1735 Sanaman constitutional amendment referendum

1735 Sanaman constitutional amendment referendum

Shall the constitution of Sanama be amended in accordance with the attached text?
Results
	Votes	%
Yes	46,276,201	56.15%
No	36,133,248	43.85%
Valid votes	82,409,449	99.99%
Invalid votes	5,587	0.01%
Total votes	82,415,036	100%

The 1735 Sanaman constitutional amendment referendum was held on 12.X.1735 to amend the Sanaman constitution.

Text

Second Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740.

The First Amendment to the constitution is hereby repealed.

Third Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740, except for the amendments to Article 3, First Paragraph, and Article 5, First Paragraph, which shall come into force on 1.I.1739.

Article 2 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The legislative power of the Union shall be vested in the Lhusan Nasyonal, consisting of the House of People's Delegates and the Council of People's Republics.

Article 3 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The House of People's Delegates shall be composed of delegates elected every five years by the people. Elections shall be proportional and regulated by an organic law.

Third paragraph:
Delegates shall be apportioned among the people's republics according to their share of the national population. Apportionment shall be made every ten years. The number of delegates shall not exceed one for every one hundred and fifty thousand and not a total number of six hundred and fifty.

Article 4 of the constitution shall be repealed.

Article 5 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The Council of People's Republics shall be composed of councillors elected every five years by the people.

Second paragraph:
A candidate for representative must have attained at least twenty-five years of age and been a citizen of the Union and the electoral circuit they shall represent for at least five years.

Third paragraph:
The Council of People's Republics shall constist of no more than one hundred and ten representatives of the people's republics and Semisa City, hereonafter referred to as electoral circuits, elected by the peoples thereof. Every electoral circuit shall elect at least one councillor. The exact number shall be no more than one sixth of the size of the House of People's Delegates and shall be regulated by an organic law.

Article 6 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The two houses of the Lhusan Nasyonal shall meet in joint session to receive messages from the President of the Union, and to resolve conflicts between the houses in accordance with this constitution and other legislation.

Article 9 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The words "House of Councillors" shall be replaced by the words "Council of People's Republics".

Second paragraph:
The words "House of Councillors" shall be replaced by the words "Council of People's Republics".

Fourth Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740.

Article 10 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The right to introduce bills in either house belong to each of its members and each of its committees, the President of the Council of State and the President of the Union.

Second paragraph:
Bills shall require the concurrence of a majority of members present and voting of each house, and the same concurrence of the other house to be deemed to have passed the Lhusan Nasyonal. Constitutional amendments also require the concurrence of a majority of the people in a referendum.

Third paragraph:
A bill passed by either house shall be submitted to the other house for their consideration. They shall submit the result of their consideration to the originating house. If the other house has passed the bill unchanged, it shall be deemed to have been passed by the Lhusan Nasyonal and shall be submitted to the President of the Union for their consideration. If the other house has rejected the bill, it shall be deemed to have failed and shall not again be introduced during the same session.

Fourth paragraph:
If the other house passes the bill amended, it shall be returned to the originating house. The House shall deliberate upon the amended version of the bill and shall, following such deliberation, vote on the matter. If the amended version passes, it shall be deemed to have been passed by the Lhusan Nasyonal and shall be submitted to the President of the Union for their consideration. If the amended version is in turn amended, the chairperson of the house shall submit the bill to a mediation committee. If the amended version is rejected, it shall be deemed to have failed and shall not again be introduced during the same session.

The fifth and sixth paragraphs shall be repealed.

Seventh paragraph:
The Speaker of the House of People's Delegates shall constitute a mediation committee composed of representatives from the Houses and in such manner as prescribed in this constitution and in law. The committee shall consist of an equal number of members from each house. The committee shall submit its report to both houses. If both houses passes the bill as submitted by the committee, it shall be deemed to have been passed by the Lhusan Nasyonal and be submitted to the President of the Union for promulgation. If either house does not pass the bill, it shall be deemed to have failed and shall not again be introduced during the same session.

Eighth paragraph:
If the mediation committee fails to reach a decision, the President of the Union, acting with the advice and consent of the President of the Council of State, may request that the Lhusan Nasyonal meet in a joint session to make a final decision on the bill. To pass, the bill must receive votes from more than half of the entire membership of the Lhusan Nasyonal. If the bill passes, it shall be deemed to have been passed by the Lhusan Nasyonal and be submitted to the President of the Union for their consideration. If the bill does not pass, it shall be deemed to have failed and shall not again be introduced during the same session.

Ninth paragraph:
Bills received by either house shall be returned to the other house within twelve weeks or, if the President of the Union, acting with the advice and consent of the President of the Council of State, deems that the bill is urgent, within six weeks.

Fifth Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740.

Article 13 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
There shall be a President of the Union. They shall hold office for a term of five years. The President of the Union shall be elected by an absolute majority of the people in a manner prescribed by law.

The second paragraph shall be repealed.

Third paragraph:
Elections for the office of President of the Union shall be held on the same date as elections to the Lhusan Nasyonal. In case of the removal of the President of the Union from office, or of their death, resignation or inability to discharge the duties of said office, the President of the Council of People's Republics shall assume the office of Acting President of the Union, until the next regular election. During the period that the President of the Council of People's Republics shall assume the office of Acting President of the Union, they shall not exercise their role as President of the Council of People's Republics.

Article 14 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The office of head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Union shall be vested in the President of the Union. They shall be the guarantor of the constitution, of the rights and freedoms of the people, protect the sovereignty of the Union, its independence and integrity, and ensure coordinated functioning and interaction between all the bodies of state power.

The second paragraph shall be repealed.

Third paragraph:
According to the constition and the laws the President of the Union shall determine the guidelines of the internal and foreign policies of the state.

Fourth paragraph:
As head of state the President of the Union represents the Union within the country and in international relations.

Fifth paragraph:
A candidate for President of the Union must have attained at least thirty-five years of age and be a natural-born citizen of the Union. A natural-born citizen is defined as a person either born within the borders of Sanama to at least one Sanaman parent, or born prior to the Kalirion Fracture in the territories that later became Sanama.

Sixth paragraph:
The President of the Union shall issue decrees. The decrees of the President of the Union shall constitute binding legislation and must not conflict with the constitution and laws of Sanama.

Seventh paragraph:
The President of the Union shall appoint a state council to assist them in the execution of their duties. The members of the state council shall serve at the pleasure of the President of the Union. The President of the Union shall specify the scope, powers, duties, responsibilities and organisation of the state council by decree.

Sixth Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740.

Article 15 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
Following elections to the House of People's Delegates, as well as following a vote of no confidence in a President of the Council of State, when the office falls vacant, the President of the Union shall appoint and commission a representative of a party in the House to be President of the Council of State that, in their reasoned opinion, has the ability to be approved in a vote of confidence in the House, and to pass a budget for the Union in the Lhusan Nasyonal. Upon the appointment the commission of the preceeding President of the Council of State shall be terminated. Such termination shall also terminate the commission of the members of the Council of State.

Second paragraph:
The President of the Union, upon the receipt of a message from the Speaker of the House of People's Delegates, informing them that a member of the Council of State has lost the confidence of the House following a vote of no confidence, shall dismiss that member.

Third paragraph:
The President of the Union shall receive letters of credence and, with the advice of a body established in accordance with law, have the power to grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment. They shall also appoint and dismiss ambassadors, other ministers and consuls; and appoint and dismiss the members of the Council of State.

Fourth paragraph:
Upon the receipt of a bill deemed to have been passed by the Lhusan Nasyonal, the President of the Union shall within fourteen days promulgate the bill, thereby making it into a Lhusan Nasyonal Act. The President of the Union may return the bill to the Lhusan Nasyonal with an explanation for withholding promulgation. If the Lhusan Nasyonal passes the bill again with a three-fifths majority of the entire membership of each House within fourteen days, the President of the Union, upon receipt of the bill, shall promulgate it within five days.

Fifth paragraph:
The President of the Union shall, upon the receipt of a message from the Speaker of the House of People's Delegates, informing them that the President of the Council of State has lost the confidence of the House following a vote of no confidence, terminate the commission of the members of the Council of State. The members of the Council of State shall remain in an acting capacity until such time as a new President and members of the Council of State shall have been appointed and commissioned by the President of the Union.

Sixth paragraph:
The President of the Union may, following a successful vote of no confidence in the President of the Council of State, that follows within three months of a preceeding successful vote of no confidence, and that does not fall within six months of an election, dissolve the House of People's Delegates and call for new elections to the House within thirty days. Delegates thus elected shall serve until the following general election. The President of the Council of State defeated in the vote of no confidence shall not remain in office until the general election.

Seventh paragraph:
The President of the Union may terminate the commission of the President of the Council of State. When doing so, the President of the Union shall also appoint and commission a new President of the Council of State.

Seventh Amendment

This amendment shall come into force on 1.I.1740.

Article 16 of the constitution shall be amended as follows:

First paragraph:
The executive power of the Union shall be vested in the Council of State. The Council of State shall be headed by the President of the Council of State and presided over by the President of the Union. The President of the Council of State shall direct, lead and coordinate the proceedings of the Council of State, and to provide for the good governance of the Union and the faithful execution of its laws. The President of the Union shall, upon the proposal of the President of the Council of State, appoint its members, deputies and assistants, and assign areas of responsibilities to its members.

Second paragraph:
The Council of State shall develop and submit to the House of People's Delegates a budget and provide for its implementation, submit a report to the House on the implementation of the budget, submit annual reports to the House on the results of its work, shall ensure a uniform financial, credit and monetary policy, uniform policies in the fields of education, health and social security, administer property held by the Union, secure the defence of the country and the state, implement the foreign policy of the Union, ensure that the laws are obeyed, civil rights and freedoms are respected, protect property and public order, and combat crime, and any other functions assigned to it by the constitution, the laws and decrees of the President of the Union.

Third paragraph:
The Council of State shall issue regulations and ensure their implementation, in accordance with the constitution, the laws and normative decrees of the President of the Union. Regulations of the Council of State constitute binding legislation. Any regulation of the Council of State that conflict with the constitution, the laws or decrees of the President of the Union may be repealed by the President of the Union.