Rights and Duties

Identical constitutional status; no privileged forum, immunity, or disability by office, wealth, ancestry, belief, or association.

Remedy — Action of Equality before a Tribunal of Assurance; statistical divergence triggers systemic inquiry.

Protection against killing, torture, degrading treatment, and non-consensual medical intervention. No exception, no emergency derogation.

Remedy — Direct constitutional claim; criminal prosecution of officials; no immunity defence.

Freedom from detention except on charge, before a judge, within a fixed short period, with reasons.

Remedy — Writ of Production, heard within 24 hours, by any judge, day or night.

Notice, impartial tribunal, disclosure, counsel, presumption of innocence, no retroactive offence, no double jeopardy, appeal.

Remedy — Exclusion of evidence; discontinuance; damages.

Trial within published time limits, by jury of the Common Assize in serious matters.

Remedy — Automatic review on breach; discontinuance where unremedied.

Absolute freedom of belief; broad freedom of practice; equal freedom to hold no belief; no religious test or establishment.

Remedy — Expedited Tribunal review of any limitation.

Protection of speech including offensive, mistaken and dissenting speech; no state determination of truth as a condition of lawfulness.

Remedy — Public register of every content order, with citizen standing to appeal.

Right to gather, protest, organise, form parties, unions and associations, and to decline to join any.

Remedy — Notification only, never permission; judicial review of any dispersal order.

Protection of person, home, communications, movement, biometrics and data; individualised warrant required.

Remedy — Void general warrants; subsequent notification; damages for unlawful access.

Secure ownership; compulsory acquisition only by statute, for public purpose, with full compensation and pre-transfer challenge.

Remedy — Injunction before transfer; judicially assessed compensation.

Freedom to move, reside, leave, and return; citizenship may never be revoked.

Remedy — Immediate judicial relief; prohibition on statelessness as punishment.

Practical ability to bring a meritorious claim regardless of wealth: public defence, cost protection, assistance to unrepresented parties.

Remedy — Cost-capping orders; published unmet-need reporting.

Every exercise of discretion reasoned, recorded, and reviewable; no power exercised beyond textual grant.

Remedy — Action of Excess, available to any citizen without proof of personal injury.

Access to public records; access to one's own data held by the state; the right to know the basis of any decision affecting one's rights.

Remedy — Presumption of disclosure; refusal appealable at no cost.

No consequential decision about a person made solely by an automated system; a named human is answerable for every such decision.

Remedy — Right to human review, to reasons, and to challenge; system suspension by the Cognition Authority.

Subsistence, shelter, healthcare, education, and legal representation sufficient to exercise Standing in practice.

Remedy — Statutory entitlement, judicially enforceable against unlawful refusal, non-discretionary in its core.

To comply with valid law and lawful orders of courts — and, under Article 24, to refuse orders that are manifestly unconstitutional.

To declare income and pay lawfully assessed taxes. Evasion is treated as a wrong against fellow citizens, not merely against the treasury.

To serve on juries and citizen review panels when selected by lot, with compensation, and with excusal only on genuine hardship.

To give truthful evidence when lawfully required, subject to the privilege against self-incrimination.

To vote, or to record a formal abstention, in constitutional referenda; participation is a duty of attendance, never of agreement.

To refrain from degrading the common inheritance — environment, infrastructure, public records, institutions — beyond lawful use.

To refrain from coercing, intimidating, defrauding, or excluding others from public life on any ground. Enforced against conduct only, never against opinion.