364 files · merged from two prior model constitutions · new Parts on government eligibility testing, animal & plant rights, low-violence policy, clean cities, hill/mountain law, media integrity, and society & culture.
This edition was co-authored by Lion (concept, philosophy, and the founding requirements: low violence, education-gated government with psychological and physical testing, universal animal and plant protection with country-specific customary law, clean-cities standards, media anti-corruption law) and Claude (structuring, legal drafting, and merging the source material below into one coherent text).
- Structure and drafting style — inherited from the original World Constitution teaching edition (three-level Article numbering, Design Notes explaining the reasoning behind every section, cross-references, DEFINITIONS.md/GLOSSARY.md conventions).
- Legal substance for corruption and the penal code — the Integrity Branch (Part 37) and the extended penal code (Part 38) are drawn from the World Constitution v1.0 corpus, which was offered under CC BY 4.0 for exactly this kind of reuse and adaptation.
- Six entirely new Parts (31–36), written fresh for this edition, carrying Lion's specific requirements:
- Part 31 — Government Eligibility: no one governs — minister, judge, or royal heir — without clearing an education requirement, an independent psychological fitness test, and a physical fitness standard, re-applied throughout their career.
- Part 32 — Animal and Plant Rights: a universal welfare floor for animals and ecosystems, with country-specific customary law preserved for meat consumption and diet above that floor.
- Part 33 — Hills, Mountains and Geography: dedicated terrain-specific law for highland regions, often neglected in real-world constitutions.
- Part 34 — Low Violence and Public Safety: a constitutional, metric-driven commitment to reducing violence, prevention-first, binding on the state's own use of force as much as on citizens.
- Part 35 — Clean Cities and Sanitation: a "Japan model" cleanliness standard, sequenced so government infrastructure duties come before citizen enforcement.
- Part 36 — Media Integrity: press freedom paired with ownership transparency and corruption penalties, narrowly targeted at deliberate manipulation rather than general speech.
- Part 42 — Society and Culture Extended: 14 further topics not covered by either source project — family policy, culture and the arts, media pluralism, sport, religion and the state, integration, rural development, oceans, circular economy, civil society, youth policy, and demographics.
This edition keeps a hereditary Crown as a ceremonial, unifying Head of State (Part 04, Part 31.6) — but no member of the Royal Family may hold an actual governing office without passing the same eligibility gates as any other citizen (Part 31). This was the central design tension in Lion's brief — a king, but no unearned power — and it is the throughline of the whole edition.
- This is model law for a fictional unified state, not a real legal instrument, legal advice, or a claim that world government is achievable or desirable — that is a separate political question this document does not resolve.
- Parts 37–41 were copied and lightly adapted from the source v1.0 corpus rather than rewritten from scratch; they are flagged in each folder as extended/inherited material.
- Parts 00–30 are inherited from the teaching-edition source and describe a single fictional "Republic" recast here as the governed state under the Crown.
- Six Parts (31–36) are original to this edition.
00–30— Foundation, rights, government structure, law (inherited structure)31— Government Eligibility (new)32— Animal and Plant Rights (new)33— Hills, Mountains and Geography (new)34— Low Violence and Public Safety (new)35— Clean Cities and Sanitation (new)36— Media Integrity (new)37— Integrity Branch (anti-corruption, adapted from v1.0)38— Penal Code Extended (adapted from v1.0)39— Security and International Extended (adapted from v1.0)40— Technology and Future Extended (adapted from v1.0)41— Economic Order Extended (adapted from v1.0)42— Society and Culture Extended (new)annexes/,research/— indexes and comparative notes (inherited)
These can be revised on request:
- The Crown is ceremonial with limited reserve powers, not an executive monarchy (Part 04, 31.6).
- The death penalty is abolished (consistent with the low-violence policy in Part 34); see
38-penal-code-extended/abolition-of-death-penalty.md. - Regions keep local courts for family and minor matters under one shared core criminal code (Part 15/16), consistent with the customary-law approach taken for diet in Part 32.4.