Constitutional Reform Act of 2026

What it does

1. Ch. 1 s. 1 and Ch. 2 s. 3, proposed Arts. 2 and 10: consolidates constitutional amendments into a single article sequence, recognizes enacted constitutional changes before incorporation, and retains the Emperor and Imperial Orders above the Constitution in the legal hierarchy.
2. Ch. 1 s. 2 and Ch. 2 ss. 3 and 5, proposed Arts. 1, 2 and 4: expressly describes an absolute unitary monarchy, preserves Imperial immunity and supreme governmental authority, and continues constitutionally assigned functions of other organs.
3. Ch. 1 s. 2, proposed Art. 1 ss. 2 and 3: retains citizenship applications and allegiance oaths or affirmations, reserves application exceptions to the Emperor, and permits optional personal additions that do not qualify the prescribed commitments.
4. Ch. 2 s. 3, proposed Art. 2 ss. 13 and 14: provides for ministerial and deputy appointments at Imperial pleasure, allows statutory Privy Council membership, and gives the State Religion's religious head membership by virtue of office.
5. Ch. 2 s. 4 and Ch. 8 s. 32: establishes joint Chancellor and Vice Chancellor tickets at 90 day general elections, with unopposed returns, majority voting for two tickets and instant runoff voting for three or more, followed by Imperial confirmation and oaths.
6. Ch. 2 s. 4 and Ch. 8 s. 32: permits two public electoral retries after deadlock, then six published extraordinary resolution methods, including consensual contests, Parliament, the Privy Council, four major parties or direct Imperial selection, with an ultimate Imperial selection deadline.
7. Ch. 2 s. 4 and Ch. 8 s. 32: bars overlapping Chancellery and parliamentary candidacies and requires withdrawal of ordinary or automatic parliamentary nominations before Chancellery registration.
8. Ch. 2 s. 4 and Ch. 8 s. 33: reserves one of the Commons' 16 seats to the Vice Chancellor, preserves its full Commons powers, prevents simultaneous occupation of an ordinary Commons seat, and suspends the Vice Chancellor's Lords powers and the Chancellor's parliamentary powers.
9. Ch. 3 s. 6, proposed Art. 5: retains three quarters approval in each House and Imperial assent for parliamentary constitutional amendments and constitutional veto overrides, while allowing the direct referendum route.
10. Ch. 3 s. 7, proposed Art. 6: restates Supreme Court jurisdiction, constitutional interpretation and judicial review under Imperial approval of decisions, and retains the death penalty for the most serious crimes with a revised nonexhaustive list of examples.
11. Ch. 4 s. 8 and s. 11, proposed Arts. 7 and 11: requires popular approval for constituent constitutions and compliance with superior law, while retaining limited territorial autonomy and central authority to dissolve constituent governments or remove their heads.
12. Ch. 4 s. 9, proposed Art. 8: retains the bar on departure during an active draft, fixes the wartime compulsory service minimum age at 13, and makes draft eligibility and obligations independent of sex or gender.
13. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 s. 29A: reduces ordinary bill passage to a simple majority of valid votes cast, permits a two thirds originating House override of rejection by the other House, and reduces ordinary Chancellor veto overrides to two thirds in each House without dispensing with Imperial assent.
14. Ch. 5 s. 12, proposed Art. 12 ss. 7 and 9 through 17: retains appointed Lords, Imperial removal for sufficient reason and parliamentary impeachment procedures, recognizes certified recalls, and distinguishes nonbinding resolutions from law and legal guilt.
15. Ch. 5 s. 12, proposed Art. 12 s. 21: gives eligible members direct access to a floor vote without compulsory prior referral, research, advice or approval by another body.
16. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 s. 29: expressly authorizes Parliament to appropriate, direct and reallocate public funds by law without itself specifying an appropriation amount.
17. Ch. 5 s. 12, proposed Art. 12 s. 23: requires remote bill votes to remain open for at least 24 hours, preserves the complete text, and sets a distinct notified Capitol sitting procedure limited to members present.
18. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 s. 29: records eligible prime sponsors as voting in favor by default only in digital votes, allows a formal vote or abstention to replace that record, and excludes default votes at Capitol sittings.
19. Ch. 5 s. 12, proposed Art. 12 s. 8A, and Ch. 8 ss. 31 through 33A: requires active National ID and verified legal identity for national candidacies and parliamentary assumption of office, provides correction opportunities, and prevents later ID deficiencies from independently authorizing unconstitutional removal.
20. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 s. 31: fills 15 ordinary Commons seats from one nationwide constituency by single transferable vote when contested, using a Droop quota, weighted inclusive Gregory surplus transfers, exclusion transfers and recorded tie procedures.
21. Ch. 8 s. 31: provides automatic incumbent nomination with withdrawal, equal opportunities for independent candidates, minimum nomination notice, unopposed returns, timely vacancy elections, reproducible count records, recount requests and expedited judicial review.
22. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 ss. 30 through 33B: requires neutral ballot explanations and legal names without titles or ranks, party and surname ordering without incumbent priority, accessible preference review, lawful platform choice, and protection of Independent designations against misleading party registration.
23. Ch. 6 s. 20, proposed Art. 20 ss. 1 through 8: allows citizen petitions for laws, constitutional changes, repeals and recalls at 10% of the preceding general election's distinct voters, sets 60% ordinary and recall approval and 70% constitutional approval, and protects referendum enactments against parliamentary weakening for 90 days.
24. Ch. 6 s. 20, proposed Art. 20 ss. 18 and 19: permits direct parliamentary referendum referral without a prior veto or failed override, requires no Chancellery or Imperial approval, and allows a two thirds originating House reconsideration to overcome the other House's rejection.
25. Ch. 6 s. 20, proposed Art. 20 ss. 14 through 17: establishes petition registration, collection, verification, reasoned decisions, correction and expedited court remedies, together with binding referendum publication, voting and certification deadlines and administrative fallback if no Imperial proclamation issues.
26. Ch. 6 s. 20, proposed Art. 20 ss. 4 and 9 through 12: allows two thirds votes in both Houses to initiate Chancellery recalls without a veto, supplies succession and special election rules, extends recall to a replacement Vice Chancellor after 14 days, and limits repeated recalls against the same person and office for 30 days.
27. Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 ss. 1 through 4: applies published electoral security standards, independent examination, conflict rules and two person authorization to critical operations across public voting and external providers.
28. Ch. 5 s. 12 and Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 ss. 5 through 7: requires independently verifiable secret ballot evidence, separation of identity from choices, custody beyond the operating administrator, reconciliation and independent result verification before certification.
29. Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 ss. 8, 9 and 13: requires recorded incident responses, judicial directions when verification cannot finish on time, retained evidence and public audit reports, and protected UTC traceable intake times and submission ordering.
30. Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 ss. 14 and 15: requires public Ballot Records, authenticated corrections, downloadable verification evidence and documented interfaces on government developed platforms, while keeping partial tallies sealed during polling and enforcing protected record permissions.
31. Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 s. 10: permits a narrowly limited authenticated lookup of another elector's participation using exact identity particulars, excludes choices and revealing metadata, and requires anti enumeration and privacy controls.
32. Ch. 8 s. 32A, proposed electoral Art. 6 ss. 11 and 12: gives electors private encrypted submission histories inaccessible to administrators and allows replacement digital votes until 30 minutes before closing, with only the latest lawful accepted submission effective.
33. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 s. 1: gives the state exclusive currency issuance and broad monetary controls, including taxation, limits, restrictions and seizures, and authorizes borrowing and debt issuance.
34. Ch. 5 s. 13 and Ch. 6 s. 14, proposed Arts. 13 s. 2 and 14: permits regulation of conduct, association and expressive material for social cohesion or public wellbeing, but subjects protected expression, religion and assembly to necessary and proportionate restrictions, judicial review and protection for criticism.
35. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 ss. 3, 5 and 11: authorizes direct state economic control, strategic intervention, compulsory organizational assistance, services, industries, production and construction, while permitting private activity where no governing restriction exists.
36. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 s. 4: permits central reorganization of subordinate governments and reassignment of governmental land without compensation, but requires at least 110% of listed private land value and court valuation where no lawful listing exists.
37. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 ss. 6, 7, 13 and 14: authorizes administrative organization, legal instruments, standards and registries while limiting each organ and delegation to legally conferred jurisdiction, purposes and procedures.
38. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 ss. 8 through 10: authorizes military and security forces, border and citizenship regulation, diplomacy, treaties, alliances, international organization participation and sanctions without itself commencing a deployment or treaty.
39. Ch. 5 s. 13, proposed Art. 13 ss. 12 and 15: authorizes ideological and cultural production, heritage protection, natural resource development and conservation, environmental restoration and protected areas without specifying a particular development project.
40. Ch. 6 s. 14 and s. 14A, proposed Art. 14 ss. 2 through 6: replaces the prohibition on religious establishment with a referendum requirement for establishing, replacing or disestablishing a State Religion, codifies its hierarchy, permits public support and fair grants, and keeps it distinct from a state organ.
41. Ch. 6 s. 14, proposed Art. 14 ss. 1, 3 and 10: protects voluntary religious belief and practice, prohibits compulsory worship and interference merely because another faith differs, and extends protected petitions to Imperial, subnational and local authorities.
42. Ch. 6 s. 15, proposed Art. 15: authorizes subnational military forces and local or notified private security forces, protects lawful weapons and vehicles, and requires parliamentary passage, Imperial assent, codification and 60% referendum approval for restrictions other than genuine storage or training rules.
43. Ch. 6 ss. 16 and 17, proposed Arts. 16 and 17: retains consent requirements for peacetime quartering and protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, including particularized warrants based on probable cause.
44. Ch. 6 s. 18, proposed Art. 18: extends specified civil opportunities to citizens and lawful residents and prohibits exclusion based solely on race, ethnicity, origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation or political opinion or affiliation.
45. Ch. 6 s. 19, proposed Art. 19: protects a nondiscriminatory right to seek refuge and consideration under law while allowing refusal on legally established grounds, including serious crime, material security threats or fraud.
46. Ch. 6 s. 21, proposed Art. 21: recognizes personal property independently of prior land ownership, separately defines income producing private capital and rent collection, and subjects private property to superior law and Imperial and public interests.
47. Ch. 6 ss. 21 and 23, proposed Arts. 21 s. 3 and 23: recognizes voluntary paid labor subject to workers' rights, remuneration and lawful conditions, and prohibits forming or registering any organization to exploit forced or slave labor.
48. Ch. 6 s. 22, proposed Art. 22: retains free emergency shelter and basic essentials for all citizens in imminent war, famine or catastrophe.
49. Ch. 6 s. 24, proposed Art. 24: preserves subnational substance regulation but forbids punishment for conduct wholly lawful elsewhere and open container possession alone, and authorizes Imperial or judicial remedies against offending subordinate authorities.
50. Ch. 6 s. 25 and Ch. 7 s. 26, proposed Art. 25: secures gender recognition and civil marriage without sex, gender or orientation discrimination, equal civil standing of spouses, and an inclusive legal definition of gender without requiring exhaustive digital categories.
51. Ch. 7 ss. 27 and 28 and Ch. 8 s. 29: standardizes legislative structure, citations, dates, sponsor identification, enacting clauses and visible amendment markings, and expressly denies legal effect to sponsor statements.
52. Ch. 8 s. 33C: changes Imperial Civil Registry references to Civil Registry while retaining its civil status functions and the reproduced existing unilateral divorce and 1000 SL divorce fee rules.
53. Ch. 9 s. 34, proposed Art. 9 ss. 1 through 5: retains legislated or Imperial taxation and complete Tax Code entries, and adds at least seven full calendar days before any new or increased charge can accrue, including subordinate taxes, while permitting immediate relief.
54. Ch. 9 s. 34, proposed Art. 9 s. 6: permits State Religion maintenance taxation only on recorded voluntary civil membership, allows withdrawal to end future liability, and requires an enacted instrument specifying the tax's full operative terms and applicable exemptions.
55. Ch. 9 s. 34, proposed Art. 9 s. 7: allows religious authorities to propose tax plans without independently taxing, and requires lawful collection, earmarking and separate assessment, collection, transfer and expenditure accounts.