this union?

[Aquatoria]

ooc: Just agree with the constitution, that's it. You can make agreements with the ardan union.

[Feniexia]

"As Myroria, we dislike the idea of switching our currency. In addition, we have another problem before us before the Enlightened Empire can join the AU - there is the sentence "a) the right to move freely and reside freely within the territory of the Member States;" included in the AU treaty. We agree to let AU members reside in our territority, but for measures of general security and counter-terrorism, every member of another nation has, just like a resident of Feniexia, to be registered in our database, including a DNA probe, and is only permitted to move freely in our country (excluding some governmental, private and military areas) when he is wearing a chipcard (like, I know I'm repeating myself, every resident of Feniexia), to track his movements in public areas. Our surveillance system has proven itself again and again and reduced crime significantly in our nation.

[Delfos]

I-2.3= The Union shall work for the sustainable economy of Arda based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at the full employment and social progress and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. It shall promote scientific and technological advance. It shall combat social exclusion and discrimination and shall promote social justice and protection. It shall promote economic, social, and territorial cohesion and solidarity among the Member States. It shall respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity, and shall ensure that Arda's cultural heritage is safe-guarded and enhanced.
[-The highlighted and the following to economic issues, to our understanding, require a monetary action 'zone', nations inside that zone have to cooperate for the common wealth of them only. Or, is it applied to whole Ardan Union?
-Then, about social equality and similar concerns, does this have in mind that actual AU members discriminate and murder innocent citizens of New Delfos People's Council Republic?]

I-2.4= In it's relations with the wider world, the Union shall uphold and promote its values and interests. It shall contribute to peace, security, the sustainable development of Taijitu, solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights.
[-With the same concerns as above, there are actual members of AU that violate this objectives, we cannot join an Union that violates our citizenship rights.]

Article I-3 Relations between the Union and Member States
1. The union shall respect the equality of Member States before the constitution as well as their national identities. It shall respect their essential State functions, including ensuring the territorial integrity of the State, maintaining Law and Order and safe-guarding national security.
[-Same as above]

Article I-5 Legal personality
1.The flag of the AU will be blue with a number of stars representing each nation. The capital of the AU will be the Prime Minister's national capital, unless otherwise. The AU currency will be the Canderover and it's symbol will be C$
[-We do not agree with the creation of symbols that are supposed to be national, in order to not create a mega state that can confuse the foreign opinion, this symbols can destroy national identity and, in our opinion, goes against Article I - 3 point 1 that defends the value of national identity.]

Article III-5 The Ardan Central Bank
1. The Ardan Central Bank, together with the national banks, shall conduct the monetary policy of the Union
[-As explained when mentioned a monetary union, and seeming that not all want to share the coin, but maybe the monetary union, an action 'AMU zone' (AMU=Ardan Monetary Union) must be created for those willing to contribute to join, or else everyone has to comply, do they?]

Artile III-6 The Ardan Supreme Command
[-This whole section has the same story as the flag. An unified military can run into conflict of interests and violates the right of national identity. But there are solutions, if it is decided by the AU to run into a theater of war, that shall be a choice to not participate in the conflict, for that, the nation cannot be identified as part of AU military, so any military that runs into this theater of war must represent only themselves and the 'democratic' decision of AU. An unified military force for Ardan Union is a violation of national interests and national identity, and we decline this section entirely unless it is re-written to fit our expectations.]

*This is a letter sent to this Council, by the New Delfos Supreme Council, signed by the councilors and President, allong with the presidents of the ministry houses, comes with the note that there will be a public referendum about the Ardan Constitution in New Delfos after the Supreme Council is contacted with news about their evaluation of the Ardan Constitution.*

[Myroria]

The deaths of Delfians in Myroria is natural. Myroria is extremely xenophobic and racist, and some take it too far. Attempting to get the government to stop this 300-year-old tradition would result in full-blown revolution. Let alone trying to stop from killing some communists.

If Myroria will continue to be in the AU, it may not force any socialist laws upon us, lest we will withdraw our membership immediately. Myroria will not be forced to protect the environment, institute an income tax, or become a democracy. French, High Myrorian (German), Middle Myrorian (Luxembourgish), Low Myrorian (Dutch), and Inglish will always be our national languages, and we will not be forced to print labels in any other language. If any law that we do not see fit is attempted to be forced upon us, we will withdraw our membership.

Myroria does nothing to reduce its carbon emissions or save energy, don't even try.

That is all.

[Delfos]

ooc: so basically you go against the vast majority of points of the Ardan Constitution...funny, that's exactly what i meant.

[Myroria]

Your point is?