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Imperial Constitution and Covenant of the Aksum Imperium/Article II

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Article II — The Imperium, Constitutional Continuity, Unity, and Supreme Law

Imperial Code §§ 102.201–102.299

Section 1. The Aksum Imperium

Imperial Code § 102.201

  1. The formal constitutional name of the sovereign polity governed by this Constitution is the United Dominion of the Aksum Imperium.
  2. In ordinary law, government, diplomacy, public records, and official usage, the polity may be styled the Aksum Imperium.
  3. The authorized short name is the Imperium.
  4. The United Dominion of the Aksum Imperium is one continuous, sovereign, permanent, and indivisible Imperial polity united beneath the Imperial Crown.
  5. The Imperium possesses the constitutional character of the Sovereignty of Sovereignties, joining the Imperial Crown, the Sovereign Great Houses, the High Kingdoms, the Domains, and all other constituent authorities within one supreme Imperial order.
  6. The Dominion means the single sovereign whole formed by the Domains beneath the Imperial Crown. Use of the singular term Dominion does not establish or restore the abolished territorial Dominion tier.
  7. The present constitutional era is the Tenth Imperium.
  8. The Tenth Imperium is neither a separate state nor a successor state. It is the present constitutional era of the same continuing Aksum Imperium.
  9. No omission, silence, delegation, distribution of authority, or general constitutional provision shall diminish the inherent or reserved powers of the Imperial Crown merely by implication.

Section 2. Permanent Unity and Indivisibility

Imperial Code § 102.202

  1. The Aksum Imperium is permanently united and indivisible.
  2. No High Kingdom, territory, regency, constituent government, Sovereign Great House, Order, institution, people, community, or other part of the Imperium possesses any right or authority to secede, withdraw, partition itself from, or unilaterally separate from the Imperium.
  3. No Imperial officer, council, court, territorial government, House, Order, commander, or subordinate authority may authorize, recognize, negotiate, facilitate, or assist any attempted secession, withdrawal, partition, or unilateral separation.
  4. No amendment, decree, judgment, treaty, grant, charter, compact, or other instrument may lawfully authorize the dissolution of the Imperium or impair its permanent unity and indivisibility.
  5. Any act or instrument purporting to authorize or accomplish such dissolution, secession, withdrawal, partition, or separation is void from its inception and without constitutional force.


Section 3. The Fracture

Imperial Code § 102.203

  1. The Fracture was a period of contraction, separation, disruption, and interruption in the effective administration of the Aksum Imperium.
  2. The Fracture did not:
    1. extinguish or dissolve the Imperium;
    2. terminate the Imperial Crown or lawful succession;
    3. surrender any Imperial territory, realm, jurisdiction, right, title, dignity, or inheritance;
    4. transform an Imperial territory into a foreign state merely because effective administration ceased;
    5. abolish the lawful authority of the Imperial Crown; or
    6. establish a lawful successor polity.
  3. Restoration following the Fracture constitutes the renewed exercise of continuing Imperial authority.

Section 4. Constitutional Eras and Historical Continuity

Imperial Code § 102.204

  1. Each prior Imperium remains an official constitutional and historical era of the continuous Aksum Imperium.
  2. The Tenth Imperium shall not erase, falsify, or silently rewrite the existence or recorded acts of prior constitutional eras.
  3. Prior laws, decrees, appointments, institutions, titles, judgments, grants, and other acts possess only the present legal effect afforded by this Constitution, Imperial Decree 26-001, and Imperial law governing the reception and review of prior authority.
  4. Historical preservation does not, by itself, confer continuing legal force.
  5. Reconstructed, incomplete, or uncertain material shall be identified accordingly and shall not be represented as an authenticated original.

Section 5. Supremacy of the Constitution

Imperial Code § 102.205

  1. This Constitution and Imperial Covenant is the supreme governing law of the Aksum Imperium.
  2. The Emperor and Grand Sovereign shall exercise the authority of the Imperial Crown through and in accordance with this Constitution.
  3. The Grand Imperial Magnus, His Imperial Majesty’s Grand Imperial Court, the Grand Imperial Council, the Imperial Councils, the Imperial Service, constituent governments, Sovereign Great Houses, Orders, officers, citizens, subjects, and all other Imperial authorities and persons are subordinate to this Constitution.
  4. Every decree, dictate, edict, enactment, ordinance, directive, regulation, judgment, appointment, grant, charter, custom, and exercise of Imperial authority must conform to this Constitution.
  5. An Imperial instrument conflicting with this Constitution is without effect to the extent of the conflict unless lawfully adopted as a constitutional amendment.
  6. No custom, practice, office, title, possession, inheritance claim, assumed authority, or unsupported historical assertion shall supersede this Constitution.
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