Chapter 208: Constitutional Monarchy

"Good! Let us work together to make the Far Eastern Kingdom prosperous and safe, and lead the world. Yang Wenli also happily delivered a blessing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Kingdom of the Far East is a multi-ethnic, pluralistic and open country, the country has no restrictions on religion, and the people have freedom of belief, but no sect is allowed, forcing or inducing the people to believe in religion, and the people also have the freedom not to believe in religion.

The people have the right to property freedom, and their legal property is protected by law, but at the beginning of the founding of the country, the state will set up an independent office of integrity, and government officials and wealthy businessmen must declare their legal property to the official office, which does not include land, because in the future, in our kingdom, only soldiers and nobles can be given 50 acres of land per person, in fact, the land is owned by the government, and individuals only have the right to use, but not ownership.

Only personal property that has been declared to the Independent Commission Against Corruption is truly legal property and is protected by the laws of the Kingdom.

If you fail to do so, the excess property found by the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Financial Planning Department will be regarded as an unknown source of property, and you must voluntarily provide proof that it is your own legal property, otherwise it will be confiscated, fined, and the government official will face the risk of dismissal and demotion.

You don't have to worry about the risk of being confiscated by the state if you have too much property, the kingdom supports wealth, the more property you have, the more glorious it is, and as long as it is legally acquired property, it will be protected by the law.

In addition, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has the obligation to protect people's property information, and shall not disclose the wealth information of any individual or unit.

The people have the freedom to live in security, and all people in the kingdom, including the lives of slaves, are protected by the law, and individuals and governments have no right to deprive the people of their right to live.

Everyone is equal before the law, and only the "courts," which are specialized in making legal judgments, have the right to deprive criminal suspects of their lives in accordance with the law.

The people have freedom of speech, except for spreading treasonous speech, deliberately spreading panic information, deliberately spreading false information for personal gain, naming or concealing slander others, and damaging the reputation of others.

The above three articles are the most basic rights and freedoms of the people, and are strictly protected by the laws of the kingdom.

I just mentioned the law everywhere, and the law has it in every country, but the name is different, such as the Ming Dynasty Da Ming Law.

The laws of the kingdom must be created on their own, and the organ that makes the laws is the House of Lords, also known as the Council of Nobles.

Members of the House of Lords must be knights who have made outstanding contributions to the Kingdom and have been canonized by me personally, and there are six ranks: duke, prince, earl, son, male, and Lord of Honor.

For this reason, the title of the kingdom is very valuable and cannot be obtained by those who are not outstanding contributors.

However, knighthoods are not limited to government officials, military generals, merchants, factory owners, mine owners, and people from all walks of life, as long as they have made outstanding contributions to the country, they may receive knighthoods.

Laws are sacrosanct, so the parliament that makes them is the highest authority in the kingdom. Parliament has the power to make laws and supervise government agencies.

A member of parliament has the power to challenge a policy or an official, and if more than half of the members of parliament support it, the policy will be banned and the official will be dismissed.

The parliament has the right to examine the finances of the government and the armed forces, and the government organs and the military organs must unconditionally cooperate and give reasonable explanations, otherwise the parliament has the power to freeze the finances.

In view of the fact that the kingdom was first established and no one had made a significant contribution to the kingdom, I decided to ornate a few provisional lords, to enter the Parliament, and to carry out the work, and that it was imperative that laws be made.

The first is the Constitution, which is the basic law and the basis of all laws, and all laws must not contradict the Constitution, otherwise they will be deemed invalid.

The basis of the Constitution is to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, that all people are equal before the law, and that the people have the three most basic freedoms and rights.

I have almost already spoken, and on this basis, I will formulate it, report it to me for review, print it, and then announce it to the public and publicize it.

Under the Constitution are criminal law, civil law, commercial law, economic law, tax law, education law, military law, national security law, and so on.

In order to ensure the impartiality of justice, one of the organs that enforce the law, the courts, I have decided to be independent of the government and not subject to government control, but to be subject to the supervision of the Parliament, which has the power to remove the justices if approved by two-thirds of the members.

In addition, the court is not subject to the control of any government agency or individual, it is independent of the government, it has the same status as the government, the court has the power to judge government officials, except for the members of the parliament, who have violated the law and must report to me for examination, I remove the title of the member of parliament, and the parliament can only sentence after he has been disqualified as a member.

The supreme head of the Court is the Chancellor, who, once established, may serve for life if there is no stain.

The legislator is elected every five years, and can be re-elected for a maximum of three consecutive terms, and if he loses his membership as a member, his title remains unchanged, and he still enjoys the preferential treatment given by the state.

The highest organ of government authority is the Council of Political Affairs, which has a number of members to jointly negotiate and manage all administrative affairs of the State.

The members shall be an odd number, with at least three or more members, and all major matters shall be voted on by a show of hands, and the principle of minority obeying the majority shall be elected.

Members may concurrently hold other government positions, and most of them are currently required to do so.

The Committee shall establish a Secretary-General, whose function shall be to convene meetings, and other members may propose to the Secretary-General to convene the Committee, and the Secretary-General shall not resign.

Under the jurisdiction of the Political Affairs Committee, there are departments and agencies of the police, education, agriculture, finance, foreign affairs, justice, industry, construction, science and technology, culture, auditing, commerce, customs, transportation, publicity, central bank, and national security.

The Administrative Affairs Committee also directly leads the government units at the lower levels, and at present the number of people and localities is too small to be set up for the time being, and the Government Affairs Yuan is directly responsible for the administrative affairs of the whole country.

The Police Division is the national violence law enforcement unit, and its responsibilities are to maintain public order and safety, protect the lives and property of legitimate citizens, combat crime, maintain traffic order, and maintain the safety and order of major events.

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Yang Wenli almost copied the powers and responsibilities of modern government functional departments and carefully explained them to everyone.

The ten traitor documents under his command were recorded word for word as a clerk, and they would be copied and distributed to the relevant personnel afterwards.

In fact, he learned from Japan's constitutional monarchy during the Meiji Restoration, on the basis of the monarchy's dictatorship, to ensure the power of government agencies to the greatest extent, and at the same time to free himself from complicated government affairs.

A person's energy is limited, he is different from other monarchs, he is a reborn, he can't be like other monarchs, holding court meetings every day, worrying about the country's big and small things, he will spend a large part of his energy on scientific research, in addition, he has to manage military affairs, so he adopts this relatively advanced constitutional monarchy......