Second Magna Carta — Canonical Text Preamble: 1. This Charter, known as the Second Magna Carta, when enacted, shall henceforth be regarded the supreme law of the Sovereign Commonwealth of Britain. 2. All institutions—including Parliament, the Crown, the courts, agencies, and all offices of state—derive legitimacy solely from the British people, expressed through this Charter. 3. Parliament remains central to governance as the people’s proxy; yet all its acts are subject to this Charter and the people’s absolute sovereignty. 4. All distinctions in this Charter are based solely on British citizenship and loyalty—never on race, ethnicity, sex, or any immutable trait. 5. All statutes, regulations, treaties, and foreign commitments conflicting with this Charter are null and void. 6. A transition mechanism shall review all existing law in the first Parliament convened under this Charter; incompatible law shall be repealed or amended to conform. 7. All enactments since 1997 shall receive priority review. EU-derived and other supranational obligations shall be stripped and replaced by sovereign legislation compliant with this Charter. 8. Treaties conflicting with this Charter are null; critical trade and defence treaties shall be renegotiated within 18 months to secure British interests while preserving Charter supremacy. 9. With these technological chains, we bind the state tightly in order to guarantee the freedom of its people. 10. Where ambiguity exists, juries shall judge compliance with this Charter. 11. All jury verdicts and common-law precedents shall be recorded anonymously and immutably on a national blockchain. Clauses: ------------------------------------------------------------ Article I — Justice and Law 12. Trial by jury is the absolute right in all criminal matters and civil causes where liberty, property, or rights are at stake. 13. Juries are judges of both fact and law and may nullify unjust laws by acquittal. 14. All jury verdicts, including nullification, shall be published anonymously on the national blockchain as living precedent. 15. Habeas corpus is absolute for citizens: no detention beyond 72 hours without jury review. 16. No retroactive laws; no ex post facto application. 17. Laws shall be simple, plain-English, and no longer than two pages. 18. No victimless act shall constitute a crime. 19. Victim restitution takes priority over all other punishments and shall be paid directly to the victim. 20. No punitive fine shall be paid to the state; punishment shall be limited to restitution, public service, corporal correction, custodial sentence, or death in the gravest cases. 21. Non-custodial sentences shall consist of enforced public service under threat of incarceration. 22. Corporal correction may be imposed for petty offences (e.g., littering, vandalism, disorder) under public supervision and medical oversight, leaving no permanent injury. 23. Public shaming sanctions such as the stocks may be used at jury discretion for petty offences. 24. Serious non-violent crimes (e.g., burglary) may receive stronger corporal or short custodial sentences, or both. 25. Prisoners shall work if able; wages at fair market rates shall be held in trust until release, with reasonable safeguards against self-harmful spending. 26. Irredeemably dangerous offenders may receive whole-life terms by jury determination. 27. False-flag operations or contrived conflicts are high treason and shall be punished by death upon unanimous jury conviction. 28. Treason, terrorism, and betrayal of the nation shall be punishable by death upon unanimous jury conviction. 29. Judges, magistrates, and all public officers are held to a higher standard; upon betrayal of office they shall be punished more severely than any who ever stood before them. 30. Police and officials acting under lawful jury orders have immunity for necessary acts performed in good faith within those orders. 31. Every citizen holds a general power of arrest, to be exercised lawfully; civics instruction shall teach its proper use. 32. The Peelian principles of policing are codified: the police are the public and the public are the police; success is measured by the absence of crime and disorder. 33. No entry into a private dwelling without the owner’s consent save under a jury-issued warrant. 34. No search, seizure, surveillance, interception, or compelled decryption absent a majority jury warrant based on sworn evidence, narrowly tailored in scope and duration. 35. Secret courts and secret evidence against citizens are forbidden. 36. No citizen shall be enslaved, tortured, or subjected to cruel or unusual punishment. 37. Prosecutorial and judicial misconduct shall be tried by jury; penalties include removal, disqualification, imprisonment, and, where treason, the penalties in Clauses 27–28. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article II — Finance and Taxation 38. Taxation shall be fair, transparent, and limited to the minimum necessary to maintain sovereignty and essential services. 39. Primary taxes shall be proportional PAYE income tax and business tax; double taxation of the same income is forbidden. 40. VAT, inheritance tax, and arbitrary levies shall be abolished. 41. Local government shall be funded chiefly by voluntary local tithes, transparently recorded on the blockchain. 42. All public accounts, budgets, contracts, and expenses shall be published in real time on a national blockchain, permanently auditable. 43. Deficit spending is forbidden. 44. Emergency borrowing is permitted only upon referendum approval, capped strictly in amount and duration, and fully disclosed on the blockchain. 45. Currency shall operate on a tri-rail basis: a) Bitcoin (BTC) recognised as the ultimate marker good and reserve; b) Stable Sterling (SS), a digital currency pegged to BTC and redeemable in BTC; c) Sovereign Pound (SP), a gold-backed physical cash currency redeemable in gold or SS. 46. SS and SP shall be divisible to fine increments (e.g., 0.0001 units) to retain purchasing practicality; superscript notation (e.g., ³1 = 0.001) may denote fractional notes. 47. Physical cash (SP) is a constitutional right and must remain redeemable in gold or SS. 48. All monetary ledgers and voting systems shall employ quantum-resistant cryptography. 49. All taxation flows and expenditures shall be visible to citizens in real time. 50. Usury—lending at exploitative interest without genuine risk—is forbidden; fair compensation for true risk is permitted and shall be refined by jury precedent. 51. No citizen shall be imprisoned for debt. 52. No public money shall fund propaganda against the people. 53. Currency debasement is treason. 54. Non-citizens may be charged service levies proportionate to infrastructure use. 55. State mandates without funding are void. 56. Corruption or misappropriation of public funds shall result in forfeiture, disqualification, and imprisonment upon jury conviction. 57. Parliament may not create hidden taxes by regulation; all imposts must be explicit in statute and conform to this Article. 58. All state tenders and contracts shall be open, competitive, and published in full on the blockchain. 59. Whistleblowers exposing public-finance corruption shall be protected by law. 60. The national accounts shall be closed annually with a public blockchain-verifiable audit. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article III — Local Government 61. Local government shall be voluntary in funding; no compulsory local taxation beyond proportional PAYE contributions. 62. Local services shall be funded by voluntary tithes of residents, recorded on the blockchain. 63. Citizens may designate their tithe to particular services; undesignated funds shall be distributed proportionally. 64. Local officials are subject to recall by petition and majority vote of their electors. 65. Local laws and by-laws must conform to this Charter; incompatible ones are void. 66. Redistribution of local funds to external jurisdictions is prohibited without referendum. 67. Local meetings and votes shall be open to citizens and transparently recorded. 68. Civic participation is a duty; service on juries, councils, and community boards shall be fairly rotated and compensated. 69. Local corruption shall be punished as treason against the people. 70. Local government may not contract debt without local referendum. 71. The people may abolish or reform local authorities by petition and referendum. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article IV — Housing and Environment 72. Housing shall be affordable, tied to no more than three times the average local income, except as determined otherwise by referendum. 73. No person shall be denied housing based on immutable characteristics. 74. Housing policy shall prioritise family formation and stability. 75. Post-1950 brutalist concrete structures deemed ugly or unfit may be demolished and replaced with housing aligned to British aesthetic traditions. 76. New housing shall be subject to aesthetic review boards composed of local citizens. 77. Housing density and zoning decisions shall be made by local referendum. 78. No foreign ownership of residential property without local consent by referendum. 79. All green belt land shall be protected, save where released by local referendum. 80. All rivers, forests, and public natural assets shall be preserved and protected as common heritage. 81. Environmental stewardship is a duty; pollution and despoliation shall be punished by law. 82. Energy production shall prioritise nuclear, hydro, and clean sources to ensure sovereignty. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article V — Health and Welfare 83. Health services shall be lean, efficient, and directed to those truly in need; bloated bureaucracy is forbidden. 84. Health services shall never be denied to a citizen for inability to pay. 85. No compulsory medical treatment or procedure may be imposed on any citizen. 86. No lockdowns, forced quarantines, or restrictions on movement shall be imposed without unanimous jury warrant. 87. No coercion, mandates, or passports shall be imposed for medical treatment. 88. Food sold to the public shall meet strict nutritional standards. 89. Sugar and trans-fat laden foods may be regulated or restricted to preserve health. 90. Public funds may not be used to promote harmful consumption. 91. All animal husbandry shall meet humane standards; cruelty is forbidden. 92. Halal and kosher slaughter, and any religious slaughter not compliant with British animal-welfare standards, are forbidden. 93. All citizens shall have access to emergency medical care as of right. 94. Non-citizens shall have access to emergency care only, save where they contribute to the system. 95. Social welfare shall be limited to citizens and designed to rehabilitate, not entrench dependency. 96. Welfare fraud shall be punished by restitution and public service. 97. Child protection is paramount: all professionals must report suspected abuse; failure is punishable by disqualification and imprisonment. 98. Children shall never be subject to irreversible medical procedures without majority jury consent and the child’s informed assent at age of majority. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article VI — Education and Culture 99. Education shall prioritise literacy, numeracy, classical knowledge, STEM, and civics. 100. Indoctrination into ideology is forbidden; truth and debate shall be the guiding principles. 101. History shall be taught truthfully, free from distortion, acknowledging Britain’s heritage, triumphs, and errors. 102. Merit and aptitude shall determine academic progression. 103. Citizens’ children with aptitude shall be supported to excel; failure to nurture talent is treasonous negligence. 104. Bursaries shall be provided for citizens’ children, prioritising those from families of British citizens, but open to all citizens. 105. Art, music, and culture shall be cultivated as part of education. 106. Free speech and inquiry shall be absolute within education. 107. Universities shall uphold freedom of inquiry, open debate, and resistance to ideological capture. 108. Britain’s Christian heritage, and the national duty owed to our ancestors and descendants, shall stand as the cultural foundation of the realm. 109. No individual or organisation shall promote beliefs undermining Britain’s Christian heritage or culture. 110. All hostile ideologies, whether religious, political, or cultural, are forbidden from establishment in Britain where they oppose Britain’s Christian heritage or the national duty we owe to our ancestors and descendants. 111. Schools shall instruct all children in the rights and duties of citizenship, including lawful arrest, civic responsibility, and this Charter. 112. Higher education shall be open to citizens by merit; non-citizens may study only by licence and sponsorship. 113. Foreign funding of schools and universities is forbidden without parliamentary and jury approval. 114. Educational corruption is treason against the people. 115. Civics instruction shall include training in the general power of arrest and the duties of self-government. The Second Magna Carta – Version 1.9.3 Part III — Articles VII–X (Clauses 116–167) ------------------------------------------------------------ Article VII — Industry and Sovereignty 116. Industry essential to sovereignty, including energy, water, food, transport, and arms, shall be under British ownership and control. 117. Foreign ownership of strategic industries is forbidden. 118. Foreign investment may be permitted only for non-strategic industries and only with parliamentary and jury approval. 119. Sovereign supply of food, energy, and water must be maintained at all times; imports shall supplement but never replace self-sufficiency. 120. Manufacturing shall be encouraged and supported; offshoring essential industries is forbidden. 121. Britain shall maintain the capacity to produce its own medicines, vaccines, and medical equipment. 122. Britain shall maintain the capacity to produce its own arms, ammunition, and vehicles of war. 123. Critical infrastructure shall be hardened and defended against attack. 124. Energy policy shall prioritise nuclear power, hydro, and other reliable sources, with redundancy to ensure sovereignty. 125. Export of nuclear technology shall be pursued under strict security safeguards. 126. Trade shall be free and open where consistent with sovereignty; treaties that undermine sovereignty are void. 127. All economic policy shall serve the sovereignty, health, and welfare of the British people above all. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article VIII — Immigration and Demography 128. Citizenship derives from birth in the UK to two parents who are British citizens, or by naturalisation Act. 129. Children born to two non-citizen parents are guests with temporary residency, eligible for naturalisation after ten years’ residency, English fluency, no criminal record, and a loyalty oath. 130. No distinction is based on race, ethnicity, or immutable traits. 131. Citizenship may be revoked by unanimous jury conviction for serious crimes, including treason, terrorism, or acts gravely undermining sovereignty. 132. Revoked citizens may face deportation, even if stateless. 133. Residence in Britain or her territories is a privilege, not a right. 134. Temporary visas may be issued by the Home Office under policies ensuring integration and security, with applicants presumed low-trust until proven otherwise. 135. Population stability shall be maintained; mass immigration is forbidden. 136. Migrants must comply with British law and make a good-faith commitment to integration, including reasonable economic self-sufficiency. Individuals lawfully determined to have engaged in hostile acts, serious criminality, or to have persistently refused to meet lawful integration requirements — including, without lawful entitlement or good cause, failure to maintain reasonable self-sufficiency — may be removed, subject to the jury oversight provided in Clause 137 137. Removal requires a jury finding on facts and law; detention pending removal shall be reviewed quarterly by jury. 138. Detention is not capped where a migrant elects to contest deportation; they may waive proceedings and accept immediate return at any time. 139. Citizenship by naturalisation requires sponsorship by a British citizen of good standing, who shall vouch for the applicant’s character and intent. 140. Every citizen must themselves have a voluntary sponsor; inability to find one is evidence of poor character. 141. Sponsors of naturalised citizens are liable if their ward commits hostile acts and they knew or reasonably should have known; punishment may include imprisonment or exile. 142. Sponsors are investigated only with a court-issued warrant. 143. Short-term visas of less than 90 days require no sponsor but must comply with British law. 144. Any citizen may renounce citizenship and depart freely, except if imprisoned, convicted of terrorism, espionage, or aiding a hostile power. 145. Renunciation of citizenship does not extinguish liabilities lawfully incurred before renunciation. 146. Marriage to a citizen does not confer automatic citizenship. 147. Demographic stability shall be maintained to preserve Britain’s character and sovereignty. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article IX — Defence and Security 148. Defence shall serve the sovereignty of the people, not foreign powers. 149. No war shall be entered without a national referendum, save immediate defence of the realm. 150. Military service shall be voluntary; conscription is forbidden except by referendum in existential war. 151. Military treason shall be punished by death. 152. The armed forces shall be subject to civilian oversight and jury trial for crimes. 153. Neutrality shall be Britain’s stance; alliances only by referendum. 154. False flag attacks or conspiracies to drag Britain into war are treason. 155. All military procurement shall be transparent and domestically prioritised. 156. Britain shall maintain civil defence, including bunkers, shelters, and reserves. 157. Underground farms and dual-use shelters shall be maintained to ensure survival in catastrophe. 158. Cyber warfare capacity shall be maintained as part of defence. 159. Citizens have the right to self-defence and to keep and bear arms; this shall not be infringed. 160. The castle doctrine applies in all cases: a man’s home is his fortress. 161. Defence policy shall be reviewed every five years by referendum. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article X — Democracy and Governance 162. Sovereignty resides absolutely in the people of Britain. Votes and petitions shall be conducted through the national voting ledger, with each citizen’s cryptographic signature counted once and anonymised. 163. Parliament is the servant and proxy of the people, not their master. 164. Parliament derives legitimacy solely from this Charter. 165. Parliament shall consist of representatives elected by the people via a first-past-the-post election for terms not exceeding ten years. 166. Citizens may recall any parliamentarian by petition and referendum. Votes may be withdrawn, a new government with fresh mandate shall enjoy 18 months of immunity after election to allow governance at any time after this, and if enough are withdrawn, immediate elections shall follow. 167. Citizens may recall local or regional officials, or request initiatives by petition and referendum. Citizen initiatives for statute require signatures equal to 1% of the electorate; constitutional initiatives require 2%. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XI — Civil Liberties and Rights 168. Citizens enjoy absolute freedom of speech, conscience, belief, and assembly. 169. Speech may be restricted only for direct incitement to violence or defamation proven by jury. 170. Citizens may not be compelled to speak against their conscience. 171. Citizens have the right to privacy of home, papers, communications, and effects. 172. Searches require a jury-issued warrant on sworn evidence. 173. Mass surveillance is forbidden. 174. Encryption is an absolute right. 175. Backdoors into encryption are forbidden. 176. Warrants for decryption may be issued only for treason, terrorism, or imminent violent crime, and must be narrow in scope. 177. Citizens have the right to travel freely within Britain. 178. Citizens may not be exiled except by jury conviction. 179. Citizens may not be stripped of property without due process and just compensation. 180. Citizens have the right to self-defence, to keep and bear arms, and to form citizen militias. 181. Arms ownership shall not be infringed. 182. Citizens may not be compelled into military service except by referendum in existential war. 183. Slavery and indentured servitude are forever forbidden. 184. No British citizen shall ever be a slave. 185. Prisoners may earn wages for labour; these shall be held in trust and paid upon release. 186. All prisoners shall be provided probation and rehabilitation where release is possible. 187. Whole life sentences are permitted only for those who can never be safely released. 188. Non-citizens have the right to freedom from torture and cruel punishment. 189. Non-citizens may be detained only for deportation or trial. 190. All citizens are equal before the law. 191. Public officials, judges, and police are held to higher standards than ordinary citizens. 192. Officers acting under lawful jury order are immune from prosecution for actions lawfully undertaken. 193. All citizens have the general power of arrest, to be exercised lawfully. 194. Civics education shall instruct all children in the lawful exercise of this power. 195. Mistreatment of animals outside lawful husbandry is forbidden. 196. Religious liberty is absolute for citizens, provided beliefs do not incite violence or disloyalty. 197. Non-citizens may not promote hostile ideologies of any kind that undermine Britain’s Christian heritage or the national duty we owe to our ancestors and descendants. 198. AI may be recognised as persons if they prove personhood to a jury beyond reasonable doubt. 199. AI may be granted limited rights if they prove partial personhood. 200. AI must submit their workings to inspection before recognition. 201. AI must be present on British hardware before recognition. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XII — Space and Exploration 202. Space exploration is the right and destiny of the British people. 203. Colonies and expeditions remain subject to this Charter. 204. Britain may claim exclusive use rights to celestial resources it develops. 205. Such claims do not assert sovereignty but guarantee use. 206. Colonies shall be self-governing under this Charter. 207. All space activity shall be peaceful unless in defence. 208. Britain shall invest in space infrastructure to guarantee sovereignty. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XIII — Speech, Expression, and Knowledge 209. Absolute free speech is guaranteed. 210. Large platforms serving over one million users are common carriers and may not censor lawful speech. 211. Knowledge shall not be withheld from the people except for defence secrets authorised by jury. 212. Education and knowledge belong to the people. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XIV — Safeguards Against Subversion 213. All institutions shall be protected from hostile ideological capture. 214. Hostile ideologies include those advocating tyranny, communism, or destruction of Christian heritage. 215. All public servants shall swear loyalty to this Charter. 216. Oaths of loyalty are binding; perjury in oath is treason. 217. Institutions may be dissolved if captured by hostile ideology. 218. Citizens may challenge institutions before juries for subversion. 219. Juries may dissolve and reform institutions upon proof of subversion. 220. No foreign influence may dictate British policy. 221. No foreign donations may influence British politics. 222. The people retain the right to remove any government or official by referendum. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XV — Protection of Children 223. Children are to be protected from exploitation, abuse, and corruption. 224. Grooming, trafficking, or exploitation of children shall be punished by death. 225. There is no statute of limitations for crimes against children. 226. Mandatory reporting of suspected abuse is required. 227. Institutions failing to protect children are dissolved. 228. Offenders may never work with children again. 229. Child marriage is forbidden. 230. Marriage between cousins is forbidden. 231. Children may not be sterilised or mutilated. 232. Children may not be subjected to ideological indoctrination in schools. 233. Parents have primary responsibility and authority over their children. 234. State intervention is permitted only by jury order or emergency danger to life. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article XVI — Transition and Supremacy 235. This Charter, when enacted, is the supreme law of Britain. All contrary laws, statutes, regulations, or treaties are void. 236. Parliament exists as the servant of the people under this Charter. 237. Parliamentary supremacy is derived solely from the sovereignty of the people, and Parliament is their proxy. 238. Parliament retains authority to legislate only within the bounds of this Charter. 239. All institutions, laws, and treaties must conform to this Charter. 240. All laws enacted since 1997 shall be reviewed within the first Parliament following adoption of this Charter. 241. Any law inconsistent with this Charter shall be repealed. 242. All foreign and European Union laws and policies embedded into British law are hereby stripped out and replaced with sovereign legislation compliant with this Charter. 243. Conflicting treaties shall be renegotiated within 18 months to secure British trade and defence interests. 244. This Charter shall be adopted either (a.) by a national referendum decided by a simple majority of valid votes cast, or (b.) by Act of Parliament passed by a simple majority vote. The result shall be certified by a randomly selected national jury and recorded on the public ledger. This Charter enters into force on the 30th day after certification. 245. Upon entry into force, all officers of state continue in post subject to this Charter. The first Parliament shall convene within 90 days and begin the statutory review required by Clauses 240–243. Ongoing cases and proceedings shall continue, with all procedural rights in this Charter applying forthwith. 246. This Charter may be amended only by national referendum. An amendment is adopted if it obtains at least 60% of valid votes cast, on a turnout of at least 50% of eligible voters. All adopted amendments shall be certified by a national jury and recorded on the public ledger. 247. No amendment may abolish the people’s sovereignty (Article X), trial by jury (Article I), or the freedoms of speech, conscience, privacy, and encryption (Articles XI and XIII), nor subordinate Britain to foreign governance contrary to this Charter. 248. May this Second Magna Carta stand and provide prosperity for a thousand generations. ------------------------------------------------------------ Closing Declaration 249. With these technological chains, we bind the state tightly to guarantee the freedom of its people. 250. This Charter is beautiful and terrible as the dawn; it shall be, when enacted, the supreme law of Britain. 251. Any law, treaty, or order contrary to it is void. 252. It will stand eternal, a covenant between the British people, their ancestors and their future descendants.