Simperialism Amendment

Simperialism Amendment Whereas Whereas Believing Believing Recognizing

Ratified by public referendum 1 June 2025.

I, Justice Ivy Cactus NC, hereby propose the following amendment to the Constitution of SimDemocracy:

Article 1 — Constitutional Amendment

§1. The following shall be inserted into the Constitution of SimDemocracy between Part 4: The Judiciary and Part 5: The Supervisors:

Part 5: The Territories

Article 13: Platforms and Obligations

§1. A platform shall be a website, server, forum, or other piece of software on which SimDemocracy holds an official presence.

§2. SimDemocracy holds an obligation to ensure compliance with the rules of the platforms it operates on, to the extent which the platform expects communities to enforce said rules.

§2.1. If SimDemocracy’s continued existence on a platform is dependent on continued assistance or funding from a third-party, SimDemocracy must negotiate an agreement with said party where it clarifies the limitations or expectations for SimDemocracy to operate on said platform.

§2.1.1. Constitutionally defined supervisors shall not be considered third-parties for the purposes of this article.

§3. A platform where members of SimDemocracy communicate or interact with each other in an organized way is known as a territory.

§4. Platforms where SimDemocracy maintains a presence simply to advertise or record-keep shall not be considered territories, and are not bound by the provisions for territories hereafter.

§5. The Senate of SimDemocracy may declare a platform a territory, or revoke a platform's territorial status, via a two-thirds (⅔) majority.

§5.1. Votes to classify or declassify a platform as a territory may be challenged in the Supreme Court of SimDemocracy if they do not comply with §3. and §4. of this Article.

Article 14: Core Territories

§1. Territories that have their democratic-continuity guaranteed by constitutionally defined Supervisors are to be considered “core territories” of SimDemocracy.

§1.1. No platform dependent on a third-party, as described in Article 13 §2.1., may be considered a core territory of SimDemocracy.

§2. All provisions of this document shall apply in full capacity in core territories of SimDemocracy.

§2.1. No person shall have their liberty to communicate in any core territory restricted for a conviction based solely upon a colonial law.

§3. One need only maintain a presence in any given core territory to be considered a citizen of SimDemocracy.

§4. No citizen may be discriminated against solely because of the core territory they choose to operate on.

§4.1. This section shall not be construed to deny the state the ability to base hiring decisions upon the ability of a citizen to do the work the position requires, due to lack of presence on a certain core territory or otherwise.

Article 15: The Colonies

§1. SimDemocracy may maintain "colonies" which are territories other than the core territories.

§2. Citizens of SimDemocracy may retain membership in any number of distinct colonies.

§3. The Senate of SimDemocracy may grant colonies autonomy of governance, including but not limited to:

§3.1. The ability to create their own laws, applying only within the colony,

§3.1.1. The Senate of Simdemocracy, at its own discretion, may put additional restrictions on the legislative authority of a colony.

§3.2. The ability to police themselves and enforce their own laws,

§3.3. The ability to operate their own court,

§3.3.1. If a colony has its own inferior courts, the inferior courts of the core territories shall not have jurisdiction over the colony, unless otherwise specified.

§3.3.2. The Supreme Court of SimDemocracy retains final appellate jurisdiction over decisions made by colonial courts.

§3.4. The ability to edit or nullify statutes passed by the Senate of Simdemocracy.

§3.4.1. The Senate of SimDemocracy, at its own discretion, may list statutes that a colony may alter and/or which ones it cannot.

§4. Colonies, in order to act autonomously, must pass a charter agreed to by the majority of the colony’s membership and the Senate of SimDemocracy.

§4.1. A charter must outline the Colony’s structure of government; and

§4.2. How the colony plans to use the powers granted to it by the Senate of SimDemocracy.

§5. Colonies must guarantee the basic rights of their members, as established in the Bill of Rights outlined in this document. Where strictly necessary, they may adapt the Bill of Rights to comply with platform restrictions established via Article 13 §2. and its subsections.

§5.1. A colony’s charter must be democratic in the system of governance it stipulates.

§6. A colony’s charter may only be revoked via a two-thirds (⅔) majority of the Senate of SimDemocracy.

Article 2 — Book-keeping

§1. Article 13 of the SimDemocracy Constitution, Colony Courts, is hereby repealed.

§2. Whenever there is a conflict between an Article name and title in this act, due to amendment or otherwise, the article title shall take precedence.

§3. Part 3 of the Constitution, Incapacity, shall be moved below Part 5, The Supervisors.

§4. All Part and Article numbers are to be updated according to their position after this amendment takes effect.

§5. Following the passage of this amendment in public referendum there shall be a two (2) week period before the changes in Article 1 go into effect.