## Statutory Law 1. **Federation Military Code (2111)** 1. **Section 10.5:** Upon the issuing of pay, the Earth Defense Force will match the contribution of any member to the pension 1:1 up to 15,000Cr into the pension each year. From 15,001-30,000cr, it will be matched at a rate of 2 credits from the EDF member will receive 1 credit from the EDF. Above 30,000 the EDF will make no contribution. 1. **Section 10.5.1:** Pensions of those who have joined the Earth Defense Forces by transferring from a previously established national defense force, shall be able to fully transfer and draw upon their pension as previous established. 2. **Section 12.13:** If the pensioning EDF member is deceased, The legal spouse and recognized legal descendants of an EDF member are entitled to draw upon the EDF members pension funds so long as they exist. 1. **Section 12.13.1:** If the EDF member dies during active service, the EDF will max out the possible pension contribution. 2. **Section 12.13.2:** The maximum amount drawn in a month is set by the EDF member. 3. **Section 12.13.3:** If no claimants to the pension appear within 10 years of the EDF members death, the EDF is able to close the pension account and claim the funds for itself. - **First Federation's Bill of Rights (2115)** - **3.2:** "Citizens of the United Federation of Earth and citizens of the Nations of Earth recognized by the Federation have the right to express themselves however they see fit, so long as their expressions are composed of statements which the utterer confidently believes to be true." - **Charter of the Sovereignty of Nyamn**, - **33.14.2:** This section states that only the citizens of the Sovereignty of Nyman may run for the political offices of the Sovereignty of Nyman. - **Section 35:** This section explains the path for gaining citizenship in the Sovereignty of Nyman, specifying that to gain citizenship one must reside in the sovereignty for a continuous 50 years, have work and social connections, including an employer and peers from outside of work who will vouch for the person under consideration, be clear of a criminal record, and be seen by the community of the Sovereignty as a fitting member. - - **Second Federation's Bill of Rights (4500)** - **2.1:** "All Rights listed herein are created within and confined by the limits of the laws of the Sovereignties in which an individual in question is subject of. If there is conflict between the law of the Sovereignty and the law of the Federation, the sovereignty will triumph unless the law is the creation of the House of Lords, which created the boundaries in which the Sovereignties operate." - **3.1:** "All soverignties must insure their subjects have a method of acquiring those things which are necessary to sustain human life: food, water, air and sleep." - **3.2:** "Sovereignties must offer their subjects a means of protecting themselves from violent threat, so long as the threat does not come from an agent of the Sovereignty, its master, or the Federation via the Senate." - **3.5:** "The subjects of all Sovereignties of the Federation are free and empowered to express themselves in any which not traitors to their Sovereign or the Federation, even if the expression is bordering on slanderous or is offensive to those in power, as has been the traditional and natural right of Federation citizens since before the First Federation." - **3.8:** "Sovereignties must have a method of ensuring the inalienable Rights proscribed by this law are upheld within the Sovereignty; those rights which are deemed alienable, or partible must be restricted in line with the terms of this law." - **Third Federation's First Bill of Rights (13683)** - **3.0:** "These Rights apply to all All Citizens of the Sovereignty of The United Federation of Earth" - **3.1:** "All Citizens of the Sovereignty of The United Federation of Earth ctizens have a right to seek legal recourse for wrongs" - **3.2**: "Citizens of the Sovereignty of The United Federation of Earth have a right to the safety of their person" - **3.2.1:** "if it is necessary for a citizen to protect themselves by force, so long as the citizen is not found to be the aggressor in a court of law, the citizen has the right to defend themselves with force, including weapons, if necessary.? - **3.3:** "All Citizens of the Sovereignty of The United Federation of Earth have the Right to Expression their opinion on the present state of the Sovereignty and the things within it, so long as it does not rise to the level of high treason, without fear of state retribution" - **Third Federation's Second Bill of Rights (27363)** - **3.3:** "The Government of the Sovereignty of the United Federation of Earth shall make no law which infringes on its citizens right's to seek employment under terms acceptable to them, so long as those terms do not violate the citizens other rights." - **3.6:** "The Government of the Sovereignty of the United Federation of Earth shall make no law which infringes on its citizens right's to express themselves in whatever manner they see fit, using whatever means they see fit." - **The House of Business Corporate Fleet Captaincy Agreement Act** 29782 - **The House of Business' Business Create Corporate Ship Agents Act** 30428 - **Rights of Citizens of the United Federation of Earth (39241)**, - **4.2:** This section outlines the legal requirements for Sovereignties to offer a pathway for Citizens of the Federation to immigrate. - 5.1: This section specifies that Federation Citizens have the Fundamental right to Social Welfare, meaning all Federation Citizens must have access to the benefits of the Sovereignty in which they live, and the Federation in General. - **5.2**: This section specifies that Federation Citizens have the Fundamental right to Food. - **5.3:** This section outlines the legal Right of Federation Citizens that providing no other *valid* impingements stand in the way, if a democratic office exists in a Sovereignty Federation Citizens must be allowed to run for it. - **Federation Employment Act (48392)** - **2.2:** "A Federation Employee may not be unfairly punished, harassed, harmed, or otherwise targeted by their employer or those designated the superiors of the employee by the employer." - **2.4:** "Federation Employee's retain the right to engage in collective bargaining in the majority of industries unless suggested by the Senate on advice of the House's of Commons or Business." - **4.9:** "An employment contract is invalid if it would call on signatories to violate their statutory, precedential, and historical rights." - **House of Business Company Rights Act (53121)** - **2.5:** "A company legally residing with Federation territory retains the right to create employment contracts which pay on the basis of work done in lieu of hours worked." - **3.2:** "A Federation Company operating a work-living arrangement retains the right to charge employees for extra services than those agreed to in the employee's work contract." - **Fourth Federation's First Bill of Rights (58924)** - **4.4:** "Neither Parliament nor Lords the United Federation of Earth shall enact any law which abrogates their citizens' Freedom of Speech, nor of the Press, nor of peaceful gathering, or of petitioning their Government for the fixing of wrongs." - **Fourth Federation's Second Bill of Rights (66201)** - **5.2:** "The following rights are not to be abrogated by any Government which is under the jurisdiction of the D.A.M. of the United Federation of Earth, or someone under them: the Right to Free Thought, the Right to free belief, the Right to free opinion and free expression, including the Right to the freedom of the press and other media of communication from governmental interference." - **[[An Act Specifying Available Manners of Maintain the Food Supply during Work Shut Downs (68352)]]** - **5.2:** This section establishes that Corporate Entities within the Federation have do not have to give employee's food if the employee's are paid enough to buy the food themselves at fair market rates. - **5.5:** "Because the Federation is so wealth and abundance, all people residing with in the Federation have the right to enough food each day to sustain their themselves." - **Fourth Federation's Third Bill of Rights A.K.K 'The Victims Bill of Rights' (81601)** - **5.7**: "Citizens of the Federation have a Right to avoiding and reducing harm or offense from others in thought, or corporal form." - **5.8**: "Citizens of the Federation have a Right to express themselves" - **5.8.1**: "however to prevent conflict with the preceding Right to No Harm, this Right can be limited to requiring adequate protections be taken by the speaker to mask their identity" - **5.8.2** "If adequate protection is not taken, those citizens who's right to not be harmed or offended in thought or person have a right to take action to expression their own displeasure, whether through equally if not greater hurtful rhetoric or for the purposes of social cohesion mob violence." - **Fifth Federation's Bill of Rights (83370)** - **2.1**: "Anyone within a Federation Sovereignty has the Right to free Expression, so long a the expression is honestly believed true by its speaker, and does not rise to the level of slander, libel, defamation, a call to direction threat or action of physical violence, high treason, or other such speech which truly and greatly threatens the common good of the Federation." - **An Act of the House of Business Regarding Explicit Freedoms (83371)** - **1.1:** "The following rights are not to be abrogated by any member of this House or its underlings which are under the jurisdiction of the D.A.M. of the United Federation of Earth, or in one of their Dominions: the Right to Free Thought, the Right to free belief, the Right to free opinion and free expression, including the Right to the freedom of the press and other media of communication from governmental interference."