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Article II: Fundamental Rights and Liberties Provision 1: The fundamental rights and liberties of all (1) All individuals shall be protected. No law abridging the rights of any being shall be made. (2) All sapient beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (3) Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political or jurisdictional status of the country or territory to which a person belongs. Provision 2: Fundamental rights (1)The most fundamental liberties shall be the freedom from force or fraud against the person and the freedom to live as one choses without intereference from any other persons. (2)Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Provision 3: Servitude (1) No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. (2) All forms of forced labor are prohibited. (a) Military service, or national service in lieu of military service, shall not be taken to be forced labor within the meaning of this article. (b) Work incidental to the serving of a sentence of imprisonment imposed by a court of law shall not be taken to be forced labor within the meaning of this article. Provision 4: Torture and inhumane treatement (1) No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (2) This provision shall not be considered to outlaw capital punishment. Provision 5: Equality before the law (1) Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. (2) All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. (3) Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. (4) No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. (5) Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. (6) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (7) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. Provision 6: Privacy (1) No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. Provision 7: Residence, nationality, and asylum (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence. (2) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (3) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. (4) Everyone has the right to leave and to return to the country. (5) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy asylum from persecution. (6) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of this constitution. Provision 8: Relations (1) Beings of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality, religion, sexuality, or other considerations have the right to enter into so-called "marriage contracts" and to found families. (2) All beings are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (3) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (4) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and shall not be subject to regulation by the State, except as a contract. Provision 9: Property, Professions, and Contracts (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No being shall be arbitrarily deprived property they legally own. (3) All beings shall have the freedom to choose a profession as they see fit, and to enjoy free access to and free exercise of private economic activity. (4) No being shall ever be legally compelled to sell or buy any property. (5) Any being may sell any property they legally own, as long as such a sale dose not endanger the general public at large or is done fraudulantly. (6) Any being shall be entitled to enter into a contract with another. (7) No contracts may exist in perpetuity. (8) No contract shall be valid if entered by force or fraudulant means. Provision 10: Freedom of thought, Expression, and Consience: (1) Everybeing has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. (2) Everybeing has the freedom to, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, manifest or express their belifes. (3) Everybeing has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; including freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. (4) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (5) No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Article 21 (1) Every voting citizen has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by established rules and procedures. Article 22 Everyone has the right to and is entitled to realization, through indiviual effort, of social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. Article 23 (1) Everyone has the right to work and to enter into employment contracts. (2) Everyone have the right to unionize for the protection of their insterests, to form unions and to join or refrain from joining them. (3) Conflicts shall be resolved to the extent possible through negotiation and mediation. (4) Strike and lockout are permitted when they relate to labor relations, and when they are not contrary to obligations to keep labor peace or to resort to conciliation. (5) No person shall be forced to engage in collective bargaining agreements against their will. (6) All employers shall have the right to freely choose who they may employee. Article 24 Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. Article 25 (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any commercial, scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. Article 26 (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. Article 27 Everyone is able to defend their life, liberty, and state against unlawful deprivation. (a) Use of force, lethal or otherwise, may be undertaken in persuit of personal defense. (b) Everyone may keep and bear arms in order to exercise this right. Article 28 (1) Everyone may speak any language they wish.. (2) There shall be no nationally recognised language. (3) The government may establish a common language of operation. Article 27 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.