Legislative, Executive, and Judicial amendments.

Article 1: Definition clarifications.

1.1: Majority shall always mean 50%+1, this is considered null if a bill or amendment provides its own definition.

1.2: Harm shall always mean the following: Emotional damages, verbal abuse, harassment, physical harm, doxxing, or infringement of one's human rights without a trial.

1.3: For a member to be considered active, they must fulfill the following, contribute a comment, post, or announcement in any Teen Government server at least once every three weeks. They must complete the census.

1.4: Harm to society may only be considered an act that brings emotional damages, causes the previously stated definition of harm but to Teen Government society, or threatens society as a whole.

1.5: Society is to be considered a minimum >50% of the Teen Government citizen count. The count may only use the official census for its calculation.

1.6: An active council vote is defined as a vote done by a member who casts a vote in the voting process being currently done, only those votes shall be counted towards the voting process. This ignores any non voters during the process. This requires a 50%+1 participation for proceeding unless it is specifically said otherwise.

Article 2: Executive action.

2.1: A veto must occur within 48 hours of a bill's passing.

2.15: The time limit occurs from the moment the speaker officially announces the passing of a bill.

2.2: If a bill is not vetoed in the proper amount of time the bill cannot be vetoed in the future. And is considered passed. 

2.3: Every veto requires the president to do the following, create a post stating which bill was vetoed, make a sentence explaining their reasoning, and this must occur within the 48 hour time limit. Failure to abide by this shall lead to that veto being considered null, yet, it may be reattempted, may only be reattempted within the original 48 hour window.

2.4: Overriding vetos may only occur within 72 hours of the bills vetoing.

2.5: An overriding of a veto requires 2/3rds of all active council votes. 

2.5.5: Only active council votes shall be counted towards the ⅔ threshold.  
2.6: If no override post occurs the veto is permanently sustained, and cannot be removed, unless overturned by the judiciary on constitution or procedural reasoning.

2.6.5: Procedural reasoning requires a valid reason on how this may harm procedure, how this may limit the courts, and why it is needed. Failure to do so shall lead to failure.

2.7: Executive Orders require public posting, as well as a minimum of a sentence justification for the Executive Order.

2.8: An Executive Order may not override existing law, change the constitution, or forcefully pass a bill.

2.9: An Executive Order shall expire after 7 days, yet, council may vote on extending it, and may under a 50%+1 vote.

2.10: Emergency powers must state the nature of the emergency, and reasoning on why normal procedure would be insufficient or impossible. Minimum of one sentence.

2.11: Emergency powers only last 72 hours.

2.12: A president may request extension of the Emergency powers via a 50%+1 vote, yet, the extension may only be a maximum of 72 hours per instance. This may only be requested for a maximum of seven instances before council may not legally extend it any longer. This may be overridden by a unanimous active council vote in the circumstance the extension is needed.



2.13: Emergency powers cannot suspend elections, remove human rights, override the judicial authority, hinder the Ombudsman’s official investigations, or hinder council to the degree they cannot vote on bills.

Article 3: Legislative Process.

3.1: Bill life cycle, a bill shall always go through these stages, proposal, debate, vote, and passage. 

3.2: Proposals shall be done via a “Proposition to Council” flair being applied to the post involving the bill/amendment.

3.3: Debate period shall last 48 hours from the time of official proposal. This is considered ended once the link of the bill is posted for voting to occur. 

3.3.5: If a voting link is not posted within 48 hours, any council member may post it within an hour of the deadline. This shall be considered as the official voting link, and the process shall resume as normal.  
3.3.5.5: Under the circumstance no council member is available, the one hour rule is changed to the moment one is available.   
3.4: Voting period shall occur within 24 hours of the debate period ending. It may conclude early if the required participation threshold is met and rejection or approval has been legally met.

3.5: Minimum participation of 50%+1 of current council members is required for a bill to either be rejected or passed. Failure to reach this amount shall lead to a legislative failure. The time of the bill shall be extended, yet, an announcement of the council members who failed to vote shall be made public.

3.5.5: The extension shall be for 24 hours, yet, failure to achieve a 50%+1 vote of all current council members shall lead to an Emergency State.

3.6: A bill is only considered completely passed once the Speaker creates the official post.

3.7: If the Speaker fails to make the official post within 12 hours of the voting, any council member may issue the official post.



Article 4: Judicial

4.1: Judiciary have the authority to interpret the constitution, review laws, executive actions, resolve disputes regarding procedure, elections, and governance.

4.2: Judiciary only has authority under the circumstance it is brought to an official Teen Government court of law.

4.3: Judiciary has no legal authority out of official courts, yet, their decisions during court are considered ultimate, unless of the case of appeal.

4.4: The judiciary may declare laws unconstitutional, declare executive actions invalid, enforce procedural compliance.

4.5: Judiciary only has judicial power.

4.6: Case initiation may be brought to court by any member of the community, you do not need to fall under a legal citizen of Teen Government to take a case to court.

4.7: You may not take a trial to court without a legal reason, a crime being committed, or in an attempt of appeal.

4.8: The judiciary has the power to accept or reject cases, yet, failure to address the case, after 24 hours of its creation, shall lead to it being automatically accepted. To avoid troll requests cases may still be scrapped after this takes place by the Justices. Requires a simple majority.  
   
4.9: Rulings must be publicly posted, must state the decision made, must include reasoning (including constitutional text, procedural law, legally passed bill, or precedent).  
4.10: Judicial rulings are binding, and must be followed by the Executive Branch, the Legislature, and by every day citizens.

4.11: The judiciary may only overturn laws, vetoes, executive actions, or any future actions if a constitutional violation exists or it a procedural failure occurred.

4.12: Transparency requires all court proceedings to be public, with all reasoning, and messages. This must be done in the Teen Government court server with all messages easily found. 

4.13: A user may request a private trial, under this circumstance Transparency is considered null, yet, the outcome, evidence, and sentencing must be made public via an official post on TeenGovernment.

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