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Official Publication EC-001
Constitution of Eden
The authoritative rights, elections, government, public safety, courts, succession, and accountability framework of Eden.
Government of Eden
Supreme Law of Eden
This Code defines what vehicle activity is legally authorized. Criminal traffic guilt and punishment remain governed by the Eden Criminal Code and controlling Eden Legal Code.
Controlling Constitutional Principle
Office, authority, procedure, and record must each be constitutional.
Technical access, rank, office, or popularity is never enough. Every public act must resolve through written constitutional authority and an auditable institutional record.
Before Public Power Is Exercised
Four independent checks
Passing one check never silently satisfies another.
Occupancy
Active licenseExact regulated activity verified
General registration never includes special licenses.
Use
Transaction authorizedTerms, records, and source verified
Mechanical possibility never authorizes trade.
Use
Access and ordersOwner, manager, employee, or regulator
Every action must match the actor's recorded authority.
Title I1. Constitutional Order
Title I
Establishes Eden as an independent jurisdiction governed only by published Eden authority.
Supremacy and Legality
Constitutional Provision
Constitutional Supremacy
Rule
This Constitution is the highest public law of Eden. Every Act, regulation, order, appointment, budget, policy, and official action must conform to it.
Legal Effect
An inconsistent act is unenforceable to the extent of the conflict.
Application
- Courts may review constitutionality; officials may not ignore a law merely because they personally dispute it.
Constitutional Provision
Independent Authority
Rule
Eden is a single independent jurisdiction and does not inherit the law, offices, agencies, or constitutional arrangements of any outside country, state, province, or federation.
Legal Effect
Outside law has effect only when a published Eden provision expressly adopts it.
Application
- No federal agency or outside sovereign authority exists by implication.
Constitutional Provision
Rule of Written Law
Rule
Public power exists only where this Constitution or another valid publication grants it in clear terms.
Legal Effect
The person asserting authority bears responsibility for identifying its written source.
Application
- Custom, rank, ownership, friendship, technical access, or mechanical possibility is not authority.
Constitutional Provision
Principle of Legality
Rule
No person may be punished, deprived of a right, or subjected to compulsory public action under an unpublished rule.
Legal Effect
A documentation gap is corrected prospectively and never through retroactive blame.
Application
- Interpretation may apply written elements but may not invent a new offense or power.
Constitutional Provision
One Jurisdiction
Rule
Eden maintains one constitutional government, one public legal order, one judiciary, and one Eden Police Department.
Legal Effect
Departments and divisions exercise delegated functions and do not become separate sovereign bodies.
Application
- CID, SWAT, Dispatch, and Internal Affairs remain functions within the authorized public structure.
Constitutional Provision
Institutional Continuity
Rule
Public offices, records, property, contracts, cases, and obligations belong to institutions rather than individual officeholders.
Legal Effect
Election, death, resignation, suspension, or removal of an official does not dissolve the institution.
Application
- Government ownership is not personal executive ownership.
Constitutional Provision
Mechanical Possibility Is Not Authority
Rule
A game mechanic, Discord permission, website role, command, item, key, uniform, or database access never enlarges lawful authority.
Legal Effect
Every use remains limited by the controlling publication and recorded assignment.
Application
- Technical access obtained by mistake creates no lawful power.
Constitutional Interpretation
Constitutional Provision
Plain Meaning
Rule
Constitutional text shall be applied according to its published words, defined terms, structure, and stated purpose.
Legal Effect
No interpretation may erase an express limit or add an omitted power.
Application
- Specific provisions control general provisions on the same subject.
Constitutional Provision
Narrow Construction of Power
Rule
Ambiguous grants of coercive, investigative, emergency, disciplinary, or financial power shall be construed narrowly in favor of liberty and institutional limits.
Legal Effect
Government must seek amendment rather than assume doubtful authority.
Application
- Ordinary administrative discretion remains valid only inside a clear grant.
Constitutional Provision
Severability
Rule
If one provision or application is invalid, the remainder continues where it can operate consistently with the Constitution.
Legal Effect
A court shall identify the precise conflict and avoid unnecessary invalidation.
Application
- The legislature may repair the invalid provision prospectively.
Constitutional Provision
Prospective Amendment
Rule
An amendment changes constitutional authority only from its published effective time.
Legal Effect
Completed lawful acts and accrued rights remain governed by the law then in force unless a valid transition says otherwise.
Application
- No amendment may retroactively create criminal guilt.
Constitutional Provision
Official Record
Rule
The authenticated Documentation Library version and its immutable version history are the controlling constitutional record.
Legal Effect
Silent edits, deleted history, and unofficial copies have no amending effect.
Application
- Technical corrections must preserve an audit trail.
Title II2. Rights and Liberties
Title II
Protects every person from arbitrary public power while preserving lawful roleplay consequences.
Equal Civil Status
Constitutional Provision
Equality Before Law
Rule
Every person and office is subject to the same written law unless a specific lawful distinction applies.
Legal Effect
Rank, wealth, faction, employment, friendship, political position, or public popularity creates no immunity.
Application
- The Mayor and Chief of Police may be investigated and prosecuted under ordinary legal process.
Constitutional Provision
Equal Protection
Rule
Government shall not intentionally deny equal legal protection for an irrelevant personal or political reason.
Legal Effect
Different treatment requires a lawful purpose and relevant written classification.
Application
- Objective license qualifications are permitted.
Constitutional Provision
Presumption of Innocence
Rule
A person remains legally unconvicted unless guilt is established by the court under the required standard.
Legal Effect
Arrest, charge, rumor, accusation, or pending trial is not a conviction.
Application
- Pending charges may be recorded separately from criminal history.
Constitutional Provision
Due Process
Rule
Government shall provide the notice, grounds, evidence access, hearing, decision, and review required before a protected right or status is finally taken.
Legal Effect
Emergency interim action requires express authority and prompt review.
Application
- The process may vary by the seriousness and urgency of the action.
Constitutional Provision
Right to Counsel
Rule
A person may obtain and consult lawful counsel in criminal and other proceedings where Eden law provides representation.
Legal Effect
Requesting counsel is not obstruction, guilt, or a waiver of another right.
Application
- Proceedings may use published rules when counsel is genuinely unavailable.
Constitutional Provision
Right to Be Heard
Rule
A person affected by a judicial or final administrative decision may present relevant facts and legal argument through the applicable process.
Legal Effect
The right does not authorize disruption, repetition, or evidence outside the lawful record.
Application
- Written and asynchronous hearings may be used where authorized.
Constitutional Provision
Protection from Arbitrary Detention
Rule
No person may be detained without written authority, recorded grounds, and the review required by law.
Legal Effect
Judicial hold expires at the published limit unless a court authorizes continued detention.
Application
- Release pending trial may include lawful conditions.
Privacy, Property, and Participation
Constitutional Provision
Privacy
Rule
A person has a protected interest in private communications, accounts, records, homes, and personal data subject only to consent or written legal authority.
Legal Effect
Government curiosity, status, or convenience is insufficient.
Application
- Warrants and recognized exceptions follow the Eden Legal Code.
Constitutional Provision
Security of Property
Rule
Property may not be searched, seized, transferred, occupied, forfeited, or destroyed by government without written authority and required process.
Legal Effect
Registry title and lawful custody remain distinct.
Application
- Emergency entry does not automatically transfer ownership.
Constitutional Provision
Freedom of Lawful Enterprise
Rule
A person may form, operate, join, and compete through a lawful enterprise unless a published restriction applies.
Legal Effect
Novelty alone is not a reason for prohibition.
Application
- Licensing may regulate an activity only under published standards.
Constitutional Provision
Freedom of Association
Rule
A person may join lawful parties, businesses, organizations, unions, campaigns, and social groups.
Legal Effect
Association alone does not establish criminal liability or government authority.
Application
- Evidence of personal conduct remains independently required.
Constitutional Provision
Political Participation
Rule
Eligible persons may campaign, vote, petition, stand for office, and criticize government under published election and conduct rules.
Legal Effect
Government may not retaliate for lawful political opposition.
Application
- Threats, bribery, coercion, and election crimes remain subject to law.
Constitutional Provision
Access to Public Law
Rule
Current public law, official amendments, effective dates, and repealed versions shall be reasonably searchable and accessible.
Legal Effect
No public obligation may depend on a hidden publication.
Application
- Restricted operational records are distinct from public law.
Constitutional Provision
Petition and Complaint
Rule
A person may submit a lawful petition, department complaint, judicial filing, or request for review without retaliation.
Legal Effect
Knowingly false evidence and abusive duplication remain governed by written law.
Application
- Police-misconduct complaints may be routed to Internal Affairs.
Limits and Remedies
Constitutional Provision
Lawful Limitation
Rule
A right may be limited only by a clear law serving a legitimate Eden purpose through proportionate means.
Legal Effect
The authority imposing the limit must prove its legal basis.
Application
- A license restriction is not valid merely because an official prefers it.
Constitutional Provision
No Waiver by Participation
Rule
Joining a department, business, scene, election, or public service does not silently waive constitutional protection.
Legal Effect
Any lawful waiver must be informed, specific, and recorded where required.
Application
- Public officials accept published professional duties, not unlimited authority over them.
Constitutional Provision
Exclusion and Suppression
Rule
Evidence obtained through a substantial constitutional violation may be excluded under the Eden Legal Code and court procedure.
Legal Effect
Exclusion is determined by the judiciary, not automatically by the accused or investigating officer.
Application
- Independent lawful evidence may remain admissible.
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Remedy
Rule
Courts may declare invalid action, order compliance, restore status, suppress evidence, release a person, award an authorized remedy, or refer misconduct.
Legal Effect
Remedy must address the proven violation without inventing power.
Application
- Administrative correction may resolve a harmless technical defect.
Constitutional Provision
Official Accountability
Rule
Public office does not protect a person from administrative, civil, electoral, or criminal consequences established by law.
Legal Effect
The applicable institution must use its own lawful process.
Application
- Staff action does not replace in-character accountability.
Title III3. Separation of Public Powers
Title III
Allocates lawmaking, execution, adjudication, and oversight so no actor controls the entire legal process.
Branches and Functions
Constitutional Provision
Legislative Function
Rule
The legislative body enacts, amends, and repeals public law through the constitutional process.
Legal Effect
No executive or department policy may create a public crime or contradict an Act.
Application
- Delegated regulation requires a clear Act and remains reviewable.
Constitutional Provision
Executive Function
Rule
The executive administers enacted law, appoints authorized officers, proposes policy, manages approved budgets, and maintains government continuity.
Legal Effect
The executive may not decide criminal guilt or direct a judicial result.
Application
- Execution includes implementation, not rewriting.
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Function
Rule
The judiciary interprets and applies law to cases, issues lawful orders, reviews public action, and determines guilt and remedies.
Legal Effect
Courts may not legislate a new offense or operate departments.
Application
- Judicial interpretation resolves application without creating omitted law.
Constitutional Provision
Independent Prosecution
Rule
Prosecutors evaluate evidence and choose legally supported charges independently of arresting officers and political instruction.
Legal Effect
Police recommend and investigate; prosecutors charge; courts adjudicate.
Application
- Dismissal or reduction is not disloyalty to police.
Constitutional Provision
Departmental Administration
Rule
Departments create internal procedure only within authority delegated by Constitution, Act, and valid regulation.
Legal Effect
Internal policy binds its authorized members but cannot enlarge public coercive power.
Application
- Police SOP cannot create a new search power.
Constitutional Provision
No Combination by Convenience
Rule
An official may not exercise another institution's power merely because the proper officeholder is absent or slower.
Legal Effect
Temporary authority requires a written acting or emergency provision.
Application
- A police supervisor cannot act as judge by necessity.
Checks and Independence
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Independence
Rule
No Mayor, Commissioner, Chief, party, department, or private interest may direct the outcome of a case or retaliate for a lawful judicial decision.
Legal Effect
Judges remain bound by law, evidence, ethics, and review.
Application
- Lawful appeal is not interference.
Constitutional Provision
Operational Police Independence
Rule
The Eden Police Department controls lawful operational decisions through its chain of command and published procedures.
Legal Effect
Political officers may set lawful policy and budget but may not direct a particular arrest, target, charge, search, or investigative outcome.
Application
- Public-safety oversight does not become case command.
Constitutional Provision
Institutional Oversight
Rule
Oversight may inspect legality, budgets, performance, policy, and professional conduct only within its written mandate.
Legal Effect
Oversight does not silently absorb operational command.
Application
- Internal Affairs investigates; command runs ordinary operations.
Constitutional Provision
Conflict Recusal
Rule
An official with a material personal, financial, family, political, or case conflict shall disclose it and recuse where required.
Legal Effect
A replacement is selected through the applicable succession or assignment process.
Application
- The subject of an investigation may not control it.
Constitutional Provision
Recorded Reasons
Rule
A major appointment, removal, veto, emergency order, warrant, final disciplinary result, or constitutional decision shall state its authority and reasons.
Legal Effect
A record enables review without requiring every confidential fact to be public.
Application
- Protected evidence may be summarized or sealed.
Constitutional Provision
No Retaliation
Rule
No public officer may punish lawful reporting, testimony, complaint, audit, judicial review, or protected cooperation.
Legal Effect
Retaliation may trigger independent investigation and applicable legal consequences.
Application
- Good-faith mistakes remain distinguishable from knowingly false reports.
Title IV4. The Mayor and Executive Government
Title IV
Defines a strong but limited elected executive whose office changes weekly without destabilizing permanent institutions.
Office and Term
Constitutional Provision
Office of Mayor
Rule
The Mayor is Eden's elected chief executive and public head of government.
Legal Effect
The office carries only powers granted by this Constitution and valid law.
Application
- The Mayor does not personally own public money, property, records, departments, or offices.
Constitutional Provision
Weekly Term
Rule
A mayoral term lasts one published election cycle of approximately one real-world week, beginning at swearing-in and ending when a successor is sworn in.
Legal Effect
The election calendar shall state exact campaign, voting, certification, and transition times.
Application
- Technical downtime may justify a published neutral adjustment.
Constitutional Provision
Oath and Assumption
Rule
A certified winner assumes authority only after completing the constitutional oath and required transition record.
Legal Effect
Victory announcement alone does not transfer access or power.
Application
- The outgoing Mayor retains caretaker duties until lawful succession.
Constitutional Provision
Single-Term Death Consequence
Rule
If the sitting Mayor suffers the server-defined complete incapacitation or death event designated by election law, the office immediately becomes vacant for that term.
Legal Effect
Hospital revival or character continuity does not restore the lost mayoral office.
Application
- The event must be reliably recorded by the implemented system.
Constitutional Provision
Following-Election Ineligibility
Rule
A Mayor whose term ends by the designated death event is ineligible for the immediately following mayoral election and may return in the election after that.
Legal Effect
The temporary bar applies to the individual candidate, not automatically to an entire lawful party.
Application
- Ordinary medical downing before the defined terminal event does not trigger vacancy.
Constitutional Provision
Resignation
Rule
The Mayor may resign through an authenticated written notice stating its effective time.
Legal Effect
Resignation is irrevocable after succession begins unless law permits correction of a technical mistake.
Application
- The office passes under the succession title.
Executive Powers
Constitutional Provision
Execution of Law
Rule
The Mayor shall ensure enacted law is administered through the responsible institutions.
Legal Effect
Execution does not authorize alteration, suspension, or selective non-enforcement without written authority.
Application
- Implementation priorities must remain lawful and recorded.
Constitutional Provision
Commissioner Appointments
Rule
The Mayor may appoint and replace the Commissioner of Public Safety and other constitutionally authorized commissioners.
Legal Effect
Appointments require eligibility verification, acceptance, oath, and registry publication.
Application
- A new Mayor may retain or replace a Commissioner.
Constitutional Provision
Budget Proposal
Rule
The Mayor may propose budgets, appropriations, and executive priorities through the enacted finance process.
Legal Effect
No money may be spent merely on a personal instruction.
Application
- Emergency spending requires express emergency authority and audit.
Constitutional Provision
Legislative Approval or Veto
Rule
The Mayor may approve or veto legislation presented under the constitutional process within the published decision period.
Legal Effect
A veto must identify reasons and does not itself enact replacement text.
Application
- Failure to act has the effect assigned by election or legislative law.
Constitutional Provision
Public Appointments
Rule
The Mayor may make only appointments expressly assigned to the office.
Legal Effect
The Mayor may not directly appoint or remove the Chief of Police.
Application
- Appointment authority over a Commissioner does not include the Commissioner's delegated appointments.
Constitutional Provision
Executive Directives
Rule
The Mayor may issue directives governing executive administration within existing law.
Legal Effect
A directive cannot create a crime, decide a case, command a particular police investigation, or override an Act.
Application
- Directives remain published and reviewable.
Constitutional Provision
Representation of Eden
Rule
The Mayor may speak for the government in ceremonial, emergency, diplomatic-lore, and public communications within policy.
Legal Effect
Public statements do not themselves change law or adjudicate rights.
Application
- Official announcements must distinguish proposal from enacted law.
Prohibitions and Accountability
Constitutional Provision
No Direct Police Case Control
Rule
The Mayor shall not order the arrest, release, search, charging, investigation, non-investigation, or operational treatment of a named person or case.
Legal Effect
Any attempt is void and shall be documented for lawful review.
Application
- The Mayor may report information like any other person.
Constitutional Provision
No Judicial Interference
Rule
The Mayor shall not direct a verdict, sentence, warrant result, evidence ruling, court schedule for favoritism, or appeal outcome.
Legal Effect
Lawful pardon power exists only if separately and expressly created.
Application
- Public disagreement with a decision is not itself interference.
Constitutional Provision
No Personal Public Assets
Rule
The Mayor shall not use public funds, property, vehicles, staff, records, or authority for personal or campaign benefit except as law expressly permits.
Legal Effect
Misuse is investigated through the appropriate institution.
Application
- Authorized security and official transport remain public functions.
Constitutional Provision
Disclosure of Interests
Rule
The Mayor shall disclose material business, financial, property, family, and organizational interests under the ethics framework.
Legal Effect
Conflicted decisions require recusal or another published safeguard.
Application
- A disclosure does not itself establish misconduct.
Constitutional Provision
Removal
Rule
The Mayor may be removed only by death consequence, resignation, election expiration, constitutional incapacity, judicial disqualification, or impeachment/removal process expressly published by law.
Legal Effect
Political disagreement alone is insufficient.
Application
- Temporary incapacity may invoke acting authority without permanent removal.
Title V5. Elections and Democratic Continuity
Title V
Creates predictable weekly elections, meaningful candidate risk, and outcomes fixed before an incident occurs.
Election Administration
Constitutional Provision
Election Calendar
Rule
An authoritative calendar shall publish nomination, campaign, debate, voting, certification, challenge, and swearing-in periods.
Legal Effect
No participant may be punished for missing an unpublished deadline.
Application
- Real-world attendance times may accompany Eden in-game dates.
Constitutional Provision
Neutral Administration
Rule
Election administrators shall apply published rules neutrally and preserve ballots, logs, eligibility records, and results.
Legal Effect
Candidates and incumbent officials may not alter their own race records.
Application
- Technical administrators act only to maintain the system.
Constitutional Provision
Candidate Eligibility
Rule
A candidate must satisfy the published citizenship, account, activity, conflict, nomination, and temporary-disqualification requirements.
Legal Effect
No secret maturity, friendship, or popularity test may be added.
Application
- The immediate post-death election bar is an express qualification.
Constitutional Provision
Parties and Independents
Rule
Eligible persons may campaign through lawful parties or as independents.
Legal Effect
A party has no public authority merely from registration or electoral success.
Application
- Party records do not replace candidate eligibility.
Constitutional Provision
Ballot Integrity
Rule
Each eligible voter receives the implemented vote entitlement and may not duplicate, transfer, buy, coerce, or falsify a vote.
Legal Effect
The voting system shall preserve verifiable totals and appropriate ballot secrecy.
Application
- Election crimes are defined only by the Criminal Code.
Constitutional Provision
Certification
Rule
Results become official only after the authorized administrator verifies eligibility, totals, material incidents, and required challenge period.
Legal Effect
Certification transfers no authority before the oath where the Constitution requires it.
Application
- A close result follows the published tie rule.
Candidate and Officeholder Death
Constitutional Provision
Protected Political Roleplay
Rule
Candidates and officeholders remain ordinary characters subject to Eden law and roleplay consequences; they are not protected by an out-of-character immunity from lawful criminal roleplay.
Legal Effect
Attacks may create serious in-character crimes and investigations but are not automatically Community Rule violations.
Application
- Deliberate refusal to roleplay remains separately governed by Community Rules.
Constitutional Provision
Pre-Voting Candidate Death
Rule
A candidate who suffers the designated terminal event before voting opens is removed from that election ballot.
Legal Effect
The election continues or is rescheduled only as the published election schedule provides.
Application
- The result is institutional, not a staff punishment.
Constitutional Provision
Death During Voting
Rule
The effect of a candidate's designated terminal event after voting opens shall follow a prepublished rule chosen for that election cycle.
Legal Effect
Administrators may not invent an outcome after seeing which candidate benefits.
Application
- Permitted models include continuation, postponement, or replacement under clear criteria.
Constitutional Provision
Mayor Death in Office
Rule
The designated terminal event immediately vacates the mayoral office and activates succession.
Legal Effect
The political consequence remains even if the gameplay medical system later returns the character to activity.
Application
- The former Mayor remains subject to the one-election ineligibility rule.
Constitutional Provision
Security Is Institutional
Rule
Authorized police or protective personnel may provide candidate and mayoral security under neutral public-safety policy.
Legal Effect
Security may not become campaign enforcement or private political force.
Application
- Operational protection decisions remain with the Police Department.
Challenges and Misconduct
Constitutional Provision
Election Challenge
Rule
A candidate or authorized voter may challenge a material eligibility, process, count, coercion, or system issue within the published period.
Legal Effect
The filing must identify facts, relief, and available evidence.
Application
- Mere dissatisfaction with the result is insufficient.
Constitutional Provision
Prompt Review
Rule
Election challenges receive accelerated neutral review so weekly government remains functional.
Legal Effect
Interim relief must be narrow and recorded.
Application
- A court may order recount, correction, disqualification, or new vote where law supports it.
Constitutional Provision
No Retroactive Election Rules
Rule
No rule governing eligibility, death, voting, certification, succession, or challenge may be changed to determine an already occurring incident or completed vote.
Legal Effect
Changes apply only to a future published stage or cycle.
Application
- Technical correction of a misdisplayed existing rule is not a substantive change.
Constitutional Provision
Campaign Resource Separation
Rule
Public office resources shall not be used for campaign advantage except through an equal published program.
Legal Effect
Incumbency does not convert public assets into party property.
Application
- Ordinary official duties may continue during a campaign.
Title VI6. Public Safety Governance
Title VI
Creates civilian oversight without political operational control and defines the appointment chain for permanent department leadership.
Commissioner of Public Safety
Constitutional Provision
Office
Rule
The Commissioner of Public Safety is the executive oversight officer for Police, EMS, Corrections, and other services expressly assigned by law.
Legal Effect
The Commissioner is not the day-to-day commander of each service.
Application
- Operational command remains with the relevant department head.
Constitutional Provision
Appointment by Mayor
Rule
The Mayor appoints and may replace the Commissioner subject to published eligibility, acceptance, oath, and transition.
Legal Effect
A commissioner serves until replacement, resignation, removal, or another lawful end.
Application
- A weekly mayoral change does not automatically erase every pending departmental act.
Constitutional Provision
Oversight Authority
Rule
The Commissioner oversees budgets, appointments assigned by law, performance, lawful policy coordination, continuity, and public accountability.
Legal Effect
Oversight shall not direct a named criminal case or judicial outcome.
Application
- The Commissioner may require aggregate and legally accessible reports.
Constitutional Provision
Appointment of Chief of Police
Rule
The Commissioner alone appoints the permanent Chief of Police through the published selection and vetting process.
Legal Effect
The Mayor may not directly appoint, reject, or remove the Chief.
Application
- The Acting Chief may be considered but has no automatic permanent entitlement.
Constitutional Provision
Removal of Chief
Rule
The Commissioner may suspend or remove the Chief only on grounds and process published by law, with reasons and review.
Legal Effect
Political preference or a change of Mayor alone is insufficient.
Application
- Emergency interim suspension requires prompt independent review.
Constitutional Provision
No Operational Micromanagement
Rule
The Commissioner shall not command individual stops, arrests, searches, tactical actions, dispatches, charges, or investigative outcomes.
Legal Effect
Lawful systemic policy and resource decisions remain permitted.
Application
- A critical-incident briefing is not command of the incident.
Constitutional Provision
Commissioner Conflict
Rule
A conflict involving the Commissioner shall be disclosed and routed to the published substitute oversight process.
Legal Effect
The Commissioner may not control an investigation into their own conduct.
Application
- The Mayor's appointment power does not decide criminal guilt.
Chief of Police and Succession
Constitutional Provision
Chief of Police
Rule
The Chief of Police is the highest operational leader of the Eden Police Department.
Legal Effect
The Chief commands lawful police administration and operations subject to law, oversight, and judicial authority.
Application
- The title does not grant immunity or ownership of the department.
Constitutional Provision
Second-in-Command Succession
Rule
When the Chief dies, resigns, is suspended, removed, absent under an activated continuity rule, or unable to serve, the recorded second-in-command immediately becomes Acting Chief.
Legal Effect
Continuity is automatic and does not require political permission.
Application
- The Registry must identify the current second-in-command before a vacancy.
Constitutional Provision
Acting Chief Authority
Rule
The Acting Chief exercises necessary operational powers of the office until a permanent Chief assumes duty.
Legal Effect
An Acting Chief shall avoid irreversible appointments or structural changes unless urgent and authorized.
Application
- Ordinary command and emergency response continue.
Constitutional Provision
Permanent Replacement
Rule
The Commissioner shall appoint a permanent Chief through the lawful process within the published period.
Legal Effect
The former Chief cannot select a binding successor.
Application
- Department preference may inform but does not decide the appointment.
Constitutional Provision
Chief Independence
Rule
The Chief shall refuse unlawful political, private, or departmental instructions and document attempted interference.
Legal Effect
Refusal of an unlawful order is not insubordination.
Application
- Disagreement with lawful oversight remains subject to professional process.
Constitutional Provision
Chief Accountability
Rule
The Chief is subject to Internal Affairs investigation, prosecutor review, court process, and lawful administrative oversight like any other officer.
Legal Effect
Rank does not limit investigative scope.
Application
- A neutral investigator and conflict safeguards are required.
Other Public-Safety Leadership
Constitutional Provision
Department Heads
Rule
EMS, Corrections, Dispatch, and other public-safety heads are appointed, supervised, and succeeded under their controlling publications.
Legal Effect
No analogy to police appointment silently controls another department.
Application
- Future manuals must identify acting succession.
Constitutional Provision
Continuity Plans
Rule
Every critical public-safety institution shall publish a chain of succession and minimum continuity functions.
Legal Effect
Absence of one player shall not end the institution.
Application
- Access transitions must be logged and reversible.
Constitutional Provision
Budget Independence Within Appropriation
Rule
A department head controls lawful operational allocation inside an approved budget and procurement framework.
Legal Effect
The executive and Commissioner may not convert budget review into command of a particular case.
Application
- Audits and spending controls remain valid.
Title VII7. Eden Police Department
Title VII
Constitutionally establishes one police service with specialized internal divisions and no parallel federal-style agency.
Status and Mission
Constitutional Provision
Single Police Department
Rule
The Eden Police Department is the sole general public law-enforcement organization of Eden.
Legal Effect
No FBI, CIA, federal bureau, parallel police force, or equivalent agency exists unless created by constitutional amendment.
Application
- Specialized divisions remain inside the Eden Police Department.
Constitutional Provision
Mission
Rule
The Department protects life, preserves peace, investigates written offenses, apprehends persons through lawful process, secures evidence, and supports courts.
Legal Effect
Its mission is lawful resolution, not victory over civilians or criminals.
Application
- Escape alone does not justify deadly force.
Constitutional Provision
Divisional Authority
Rule
Patrol, CID, Traffic, SWAT, Dispatch, Internal Affairs, and future units exercise only their published functions.
Legal Effect
A division name or certification does not create authority outside the Department.
Application
- CID may conduct undercover and organized-crime investigations.
Constitutional Provision
No Political Police
Rule
The Department shall not enforce party loyalty, suppress lawful opposition, protect officials from lawful investigation, or target persons for political benefit.
Legal Effect
Political direction of a named case is invalid.
Application
- Threats or crimes against officials remain investigated under neutral law.
Constitutional Provision
Preservation of Life
Rule
The preservation of innocent human life is the highest priority in police operations.
Legal Effect
Deadly force is permitted only under the exact imminent-threat standard established by law and SOP.
Application
- A known weapon or fleeing suspect alone does not automatically establish an imminent threat.
Investigation and Force
Constitutional Provision
Investigative Ownership
Rule
Patrol handles initial response and preservation; CID handles assigned major, organized, covert, financial, and long-term investigations.
Legal Effect
Assignment does not alter warrant, evidence, prosecutor, or court requirements.
Application
- Undercover work belongs within police investigations rather than a second agency.
Constitutional Provision
Deadly Force Standard
Rule
An officer may use deadly force only when reasonably and immediately necessary to stop an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to an innocent person or officer.
Legal Effect
Prior violence, possession of a weapon, flight, or suspected guilt alone is insufficient.
Application
- A vehicle intentionally driven into a crowd may create an imminent threat.
Constitutional Provision
Fleeing Vehicles
Rule
Officers shall not fire at a vehicle merely because its occupant is armed, suspected, escaping, or refusing to stop.
Legal Effect
Deadly force requires the vehicle or occupant to present the immediate lethal threat defined by law.
Application
- Pursuit, containment, identification, and later investigation are preferred when safe.
Constitutional Provision
Mandatory Shooting Review
Rule
Every officer firearm discharge outside authorized training, and every police action causing critical incapacitation, hospital transfer, or death-designated outcome, creates a mandatory review record.
Legal Effect
The involved officer and command shall preserve evidence and report without waiting for complaint.
Application
- Accidental discharge is included even if no one is struck.
Constitutional Provision
Criminal and Administrative Separation
Rule
A force incident may produce independent policy, employment, civil, and criminal review.
Legal Effect
A policy violation does not automatically prove a crime, and absence of criminal conviction does not automatically prove policy compliance.
Application
- Each decision uses its own standard and authority.
Constitutional Provision
Normal Arrest Process
Rule
Internal Affairs does not exercise a special arrest power merely because its subject is an officer.
Legal Effect
If evidence supports criminal process, the prosecutor and court authorize ordinary police enforcement through a neutral assignment.
Application
- The Chief may be arrested under the same legal process as any person.
Internal Affairs
Constitutional Provision
Public Institution
Rule
Internal Affairs is a formally recognized accountability function within the Eden Police Department.
Legal Effect
Its existence, mandate, complaint route, and general procedures are public and may not be treated as a secret faction.
Application
- Ongoing files and investigator identities may remain confidential.
Constitutional Provision
No Open Recruitment Entitlement
Rule
No person has a right to apply for, advertise as, or obtain Internal Affairs authority merely from interest or rank.
Legal Effect
Investigators are selected or assigned through the published confidential appointment process.
Application
- The assignment may be permanent or case-specific.
Constitutional Provision
Confidential Investigators
Rule
The identities, cover, operational methods, and case assignments of Internal Affairs investigators may be restricted to those with a lawful need to know.
Legal Effect
Confidentiality protects investigations without concealing the existence of accountability.
Application
- An investigator discloses authority when legally necessary to compel cooperation.
Constitutional Provision
Mandatory Jurisdiction
Rule
Internal Affairs investigates officer-involved shootings, serious use of force, corruption, evidence abuse, retaliation, major complaints, integrity failures, and other matters assigned by law.
Legal Effect
Rank, including Chief, does not remove a person from its investigative scope.
Application
- Routine coaching and minor performance issues may remain with supervisors.
Constitutional Provision
Investigative Function Only
Rule
Internal Affairs collects evidence, interviews, audits, determines administrative findings, and refers suspected crimes.
Legal Effect
It does not decide criminal guilt, sentence persons, or operate as a superior arrest squad.
Application
- Prosecutors charge and courts decide guilt.
Constitutional Provision
Independence and Conflict
Rule
An Internal Affairs investigation shall be assigned outside the subject's control and protected from command interference.
Legal Effect
The subject or close associate may not select investigators, edit evidence, or decide findings.
Application
- External judicial safeguards may be used for the Chief or Commissioner.
Constitutional Provision
Reporting Duty
Rule
Officers and supervisors shall report incidents assigned to Internal Affairs within the published time and preserve all relevant records.
Legal Effect
Failure to report may be reviewed separately under department policy and applicable law.
Application
- Mandatory reporting removes discretion to hide a colleague's shooting.
Constitutional Provision
Findings and Referral
Rule
Internal Affairs issues supported findings to the authorized decision-maker and refers evidence of crime to an independent prosecutor.
Legal Effect
Command determines employment action only within law; courts determine legal guilt.
Application
- Public summaries may protect confidential evidence while reporting accountability.
Title VIII8. Judiciary and Legal Process
Title VIII
Ensures courts are active, independent, timely, and practical for a persistent multiplayer city.
Courts and Judicial Office
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Power
Rule
The Courts of Eden decide cases and controversies arising under valid Eden law.
Legal Effect
Courts may issue judgments, warrants, orders, remedies, and constitutional review within jurisdiction.
Application
- Courts do not provide advisory political power unless law expressly permits.
Constitutional Provision
Judges
Rule
Judges must satisfy published qualification, neutrality, conflict, oath, and activity requirements.
Legal Effect
A judge's Discord role or technical access is not enough without lawful appointment.
Application
- Acting judges require explicit authority.
Constitutional Provision
Chief Judicial Administration
Rule
The authorized chief judicial officer manages scheduling, assignment, continuity, records, and court administration without dictating another judge's lawful result.
Legal Effect
Administrative supervision remains separate from adjudication.
Application
- Conflicts require reassignment.
Constitutional Provision
Open Justice
Rule
Hearings, decisions, charges, and reasons are public unless a specific law authorizes sealing for safety, privacy, undercover work, protected evidence, or integrity.
Legal Effect
Sealing must be limited and recorded.
Application
- Internal Affairs identities may justify partial sealing.
Constitutional Provision
Reasoned Decisions
Rule
A judgment shall identify material facts, controlling sections, findings, result, and remedy or sentence.
Legal Effect
A verdict may not rest on unwritten morality or personal preference.
Application
- Short-form decisions may be used for uncontested matters.
Practical Court Timing
Constitutional Provision
Thirty-Minute Judicial Hold
Rule
After booking for a court-required matter, a person may be held for no more than thirty real minutes without judicial authorization for continued detention.
Legal Effect
The hold permits booking, prosecutor review, counsel access, and an immediate hearing when available.
Application
- Medical treatment pauses or modifies custody only as published.
Constitutional Provision
Release When No Judge Is Available
Rule
If no authorized judge hears the matter before the hold expires, the person shall be released pending trial unless a valid judicial detention order exists.
Legal Effect
Release is not acquittal and creates no conviction.
Application
- The case remains pending and may receive conditions through lawful process.
Constitutional Provision
Pending Charges
Rule
Charges awaiting judgment are recorded as pending and shall not appear as convictions.
Legal Effect
Licenses, employment, and public status change only where an express interim law authorizes it.
Application
- Presumption of innocence remains.
Constitutional Provision
Summons
Rule
A pending defendant shall receive an authenticated summons stating case, charges, real-world attendance time, corresponding Eden time, location, counsel information, and consequences of nonappearance.
Legal Effect
A hidden or impossible hearing date cannot support failure to appear.
Application
- Discord and website notices may supplement in-game service.
Constitutional Provision
Pretrial Preparation
Rule
Prosecution and defense receive reasonable opportunity to review disclosed evidence, interview witnesses, seek warrants or orders, negotiate pleas, and prepare.
Legal Effect
Court scheduling should create roleplay rather than exceed the likely sentence without purpose.
Application
- Simple uncontested matters may be resolved quickly.
Constitutional Provision
Plea Resolution
Rule
A knowing and voluntary plea may resolve supported charges without a full trial after judicial review.
Legal Effect
The court confirms factual basis, understanding, and lawful sentence.
Application
- Negotiated dismissal or reduction must be recorded.
Pretrial Release and Attendance
Constitutional Provision
Release Conditions
Rule
A court may impose only conditions reasonably necessary to secure appearance, protect persons, preserve evidence, and prevent witness interference.
Legal Effect
Conditions must be specific, proportionate, time-limited, and reviewable.
Application
- Conditions are not pretrial punishment.
Constitutional Provision
Available Conditions
Rule
Authorized conditions may include reporting, travel boundaries, no-contact orders, firearm surrender, location exclusions, monitored release, bail, or role-specific restrictions.
Legal Effect
The court shall choose the least restrictive effective combination.
Application
- A person may remain in the wider map while reporting at scheduled Eden times.
Constitutional Provision
Police Check-In
Rule
A reporting condition shall state the police location, Eden-time window, frequency, verification method, and grace or failure rule.
Legal Effect
Officers log compliance without inventing additional interrogation or restrictions.
Application
- Once per Eden day may be used where proportionate.
Constitutional Provision
Unified Eden Time
Rule
Implemented court deadlines and in-game conditions use the authoritative Eden Time Service, while attendance notices also state real-world time for player availability.
Legal Effect
No independent phone, bot, website, or server clock may silently conflict.
Application
- Maintenance handling follows the published time policy.
Constitutional Provision
Failure to Appear
Rule
A knowing unjustified failure to attend after valid service may support a bench warrant and the separate written charge defined by the Criminal Code.
Legal Effect
One missed hearing does not automatically prove the original charges.
Application
- Reasonable technical or real-life impossibility may justify rescheduling.
Constitutional Provision
Proceeding in Absence
Rule
After repeated valid nonappearance and required notice, a court may proceed in absence only under published safeguards.
Legal Effect
The prosecution must still prove the original case; absence is not automatic guilt.
Application
- The court may appoint or permit defense representation.
Constitutional Provision
Bench Warrant
Rule
A bench warrant authorizes arrest and presentation to court according to its scope; it does not itself convict or sentence.
Legal Effect
The warrant remains searchable by authorized police systems until resolved.
Application
- Arrest creates a new opportunity for prompt hearing.
Prosecution and Defense
Constitutional Provision
Prosecutorial Review
Rule
A prosecutor independently determines whether each proposed charge is supported by admissible evidence and written elements.
Legal Effect
Police recommendations do not bind charging discretion.
Application
- Unsupported overcharging shall be rejected or reduced.
Constitutional Provision
Disclosure
Rule
The prosecution shall disclose evidence required by law, including materially favorable evidence, within the practical schedule.
Legal Effect
Sealed or dangerous material uses court-controlled access rather than secret surprise.
Application
- Chain-of-custody records form part of disclosure where relevant.
Constitutional Provision
Defense Independence
Rule
Defense counsel represents the client's lawful interests and may challenge facts, authority, searches, evidence, procedure, and sentence without retaliation.
Legal Effect
Representation does not associate counsel with the alleged conduct.
Application
- Requesting proof is not obstruction.
Constitutional Provision
Burden Remains on Government
Rule
The defendant is not required to prove innocence.
Legal Effect
The prosecution bears every burden assigned by the Eden Legal Code.
Application
- Affirmative defenses follow their published burdens.
Title IX9. Legislation and Public Administration
Title IX
Defines how government may change law later without Codex, silent edits, or personal decree.
Bills and Enactment
Constitutional Provision
Bill Requirement
Rule
A new public law or substantive amendment begins as an authenticated bill with a unique ID, sponsor, purpose, exact text, affected sections, implementation impact, and proposed effective date.
Legal Effect
Discussion, poll, promise, or announcement is not law.
Application
- Department policy follows its separate delegated process.
Constitutional Provision
Public Draft
Rule
A bill shall be available to authorized reviewers in a stable draft preserving every amendment and author.
Legal Effect
No vote may occur on hidden substitute text.
Application
- Urgent procedure may shorten but not erase identification of text.
Constitutional Provision
Legislative Vote
Rule
The authorized legislative body debates and votes under published quorum, conflict, amendment, and tally rules.
Legal Effect
Votes and abstentions are recorded permanently.
Application
- A failed bill does not modify live law.
Constitutional Provision
Executive Presentment
Rule
An adopted bill is presented to the Mayor for approval or veto within the published period.
Legal Effect
The Mayor may not line-edit enacted text outside an authorized amendment process.
Application
- A veto returns reasons to the legislature.
Constitutional Provision
Publication
Rule
An approved measure becomes law only after authenticated publication, section validation, version creation, and effective-date assignment.
Legal Effect
The previous version remains accessible.
Application
- Connected search and APIs update from the same source.
Constitutional Provision
Effective Date
Rule
A measure takes effect at its stated future or publication time and never before publication.
Legal Effect
Systems and institutions receive any necessary implementation period.
Application
- A law dependent on a nonexistent system remains subject to readiness provisions.
Amendment and Delegation
Constitutional Provision
Amendment of Acts
Rule
An Act may be amended or repealed through ordinary legislation consistent with the Constitution.
Legal Effect
The amendment must name exact affected provisions and preserve history.
Application
- Renumbering requires automated cross-reference repair and validation.
Constitutional Provision
Constitutional Amendment
Rule
This Constitution may be amended only by the heightened proposal, notice, approval, and ratification process established by law.
Legal Effect
Ordinary legislation and executive directives cannot amend it.
Application
- Fundamental restructuring requires explicit constitutional text.
Constitutional Provision
Delegated Regulation
Rule
The legislature may authorize an institution to issue regulations within a defined subject, purpose, limit, and review process.
Legal Effect
Delegation may not include unlimited power to create crimes or rewrite constitutional rights.
Application
- Technical schedules may be delegated where standards remain in the Act.
Constitutional Provision
Department Policy
Rule
A department head may publish internal policy within delegated authority.
Legal Effect
Policy binds department members but does not create public criminal liability or powers over civilians.
Application
- Approved equipment schedules may be internal where the law permits.
Constitutional Provision
No Silent Editing
Rule
No authorized editor may directly alter live law without workflow, version history, actor identity, reason, validation, and effective time.
Legal Effect
Technical founder override is emergency continuity access and must be permanently logged.
Application
- Rollback corrects technical publication errors without deleting history.
Constitutional Provision
Cross-Reference Integrity
Rule
Publication systems shall validate section IDs, links, citations, duplicate numbering, access control, and referenced documents before enactment.
Legal Effect
A failed reference blocks publication or receives an explicit transitional resolution.
Application
- Search results must not expose restricted publications.
Public Records and Technology
Constitutional Provision
Authoritative Registries
Rule
Citizen, license, vehicle, firearm, property, business, case, warrant, court, and department registries are authoritative only within their published scope.
Legal Effect
One registry may not silently decide a subject assigned to another.
Application
- The live status, not a copied card, controls verification.
Constitutional Provision
Auditability
Rule
Every material public-record creation, update, suspension, reversal, deletion, access grant, and override shall identify actor, authority, time, previous value, and reason where implemented.
Legal Effect
Audit history may not be silently erased.
Application
- Protected logs remain access-controlled.
Constitutional Provision
System Readiness
Rule
No person may be punished for failing to use a government system that is not operational, documented, and reasonably accessible.
Legal Effect
Authorized temporary manual procedure must be published before enforcement.
Application
- Future MDT support does not imply current functionality.
Constitutional Provision
Single Source of Time
Rule
The game server and central backend shall expose one authoritative Eden time to the phone, MDT, website, bots, courts, banks, and other systems.
Legal Effect
Independent clocks may display but shall not become competing legal time sources.
Application
- Maintenance pause and offline-deadline policy must be published.
Constitutional Provision
Data Minimization
Rule
Government systems shall expose only information needed for the user's lawful role and task.
Legal Effect
Technical availability does not authorize unrestricted browsing.
Application
- A dealership may verify license status without receiving sealed case evidence.
Title X10. Emergency Government and Succession
Title X
Keeps Eden operating during death, absence, vacancy, attack, technical failure, or extraordinary danger without creating unlimited emergency power.
General Emergency Limits
Constitutional Provision
Defined Emergency
Rule
Emergency authority exists only for a substantial present threat to life, essential institutions, public systems, or constitutional continuity identified by law.
Legal Effect
Ordinary crime, protest, criticism, election loss, staffing shortage, or political inconvenience is not enough.
Application
- A major disaster or coordinated attack may qualify.
Constitutional Provision
Declaration
Rule
An emergency declaration shall state facts, authority, territory or systems, powers activated, start, expiry, responsible officials, and review route.
Legal Effect
Unstated powers remain inactive.
Application
- Public notice may omit protected tactical facts but not legal effect.
Constitutional Provision
Necessity and Proportionality
Rule
Emergency action must be necessary, narrowly tailored, and no longer than required.
Legal Effect
Officials shall use ordinary law wherever it remains effective.
Application
- Emergency does not suspend the Constitution as a whole.
Constitutional Provision
Automatic Expiry
Rule
Every emergency declaration expires at the constitutional limit unless renewed through the required review.
Legal Effect
Expired powers cannot continue by habit or unpublished instruction.
Application
- Records and legal consequences remain reviewable.
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Review
Rule
Courts remain open to review emergency legality, detention, search, seizure, restriction, succession, and expenditure.
Legal Effect
Emergency officials may not prevent lawful access to review.
Application
- Urgent hearings may use accelerated procedure.
Executive Succession
Constitutional Provision
Mayoral Vacancy
Rule
Upon mayoral vacancy, the Deputy Mayor becomes Acting Mayor if that office exists and its holder is eligible and available.
Legal Effect
Acting authority begins automatically and is recorded immediately.
Application
- The Acting Mayor serves only until the constitutional election or succession endpoint.
Constitutional Provision
Secondary Succession
Rule
If no eligible Deputy Mayor is available, succession passes to the next office expressly listed by enacted succession law.
Legal Effect
No person may assume the office by rank analogy or technical access.
Application
- The Commissioner of Public Safety may be listed but is not presumed without publication.
Constitutional Provision
Acting Limitations
Rule
An Acting Mayor preserves continuity and may exercise ordinary necessary executive authority, but shall avoid permanent restructuring, strategic appointments, or irreversible commitments unless urgent and expressly allowed.
Legal Effect
A special or scheduled election restores elected leadership.
Application
- Routine budgets and public safety continue.
Constitutional Provision
Special Election
Rule
A vacancy shall trigger the election process stated by law, considering the short weekly term and proximity of the next scheduled election.
Legal Effect
The rule is fixed before the vacancy and may allow completion by an Acting Mayor when little time remains.
Application
- No ad hoc election outcome may favor a party.
Constitutional Provision
Multiple Vacancies
Rule
If several succession offices are vacant, the authorized continuity council or next listed officer performs only the minimum powers assigned until restoration.
Legal Effect
Technical administrators may preserve systems but do not become political officeholders.
Application
- All emergency access is audited.
Department Continuity
Constitutional Provision
Police Vacancy
Rule
The recorded second-in-command becomes Acting Chief immediately upon Chief vacancy, followed by Commissioner appointment of a permanent Chief.
Legal Effect
The Mayor has no direct appointment power in this process.
Application
- The same rule applies during a corruption investigation requiring Chief suspension.
Constitutional Provision
Judicial Vacancy
Rule
Judicial succession and emergency assignment shall preserve neutral case access without allowing the executive to choose desired outcomes.
Legal Effect
Cases are reassigned through published objective procedure.
Application
- Conflicted judges remain excluded.
Constitutional Provision
Records and Credentials
Rule
Succession shall update credentials, access, signing authority, public registry status, and audit logs without deleting predecessor history.
Legal Effect
Access beyond the acting role is removed promptly.
Application
- Office records remain institutional property.
Constitutional Provision
No Power Vacuum Exploitation
Rule
No person may claim public authority, assets, weapons, cases, accounts, or records merely because an office is temporarily unstaffed.
Legal Effect
Existing institutions and succession rules continue to control.
Application
- Unauthorized access is handled under applicable law and policy.
Title XI11. Ethics, Removal, and Accountability
Title XI
Makes public service a trust with clear conflicts, investigations, and removal paths rather than personal power.
Public Trust
Constitutional Provision
Public Office Is a Trust
Rule
Every public officer holds delegated authority for Eden and not for personal, factional, business, or party ownership.
Legal Effect
Authority must be used only for its published purpose.
Application
- A role is responsibility, not a reward.
Constitutional Provision
Lawful Orders
Rule
An official shall obey lawful instructions within chain of command and refuse clearly unlawful instructions.
Legal Effect
Refusal shall be documented and reported through the proper channel.
Application
- Rank does not legalize an otherwise unlawful order.
Constitutional Provision
Conflicts of Interest
Rule
Officials shall disclose and manage material conflicts according to published ethics procedure.
Legal Effect
A conflicted official may not control the relevant appointment, contract, investigation, prosecution, or judgment.
Application
- Remote or trivial associations need not create automatic recusal.
Constitutional Provision
Gifts and Benefits
Rule
Public officers shall not accept a benefit intended to influence official action or given in exchange for access, information, contract, enforcement, or favorable treatment.
Legal Effect
Ordinary disclosed ceremonial items may be regulated separately.
Application
- Criminal bribery requires ECC elements.
Constitutional Provision
Confidential Information
Rule
Official access to sealed, personal, investigative, medical, financial, or security information may be used only for lawful duty.
Legal Effect
Using confidential information for roleplay advantage, business, politics, retaliation, or friends is prohibited.
Application
- Authorized disclosure to court or oversight remains permitted.
Constitutional Provision
Duty to Preserve Records
Rule
Officials shall preserve records relevant to pending cases, audits, complaints, appointments, budgets, elections, and investigations.
Legal Effect
Deletion, concealment, or silent alteration is subject to applicable review.
Application
- Ordinary retention expiry does not override a hold.
Investigation and Removal
Constitutional Provision
Independent Investigation
Rule
Alleged serious misconduct by an official shall be investigated by the institution assigned by law with conflict safeguards.
Legal Effect
The subject's supervisor alone is insufficient where self-investigation or retaliation risk exists.
Application
- Police conduct routes to Internal Affairs; criminal evidence routes to prosecution.
Constitutional Provision
Interim Suspension
Rule
A public officer may be temporarily suspended only on written authority and facts showing a substantial integrity, safety, evidence, or continuity risk.
Legal Effect
Suspension is not a finding of guilt and receives prompt review.
Application
- Access may be narrowed rather than fully removed where sufficient.
Constitutional Provision
Administrative Finding
Rule
Employment or office discipline uses the published administrative standard, evidence, reasons, and appeal.
Legal Effect
Administrative findings remain distinct from criminal conviction.
Application
- Retraining, warning, suspension, demotion, or removal depends on the governing manual.
Constitutional Provision
Criminal Referral
Rule
Evidence reasonably supporting a written crime is referred to an independent prosecutor.
Legal Effect
The investigating institution does not convict or sentence.
Application
- Ordinary warrant and arrest process applies to officials.
Constitutional Provision
Removal from Appointed Office
Rule
An appointed official may be removed only by the appointing or other authorized body under the grounds and process governing that office.
Legal Effect
Removal does not erase possible civil or criminal responsibility.
Application
- The Chief's special independence and process remain controlling.
Constitutional Provision
Impeachment or Constitutional Removal
Rule
Elected or constitutionally protected officials may be removed through the heightened process enacted under this Constitution.
Legal Effect
The process shall state grounds, notice, evidence, defense, vote, decision, and succession.
Application
- It may not be improvised for one person.
Title XII12. Final and Transitional Provisions
Title XII
Brings the constitutional system into force without pretending every future institution or technical feature already exists.
Implementation
Constitutional Provision
Constitutional Publication
Rule
This Constitution enters force upon authenticated publication as EC-001 with a recorded version and effective time.
Legal Effect
Earlier publications remain valid only to the extent consistent with it.
Application
- Conflicts must be logged for refinement rather than silently ignored.
Constitutional Provision
Existing Office Transition
Rule
Current lawful officeholders continue temporarily under this Constitution until their office is confirmed, transitioned, elected, appointed, or replaced through published procedure.
Legal Effect
Transition does not grant a missing power.
Application
- Access and oath records shall be updated.
Constitutional Provision
Future System Clauses
Rule
Provisions referring to legislation portals, registries, Eden Time, automated succession, monitoring, or other future systems establish design authority but are unenforceable where compliance depends on an unavailable system.
Legal Effect
Manual substitutes require separate publication.
Application
- The Constitution remains ready for staged implementation.
Constitutional Provision
Publication Review
Rule
Every Act, regulation, handbook, SOP, government structure, and access rule shall be reviewed for constitutional consistency during refinement.
Legal Effect
Review may produce prospective amendment, correction, or repeal.
Application
- No player is blamed for a documentation conflict.
Constitutional Provision
Timeless Drafting
Rule
Legal publications shall not name ordinary players, characters, temporary player businesses, or personal officeholders.
Legal Effect
Current identities belong in registries, rosters, cases, and election records rather than permanent law.
Application
- Permanent institutions may be named when established by law.
Constitutional Provision
Public Education
Rule
Government shall provide searchable text, citations, summaries, and practical guidance so people can understand the system without memorizing every section.
Legal Effect
Summaries do not override controlling text.
Application
- The average player may participate without reading the entire library.
Preservation and Review
Constitutional Provision
Version History
Rule
Every constitutional version and amendment shall remain permanently identifiable by publication ID, version, effective interval, and change record.
Legal Effect
Cases use the law effective at the relevant time.
Application
- Repealed text remains searchable as historical law.
Constitutional Provision
No Private Amendment
Rule
No founder, developer, Mayor, judge, administrator, or editor may privately alter constitutional meaning.
Legal Effect
Emergency technical repair must restore the approved text and retain a permanent log.
Application
- Founder override is technical continuity, not ordinary government power.
Constitutional Provision
Periodic Refinement
Rule
Leadership and later constitutional institutions may conduct comprehensive consistency review after the initial library is complete.
Legal Effect
Refinement corrects overlap, ambiguity, missing systems, citations, and contradictions prospectively.
Application
- The first version need not implement every future mechanism.
Constitutional Provision
Continuing Validity
Rule
The Constitution remains in force through server restart, election turnover, vacancy, role changes, department reorganization, and technical migration.
Legal Effect
Only a valid constitutional amendment changes it.
Application
- Moving services to another VPS does not alter law.
Constitutional Provision
Constitutional Identity
Rule
All public institutions shall act as institutions of Eden rather than copies or subordinate bodies of an outside jurisdiction.
Legal Effect
Names, powers, and procedures derive only from Eden publications.
Application
- Eden may learn from outside systems without adopting their authority.
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One Property System, One Record
No public power exists without written constitutional authority and a traceable record.
Rights, offices, elections, appointments, investigations, judgments, laws, emergencies, and succession all resolve through written authority and auditable records.