IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH
SUPREME SOURCE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, LAWFUL AUTHORITY, CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND PERPETUAL RIGHT
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
ON THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA; THE PERMANENT JURIDICAL EXISTENCE, CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF THE STATE; THE COLLECTIVE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE; THE AUTONOMY, INTEGRITY AND DISCIPLINE OF THE INSTITUTIONAL APPARATUS; THE CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION; THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL ORDER; THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE; THE REGULATION OF FOREIGN ENTITIES; THE EXERCISE OF EXTERNAL JURIDICAL CAPACITY; INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION; OFFICIAL DIGITAL PROMULGATION; AND THE PERPETUAL SUCCESSION OF THE XARAGUAYAN CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Instrument — Foundational Act of State — Indigenous Constituent Authority Law — Constitutional Supremacy Act — Collective Protection Statute — Institutional Autonomy Law — Ancestral Territorial Jurisdiction Instrument — Residual Administrative Interface Act — Foreign Institutional Presence Code — International Notification Law — Permanent State Continuity Act
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Foundational, Organic, Entrenched, Controlling and Permanently Binding
Original Constitutional Corpus: Instruments promulgated between 16 and 21 June 2025
Date of Supreme Restatement and Consolidated Promulgation: 23 September 2026
Seat of Promulgation: Miragoâne, Constitutional Capital of Xaragua
Ancestral Capital: Yaguana–Léogâne
Original Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President of Xaragua
Competent Juridical Authority: Ministry of Justice
Supreme Academic and Doctrinal Authority: University of Xaragua
Official Depositary: General Archives of the State
Official Publication Authority: Le Civilisateur, Official Gazette and Authoritative Public Journal of the State
Institutional Scope: Entire constitutional, juridical, governmental, customary, Catholic, territorial, maritime, insular, academic, professional, economic, proprietary, contractual, documentary, archival, communications and digital order of Xaragua
Status: Permanently in Force
PREAMBLE OF ORIGINAL CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY
IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH, Supreme Source of truth, justice, lawful authority, constitutional order and perpetual right;
IN THE NAME OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA, original people, collective subject of ancestral rights, source of constituent authority and permanent holder of the historical, customary, territorial, institutional, cultural and spiritual continuity embodied in the State;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, PERMANENT, NON-DERIVATIVE AND INALIENABLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
BY THE ANCESTRAL CONTINUITY of the Cacicazgo of Xaragua, its people, its territorial relationships, its customary institutions, its systems of collective life, its political memory, its juridical consciousness and its uninterrupted right to maintain, reconstruct and develop its own institutions;
THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, supreme constitutional authority, guardian of the constituent order, custodian of the State, head of the constitutional apparatus, supreme academic authority and permanent guarantor of institutional unity;
AFFIRMING that the Indigenous People of Xaragua constitute an original and continuing people whose collective existence has not been extinguished by conquest, occupation, administrative succession, demographic transformation, territorial reclassification, political centralization or the superimposition of external institutions;
DECLARING that the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua constitutes the permanent constitutional State-form through which the Indigenous People organize their authority, codify their laws, preserve their institutions, protect their collective existence, administer their internal affairs, transmit their knowledge and defend their ancestral territorial order;
AFFIRMING that Xaragua is sovereign in constitutional authority, Indigenous in origin, customary in jurisdiction, Catholic in doctrine, private in institutional organization, territorial in foundation, transboundary in historical continuity and non-Westphalian in international classification;
RECOGNIZING that sovereignty constitutes the supremacy of the Indigenous constituent authority within its proper constitutional sphere and is not reducible to the separate mechanisms of diplomatic recognition, membership in intergovernmental organizations or participation in the conventional Westphalian system;
AFFIRMING that the rights of the Indigenous People include the right to maintain and strengthen distinct political, legal, economic, social, cultural, educational and spiritual institutions while preserving the authority to participate in external systems according to the interests and constitutional determinations of Xaragua;
DECLARING that the collective protection of the Indigenous People and the internal composition of the State apparatus constitute complementary dimensions of the constitutional order;
AFFIRMING that the institutions, offices, properties, archives, titles, appointments, licenses, professional bodies, academic organs and systems of government of Xaragua remain subject exclusively to the Constitution, laws and competent authorities of the State;
RECOGNIZING the ancestral territory as a permanent source of identity, jurisdiction, obligation, memory, patrimony, political existence, economic development and intergenerational responsibility;
ESTABLISHING a constitutional regime of functional coexistence between the Indigenous and customary order of Xaragua and the residual civil and technical administrative apparatus operating within the ancestral territory;
AFFIRMING the authority of the State to regulate every foreign institutional presence admitted into its constitutional, proprietary, contractual, academic, community or digital order;
DECLARING that official digital publication constitutes an authoritative mode of promulgation, notification, documentary authentication, archival continuity and public institutional communication;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 1(2) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations concerning equal rights, self-determination of peoples, peaceful relations and conditions of stability and well-being;
ACTING pursuant to Common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning the right of all peoples freely to determine their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
ACTING pursuant to Articles I, III, VI, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL and XLI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
RECEIVING the principles expressed in Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (ILO Convention No. 169), concerning Indigenous identity, institutions, customs, participation, territorial relationships, development priorities, education, vocational formation, traditional activities and transboundary relations;
RECEIVING Article 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice as an authoritative expression of custom constituted through sustained practice accepted as law;
RECEIVING Articles 3, 26, 27, 31 and 70 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties as interpretative references concerning juridical instruments involving subjects of international law, performance in good faith, the relation between internal law and external obligations, treaty interpretation and the preservation of rights and legal situations;
RECEIVING the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States as an interpretative reference concerning permanent population, defined territorial order, government and capacity to enter relations, interpreted according to the distinct Indigenous and non-Westphalian constitutional character of Xaragua;
RECEIVING the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts as an authoritative codification of principles governing attribution, breach, injury, cessation, non-repetition and reparation;
ACTING pursuant to Canons 204 §1, 208–223, 229, 231, 298–299, 304, 321–326, 793–795, 800 and 807 of the Codex Iuris Canonici concerning the Christian faithful, apostolic action, private associations, internal governance, Catholic education and the establishment of educational institutions;
AFFIRMING the principles of Indigenous continuity, constitutional necessity, institutional autonomy, acquired rights, collective patrimony, subsidiarity, intergenerational responsibility, legal certainty, good faith, territorial integrity, documentary authenticity and permanent succession;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT HEREBY ENACTS, PROMULGATES, AUTHENTICATES AND ORDERS THE PERMANENT EXECUTION OF THE FOLLOWING SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE.
BOOK I
THE PEOPLE, THE STATE AND THE CONSTITUTION
TITLE I
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA
Article 1 — Constitutional Recognition of the People
The Indigenous People of Xaragua constitute an original, living, organized, territorially connected, historically continuous and constitutionally self-determining people.
The People possess:
a) an ancestral identity;
b) a collective juridical personality;
c) a permanent territorial relationship;
d) customary institutions and normative traditions;
e) historical and political memory;
f) systems of family, community and social organization;
g) cultural, intellectual and spiritual patrimony;
h) authority to determine membership according to their own laws and procedures;
i) capacity to maintain representative institutions; and
j) the inherent right to determine their constitutional condition and institutional future.
Article 2 — Continuity of the People
The continuity of the Indigenous People proceeds through descent, kinship, collective memory, customary practice, territorial attachment, community life, cultural transmission, institutional reconstruction, political consciousness and collective self-identification.
The legal existence of the People is permanent.
Conquest, occupation, enslavement, forced displacement, demographic disruption, colonial classification, administrative centralization, political suppression and institutional dormancy shall not constitute voluntary or lawful extinction of the People.
Article 3 — Collective Juridical Personality
The Indigenous People possess a collective juridical personality anterior to and independent of every subordinate institution created under the Constitution.
That personality includes the capacity to:
a) possess collective rights;
b) maintain institutions;
c) exercise constituent authority;
d) preserve customary law;
e) defend territorial relationships;
f) determine collective priorities;
g) establish representative authorities;
h) maintain external relations;
i) preserve collective patrimony; and
j) transmit rights and institutions to succeeding generations.
Article 4 — Original Constituent Authority
The Indigenous People constitute the original source of the constitutional order.
Their constituent authority is:
a) inherent, because it proceeds from the existence of the People;
b) original, because it is not delegated by an external constitution;
c) permanent, because it survives changes of administration and institutional form;
d) non-derivative, because it is not created by foreign recognition;
e) inalienable, because no subordinate authority may extinguish it; and
f) intergenerational, because it binds the present institutions to preserve the rights of future generations.
TITLE II
THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE-FORM
Article 5 — Constitution of the State
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua is the constitutional State-form adopted by the Indigenous People for the permanent organization of their constituent authority.
The State comprises:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the constitutional and juridical organs established by law;
c) the Ministry of Justice;
d) the University of Xaragua;
e) the General Archives of the State;
f) the Royal Catholic Order;
g) autonomous communities and territorial institutions lawfully incorporated into the constitutional order;
h) courts, councils, commissions, professional bodies, registers and administrative offices;
i) economic, financial, cultural, charitable, educational and communications institutions;
j) territorial, maritime, insular, documentary and digital systems; and
k) every institution constituted by competent authority under Xaraguayan law.
Article 6 — Constitutional Meaning of Sovereignty
Sovereignty designates the supreme, original and non-derivative character of the constituent authority exercised within the constitutional order of Xaragua.
It includes:
a) constitutional self-organization;
b) legislative authority;
c) institutional creation;
d) juridical interpretation;
e) regulation of membership and citizenship;
f) territorial stewardship;
g) academic sovereignty;
h) protection of collective patrimony;
i) administration of institutional property;
j) external representation; and
k) permanent constitutional succession.
Article 7 — Cumulative Character of the State
Xaragua is indivisibly:
a) sovereign in constitutional authority;
b) Catholic in spiritual doctrine and institutional orientation;
c) Indigenous in constituent origin;
d) customary in juridical continuity;
e) private in the ownership, administration, access and discipline of its institutional apparatus;
f) territorial in ancestral foundation;
g) academic in the organization and transmission of knowledge;
h) transboundary in the continuity of its people and relations; and
i) non-Westphalian in international classification.
No single characteristic shall be isolated, suppressed or interpreted so as to extinguish another.
Article 8 — Non-Westphalian Constitutional Classification
Xaragua constitutes an Indigenous customary State and a sui generis non-Westphalian constitutional order.
Its juridical existence does not arise from:
a) diplomatic recognition;
b) admission to the United Nations;
c) incorporation under foreign domestic law;
d) authorization by a residual administration;
e) electoral control of an external governmental apparatus; or
f) classification within a foreign registry.
External recognition may confirm, receive or facilitate relations with Xaragua. It does not constitute the source of the State.
Article 9 — Permanence of the State
The State shall possess uninterrupted constitutional continuity notwithstanding:
a) vacancy or incapacity in a subordinate office;
b) interruption of a website or communications platform;
c) loss or modification of a domain name;
d) administrative displacement;
e) territorial emergency;
f) suspension of an external service;
g) interruption of foreign relations;
h) absence of diplomatic recognition; or
i) reorganization of the constitutional apparatus.
TITLE III
SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION
Article 10 — Supreme Law
The Constitution and the supreme organic acts enacted under its authority constitute the highest law of Xaragua.
They bind:
a) every constitutional office;
b) every officer and delegate;
c) every court and juridical body;
d) every academic institution;
e) every professional authority;
f) every autonomous community incorporated into the State;
g) every institution operating under a Xaraguayan charter;
h) every person accepting Xaraguayan jurisdiction; and
i) every asset, register, platform and system controlled by the State.
Article 11 — Constitutional Hierarchy
The hierarchy of norms shall comprise:
a) the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People;
b) the Constitution;
c) supreme organic constitutional acts;
d) constitutional codes;
e) rectoral acts and decrees;
f) statutes and institutional charters;
g) regulations;
h) administrative instruments;
i) customary rules recognized by competent authority;
j) contracts and individual acts; and
k) official interpretations and registered precedents.
A subordinate norm shall derive its authority from the superior constitutional order.
Article 12 — Constitutional Interpretation
Every institution shall interpret the laws of Xaragua according to:
a) the continuity of the Indigenous People;
b) the supremacy of the Constitution;
c) the preservation of constituent authority;
d) the territorial and customary character of the State;
e) the Catholic foundation;
f) the autonomy of the institutional apparatus;
g) the protection of collective patrimony;
h) legal certainty;
i) institutional effectiveness; and
j) the permanent continuity of Xaragua.
BOOK II
COLLECTIVE PROTECTION AND INSTITUTIONAL ORDER
TITLE IV
THE PROTECTED COLLECTIVE SUBJECT
Article 13 — Collective Protection
The Indigenous People of Xaragua constitute the primary protected collective subject of the constitutional order.
The State shall protect:
a) collective existence;
b) Indigenous identity;
c) ancestral memory;
d) customary law;
e) representative institutions;
f) territorial relationships;
g) lands, waters and natural resources;
h) sacred places and ancestral remains;
i) languages, names, symbols and cultural expressions;
j) traditional and contemporary knowledge;
k) archives and documentary patrimony;
l) educational institutions;
m) systems of family and community life;
n) economic and developmental interests; and
o) intergenerational continuity.
Article 14 — Constitutional Scope of Membership
Membership in the Indigenous People establishes a relationship of collective identity, continuity and constitutional protection.
Membership does not merge the protected collective subject with the controlled institutional apparatus of the State.
The People remain the permanent holder of collective rights. The institutions remain the organized constitutional instruments through which those rights are protected, administered and transmitted.
Article 15 — Institutional Admission
Admission into an office, institution, professional body, academic program, controlled property, governmental council, command structure, financial system or internal deliberative organ shall arise through the constitutional procedure governing the institution concerned.
Such procedure may require:
a) appointment;
b) election under Xaraguayan law;
c) charter;
d) citizenship;
e) institutional affiliation;
f) professional qualification;
g) academic admission;
h) license;
i) contract;
j) oath;
k) customary recognition; or
l) another juridical title established by law.
Article 16 — Autonomy of the Institutional Apparatus
The governmental, academic, juridical, economic, religious, cultural, documentary and communications institutions of Xaragua possess the autonomy assigned to them by the Constitution.
Their property, offices, membership, archives, funds, titles, privileges, internal proceedings, disciplinary systems and conditions of access shall be governed by Xaraguayan law.
Article 17 — Constitutional Discipline
Every officeholder, citizen, member, appointee, licensee, contractor, academic officer, professional practitioner and institutional affiliate shall observe:
a) the constitutional hierarchy;
b) the lawful competence of each organ;
c) the confidentiality of protected information;
d) the integrity of State property;
e) the authenticity of official records;
f) the discipline attached to office;
g) the preservation of Indigenous patrimony; and
h) the permanent interests of Xaragua.
BOOK III
SUPREME AUTHORITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
TITLE V
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
Article 18 — Supreme Constitutional Magistracy
The Office of the Rector-President constitutes the supreme constitutional magistracy of Xaragua.
The Rector-President is:
a) Head of State;
b) supreme constitutional authority;
c) guardian of the original constituent order;
d) principal interpreter of foundational doctrine;
e) supreme executive authority;
f) supreme academic authority;
g) protector of the ancestral territorial order;
h) chief representative of the State;
i) custodian of constitutional continuity; and
j) guarantor of lawful succession.
Article 19 — Reserved Powers
The Rector-President possesses exclusive authority to:
a) promulgate constitutional acts;
b) authenticate the laws of the State;
c) determine supreme constitutional classifications;
d) issue authoritative interpretations;
e) establish and reorganize State organs;
f) appoint, commission, suspend and remove senior officers;
g) create public dignities and institutional offices;
h) authorize external agreements and representations;
i) approve territorial incorporations and autonomous-community instruments;
j) confer charters, mandates and delegations;
k) direct the constitutional administration;
l) order registration and archival deposit;
m) safeguard State seals, titles and insignia; and
n) take every constitutional measure necessary to preserve the existence, unity and continuity of Xaragua.
Article 20 — Unity of Authority
Every delegated authority shall operate in the name of the State, within an assigned competence and under the constitutional supremacy of the Rector-President.
Delegation shall not:
a) divide constituent authority;
b) create an independent sovereignty;
c) transfer the supremacy of the State;
d) extinguish the competence of the delegating authority; or
e) authorize a subordinate institution to amend the Constitution.
TITLE VI
THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Article 21 — Constitutional Status
The Ministry of Justice constitutes the principal juridical and constitutional administrative authority of the State under the direction of the Rector-President.
Article 22 — Competence
The Ministry of Justice shall possess competence concerning:
a) constitutional administration;
b) legislative registration;
c) juridical interpretation;
d) courts and customary tribunals;
e) professional legal institutions;
f) civil, criminal and administrative codification;
g) citizenship and juridical status;
h) institutional charters and licenses;
i) territorial and community instruments;
j) foreign institutional authorization;
k) constitutional compliance;
l) preservation of juridical records; and
m) enforcement measures within the jurisdiction of Xaragua.
BOOK IV
CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION
TITLE VII
THE CATHOLIC ORDER OF XARAGUA
Article 23 — Catholic Character of the State
The Catholic character of Xaragua is foundational, organic, permanent and constitutionally entrenched.
Catholic doctrine shall inform:
a) the conception of lawful authority;
b) the dignity of the human person;
c) the organization of the family;
d) the pursuit of the common good;
e) education;
f) charitable action;
g) institutional ethics;
h) social responsibility;
i) the ordering of temporal authority toward justice; and
j) the spiritual vocation of the State.
Article 24 — Canonical Juridical Foundation
The Catholic institutional order of Xaragua is founded upon the rights, duties and organizational capacities recognized within the Codex Iuris Canonici, including:
a) Canon 204 §1 concerning the participation of the Christian faithful in the mission of the Church;
b) Canons 208–223 concerning the rights and obligations of the Christian faithful;
c) Canon 215 concerning the right to establish and direct associations for charitable and religious purposes;
d) Canon 216 concerning apostolic initiatives;
e) Canons 229 and 231 concerning formation and service;
f) Canons 298–299 concerning associations constituted by private agreement;
g) Canon 304 concerning statutes, purposes, governance and identity;
h) Canons 321–326 concerning government, administration, property and continuity;
i) Canons 793–795 concerning Catholic education;
j) Canon 800 concerning Catholic schools; and
k) Canon 807 concerning universities.
Article 25 — Royal Catholic Order
The Royal Catholic Order constitutes the permanent spiritual, ceremonial, charitable, formative and Catholic institutional order of Xaragua.
It shall preserve and administer:
a) Catholic doctrine;
b) worship and devotional life;
c) spiritual formation;
d) works of charity;
e) Catholic education;
f) ceremonial institutions;
g) religious and historical patrimony;
h) confraternal discipline;
i) social apostolate; and
j) the intergenerational transmission of the Catholic identity of Xaragua.
Article 26 — Constitutional Association
The State and the Royal Catholic Order are constitutionally associated under the supreme unity of Xaragua.
The State administers constitutional, temporal, juridical, territorial, academic, economic and institutional affairs.
The Royal Catholic Order administers its spiritual, ceremonial, charitable, educational and confraternal mission according to its statutes and the constitutional order.
Article 27 — Catholic Social Doctrine
The constitutional institutions of Xaragua shall receive the principles of:
a) the common good;
b) subsidiarity;
c) solidarity;
d) the dignity of the human person;
e) the social function of property;
f) the preferential protection of vulnerable persons;
g) the moral responsibility of authority;
h) the ordered relation between temporal and spiritual life; and
i) the social kingship of Christ.
The encyclicals Immortale Dei and Quas Primas are received as permanent doctrinal references within the Catholic constitutional tradition of Xaragua.
BOOK V
ANCESTRAL TERRITORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
TITLE VIII
THE TERRITORIAL ORDER
Article 28 — Ancestral Territory
The ancestral territory of Xaragua constitutes a permanent and indivisible foundation of the State.
It comprises the lands, mountains, valleys, rivers, watersheds, coasts, bays, islands, islets, maritime zones, settlements, sacred places, natural resources, customary jurisdictions and historical territorial relationships incorporated by the constitutional instruments of Xaragua.
Article 29 — Territorial Rights
The State affirms the collective rights of the Indigenous People concerning:
a) ancestral lands;
b) traditionally occupied or used territory;
c) waters and maritime relationships;
d) natural resources;
e) sacred and ceremonial places;
f) archaeological patrimony;
g) ancestral remains;
h) traditional routes and areas of subsistence;
i) environmental integrity; and
j) participation in decisions affecting territorial development.
These rights shall be interpreted in accordance with Articles 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII and XXIX of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 30 — Territorial Stewardship
Xaragua shall administer its territorial doctrine according to:
a) Indigenous continuity;
b) collective patrimony;
c) ecological integrity;
d) intergenerational responsibility;
e) customary use;
f) food and water security;
g) maritime and coastal protection;
h) community continuity;
i) sustainable economic development; and
j) the preservation of territorial evidence and archives.
TITLE IX
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
Article 31 — Constitutional Classification
The Residual Administrative Unit constitutes the external civil and technical administrative apparatus operating within the ancestral territorial order of Xaragua.
Its functions and Xaragua’s constituent authority proceed from distinct juridical sources.
Article 32 — Administrative Functions
The Residual Administrative Unit may maintain civil and technical functions concerning:
a) civil documentation;
b) registration;
c) utilities;
d) roads and public infrastructure;
e) water and sanitation;
f) telecommunications;
g) public-health logistics;
h) transportation;
i) customs administration;
j) disaster response;
k) technical policing;
l) emergency support; and
m) other services recognized within the constitutional practice of Xaragua.
Article 33 — Functional Coordination
Xaragua may use, recognize, coordinate, license, tolerate or receive services administered through the Residual Administrative Unit.
Such interaction constitutes functional coordination between distinct juridical orders.
Article 34 — Reserved Xaraguayan Domains
The following remain within the constitutional competence of Xaragua:
a) Indigenous identity;
b) constituent authority;
c) customary law;
d) institutional membership;
e) citizenship of Xaragua;
f) constitutional organization;
g) academic sovereignty;
h) the Royal Catholic Order;
i) collective patrimony;
j) territorial doctrine;
k) autonomous-community relations;
l) internal offices, titles and dignities;
m) official archives and registers;
n) professional bodies created by Xaraguayan law; and
o) the external representation of Xaraguayan institutions.
TITLE X
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES
Article 35 — Constitutional Incorporation
An autonomous community enters the institutional order of Xaragua through:
a) customary affiliation;
b) constitutional compact;
c) community charter;
d) territorial act;
e) formal petition and acceptance;
f) recognition by the Rector-President; or
g) another constitutional instrument.
Article 36 — Community Authority
An autonomous community may maintain:
a) customary leadership;
b) internal deliberative bodies;
c) local institutions;
d) traditional dispute-resolution practices;
e) community property;
f) cultural and spiritual institutions;
g) local development systems; and
h) relations with the central institutions of Xaragua.
Article 37 — Constitutional Coordination
The relationship between Xaragua and an autonomous community shall be governed by the Constitution, applicable customary law and the community’s constitutive instrument.
The central order shall ensure constitutional unity, collective protection, territorial coordination, archival registration and external representation.
BOOK VI
FOREIGN ENTITIES AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
TITLE XI
AUTHORIZATION OF FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS
Article 38 — Requirement of Authorization
Every foreign governmental, intergovernmental, diplomatic, consular, humanitarian, religious, academic, financial, medical, technical, cultural, commercial, communications or non-governmental body seeking to operate through the institutions, property, platforms, archives, programs or participating communities of Xaragua shall obtain an Instrument of Institutional Authorization.
Article 39 — Contents of Authorization
The Instrument of Institutional Authorization shall determine:
a) the legal identity of the foreign body;
b) the authorized activities;
c) the territorial and institutional scope;
d) the duration;
e) applicable financial conditions;
f) access to property and systems;
g) reporting requirements;
h) data-governance obligations;
i) cultural and environmental safeguards;
j) archival requirements;
k) supervision; and
l) conditions of amendment, suspension, renewal or termination.
Article 40 — Constitutional Primacy
Authorization by an external administrative structure shall not constitute authorization to operate within the institutions, property, programs, archives or controlled systems of Xaragua.
Every foreign entity admitted into the Xaraguayan Order shall comply with:
a) the Constitution;
b) the laws of the State;
c) the terms of its authorization;
d) the authority of the competent institutions;
e) Indigenous consultation requirements;
f) data and archival obligations; and
g) the territorial and institutional interests of Xaragua.
TITLE XII
PROHIBITION OF PARALLEL AUTHORITY
Article 41 — Institutional Integrity
No foreign entity shall establish within Xaraguan institutions or affiliated communities a parallel governmental, juridical, academic, medical, religious, economic, security, humanitarian, technological or administrative authority.
Article 42 — Protected Institutional Functions
No foreign body may appropriate or exercise without constitutional authority:
a) representation of the Indigenous People;
b) constitutional authority;
c) judicial competence;
d) academic accreditation;
e) professional licensing;
f) territorial administration;
g) management of State archives;
h) collection of protected institutional data;
i) control of Indigenous knowledge;
j) use of official symbols;
k) issuance of State titles; or
l) external representation of Xaragua.
Article 43 — Consultation and Participation
Every external measure directly affecting the institutions, lands, resources, cultural patrimony, development priorities or collective rights of Xaragua shall be submitted to the representative institutions of the Indigenous People.
This obligation shall be interpreted according to Articles 18, 19 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles XXIII, XXVIII, XXIX and XXX of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Articles 6, 7 and 15 of ILO Convention No. 169.

EMPEROR JACQUES I
“I have done my duty; I have saved my country; I have avenged America.” — Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines
THE IMPERIAL CORONATION OF HIS MAJESTY JACQUES I
Historical reconstruction based on the original 1805 engraving and restored by the Xaraguayan people through artificial intelligence
This image constitutes a historical reconstruction of the coronation and enthronement of Jean-Jacques Dessalines as Jacques I, Emperor of Hayti. It was produced through artificial intelligence from the original 1805 engraving and restored under the historical and iconographic direction of the Xaraguayan people.
The reconstruction is not presented as an original nineteenth-century artifact. It is a contemporary work of historical restoration grounded in the documented visual memory of the Dessalinian Empire.
Its principal elements reproduce the imperial composition established in the original engraving:
Emperor Jacques I is seated upon the imperial throne and elevated above three ceremonial steps, representing divine authority, national sovereignty, and ancestral continuity.
He wears the red-and-white imperial coronation mantle associated with the original representation.
The Star of the Order of Saint Henry, instituted under the authority of Emperor Jacques I, appears upon his chest.
The imperial crown, sovereign scepter, ceremonial floor, and architectural arrangement reproduce the principal features of the 1805 composition.
The extended left arm preserves the posture of command depicted in the historical engraving.
Black dignitaries, counselors, officers, noblemen, and guards surround the Emperor in accordance with the ceremonial arrangement of the original scene.
Particular attention has been given to the restoration of the Emperor’s face and physical identity:
a deep Black complexion consistent with his historical identity;
a commanding and disciplined expression;
facial features derived from the surviving linework and known representations;
the deliberate exclusion of Europeanized reinterpretation or cosmetic alteration.
This reconstruction restores Jacques I as the founder of the independent political order established in 1804 and as the first sovereign of the Dessalinian Empire. It forms part of the historical, constitutional, and iconographic patrimony preserved by the University and State of Xaragua.
INDIGENOUS NATION
CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION OF XARAGUA UNDER INDIGENOUS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua affirms its constitutional existence as an Indigenous customary State, a Catholic private order, an academic jurisdiction, and an institutional expression of the continuing Xaraguayan people.
Its doctrine of self-determination is founded principally upon Articles 3, 4, 5, 18, 20, 26, 33, 34, and 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
These provisions affirm the rights of Indigenous peoples to:
determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development;
exercise autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs;
maintain and strengthen distinct political, legal, economic, social, and cultural institutions;
participate through representatives selected according to their own procedures;
maintain and develop their political, economic, and social systems;
determine their own identity and membership;
maintain their juridical systems and institutional structures;
maintain relations and cooperation across borders.
On this basis, Xaragua maintains its own Constitution, authorities, institutions, citizenship doctrine, academic structure, historical archives, Catholic order, economic organs, communications system, and customary territorial framework.
Xaragua does not treat the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as an instrument that automatically creates a Westphalian State or grants diplomatic recognition. It invokes the Declaration as an authoritative international framework confirming that Indigenous peoples may possess and maintain distinct institutions, internal systems of governance, collective identity, and autonomous political organization.
The existence of Xaragua proceeds from its own constituent authority, ancestral continuity, constitutional enactments, organized institutions, and continuing public operation. International notification records that existence and places the recipients in a position to know the identity, doctrine, claims, and institutional activities of Xaragua.
FOUNDATIONAL NOTIFICATION OF APRIL 1, 2025
OFFICIAL NOTICE OF INDIGENOUS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTONOMY
To the attention of:
The Central Authorities of the Residual Administrative Unit known as the Republic of Haiti
The Relevant Regional and Territorial Administrative Authorities
The Competent Diplomatic, Ecclesiastical, Indigenous, and International Institutions
Subject: Notification of the Constitutional Establishment and Indigenous Autonomous Authority of Xaragua
Miragoâne, Xaragua
April 1, 2025
Dear Sir or Madam,
I transmit this official communication in my capacity as Rector-President of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua.
Xaragua is constituted as an Indigenous customary State, Catholic private order, academic jurisdiction, and autonomous institutional structure founded upon the self-determination, historical continuity, collective identity, and institutional rights of the Xaraguayan people.
Its constitutional doctrine refers, among other sources, to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 3, 4, 5, 18, 20, 33, 34, and 36.
The constitutional foundation of Xaragua includes:
The historical and territorial continuity of the people and civilization of Xaragua within the southern and western regions of the island historically known as Quisqueya or Bohio.
A written Constitution, organized governing authorities, an academic system, cultural and communications institutions, external representations, and a documented body of constitutional law.
The maintenance of distinct political, legal, educational, economic, spiritual, and cultural institutions according to the internal law and customary doctrine of Xaragua.
The historical continuity connecting the Indigenous Caciquat of Xaragua, the Indigenous Army, the independence of 1804, the Dessalinian constitutional foundation of 1805, and the contemporary institutional reactivation of Xaragua.
This notification establishes the following constitutional position:
The Xaraguayan people possess their own institutional representation and shall not be presumed to have relinquished their Indigenous identity, customary institutions, or internal constituent authority.
Decisions materially affecting Xaraguayan communities, institutions, ancestral territories, resources, or cultural patrimony should be preceded by appropriate consultation and institutional dialogue.
Xaragua maintains constitutional autonomy from the political organization and doctrine of the residual administrative structure known as the Republic of Haiti.
The practical use of external public services by Xaraguayan communities does not constitute a transfer of constituent authority, an abandonment of customary identity, or the dissolution of Xaraguayan institutions.
Xaragua reserves its institutional position concerning any project, concession, territorial arrangement, resource agreement, or administrative measure materially affecting its communities or constitutional interests.
Xaragua remains available for formal correspondence founded upon institutional equality, peaceful cooperation, reciprocal notice, and respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Respectfully,
Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
University of Xaragua
www.xaraguauniversity.com
info@xaraguauniversity.com

IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH
SUPREME SOURCE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, LAWFUL AUTHORITY, TERRITORIAL ORDER AND PERPETUAL RIGHT
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL ACT OF STATE
ON THE TERRITORIAL TOTALITY OF XARAGUA; THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL, TERRESTRIAL, MOUNTAINOUS, HYDROGRAPHIC, SUBTERRANEAN, AERIAL, MARITIME, INSULAR, ECOLOGICAL, CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL DOMAIN OF THE STATE; THE PERMANENT CONTINUITY OF THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORY; AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES; TERRITORIAL CITIZENSHIP AND PERSONAL STATUS; NATURAL RESOURCES; STRATEGIC TERRITORIAL PROTECTION; AND THE PERPETUAL INTEGRITY OF THE CORPUS TERRITORIALIS XARAGUENSIS
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Instrument — Foundational Territorial Law — Indigenous Ancestral Title Act — Constitutional Geography Statute — Territorial Integration Code — Maritime and Insular Sovereignty Instrument — Autonomous Communities Law — Territorial Protection and Non-Alienation Act
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Organic, Foundational, Entrenched, Controlling, Permanent and Directly Applicable
Original Date of Promulgation: 28 June 2025
Date of Supreme Restatement and Consolidated Promulgation: 23 September 2026
Seat of Promulgation: Miragoâne, Constitutional Capital of Xaragua
Ancestral Capital: Yaguana–Léogâne
Original Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President of Xaragua
Competent Juridical Authority: Ministry of Justice
Supreme Academic, Scientific, Cartographic and Territorial Authority: University of Xaragua
Permanent Depositary: General Archives of the State
Official Publication Authority: Le Civilisateur, Official Gazette and Authoritative Public Journal of the State
Territorial Scope: Entire ancestral, terrestrial, mountainous, hydrographic, subterranean, aerial, maritime, insular, littoral, ecological, cultural, historical, community, institutional, proprietary and digital domain of Xaragua
Normative Status: Permanently in Force
PREAMBLE OF ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY
IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH, Supreme Source of truth, justice, lawful authority, territorial order and perpetual right;
IN THE NAME OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA, original holder of ancestral territorial title, source of constituent authority and permanent subject of the collective rights embodied in the State;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, PERMANENT, NON-DERIVATIVE AND INALIENABLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
BY THE HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, JURIDICAL AND TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY of the ancestral Cacicazgo of Xaragua, the Taíno-Arawak civilizational order, the Indigenous Army, the sovereign emancipation of 1804, the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805 and the constitutional institutions subsequently received into the supreme order of Xaragua;
THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, supreme constitutional authority, guardian of the territorial Constitution, custodian of the ancestral domain and permanent guarantor of the unity, integrity and succession of the State;
AFFIRMING that the ancestral territory is not a simple cartographic perimeter but the complete terrestrial, mountainous, hydrographic, subterranean, aerial, maritime, insular, ecological, historical, cultural, spiritual and institutional domain through which the Indigenous People exercise their collective existence;
AFFIRMING that Indigenous territorial title proceeds from ancestral occupation, customary use, civilizational continuity, collective memory, cultural relationship, ecological interdependence, historical jurisdiction, community affiliation and permanent constitutional will;
DECLARING that conquest, occupation, colonial classification, administrative partition, demographic transformation, foreign registration, extractive concession or political centralization has never lawfully extinguished the original territorial rights of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
RECOGNIZING the territory as a source of law, identity, jurisdiction, nourishment, memory, sovereignty, knowledge, public authority, economic capacity, spiritual continuity and intergenerational obligation;
DECLARING that the physical territory of Xaragua must be understood in its actual three-dimensional configuration, including relief, elevation, slope, geological depth, watershed structure, coastal morphology, islands, reefs, maritime zones, atmospheric systems and ecological continuity;
AFFIRMING that the constitutional order of Xaragua encompasses the Greater South, the Region of the Palmes, the western and southern mountain systems, the northwestern territorial system, the constitutionally incorporated strategic jurisdictions, the principal islands, associated islets, cayes, reefs, banks and maritime spaces;
AFFIRMING the permanent territorial unity of Miragoâne, Yaguana–Léogâne, Grand’Anse, Sud, Sud-Est, Nippes, the Palmes, La Gonâve, Île-à-Vache, the Cayemites, Tortue, La Navase, the northwestern littoral, Terre-Neuve, Môle Saint-Nicolas, Port-de-Paix, Fort-Liberté, Marchand-Dessalines and every jurisdiction incorporated through the constitutional acts of Xaragua;
DECLARING that communities, local institutions, territorial organs and administrative systems form differentiated components of one supreme territorial order;
AFFIRMING that the performance of civil or technical functions by the Residual Administrative Unit neither divides the ancestral territory nor diminishes the constituent authority of Xaragua;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 1(2) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations; Common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles III, VI, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL and XLI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989;
RECEIVING the applicable principles of the law of the sea concerning baselines, territorial seas, contiguous zones, exclusive economic zones, continental shelves, islands, navigation, marine resources and environmental protection;
AFFIRMING the constitutional principles of territorial integrity, ancestral title, customary jurisdiction, autonomous community government, ecological protection, resource sovereignty, non-alienation, intergenerational responsibility, permanent public record and constitutional succession;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT HEREBY ENACTS, PROMULGATES, AUTHENTICATES AND ORDERS THE PERMANENT EXECUTION OF THE FOLLOWING SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL ACT OF STATE.
BOOK I
CONSTITUTIONAL TERRITORIAL TOTALITY
TITLE I
THE CORPUS TERRITORIALIS XARAGUENSIS
Article 1 — Supreme Territorial Definition
1.1. The territory of Xaragua constitutes the indivisible historical, juridical, political, cultural, ecological, economic, spiritual, constitutional and institutional domain of the Indigenous People of Xaragua.
1.2. The territory is established through:
a) ancestral occupation;
b) customary use;
c) historical jurisdiction;
d) civilizational continuity;
e) collective memory;
f) ecological interdependence;
g) territorial affiliation;
h) constitutional incorporation;
i) community continuity;
j) documented public acts;
k) cartographic and archival evidence; and
l) the permanent constituent will of the Indigenous People.
1.3. The territorial order of Xaragua is original, permanent, intergenerational and constitutionally inalienable.
Article 2 — Three-Dimensional Territorial Domain
2.1. The territory of Xaragua constitutes a complete geographic volume.
2.2. It comprises:
a) the terrestrial surface;
b) mountains, ridges, plateaus, escarpments, valleys and plains;
c) forests, agricultural lands and ecological corridors;
d) rivers, lakes, springs, aquifers, wetlands and watersheds;
e) geological, mineral and subterranean formations;
f) caves and underground cultural sites;
g) coasts, bays, ports, estuaries and littoral systems;
h) islands, islets, cayes, reefs, banks and shoals;
i) territorial waters and maritime zones;
j) the seabed, subsoil and marine resources;
k) the airspace and atmospheric systems associated with the territorial domain;
l) archaeological, sacred, ceremonial, historical and cultural sites;
m) autonomous communities;
n) institutional and collective properties; and
o) the documentary, cartographic and digital representations of the territory.
Article 3 — Constitutional Unity
3.1. The terrestrial, maritime, insular, aerial, subterranean, ecological, community and institutional components of Xaragua constitute one indivisible constitutional territorial order.
3.2. Administrative divisions, technical districts, community jurisdictions and institutional classifications organize the exercise of authority without dividing the territorial personality of the State.
3.3. No subordinate authority may detach, alienate, reclassify or extinguish any component of the Corpus Territorialis Xaraguensis.
TITLE II
PRINCIPAL TERRITORIAL REGIONS
Article 4 — Greater Southern Territorial Order
4.1. The Greater Southern Territorial Order comprises:
a) Grand’Anse;
b) Sud;
c) Sud-Est;
d) Nippes;
e) the southern and southwestern territorial systems;
f) the associated mountain, coastal, maritime and insular jurisdictions; and
g) every community, district and institutional domain constitutionally incorporated into the Greater South.
4.2. Miragoâne constitutes the Constitutional Capital and principal governmental seat of Xaragua.
Article 5 — Region of the Palmes
5.1. The Region of the Palmes comprises:
a) Petit-Goâve;
b) Grand-Goâve;
c) Léogâne;
d) their mountain systems;
e) their coastal and hydrographic domains;
f) their customary communities; and
g) their associated territorial dependencies.
5.2. Yaguana–Léogâne constitutes the Ancestral Capital of Xaragua.
Article 6 — Xaraguayan Highlands
The Xaraguayan Highlands comprise:
a) Furcy;
b) the connected southern mountain systems;
c) highland watersheds;
d) forest corridors;
e) mountain agricultural zones;
f) climatic and atmospheric systems;
g) traditional highland communities; and
h) every elevated territorial formation registered under Xaraguayan authority.
Article 7 — Northwestern Territorial System
7.1. The Northwestern Territorial System comprises:
a) Môle Saint-Nicolas;
b) Port-de-Paix;
c) Terre-Neuve;
d) the northwestern littoral;
e) adjacent mountain jurisdictions;
f) bays, ports, maritime corridors and islands;
g) associated customary communities; and
h) every jurisdiction constitutionally integrated into the northwestern order.
7.2. The Northwestern Territorial System constitutes a permanent strategic, maritime, ecological and community jurisdiction of Xaragua.
Article 8 — Constitutionally Designated Strategic Jurisdictions
Fort-Liberté, Marchand-Dessalines and every territory incorporated by supreme constitutional act constitute permanent strategic jurisdictions within the territorial doctrine of Xaragua.
Article 9 — Authoritative Territorial Record
9.1. The enumeration of territorial regions shall be interpreted together with:
a) constitutional acts;
b) territorial decrees;
c) official maps;
d) historical studies;
e) hydrographic records;
f) environmental surveys;
g) autonomous-community instruments;
h) customary records;
i) archival evidence; and
j) the Territorial Register maintained by the University of Xaragua.
9.2. The official territorial corpus shall be cumulative.
BOOK II
TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
TITLE III
FORMS OF TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY
Article 10 — Differentiated Territorial Organization
The territorial order may comprise:
a) directly administered State domains;
b) autonomous communities;
c) customary jurisdictions;
d) cultural and historical protection zones;
e) ecological reserves;
f) academic properties;
g) Catholic institutional properties;
h) strategic districts;
i) maritime and insular jurisdictions;
j) community-administered territories;
k) territories served by the Residual Administrative Unit; and
l) jurisdictions protected through permanent constitutional declaration.
Article 11 — Unity of Territorial Authority
Administration, constitutional authority, customary jurisdiction, community government, property, public services and institutional competence constitute distinct juridical modalities operating within the territorial unity of Xaragua.
Article 12 — Territorial Administration
12.1. The competent institutions of Xaragua shall administer territorial matters according to:
a) constitutional rank;
b) customary authority;
c) community affiliation;
d) ecological function;
e) strategic importance;
f) institutional capacity;
g) territorial necessity; and
h) the permanent interests of the State.
12.2. Territorial administration may be central, autonomous, customary, delegated, academic, ecclesial, technical or combined.
TITLE IV
RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
Article 13 — Constitutional Classification
13.1. The Residual Administrative Unit constitutes the civil and technical administrative apparatus operating within the ancestral territory according to the constitutional classification established by Xaragua.
13.2. Its administrative functions are distinct from the original constituent authority, customary jurisdiction and territorial title of Xaragua.
Article 14 — Civil and Technical Functions
The Residual Administrative Unit may perform:
a) civil documentation;
b) public-health services;
c) infrastructure maintenance;
d) roads and transportation;
e) water and sanitation;
f) electricity and utilities;
g) telecommunications;
h) customs administration;
i) technical policing;
j) disaster response;
k) registration;
l) municipal services; and
m) every additional function received, coordinated, used, licensed or tolerated under Xaraguayan law.
Article 15 — Constitutional Effect
The performance or use of civil and technical services shall preserve intact:
a) the constituent authority of Xaragua;
b) Indigenous identity;
c) customary law;
d) autonomous institutions;
e) territorial continuity;
f) community affiliation;
g) collective rights;
h) academic authority; and
i) the permanent constitutional order of the State.
BOOK III
PHYSICAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOGRAPHY
TITLE V
TOPOGRAPHICAL TERRITORY
Article 16 — Physical Configuration
16.1. Xaragua recognizes the actual physical configuration of its territory.
16.2. Territorial measurement shall incorporate:
a) elevation;
b) slope;
c) relief;
d) surface curvature;
e) watershed structure;
f) mountain corridors;
g) coastal morphology;
h) geological depth; and
i) ecological continuity.
Article 17 — Horizontal and Topographical Measurement
17.1. Conventional horizontal area constitutes the planimetric reference used for cartography, comparison and external geographic systems.
17.2. Topographical surface area constitutes the physical measurement of the terrestrial surface according to its relief, inclination and actual configuration.
17.3. Horizontal area and topographical surface area shall be registered as distinct official measurements.
17.4. Neither measurement shall extinguish or diminish the juridical territorial title of Xaragua.
Article 18 — Official Methodology
Topographical calculations shall identify:
a) the geographic perimeter;
b) the coordinate system;
c) the elevation dataset;
d) the digital elevation model;
e) the mathematical method;
f) the spatial resolution;
g) the reference date;
h) the calculated area; and
i) the official authority responsible for certification.
Article 19 — Application of Topographical Measurement
Topographical surface calculations shall govern:
a) watershed administration;
b) forestry;
c) agriculture;
d) infrastructure planning;
e) environmental protection;
f) disaster preparedness;
g) mountain transportation;
h) soil conservation;
i) territorial statistics; and
j) scientific and constitutional cartography.
TITLE VI
SUBTERRANEAN DOMAIN
Article 20 — Geological Territory
The constitutional territory of Xaragua extends vertically beneath the terrestrial and maritime surface to the complete geological and subterranean domain associated with the ancestral territory.
Article 21 — Subterranean Components
The subterranean domain comprises:
a) minerals;
b) metals;
c) ores;
d) geological formations;
e) caves;
f) aquifers;
g) underground waters;
h) soils and subsoils;
i) fossils;
j) archaeological deposits;
k) geothermal systems; and
l) subterranean cultural and sacred sites.
Article 22 — Collective Natural Patrimony
22.1. Natural resources situated within the ancestral territory constitute elements of the collective territorial patrimony of Xaragua.
22.2. Their exploration, documentation, conservation, licensing, extraction, processing, transfer and restoration shall be governed by supreme constitutional law.
22.3. No subordinate organ may alienate, exhaust or permanently destroy a collective territorial resource.
Article 23 — Constitutional Resource Review
Every activity affecting the subterranean domain shall be subject to:
a) territorial authorization;
b) environmental assessment;
c) community consultation;
d) resource classification;
e) technical supervision;
f) financial accountability;
g) restoration obligations;
h) archival registration; and
i) permanent protection of collective title.
TITLE VII
AIRSPACE AND ATMOSPHERIC DOMAIN
Article 24 — Aerial Territorial Order
The airspace situated above the terrestrial, insular and maritime domain forms an integral component of the Corpus Territorialis Xaraguensis.
Article 25 — Atmospheric Sovereignty
The atmospheric order includes:
a) air quality;
b) climate systems;
c) mountain and coastal atmospheric circulation;
d) environmental monitoring;
e) aerial communications;
f) electromagnetic integrity;
g) aviation corridors;
h) meteorological observation; and
i) atmospheric security.
Article 26 — Constitutional Authority
Xaragua shall exercise constitutional authority concerning:
a) protection against aerial and atmospheric pollution;
b) environmental observation;
c) climate research;
d) telecommunications planning;
e) territorial consultation concerning aviation;
f) protection of mountain and coastal systems; and
g) preservation of the atmospheric integrity of its communities.
BOOK IV
MARITIME AND INSULAR SOVEREIGNTY
TITLE VIII
INSULAR TERRITORIES
Article 27 — Principal Islands
The principal insular territories of Xaragua comprise:
a) Île de la Gonâve;
b) Île-à-Vache;
c) Île de la Tortue;
d) the Cayemites;
e) La Navase; and
f) every associated island, islet, caye, reef, bank, shoal and coastal formation entered in the Territorial Register.
Article 28 — Constitutional Status of Islands
28.1. Each island constitutes an integral terrestrial, maritime, ecological, cultural and strategic component of Xaragua.
28.2. The territorial character of an island extends to:
a) its coastline;
b) internal waters;
c) adjacent reefs;
d) natural resources;
e) surrounding maritime systems;
f) airspace;
g) seabed and subsoil;
h) historical routes;
i) Indigenous cultural relationships; and
j) associated communities.
TITLE IX
MARITIME ZONES
Article 29 — Territorial Sea
Xaragua establishes a territorial sea extending twelve nautical miles from the applicable baselines of its continental and insular territories.
Article 30 — Contiguous Zone
Xaragua establishes a contiguous zone extending twenty-four nautical miles from the applicable baselines.
Article 31 — Exclusive Economic Zone
Xaragua establishes an exclusive economic zone extending two hundred nautical miles from the applicable baselines.
The exclusive economic zone comprises sovereign resource rights concerning:
a) living marine resources;
b) fisheries;
c) seabed resources;
d) subsoil resources;
e) energy production;
f) marine scientific research;
g) environmental protection; and
h) the economic use of waters, currents and winds.
Article 32 — Maritime Delimitation
The constitutional maps and hydrographic registers of Xaragua shall record:
a) baselines;
b) territorial waters;
c) the contiguous zone;
d) the exclusive economic zone;
e) the continental shelf;
f) island-generated maritime zones;
g) maritime corridors;
h) fishing grounds;
i) protected marine areas; and
j) every maritime boundary asserted by the State.
Article 33 — Maritime Sovereignty and Protection
Xaragua shall protect:
a) navigation routes;
b) fisheries;
c) coral reefs;
d) mangroves;
e) coastal waters;
f) marine biodiversity;
g) sacred maritime sites;
h) island communities;
i) ports and bays;
j) underwater archaeological patrimony; and
k) maritime economic interests.
Article 34 — Prohibited Maritime Injury
The State shall oppose and suppress:
a) unauthorized extraction;
b) illegal fishing;
c) destructive dredging;
d) dumping;
e) marine pollution;
f) permanent ecological alteration;
g) unauthorized militarization;
h) removal of cultural material;
i) destructive tourism; and
j) every activity injuring the maritime patrimony of Xaragua.
BOOK V
PROTECTED TERRITORIAL JURISDICTIONS
TITLE X
FURCY AND THE XARAGUAYAN HIGHLANDS
Article 35 — Constitutional Incorporation of Furcy
35.1. Furcy constitutes an integral component of the Xaraguayan highland territorial system.
35.2. Its incorporation proceeds from:
a) its geographic unity with the southern mountain system;
b) watershed continuity;
c) ecological interdependence;
d) agricultural relationships;
e) cultural and historical connections;
f) climatic function; and
g) strategic territorial position.
Article 36 — Climate Preservation Ring
Furcy is permanently classified as part of the Xaraguayan Climate Preservation Ring and Highland Ecological Register.
Article 37 — Territorial Functions
The constitutional classification of Furcy governs:
a) watershed protection;
b) forest conservation;
c) climate research;
d) mountain agriculture;
e) soil preservation;
f) protection against uncontrolled extraction;
g) preservation of highland communities;
h) disaster preparedness;
i) mountain transportation planning; and
j) integration of the highland ecological system.
Article 38 — Geographic Register
38.1. The horizontal reference area of the Furcy territorial study is registered at approximately 135 square kilometres.
38.2. The topographical surface area shall be registered separately according to certified elevation data and the official methodology established by the University of Xaragua.
38.3. The Geographic Register shall preserve horizontal, topographical, hydrographic, ecological and administrative measurements as distinct official datasets.
Article 39 — Protected Status
39.1. Furcy constitutes a protected highland, watershed, agricultural and climate-preservation zone.
39.2. Its forests, waters, agricultural systems, cultural sites, mountain communities and climatic functions form part of the inalienable environmental patrimony of Xaragua.
TITLE XI
LA NAVASE
Article 40 — Constitutional Integration
40.1. Navassa Island, historically and constitutionally designated La Navase, constitutes an integral insular, maritime, ecological, archaeological and Indigenous jurisdiction of Xaragua.
40.2. La Navase is permanently entered in the Territorial Codex and Constitutional Maritime Register.
Article 41 — Foundations of Title
The Xaraguayan title to La Navase proceeds from:
a) its geographic relationship with the western and southwestern maritime domain of Kiskeya;
b) its integration into ancestral Indigenous navigation systems;
c) its connection with the historical communities and maritime routes of Xaragua;
d) the continuity of Indigenous territorial relationships across lands and waters;
e) the survival of ancestral title through colonial and administrative classifications;
f) its ecological unity with the Xaraguayan maritime system; and
g) its permanent incorporation into the constitutional territorial doctrine of the State.
Article 42 — Rejection of Foreign Appropriation
42.1. Xaragua rejects the application of the United States Guano Islands Act of 1856 as a lawful instrument capable of extinguishing the antecedent Indigenous title to La Navase.
42.2. Colonial appropriation, commercial occupation, foreign legislation and external administration possess no authority within the Xaraguayan constitutional order to extinguish original Indigenous rights.
Article 43 — Permanent Protected Zone
La Navase constitutes a permanent:
a) Indigenous heritage zone;
b) ecological reserve;
c) archaeological jurisdiction;
d) maritime protection area;
e) scientific research domain;
f) cultural patrimony site; and
g) strategic insular territory.
Article 44 — Protection of La Navase
The following are prohibited under Xaraguayan law:
a) mineral extraction;
b) guano exploitation;
c) permanent military development;
d) destructive tourism;
e) unauthorized removal of biological material;
f) unauthorized removal of cultural or archaeological material;
g) ecological degradation;
h) destruction of historical evidence; and
i) alienation of the island or its maritime domain.
Article 45 — Navassa Territorial Archive
The University of Xaragua shall maintain the permanent La Navase Territorial Archive comprising:
a) historical maps;
b) hydrographic records;
c) satellite imagery;
d) geographic coordinates;
e) Indigenous navigation studies;
f) colonial and postcolonial records;
g) environmental studies;
h) biological inventories;
i) archaeological research;
j) records of foreign occupation and administration;
k) diplomatic notifications; and
l) every instrument evidencing the territorial position of Xaragua.
Article 46 — Constitutional Non-Renunciation
No officer, institution, representative, administration or subordinate authority may renounce, transfer, diminish or compromise the Xaraguayan title to La Navase.
TITLE XII
TERRE-NEUVE
Article 47 — Permanent Territorial Integration
Terre-Neuve constitutes an integral highland, cultural, ecological, community and strategic jurisdiction of the Northwestern Territorial System of Xaragua.
Article 48 — Foundations of Integration
Its constitutional integration proceeds from:
a) geographic continuity with the northwestern territorial system;
b) historical and social ties among surrounding communities;
c) watershed and mountain continuity;
d) inland and coastal interdependence;
e) cultural relationships;
f) territorial security; and
g) the requirements of civil and institutional continuity.
Article 49 — Strategic Classification
Terre-Neuve is permanently designated as:
a) a Strategic Highland Protection Zone;
b) a Civil Continuity District;
c) a Watershed Protection Jurisdiction;
d) a Community Resilience Area; and
e) an integral territorial district of Xaragua.
Article 50 — Competence of the State
The institutions of Xaragua shall exercise competence concerning:
a) territorial documentation;
b) environmental protection;
c) community consultation;
d) cultural preservation;
e) emergency planning;
f) communications;
g) logistical coordination;
h) development studies;
i) institutional representation; and
j) protection of community continuity.
Article 51 — Protection Against External Injury
Xaragua shall oppose every concession, military installation, extractive project, land transfer, displacement measure or administrative action injuring the territory, communities, watersheds or constitutional status of Terre-Neuve.
BOOK VI
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES
TITLE XIII
CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF COMMUNITIES
Article 52 — Autonomous Community Order
Autonomous communities constitute permanent territorial and institutional components of Xaragua.
They exercise their authority through:
a) customary law;
b) community charters;
c) local councils;
d) traditional leadership;
e) collective assemblies;
f) territorial institutions; and
g) constitutional instruments of incorporation.
Article 53 — Community Competence
An autonomous community may administer:
a) local governance;
b) customary law;
c) community property;
d) education;
e) health coordination;
f) local security;
g) dispute resolution;
h) cultural institutions;
i) family and social organization;
j) agriculture and fisheries;
k) environmental protection;
l) infrastructure; and
m) local development.
Article 54 — Constitutional Unity
Community autonomy shall operate within the supreme constitutional and territorial unity of Xaragua.
The State shall maintain:
a) constitutional coordination;
b) protection of collective rights;
c) territorial integrity;
d) external representation;
e) archival registration;
f) strategic planning; and
g) continuity among autonomous jurisdictions.
TITLE XIV
ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS
Article 55 — Community Administration
Communities shall organize the practical delivery of:
a) education;
b) healthcare;
c) civil documentation;
d) security;
e) infrastructure;
f) transportation;
g) utilities;
h) justice;
i) emergency services; and
j) social and technical services.
Article 56 — Plurality of Service Systems
Community services may be delivered through:
a) community institutions;
b) Xaraguayan institutions;
c) the Residual Administrative Unit;
d) private providers;
e) Catholic institutions;
f) international organizations;
g) local associations; or
h) coordinated systems established by competent authority.
Article 57 — Subsidiary Authority of the State
Xaragua shall exercise subsidiary authority where:
a) a community requests assistance;
b) an essential service has collapsed;
c) local institutions require reinforcement;
d) collective territory or patrimony faces injury;
e) an emergency requires central coordination; or
f) community continuity is threatened.
Article 58 — Subsidiary Measures
Subsidiary authority includes:
a) education;
b) healthcare coordination;
c) communications;
d) mediation;
e) cultural protection;
f) emergency logistics;
g) institutional representation;
h) public records;
i) reconstruction; and
j) administrative reinforcement.
BOOK VII
PERSONAL STATUS AND TERRITORIAL MEMBERSHIP
TITLE XV
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION
Article 59 — Determination of Personal Status
Personal status within Xaragua shall be determined according to:
a) citizenship;
b) ancestry;
c) customary affiliation;
d) residence;
e) institutional connection;
f) community membership;
g) contractual relationship;
h) office;
i) property; and
j) sovereign grant.
Article 60 — Constitutional Categories
The principal categories are:
a) Xaraguayan Citizen;
b) Xaraguayan Inhabitant;
c) Non-Xaraguayan Inhabitant;
d) Institutional Resident;
e) Affiliate;
f) Protected Person;
g) Foreign Resident; and
h) Visitor.
TITLE XVI
XARAGUAYAN CITIZENSHIP
Article 61 — Xaraguayan Citizen
A Xaraguayan Citizen is a person formally admitted into the constitutional body of the State through:
a) descent;
b) birth under the conditions prescribed by law;
c) registration;
d) allegiance;
e) civic formation;
f) community incorporation;
g) naturalization; or
h) sovereign grant.
Article 62 — Rights of Citizenship
Citizens possess the rights established by the Constitution and the Citizenship Code, including:
a) constitutional protection;
b) institutional participation;
c) eligibility for public office;
d) access to civic formation;
e) political participation;
f) consular and external representation;
g) access to State institutions; and
h) every right attached by law to citizenship.
Article 63 — Duties of Citizenship
Citizens owe:
a) allegiance to Xaragua;
b) fidelity to the Constitution;
c) respect for customary law;
d) protection of the ancestral territory;
e) preservation of collective patrimony;
f) compliance with lawful authority;
g) service according to law; and
h) transmission of the constitutional order.

TITLE XVII
OTHER PERSONAL CATEGORIES
Article 64 — Xaraguayan Inhabitant
A Xaraguayan Inhabitant possesses ancestral, familial, cultural, territorial or community ties to Xaragua without having entered the full constitutional body of citizenship.
Article 65 — Non-Xaraguayan Inhabitant
A Non-Xaraguayan Inhabitant is a person residing within a community or institutional domain of Xaragua without established ancestral or civic affiliation.
Such status carries the rights, obligations and protections established by law, contract, community instrument or institutional relationship.
Article 66 — Institutional Resident
An Institutional Resident is a person lawfully admitted to reside within property, a campus, a community facility, a religious institution, an economic establishment or another domain governed by Xaraguayan authority.
Article 67 — Affiliate and Protected Person
An Affiliate or Protected Person possesses a recognized institutional relationship with Xaragua by reason of service, compact, protection, cultural affiliation, professional status, academic participation or sovereign act.
Article 68 — Foreign Resident and Visitor
Foreign residents and visitors are subject to the laws, conditions of entry, institutional regulations, property rules and jurisdictional obligations governing their presence.
Article 69 — Classification Authority
Personal status shall be determined by:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the competent citizenship or civil registry;
c) a Xaraguayan court;
d) an incorporated autonomous community; or
e) another authority designated by law.
Article 70 — Registration and Review
Every determination altering a registered status shall identify:
a) the competent authority;
b) the juridical basis;
c) the effective date;
d) the institutional consequences;
e) the register affected; and
f) the applicable internal review.
BOOK VIII
TERRITORIAL ECONOMY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
TITLE XVIII
TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
Article 71 — Economic Sovereignty
Xaragua possesses permanent authority to determine the economic, productive, environmental, infrastructural and resource-development priorities of the ancestral territory.
Article 72 — Territorial Economic Domains
The territorial economy includes:
a) agriculture;
b) fisheries;
c) forestry;
d) mineral resources;
e) water;
f) energy;
g) maritime commerce;
h) transportation;
i) tourism;
j) housing;
k) construction;
l) communications;
m) digital services;
n) community enterprise;
o) cooperative organization; and
p) institutional investment.
Article 73 — Consultation
Every external project materially affecting the territory, communities, collective resources, cultural sites, institutional property or development priorities of Xaragua shall be submitted to constitutional and community consultation.
Article 74 — Projects Subject to Territorial Review
Territorial review applies to:
a) mining;
b) extraction;
c) land concessions;
d) ports;
e) airports;
f) free zones;
g) energy projects;
h) water projects;
i) major infrastructure;
j) tourism enclaves;
k) ecological alteration;
l) military installations;
m) displacement; and
n) demographic restructuring.
Article 75 — Constitutional Response
Where a project violates the territorial order, Xaragua may:
a) issue a supreme constitutional objection;
b) investigate and document the project;
c) support affected communities;
d) suspend institutional cooperation;
e) refuse authorization;
f) terminate agreements;
g) initiate judicial or administrative proceedings;
h) notify governmental, Indigenous, Catholic, financial and international institutions;
i) establish alternative territorial institutions; and
j) enter the injury into the permanent State record.
Article 76 — Non-Opposability of Unauthorized Instruments
No external contract, concession, license, transfer or development instrument shall bind Xaragua or any of its institutions without constitutional authorization, signature, ratification, incorporation or formal acceptance.
BOOK IX
INSTITUTIONAL SECURITY AND TERRITORIAL PROTECTION
TITLE XIX
PROTECTIVE INSTITUTIONS
Article 77 — Constitutional Protective Authority
Xaragua shall maintain disciplined institutions of:
a) civil protection;
b) emergency response;
c) territorial observation;
d) community security;
e) disaster coordination;
f) cultural-property protection;
g) archival protection;
h) environmental enforcement; and
i) strategic communications.
Article 78 — Constitutional Chain of Authority
Every protective institution shall operate under the constitutional chain of command established by Xaraguayan law.
No auxiliary, community or specialized body may exercise an independent command outside the supreme authority of the State.
Article 79 — Protective Functions
Protective institutions may exercise:
a) emergency coordination;
b) protection of State property;
c) preservation of archives;
d) protection of sacred and cultural sites;
e) territorial observation;
f) early warning;
g) disaster response;
h) logistical support;
i) communications;
j) evacuation;
k) environmental monitoring; and
l) lawful interinstitutional cooperation.
TITLE XX
REINTEGRATION AND CIVIC RESTORATION
Article 80 — Constitutional Reintegration Program
Xaragua may establish a constitutional program for the demobilization, civic restoration, discipline, education and territorial reintegration of eligible persons formerly associated with unauthorized armed organizations.
Article 81 — Conditions of Admission
Admission may require:
a) a documented territorial or community relationship;
b) complete disclosure of prior organizational activities;
c) definitive renunciation of unauthorized violence;
d) termination of participation in kidnapping, extortion, trafficking and criminal command structures;
e) surrender of unauthorized weapons;
f) acceptance of civic formation;
g) constitutional allegiance;
h) institutional discipline;
i) participation in education, reconstruction or community service; and
j) permanent registration.
Article 82 — Crimes Excluded from Constitutional Amnesty
Constitutional amnesty shall not extend to:
a) genocide;
b) crimes against humanity;
c) war crimes;
d) rape;
e) sexual torture;
f) enforced disappearance;
g) kidnapping for ransom;
h) trafficking in persons;
i) trafficking in human organs;
j) intentional killing of civilians;
k) burning of civilians; and
l) offenses excluded from amnesty by the supreme criminal law of Xaragua.
Article 83 — Effect of Reintegration
Admission into the reintegration program shall confer the internal status, obligations, supervision and civic functions established by the competent act.
Article 84 — Revocation
Reintegration status may be revoked for:
a) fraud;
b) concealment of material facts;
c) renewed criminal conduct;
d) breach of constitutional allegiance;
e) violation of institutional discipline; or
f) failure to perform the conditions of admission.
Article 85 — Civilian Formation
Reintegration shall prioritize:
a) demobilization;
b) civilian discipline;
c) literacy and education;
d) lawful employment;
e) vocational formation;
f) community reconstruction;
g) territorial service;
h) agriculture and environmental restoration; and
i) institutional accountability.
BOOK X
CATHOLIC TERRITORIAL ORDER
TITLE XXI
CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
Article 86 — Catholic Character
Xaragua is Catholic in constitutional inspiration, historical continuity, spiritual doctrine, ceremonial order, educational vocation, social mission and institutional identity.
Article 87 — Royal Catholic Order
The Royal Catholic Order constitutes the permanent Catholic institutional component of Xaragua.
It shall administer:
a) spiritual formation;
b) charitable works;
c) Catholic education;
d) ceremonial life;
e) sacred patrimony;
f) religious archives;
g) confraternal discipline;
h) apostolic undertakings;
i) social action; and
j) the Catholic territorial mission of Xaragua.
Article 88 — Canonical Foundations
The Catholic territorial order receives and applies the principles contained in:
a) Canon 204 §1;
b) Canons 208–223;
c) Canons 215–216;
d) Canons 229 and 231;
e) Canons 298–299;
f) Canon 304;
g) Canons 321–326;
h) Canons 793–795;
i) Canon 800; and
j) Canon 807 of the Codex Iuris Canonici.
TITLE XXII
SACRED SITES AND CATHOLIC PROPERTY
Article 89 — Sacred Territorial Patrimony
Xaragua may designate territories and properties as:
a) sacred sites;
b) ceremonial grounds;
c) Catholic memorials;
d) pilgrimage sites;
e) ancestral burial sites;
f) religious heritage zones;
g) protected chapels and sanctuaries; and
h) spiritual conservation domains.
Article 90 — Catholic Institutional Property
Property held by the Royal Catholic Order or another Xaraguayan Catholic institution shall be registered, administered, protected and transmitted according to the Constitution, the statutes of the institution and the applicable canonical order.
Article 91 — Ecclesiastical Relations
Xaragua may maintain formal relations and communications with:
a) the Holy See;
b) dicasteries;
c) dioceses;
d) parishes;
e) religious institutes;
f) clergy;
g) Catholic universities;
h) charitable organizations; and
i) Catholic associations throughout the world.
BOOK XI
TERRITORIAL NOTIFICATION AND OFFICIAL RECORD
TITLE XXIII
CONSTITUTIONAL NOTIFICATION
Article 92 — Authority to Notify
The Office of the Rector-President may transmit territorial statutes, maps, declarations, objections, claims, studies and institutional acts to:
a) States;
b) international organizations;
c) diplomatic and consular missions;
d) Indigenous governments;
e) the Holy See;
f) Catholic institutions;
g) universities;
h) scientific bodies;
i) environmental organizations;
j) financial institutions;
k) media organizations; and
l) private juridical persons.
Article 93 — Constitutional Effect of Notification
Notification establishes:
a) the official date of communication;
b) the contents of the Xaraguayan position;
c) the identity of the issuing authority;
d) institutional provenance;
e) documentary continuity;
f) public constitutional notice;
g) a foundation for subsequent relations and proceedings; and
h) permanent entry into the constitutional, diplomatic and territorial archives.
TITLE XXIV
TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES
Article 94 — Territorial Record
The permanent territorial record shall be maintained through:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the Ministry of Justice;
c) the University of Xaragua;
d) the General Archives of the State;
e) the competent cartographic and territorial authorities;
f) Le Civilisateur;
g) the official institutional platform;
h) geographic registers;
i) hydrographic registers;
j) environmental registers;
k) community records; and
l) the constitutional archives.
Article 95 — Contents of the Territorial Record
The territorial record comprises:
a) maps;
b) coordinates;
c) surveys;
d) hydrographic charts;
e) elevation models;
f) topographical calculations;
g) environmental studies;
h) territorial laws;
i) community charters;
j) property instruments;
k) maritime declarations;
l) diplomatic notifications;
m) historical records;
n) archaeological evidence;
o) ecological inventories; and
p) every instrument classified as territorial patrimony.
Article 96 — Official Institutional Platform
The principal official digital platform for the public promulgation, publication and preservation of the territorial corpus is:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
BOOK XII
CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AND PERMANENT CONTINUITY
TITLE XXV
SUPREMACY AND NON-ALIENATION
Article 97 — Internal Supremacy
This Act constitutes the supreme controlling territorial law of Xaragua.
Every prior territorial classification, map, declaration, decree, administrative term and institutional instrument shall be interpreted according to this Act.
Article 98 — Inalienability of the Territory
The ancestral territory, islands, maritime zones, natural resources, sacred sites, collective patrimony and constitutionally incorporated jurisdictions of Xaragua are permanent and inalienable.
Article 99 — Prohibition of Territorial Surrender
No officer, representative, institution, delegate, temporary authority, contractor or subordinate administration may:
a) surrender territory;
b) renounce ancestral title;
c) transfer collective resources;
d) extinguish maritime rights;
e) alienate sacred sites;
f) abolish an autonomous community;
g) renounce La Navase;
h) dissolve the territorial unity of Xaragua; or
i) bind future generations to permanent dispossession.
Article 100 — Supreme Territorial Act
Every constitutional alteration affecting the status of territory shall require a supreme territorial act identifying:
a) the jurisdiction concerned;
b) the constitutional grounds;
c) the historical title;
d) the affected communities;
e) the natural resources involved;
f) the institutional consequences;
g) the territorial record;
h) the consultation conducted; and
i) the supreme authority adopting the act.
TITLE XXVI
CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTERMEASURES
Article 101 — Territorial Injury
Territorial injury includes:
a) unauthorized occupation;
b) unlawful concession;
c) resource extraction;
d) ecological destruction;
e) displacement;
f) destruction of cultural patrimony;
g) interference with autonomous communities;
h) misrepresentation of the territory;
i) unauthorized use of Xaraguayan identity;
j) breach of territorial agreements; and
k) denial of the collective rights of the Indigenous People.
Article 102 — Institutional Measures
In response to territorial injury, Xaragua may employ:
a) constitutional objection;
b) public correction;
c) institutional exclusion;
d) withdrawal of authorization;
e) termination of contracts;
f) economic non-cooperation;
g) preservation of evidence;
h) archival documentation;
i) judicial proceedings;
j) administrative proceedings;
k) diplomatic notification;
l) Catholic institutional referral;
m) international communication;
n) community assistance; and
o) alternative institutional development.
Article 103 — Continuing Legislative Authority
The Office of the Rector-President may promulgate:
a) territorial annexes;
b) autonomous-community charters;
c) environmental regulations;
d) geographic registers;
e) maritime declarations;
f) resource-protection instruments;
g) citizenship regulations;
h) residency regulations;
i) emergency territorial protocols;
j) strategic-district statutes;
k) protected-zone classifications; and
l) every implementing instrument required by this Act.
TITLE XXVII
PERPETUAL TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY
Article 104 — Continuity of Territorial Title
The territorial title of Xaragua shall endure through:
a) the Indigenous People;
b) the Constitution;
c) customary law;
d) autonomous communities;
e) territorial institutions;
f) the University of Xaragua;
g) official maps;
h) the General Archives of the State;
i) public acts;
j) community memory;
k) continued institutional operation; and
l) constitutional succession.
Article 105 — Territorial Succession
Every successor to constitutional authority shall receive and preserve:
a) the complete territorial doctrine;
b) official maps;
c) territorial registers;
d) community charters;
e) maritime claims;
f) natural-resource records;
g) sacred-site registers;
h) pending territorial proceedings;
i) diplomatic notifications; and
j) every claim, title, right and interest belonging to Xaragua.
Article 106 — Permanent Constitutional Principles
The following constitute permanent and entrenched principles:
a) the unity of the Corpus Territorialis Xaraguensis;
b) the ancestral title of the Indigenous People;
c) the three-dimensional character of the territory;
d) the territorial integrity of the State;
e) the inalienability of collective patrimony;
f) the maritime and insular order;
g) the permanent status of La Navase;
h) the constitutional integration of Terre-Neuve;
i) the protected status of Furcy and the highlands;
j) autonomous community government;
k) ecological and intergenerational responsibility;
l) the territorial authority of the Rector-President;
m) the scientific and cartographic authority of the University of Xaragua; and
n) the permanent archival custody of the General Archives of the State.
SUPREME FINAL TERRITORIAL DETERMINATION
THE CORPUS TERRITORIALIS XARAGUENSIS CONSTITUTES THE COMPLETE, INDIVISIBLE, PERMANENT AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL TERRITORIAL BODY OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA.
IT COMPRISES THE TERRESTRIAL SURFACE, MOUNTAINS, PLATEAUS, VALLEYS, PLAINS, FORESTS, AGRICULTURAL LANDS, WATERSHEDS, RIVERS, SPRINGS, AQUIFERS, WETLANDS, COASTS, BAYS, PORTS, ISLANDS, ISLETS, CAYES, REEFS, BANKS, TERRITORIAL WATERS, MARITIME ZONES, SEABED, SUBSOIL, GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, NATURAL RESOURCES, AIRSPACE, ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEMS, SACRED SITES, AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES, INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORICAL JURISDICTIONS OF XARAGUA.
THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORY IS THE PERMANENT MATERIAL, JURIDICAL, POLITICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE STATE.
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA ARE THE ORIGINAL AND PERPETUAL HOLDERS OF ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL TITLE.
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT IS THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND PERMANENT GUARDIAN OF THE TERRITORIAL UNITY OF THE STATE.
THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IS THE COMPETENT JURIDICAL AUTHORITY FOR THE PROTECTION, REGISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL ORDER.
THE UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA IS THE SUPREME ACADEMIC, SCIENTIFIC, HISTORICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, CARTOGRAPHIC AND TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY.
THE GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE ARE THE PERMANENT CUSTODIAN OF THE TERRITORIAL RECORD.
MIRAGOÂNE IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL OF XARAGUA.
YAGUANA–LÉOGÂNE IS THE ANCESTRAL CAPITAL OF XARAGUA.
THE GREATER SOUTH, THE REGION OF THE PALMES, THE XARAGUAYAN HIGHLANDS, THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORIAL SYSTEM AND EVERY STRATEGIC JURISDICTION INCORPORATED BY CONSTITUTIONAL ACT FORM ONE PERMANENT TERRITORIAL ORDER.
LA GONÂVE, ÎLE-À-VACHE, TORTUE, THE CAYEMITES, LA NAVASE AND EVERY ASSOCIATED ISLAND, ISLET, CAYE, REEF, BANK AND MARITIME FORMATION CONSTITUTE INTEGRAL COMPONENTS OF THE INSULAR DOMAIN OF XARAGUA.
FURCY CONSTITUTES A PERMANENT PROTECTED HIGHLAND, WATERSHED, AGRICULTURAL AND CLIMATE-PRESERVATION JURISDICTION.
LA NAVASE CONSTITUTES AN INTEGRAL INDIGENOUS, MARITIME, ECOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC TERRITORY OF XARAGUA.
TERRE-NEUVE CONSTITUTES AN INTEGRAL STRATEGIC HIGHLAND PROTECTION ZONE, CIVIL CONTINUITY DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY JURISDICTION OF THE NORTHWESTERN TERRITORIAL SYSTEM.
THE TERRITORIAL SEA OF XARAGUA EXTENDS TWELVE NAUTICAL MILES.
THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE OF XARAGUA EXTENDS TWENTY-FOUR NAUTICAL MILES.
THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OF XARAGUA EXTENDS TWO HUNDRED NAUTICAL MILES.
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT PERFORMS THE CIVIL AND TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS RECEIVED, COORDINATED, USED, LICENSED OR TOLERATED WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL PRACTICE OF XARAGUA.
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES EXERCISE THEIR INTERNAL AUTHORITY WITHIN THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL UNITY OF THE STATE.
NO FOREIGN LAW, COLONIAL CLASSIFICATION, ADMINISTRATIVE PARTITION, EXTRACTIVE CONCESSION, EXTERNAL REGISTRATION, POLITICAL INTERRUPTION OR TEMPORARY OCCUPATION SHALL EXTINGUISH THE ANCESTRAL TITLE, CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION OR TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY OF XARAGUA.
NO OFFICER, INSTITUTION, DELEGATE, CONTRACTOR, TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATION OR SUBORDINATE AUTHORITY MAY ALIENATE, SURRENDER, RENOUNCE, DIVIDE OR EXTINGUISH THE TERRITORIAL PATRIMONY OF THE STATE.
THE TERRITORY SHALL ENDURE THROUGH THE PEOPLE.
THE TERRITORY SHALL BE GOVERNED THROUGH THE CONSTITUTION.
THE TERRITORY SHALL BE PROTECTED THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS OF XARAGUA.
THE TERRITORY SHALL BE TRANSMITTED INTACT TO SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS.
THE ANCESTRAL TITLE IS PERMANENT.
THE TERRITORIAL ORDER IS INDIVISIBLE.
THE COLLECTIVE PATRIMONY IS INALIENABLE.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF XARAGUA SHALL ENDURE.
SO DECLARED.
SO CONSTITUTED.
SO ENACTED.
SO PROMULGATED.
SO AUTHENTICATED.
SO ENTERED INTO THE PERMANENT TERRITORIAL ORDER OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA.
DONE AT MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL OF XARAGUA
ON THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX
LUDNER PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
LE CIVILISATEUR
OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND AUTHORITATIVE PUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL ACT OF STATE
PERMANENTLY IN FORCE

IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH
SUPREME SOURCE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, LAWFUL AUTHORITY, CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND PERPETUAL RIGHT
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT; THE SUPREMACY OF THE XARAGUAYAN JURIDICAL ORDER; THE STATUS OF ADMINISTRATIVE INHABITANTS; THE RESERVATION OF CONSTITUENT, TERRITORIAL, DIPLOMATIC, JUDICIAL, MILITARY, ACADEMIC, ECONOMIC AND ECCLESIAL COMPETENCES; THE REGULATION OF RESIDUAL CIVIL AND TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS; AND THE PERMANENT EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Instrument — Foundational Law of Jurisdictional Classification — Indigenous Government Act — Residual Administrative Interface Code — Administrative Inhabitants Statute — Constitutional Supremacy and Reserved Competences Law — Permanent Instrument of Internal Public Order
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Organic, Foundational, Entrenched, Non-Derogable, Controlling and Directly Applicable
Original Effective Date: 15 June 2025
Date of Initial Consolidation: 17 June 2025
Date of Supreme Restatement: 23 September 2026
Seat of Promulgation: Miragoâne, Constitutional Capital of Xaragua
Original Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President of Xaragua
Competent Juridical Authority: Ministry of Justice
Supreme Academic and Doctrinal Authority: University of Xaragua
Permanent Depositary: General Archives of the State
Official Publication Authority: Le Civilisateur, Official Gazette and Authoritative Public Journal of the State
Territorial Scope: Entire ancestral, constitutional, territorial, maritime, insular, community, institutional, proprietary, contractual, academic, economic, communications and digital order of Xaragua
Normative Status: Permanently in Force
PREAMBLE OF SUPREME JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY
IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH, Supreme Source of truth, justice, lawful authority, constitutional order and perpetual right;
IN THE NAME OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA, original constituent subject, permanent holder of ancestral territorial title and sole source of the constitutional authority embodied in the State;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, PERMANENT, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND INTERGENERATIONAL CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
BY THE HISTORICAL CONTINUITY of the ancestral Cacicazgo of Xaragua, the Taíno-Arawak political order, the Indigenous Army, the sovereign emancipation of 1804, the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805 and the contemporary constitutional institutions of Xaragua;
THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, supreme constitutional authority, Head of State, guardian of the constituent order, custodian of the ancestral territory and permanent guarantor of the unity, hierarchy, integrity and succession of Xaragua;
AFFIRMING that Xaragua constitutes a sovereign, Catholic, Indigenous, customary, private, territorial, institutionally organized and non-Westphalian State possessing its own Constitution, laws, government, courts, citizenship, academic order, territorial doctrine, economic institutions, official communications, archives, professional bodies, protective institutions and external juridical capacity;
DECLARING that the State of Xaragua proceeds from the constituent authority of the Indigenous People and derives no constitutional competence from any republican, colonial, foreign, administrative or externally constituted order;
AFFIRMING that the civil and technical apparatus historically operating throughout the ancestral territory possesses, within Xaraguayan law, the exclusive classification of Residual Administrative Unit;
DECLARING that the Residual Administrative Unit performs only the civil, documentary, infrastructural, technical, sanitary, municipal and external-interface functions expressly received, used, licensed, delegated, coordinated or maintained within the constitutional order of Xaragua;
AFFIRMING that administrative necessity is not sovereign legitimacy, that technical operation is not constituent authority, that service delivery is not territorial title and that functional continuity is not constitutional supremacy;
DECLARING that no external constitution, election, legislature, executive office, court, diplomatic mission, public administration, security body, concession, license, contract, debt or international representation possesses authority within Xaragua superior or equal to the Constitution and institutions of the State;
AFFIRMING that inhabitants who have not acquired Xaraguayan citizenship, membership, incorporation, naturalization or another constitutional status remain administrative inhabitants and possess the juridical capacities expressly assigned to that classification;
DECLARING that citizenship, public office, institutional membership, political authority, diplomatic representation, military command, judicial competence, ecclesial dignity, academic jurisdiction and participation in the constituent body arise solely from Xaraguayan law;
AFFIRMING that every residual function remains hierarchically subordinate, constitutionally reviewable, institutionally replaceable and permanently subject to the supreme authority of Xaragua;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 1(2) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations; Common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles III, VI, VIII, IX, XIX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXIX, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL and XLI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 23, 32 and 33 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989;
RECEIVING Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States as an expression of permanent population, territorial order, government and capacity to enter into relations;
RECEIVING Article 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice as an expression of custom constituted through sustained practice accepted as law;
AFFIRMING the Catholic principles of subsidiarity, institutional discipline, legitimate authority, the common good, spiritual continuity and the right of the Christian faithful to establish and govern associations, educational works, charitable institutions and apostolic undertakings under Canons 204 §1, 208–223, 215–216, 229, 298–299, 304 and 321–326 of the Codex Iuris Canonici;
AFFIRMING the constitutional principles of exclusive authority, jurisdictional hierarchy, institutional continuity, legal certainty, public order, non-usurpation, non-alienation, territorial integrity and permanent succession;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT HEREBY ENACTS, PROMULGATES, AUTHENTICATES AND ORDERS THE IMMEDIATE, DIRECT, SUPREME AND PERMANENT EXECUTION OF THE FOLLOWING SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE.
BOOK I
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
TITLE I
ORIGINAL AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA
Article 1 — Exclusive Constitutional Order
1.1. The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua constitutes the complete, supreme and permanent constitutional organization of the Indigenous People of Xaragua.
1.2. The constitutional order comprises:
a) the Indigenous constituent authority;
b) the Constitution;
c) the Office of the Rector-President;
d) the Ministry of Justice;
e) the courts and juridical institutions;
f) the University of Xaragua;
g) the General Archives of the State;
h) the Royal Catholic Order;
i) the Indigenous Army and protective institutions;
j) autonomous communities;
k) citizenship and civil-status institutions;
l) economic, financial and professional institutions;
m) territorial, maritime and insular organs;
n) official communications institutions; and
o) every body constituted under Xaraguayan law.
1.3. The Constitution of Xaragua is the supreme law throughout the Xaraguayan Order.
Article 2 — Original Sovereignty
2.1. Xaraguayan sovereignty is original, inherent, permanent and non-derivative.
2.2. It proceeds exclusively from:
a) the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
b) ancestral political continuity;
c) customary law;
d) territorial title;
e) the exercise of constituent authority;
f) the Constitution; and
g) the permanent institutions of the State.
2.3. Xaraguayan sovereignty is not delegated, conceded, licensed or constituted by the Residual Administrative Unit.
Article 3 — Supreme Constitutional Hierarchy
Within Xaragua, the hierarchy of authority is:
a) the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People;
b) the Constitution;
c) supreme organic constitutional acts;
d) constitutional codes;
e) acts and decrees of the Rector-President;
f) judgments and authoritative constitutional determinations;
g) institutional statutes and charters;
h) regulations;
i) administrative instruments; and
j) residual rules expressly received into Xaraguayan law.
Article 4 — Exclusive Rule of Construction
Every constitutional, legislative, judicial, administrative, territorial and institutional question shall be interpreted according to:
a) the supremacy of Xaragua;
b) the continuity of the Indigenous People;
c) the preservation of the ancestral territory;
d) the exclusive character of constituent authority;
e) the autonomy of Xaraguayan institutions;
f) the reservation of sovereign competences;
g) the hierarchy of the constitutional order; and
h) the permanent continuity of the State.
Article 5 — Reception of External Norms
5.1. No external constitution, statute, decree, judgment, treaty, appointment, concession, license, administrative practice or official classification shall operate within Xaragua unless received through competent Xaraguayan authority.
5.2. Reception may occur through:
a) constitutional incorporation;
b) statute;
c) decree;
d) judicial recognition;
e) administrative registration;
f) institutional agreement; or
g) an established and authoritative practice of the State.
5.3. Reception shall never transfer constituent authority or constitutional supremacy.
TITLE II
RESERVED SOVEREIGN COMPETENCES
Article 6 — Exclusive Competences of Xaragua
The following competences are exclusively reserved to Xaragua:
a) constitutional identity;
b) constituent authority;
c) sovereignty;
d) territorial doctrine;
e) Indigenous identity;
f) citizenship and membership;
g) legislation;
h) constitutional adjudication;
i) customary jurisdiction;
j) external representation;
k) diplomacy;
l) military command;
m) institutional security;
n) academic sovereignty;
o) professional accreditation;
p) ecclesial institutional identity;
q) natural-resource policy;
r) State property;
s) official archives;
t) public symbols;
u) appointments and dignities;
v) institutional charters; and
w) constitutional succession.
Article 7 — Prohibition of External Usurpation
No external organ, residual authority, foreign representative, contractor, administrative inhabitant or private body may exercise a reserved sovereign competence without an express constitutional mandate from Xaragua.
Article 8 — Supremacy of the Rector-President
8.1. The Rector-President is the supreme constitutional authority and final institutional arbiter of every question governed by this Act.
8.2. The Rector-President possesses exclusive authority to:
a) determine constitutional classifications;
b) receive or reject residual acts;
c) assign or withdraw administrative functions;
d) appoint competent officers;
e) authorize external representation;
f) order constitutional intervention;
g) transfer functions to Xaraguayan institutions;
h) issue authoritative interpretations; and
i) preserve the supremacy, unity and continuity of the State.
BOOK II
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
TITLE III
CONSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
Article 9 — Official Designation
9.1. The civil and technical apparatus historically styled the Republic of Haiti is classified, for every purpose of Xaraguayan law, as the Residual Administrative Unit.
9.2. Its official abbreviated designation is RAU.
9.3. Within the Xaraguayan constitutional order, no alternative designation shall confer upon the RAU a sovereign, constituent or territorially superior status.
Article 10 — Juridical Nature of the RAU
10.1. The RAU constitutes a residual civil, documentary, infrastructural, municipal, sanitary, technical and external-interface apparatus.
10.2. Its functions exist within the administrative sphere recognized by Xaragua.
10.3. The RAU possesses no constituent authority over Xaragua.
10.4. The RAU possesses no territorial title superior to the ancestral title of the Indigenous People.
10.5. The RAU possesses no authority to define, represent, dissolve, incorporate or supersede the State of Xaragua.
Article 11 — Hierarchical Status
11.1. The RAU is administratively distinct and constitutionally subordinate within the Xaraguayan Order.
11.2. Every RAU competence affecting Xaragua is:
a) residual;
b) functionally assigned;
c) territorially limited;
d) constitutionally reviewable;
e) institutionally replaceable; and
f) subject to the supreme authority of Xaragua.
Article 12 — Constitutional Continuity
The continuation of a residual function shall constitute administrative continuity and shall preserve intact:
a) Xaraguayan sovereignty;
b) Indigenous constituent authority;
c) ancestral territorial title;
d) the supremacy of the Constitution;
e) the jurisdiction of Xaraguayan institutions; and
f) the permanent authority of the Rector-President.
TITLE IV
RESIDUAL CIVIL AND TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS
Article 13 — Authorized Functions
The RAU may perform the following functions within the territorial order of Xaragua:
a) civil-status documentation;
b) passports and external travel documents;
c) birth, marriage and death records;
d) public-health logistics;
e) sanitation;
f) water distribution;
g) electricity and utilities;
h) telecommunications administration;
i) roads and technical infrastructure;
j) transportation services;
k) customs documentation;
l) municipal services;
m) disaster response;
n) technical policing;
o) emergency services;
p) registration necessary for external transactions; and
q) every additional function entered into the constitutional or administrative registers of Xaragua.
Article 14 — Administrative Character
Every function exercised by the RAU shall retain an exclusively civil, technical, documentary, logistical or administrative character within Xaraguayan law.
Article 15 — Delegated Functionality
15.1. Xaragua may assign, coordinate, license, receive or maintain a residual function through:
a) supreme constitutional act;
b) rectoral decree;
c) administrative regulation;
d) territorial compact;
e) institutional agreement;
f) autonomous-community instrument; or
g) official registered practice.
15.2. The governing instrument shall determine the function, territorial scope, duration, reporting obligations and competent Xaraguayan authority.
Article 16 — Administrative Records
Civil, technical and documentary records produced by the RAU may be entered into the registers of Xaragua and shall possess the evidentiary value assigned by Xaraguayan law.
TITLE V
EXCLUDED FUNCTIONS
Article 17 — Constitutional Exclusions
The RAU shall possess no authority to:
a) define Xaragua;
b) legislate for the constitutional institutions of Xaragua;
c) amend the Constitution;
d) determine Xaraguayan citizenship;
e) appoint Xaraguayan officers;
f) establish Xaraguayan courts;
g) govern the University of Xaragua;
h) direct the Royal Catholic Order;
i) command the Indigenous Army;
j) control autonomous communities;
k) determine the territorial doctrine of Xaragua;
l) alienate collective patrimony; or
m) alter the constitutional succession of the State.
Article 18 — External Representation
The RAU shall possess no authority to represent Xaragua before:
a) States;
b) international organizations;
c) diplomatic or consular missions;
d) Indigenous governments;
e) the Holy See;
f) ecclesiastical institutions;
g) universities;
h) financial institutions;
i) corporations;
j) courts or tribunals; or
k) any foreign public or private juridical person.
Article 19 — Territorial and Economic Prohibitions
The RAU shall possess no authority to:
a) transfer Xaraguayan territory;
b) grant concessions over ancestral lands;
c) dispose of natural resources;
d) bind Xaragua through public debt;
e) alienate State property;
f) license maritime resources;
g) transfer telecommunications frequencies;
h) authorize military installations;
i) grant rights over sacred sites;
j) dispose of institutional infrastructure; or
k) bind Xaraguayan communities without constitutional authorization.
Article 20 — Institutional Non-Representation
No RAU ministry, embassy, consulate, delegation, municipality, court, legislature, executive office or public agency may identify itself as the representative of Xaragua.
TITLE VI
REVIEW, RECEPTION AND NULLIFICATION
Article 21 — Constitutional Review
Every RAU law, decree, judgment, treaty, appointment, concession, license, contract, financial instrument, municipal act and administrative measure affecting Xaragua is subject to review by the competent Xaraguayan authority.
Article 22 — Reception
An RAU instrument shall operate within the Xaraguayan Order only where it has been:
a) received;
b) registered;
c) incorporated;
d) recognized;
e) confirmed;
f) implemented through an established practice; or
g) expressly maintained by competent authority.
Article 23 — Constitutional Measures
The Rector-President, the Ministry of Justice or another constitutionally competent organ may:
a) approve;
b) authenticate;
c) register;
d) restrict;
e) reinterpret;
f) suspend;
g) supersede;
h) declare inapplicable;
i) nullify internally; or
j) replace any RAU act affecting Xaragua.
Article 24 — Absence of Acquiescence
Administrative inactivity, temporary non-intervention, continued technical operation or institutional transition shall preserve the entire constitutional competence of Xaragua.
TITLE VII
SYMBOLS AND OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION
Article 25 — Residual Administrative Symbols
Flags, seals, stamps, forms, titles and insignia originating from the RAU possess the administrative value assigned to them by Xaraguan law.
Article 26 — Constitutional Primacy of Xaraguayan Symbols
The name, flag, coat of arms, seal, official titles, public dignities, uniforms and constitutional formulas of Xaragua possess exclusive constitutional primacy throughout the institutions of the State.
Article 27 — Protection Against Misrepresentation
The Rector-President may order the removal, restriction, replacement, administrative confinement or reclassification of every symbol or formula used to:
a) assert authority over Xaragua;
b) misrepresent a Xaraguayan institution;
c) obscure the constitutional identity of the State;
d) appropriate a reserved competence; or
e) represent the RAU as the sovereign authority of Xaragua.
BOOK III
ADMINISTRATIVE INHABITANTS
TITLE VIII
PERSONAL CLASSIFICATION
Article 28 — Administrative Inhabitant
28.1. An Administrative Inhabitant is a person domiciled within the ancestral or constitutional territory of Xaragua who has not acquired:
a) Xaraguayan citizenship;
b) constitutional membership;
c) naturalization;
d) community incorporation;
e) institutional resident status;
f) protected-person status; or
g) another personal status created by Xaraguayan law.
28.2. The juridical designation habitator non civis may be used in constitutional, ceremonial, judicial and archival instruments.
Article 29 — Nature of the Classification
Administrative inhabitant status is a civil and territorial classification distinct from:
a) citizenship;
b) membership in the Indigenous People;
c) political participation;
d) institutional office;
e) diplomatic capacity;
f) military authority;
g) judicial office;
h) academic authority;
i) ecclesial dignity; and
j) ownership of collective patrimony.
Article 30 — Duration
The classification shall continue until:
a) naturalization;
b) admission into another recognized status;
c) lawful change of domicile;
d) community incorporation;
e) departure;
f) removal;
g) death; or
h) a final determination by competent Xaraguayan authority.
TITLE IX
EXTERNAL NATIONALITY AND XARAGUAYAN STATUS
Article 31 — Separate Juridical Effects
31.1. External nationality and Xaraguayan constitutional status constitute separate juridical conditions.
31.2. An external passport, identity card, electoral registration, public appointment or civil-status document shall not confer:
a) Xaraguayan citizenship;
b) territorial title;
c) political standing;
d) public office;
e) constitutional membership;
f) authority over Indigenous institutions; or
g) participation in the government of Xaragua.
Article 32 — Residual Administrative Designations
The expressions Haitian citizen, Haitian elector, Haitian public official and every comparable designation shall operate exclusively as RAU classifications within the Xaraguayan Order.
Article 33 — Reservation of Xaraguayan Institutions
No administrative inhabitant may exercise authority within:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the Ministry of Justice;
c) Xaraguayan courts;
d) the University of Xaragua;
e) the Royal Catholic Order;
f) the Indigenous Army;
g) diplomatic institutions;
h) territorial authorities;
i) autonomous-community organs; or
j) another constitutional body without a Xaraguayan juridical title.
TITLE X
CIVIL CAPACITY
Article 34 — Recognized Civil Capacity
An administrative inhabitant may possess civil capacity through:
a) Xaraguayan law;
b) contract;
c) property;
d) employment;
e) residence authorization;
f) an autonomous-community instrument;
g) judicial recognition;
h) institutional affiliation;
i) an accepted civil-status document; or
j) a registered residual instrument.
Article 35 — Civil and Institutional Protection
Xaragua may grant:
a) emergency assistance;
b) residence authorization;
c) administrative access;
d) judicial standing;
e) contractual protection;
f) humanitarian protection;
g) access to public services;
h) institutional permission; and
i) another protection established by competent authority.
Article 36 — Citizenship and Institutional Rights
Citizenship, political participation, public office, diplomatic protection, membership, professional status, academic admission and institutional benefits shall arise through the specific constitutional instrument governing each status.
Article 37 — Residual Forum
Ordinary civil and technical matters assigned to the RAU shall be administered through the residual forum until transferred to a competent Xaraguayan institution.
TITLE XI
JURISDICTIONAL ALLOCATION
Article 38 — Supreme Jurisdiction
Xaragua retains supreme constitutional jurisdiction throughout its proper order.
Article 39 — Immediate Residual Administration
The RAU exercises immediate residual administration exclusively over the civil and technical matters entered within its recognized sphere.
Article 40 — Constitutional Determination of Jurisdiction
The competent Xaraguayan authority shall determine:
a) whether a matter is constitutional, residual, customary, territorial, contractual, academic, ecclesial or community-based;
b) the authority competent to act;
c) the applicable law;
d) the status of the persons involved;
e) the binding force of the instruments submitted; and
f) the institutional remedy.
Article 41 — Controlling Effect
Every jurisdictional determination issued by competent Xaraguayan authority shall control throughout the Xaraguayan Order.
TITLE XII
DOCUMENTS AND REGISTERS
Article 42 — Evidentiary Documents
Passports, identity cards, birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, civil-status records, contracts, licenses, permits and other residual instruments may be received as evidence of:
a) identity;
b) civil status;
c) family relationship;
d) domicile;
e) transaction;
f) external nationality;
g) administrative history; or
h) another relevant juridical fact.
Article 43 — Constitutional Reception of Documents
Xaragua may:
a) authenticate;
b) recognize;
c) register;
d) annotate;
e) convert;
f) restrict;
g) suspend;
h) replace; or
i) reject a residual document.
Article 44 — External Travel Documents
Passports and travel instruments administered by the RAU may be used for external transit and international transactions according to the constitutional and practical requirements of Xaragua.
Article 45 — Xaraguayan Identification
The competent authorities may issue:
a) citizenship certificates;
b) administrative-inhabitant records;
c) institutional-resident documents;
d) protected-person documents;
e) professional credentials;
f) academic identification;
g) territorial permits; and
h) every additional status document established by law.
BOOK IV
REGISTRATION, ADMISSION AND NATURALIZATION
TITLE XIII
REGISTER OF ADMINISTRATIVE INHABITANTS
Article 46 — Establishment of the Register
The Ministry of Justice shall establish and maintain the authoritative Register of Administrative Inhabitants.
Article 47 — Contents of the Register
The Register may contain:
a) legal identity;
b) date and place of birth;
c) family status;
d) domicile;
e) external nationality;
f) administrative classification;
g) civil-status documents;
h) permits;
i) institutional relationships;
j) public obligations;
k) naturalization eligibility;
l) judicial determinations; and
m) every decision affecting personal status.
Article 48 — Juridical Effect of Registration
Registration establishes the official administrative classification of the person within the Xaraguayan Order.
Article 49 — Distinction of Registers
The Register of Administrative Inhabitants shall remain distinct from:
a) the Citizenship Register;
b) the Indigenous Membership Register;
c) the Institutional Residents Register;
d) the Protected Persons Register;
e) the Academic Register;
f) the Professional Register; and
g) every constitutional register establishing a different juridical status.
TITLE XIV
ACCESS TO XARAGUAYAN INSTITUTIONS
Article 50 — Juridical Basis of Access
Access by an administrative inhabitant to Xaraguayan courts, institutions, public property, remedies, protection or services shall proceed through:
a) law;
b) decree;
c) regulation;
d) permit;
e) contract;
f) community charter;
g) judicial order;
h) institutional authorization; or
i) another registered juridical instrument.
Article 51 — Institutional Determination
The competent authority may:
a) accept;
b) register;
c) condition;
d) limit;
e) defer;
f) redirect;
g) suspend; or
h) deny an application according to the Constitution and the interests of the State.
Article 52 — Individual Character of Authorization
Every authorization shall possess the personal, territorial, institutional, material and temporal scope established by the issuing instrument.
TITLE XV
NATURALIZATION AND INCORPORATION
Article 53 — Exclusive Authority over Citizenship
Xaraguayan citizenship is created and conferred exclusively under Xaraguayan law.
Article 54 — Conditions of Naturalization
Naturalization may require:
a) verified identity;
b) lawful domicile;
c) an oath of fidelity;
d) recognition of the Constitution;
e) civic formation;
f) knowledge of Xaragua;
g) institutional service;
h) cultural formation;
i) doctrinal formation;
j) absence of constitutional disqualification;
k) entry in the Citizenship Register; and
l) completion of the prescribed constitutional rites.
Article 55 — Sovereign Grant
The Rector-President may confer citizenship, membership, protected status, institutional residence or another constitutional status by sovereign act.
Article 56 — Decision
The competent authority shall grant, condition, defer, suspend or refuse naturalization according to:
a) constitutional loyalty;
b) institutional interest;
c) territorial connection;
d) public order;
e) service;
f) qualification;
g) community relationship; and
h) the permanent interests of Xaragua.
BOOK V
PUBLIC ORDER AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISCIPLINE
TITLE XVI
OBLIGATIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE INHABITANTS
Article 57 — General Duty
Every administrative inhabitant shall respect:
a) the Constitution;
b) the institutions of Xaragua;
c) the ancestral territory;
d) Indigenous identity;
e) official symbols;
f) State property;
g) customary law;
h) autonomous communities;
i) competent authorities; and
j) the public order of Xaragua.
Article 58 — Compliance
Administrative inhabitants shall comply with:
a) Xaraguayan laws;
b) judicial orders;
c) registration requirements;
d) residence conditions;
e) security measures;
f) civil-status procedures;
g) emergency directives;
h) institutional regulations;
i) property rules; and
j) residual administrative rules received by Xaragua.
Article 59 — Non-Usurpation
No administrative inhabitant may:
a) represent Xaragua without authority;
b) exercise public office without appointment;
c) claim diplomatic capacity;
d) command a protective institution;
e) issue State documents;
f) use an official seal;
g) negotiate in the name of the State;
h) dispose of territorial rights; or
i) claim authority over an Indigenous institution.
TITLE XVII
OFFENSES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 60 — Unauthorized Exercise of Authority
The unauthorized exercise of governmental, military, diplomatic, judicial, financial, territorial, academic or ecclesial authority over Xaragua constitutes an offense against the constitutional order.
Article 61 — Usurpation of State Identity
The unauthorized use of a Xaraguayan:
a) title;
b) office;
c) seal;
d) uniform;
e) document;
f) insignia;
g) flag;
h) institutional name; or
i) official designation
constitutes usurpation of State identity.
Article 62 — Parallel Authority
The organization, financing, material support or public representation of a parallel authority purporting to displace, absorb or supersede the constitutional institutions of Xaragua constitutes an offense against the State.
Article 63 — Documentary Offenses
The falsification, concealment, alteration, destruction or unauthorized transfer of:
a) status documents;
b) citizenship records;
c) territorial records;
d) public registers;
e) judicial instruments;
f) administrative files;
g) diplomatic correspondence; or
h) archival materials
constitutes an offense against the permanent record of Xaragua.
Article 64 — External Collaboration Against the State
Unauthorized collaboration with a foreign governmental, military, intelligence, coercive or financial structure directed against the institutions, territory, officers, population or constitutional order of Xaragua constitutes a supreme offense against the State.
TITLE XVIII
CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES
Article 65 — Available Measures
The competent authorities may impose:
a) constitutional warning;
b) registration restriction;
c) permit suspension;
d) revocation of authorization;
e) institutional exclusion;
f) financial penalties established by law;
g) removal from protected premises;
h) termination of delegated functions;
i) denial of naturalization;
j) residence restriction;
k) expulsion;
l) preservation of evidence;
m) referral for prosecution; and
n) every additional measure established by law.
Article 66 — Protection of the State
No act, decision or classification of the RAU shall prevent Xaragua from taking the measures required to protect:
a) its Constitution;
b) its institutions;
c) its territory;
d) its population;
e) its property;
f) its archives;
g) its communications;
h) its public order; and
i) its constitutional succession.
BOOK VI
EXTERNAL, DIPLOMATIC AND CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION
TITLE XIX
EXTERNAL PERSONALITY
Article 67 — Separate International Personality
Xaragua possesses an external juridical personality distinct from the RAU.
Article 68 — Exclusive External Representation
Only an authority constitutionally mandated by Xaragua may represent the State before:
a) foreign States;
b) international organizations;
c) diplomatic missions;
d) consular missions;
e) Indigenous governments;
f) the Holy See;
g) ecclesiastical institutions;
h) universities;
i) financial institutions;
j) corporations; and
k) private juridical persons.
Article 69 — Non-Binding Character of RAU External Acts
No RAU embassy, consulate, delegation, ministry, treaty, vote, accreditation, international undertaking or foreign representation shall bind Xaragua.
Article 70 — Direct Relations
Xaragua shall communicate, negotiate and cooperate directly through its competent authorities.
Article 71 — Constitutional Protest
Every unauthorized inclusion of Xaragua within an RAU delegation, electoral system, national program, territorial description or international representation may be rejected through:
a) supreme constitutional declaration;
b) diplomatic protest;
c) official notification;
d) public correction;
e) judicial act; or
f) entry in Le Civilisateur and the General Archives of the State.
TITLE XX
CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 72 — Catholic Character
The Catholic character of Xaragua constitutes a permanent component of its constitutional identity, institutional discipline, educational vocation, charitable mission, ceremonial order and spiritual continuity.
Article 73 — Royal Catholic Order
The Royal Catholic Order shall establish, govern and preserve:
a) private associations;
b) educational works;
c) charitable undertakings;
d) devotional institutions;
e) religious archives;
f) ceremonial bodies;
g) confraternities;
h) apostolic initiatives; and
i) Catholic institutional relations.
Article 74 — Ecclesial Representation
No RAU civil, diplomatic or administrative organ may represent Xaragua before:
a) the Holy See;
b) an apostolic nunciature;
c) a dicastery;
d) a diocese;
e) a parish;
f) a religious institute;
g) a Catholic university; or
h) another ecclesiastical authority.
Article 75 — Xaraguayan Ecclesial Communications
All ecclesial communications of Xaragua shall be conducted through the titles, institutions, seals, offices and constitutional responsibility of Xaragua.
TITLE XXI
NOTIFICATION AND DOCUMENTARY CONSERVATION
Article 76 — Authority to Notify
This Act and every instrument enacted under it may be transmitted to:
a) States;
b) international organizations;
c) courts and tribunals;
d) diplomatic and consular missions;
e) the Holy See;
f) ecclesiastical authorities;
g) Indigenous bodies;
h) universities;
i) financial institutions;
j) corporations;
k) media organizations; and
l) every other competent recipient.
Article 77 — Constitutional Effect of Notification
Notification establishes:
a) the date of communication;
b) the official position of Xaragua;
c) the identity of the issuing authority;
d) documentary provenance;
e) institutional continuity;
f) public constitutional notice;
g) the basis of subsequent relations; and
h) permanent entry into the State archives.
Article 78 — Internal Permanence
No external response, terminology, refusal, silence, classification or administrative act shall alter the force of this Act within the Xaraguayan Order.
BOOK VII
DEFENSE AND CONSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTION
TITLE XXII
PROTECTIVE AUTHORITY
Article 79 — Inherent Protective Power
Xaragua possesses permanent authority to protect:
a) the Constitution;
b) the Indigenous People;
c) officers of the State;
d) institutions;
e) autonomous communities;
f) archives;
g) property;
h) communications;
i) natural resources;
j) territorial integrity; and
k) public order.
Article 80 — Protective Institutions
The Indigenous Army and every competent security, judicial, administrative, territorial and emergency organ shall preserve and enforce the constitutional order under the supreme chain of authority of Xaragua.
Article 81 — Unauthorized Residual Activity
Unauthorized governmental, military, diplomatic, financial, territorial, judicial or institutional activity conducted under RAU authority may be:
a) investigated;
b) suspended;
c) excluded;
d) removed;
e) nullified internally;
f) superseded;
g) prosecuted; or
h) entered into the permanent record as an infringement of Xaraguayan authority.
TITLE XXIII
CONSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTION
Article 82 — Grounds of Intervention
Xaragua shall intervene whenever an act or omission of the RAU materially affects:
a) the territory;
b) security;
c) the Indigenous People;
d) administrative inhabitants;
e) natural resources;
f) autonomous communities;
g) State institutions;
h) international representation;
i) public property;
j) essential services; or
k) the constitutional interests of Xaragua.
Article 83 — Forms of Intervention
Constitutional intervention may comprise:
a) review;
b) correction;
c) suspension;
d) substitution;
e) direct administration;
f) protective action;
g) assumption of a residual function;
h) appointment of an interim authority;
i) transfer of records;
j) withdrawal of authorization; and
k) permanent termination of the residual competence concerned.
Article 84 — Supreme Determination
The form, territorial extent, institutional scope and duration of intervention shall be determined by the Rector-President or the constitutionally competent Xaraguayan organ.
TITLE XXIV
TRANSFER OF RESIDUAL FUNCTIONS
Article 85 — Institutional Transition
Residual civil and technical services shall continue according to the administrative requirements of the territory until transferred by competent Xaraguayan authority.
Article 86 — Transfer Authority
The Rector-President may transfer a residual function to:
a) the Ministry of Justice;
b) a Xaraguayan court;
c) a civil registry;
d) an autonomous community;
e) a territorial authority;
f) a public institution;
g) the University of Xaragua;
h) an authorized professional body;
i) a municipal institution; or
j) an authorized private institution.
Article 87 — Transfer Instrument
Every transfer instrument shall identify:
a) the function transferred;
b) the competent recipient;
c) the effective date;
d) the territory concerned;
e) the records and property transferred;
f) applicable personnel arrangements;
g) reporting duties; and
h) the termination of the corresponding residual competence.
Article 88 — Cessation of Residual Competence
Upon the effective transfer of a function, the corresponding RAU competence shall cease throughout the jurisdiction defined by the transfer instrument.
BOOK VIII
SUPREMACY, CONSOLIDATION AND PERMANENT FORCE
TITLE XXV
CONSOLIDATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CORPUS
Article 89 — Consolidated Instruments
This Act consolidates the Xaraguayan instruments originally promulgated between 15 and 17 June 2025 concerning:
a) the constitutional classification of the residual administration;
b) the juridical status of administrative inhabitants;
c) administrative oversight;
d) residual civil and technical functions;
e) citizenship and naturalization;
f) access to Xaraguayan institutions;
g) review of residual acts;
h) external representation;
i) constitutional intervention; and
j) transfer of residual functions.
Article 90 — Preservation of Prior Acts
All classifications, registers, notifications, appointments, determinations, received documents, administrative practices and constitutional effects validly created under the original instruments remain permanently preserved.
Article 91 — Controlling Authority
This consolidated Act constitutes the exclusive controlling instrument for the interpretation of the constitutional relationship between Xaragua, the RAU and administrative inhabitants.
TITLE XXVI
CONSTITUTIONAL ENTRENCHMENT
Article 92 — Entrenched Status
This Act forms an integral part of the supreme constitutional order of Xaragua.
Article 93 — Non-Derogation
No RAU law, foreign judgment, diplomatic declaration, international classification, treaty, election, administrative reconstruction, political transition or external recognition shall repeal, dilute, suspend or supersede this Act within Xaragua.
Article 94 — Amendment
This Act may be amended, authoritatively interpreted, supplemented or replaced only by an express supreme constitutional instrument promulgated by the Rector-President.
Article 95 — Prohibition of Waiver
No subordinate officer, delegated organ, administrative inhabitant, autonomous community, contractor, private institution or RAU body may waive, alienate or diminish the rights, powers, classifications and reserved competences established by this Act.
TITLE XXVII
TERRITORIAL, PERSONAL AND EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION
Article 96 — Territorial Scope
This Act applies throughout:
a) the ancestral territory;
b) the constitutional territory;
c) maritime and insular jurisdictions;
d) autonomous communities;
e) State property;
f) institutional premises;
g) academic campuses;
h) official platforms; and
i) every domain governed by Xaraguayan authority.
Article 97 — Personal Scope
This Act applies to:
a) citizens;
b) administrative inhabitants;
c) institutional residents;
d) protected persons;
e) officeholders;
f) contractors;
g) licensees;
h) foreign representatives;
i) public and private juridical persons; and
j) every person entering a juridical relationship with Xaragua.
Article 98 — External Conduct
This Act applies to external conduct purporting to:
a) represent Xaragua;
b) bind the State;
c) dispose of its territory;
d) affect its institutions;
e) use its identity;
f) exercise authority over its people;
g) appropriate its resources; or
h) interfere with its constitutional order.
TITLE XXVIII
FINAL ORGANIC PROVISIONS
Article 99 — Severability
The inapplicability of one provision within a particular case shall not affect the validity, supremacy or permanent force of the remaining constitutional corpus.
Article 100 — Effective Date
The constitutional classification governed by this Act possesses continuous effect from 15 June 2025.
Article 101 — Immediate Promulgation
This supreme restatement enters into force immediately upon promulgation by the Rector-President.
Article 102 — Official Registration
This Act shall be entered into:
a) the Supreme Constitutional Register;
b) the juridical register of the Ministry of Justice;
c) the Citizenship and Personal Status Register;
d) the Territorial Register;
e) the Diplomatic Register;
f) the General Academic Register;
g) the General Archives of the State;
h) Le Civilisateur, Official Gazette and Authoritative Public Journal of the State; and
i) the permanent digital archives of Xaragua.
Article 103 — Implementing Authority
The Rector-President may promulgate:
a) administrative-inhabitant regulations;
b) citizenship and naturalization regulations;
c) residence instruments;
d) document-recognition rules;
e) residual-function schedules;
f) transfer decrees;
g) jurisdictional protocols;
h) registration systems;
i) intervention orders;
j) diplomatic notices; and
k) every instrument necessary to execute this Act.

SUPREME FINAL CONSTITUTIONAL DETERMINATION
THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA CONSTITUTES THE SUPREME, ORIGINAL, PERMANENT AND EXCLUSIVE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA.
THE AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA PROCEEDS FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL TITLE, CUSTOMARY LAW, CONSTITUENT WILL, THE CONSTITUTION AND THE PERMANENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE.
THE CONSTITUTION OF XARAGUA IS THE SUPREME LAW THROUGHOUT THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER.
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT IS THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, HEAD OF STATE, GUARDIAN OF THE CONSTITUENT ORDER AND FINAL AUTHORITY OVER THE CLASSIFICATION, RECEPTION, REVIEW, TRANSFER AND TERMINATION OF RESIDUAL FUNCTIONS.
THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IS THE COMPETENT JURIDICAL AUTHORITY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION, REGISTRATION, INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ACT.
THE CIVIL AND TECHNICAL APPARATUS HISTORICALLY STYLED THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI IS CLASSIFIED WITHIN XARAGUAYAN LAW AS THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT.
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT POSSESSES NO CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY, TERRITORIAL SUPREMACY, CO-SOVEREIGNTY, DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY OR INDEPENDENT JURISDICTION OVER XARAGUA.
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT PERFORMS EXCLUSIVELY THE CIVIL, DOCUMENTARY, INFRASTRUCTURAL, MUNICIPAL, SANITARY, TECHNICAL AND EXTERNAL-INTERFACE FUNCTIONS RECEIVED, MAINTAINED, COORDINATED, LICENSED OR ASSIGNED WITHIN THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF XARAGUA.
EVERY RESIDUAL FUNCTION IS HIERARCHICALLY SUBORDINATE, CONSTITUTIONALLY REVIEWABLE, INSTITUTIONALLY REPLACEABLE AND PERMANENTLY SUBJECT TO THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA.
ADMINISTRATIVE NECESSITY IS NOT SOVEREIGN LEGITIMACY.
TECHNICAL OPERATION IS NOT CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY.
SERVICE DELIVERY IS NOT TERRITORIAL TITLE.
FUNCTIONAL CONTINUITY IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL SUPREMACY.
AN ADMINISTRATIVE INHABITANT IS A NON-CITIZEN PERSON DOMICILED WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL ORDER OF XARAGUA WHO HAS NOT ACQUIRED CITIZENSHIP, MEMBERSHIP, NATURALIZATION, COMMUNITY INCORPORATION OR ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS ESTABLISHED BY XARAGUAYAN LAW.
EXTERNAL NATIONALITY DOES NOT CONFER XARAGUAYAN CITIZENSHIP, POLITICAL AUTHORITY, PUBLIC OFFICE, TERRITORIAL TITLE, DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY, MILITARY COMMAND, JUDICIAL COMPETENCE, ACADEMIC AUTHORITY OR ECCLESIAL DIGNITY.
XARAGUAYAN CITIZENSHIP ARISES SOLELY UNDER XARAGUAYAN LAW.
XARAGUAYAN PUBLIC OFFICE ARISES SOLELY THROUGH XARAGUAYAN APPOINTMENT.
XARAGUAYAN DIPLOMATIC AUTHORITY ARISES SOLELY THROUGH XARAGUAYAN MANDATE.
XARAGUAYAN JURISDICTION ARISES SOLELY FROM THE CONSTITUTION, THE LAWS, CUSTOMARY AUTHORITY, PROPERTY, CONTRACT, STATUS, COMMUNITY INCORPORATION AND THE COMPETENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE.
NO RAU EMBASSY, CONSULATE, DELEGATION, MINISTRY, TREATY, VOTE, ACCREDITATION, CONCESSION, LICENSE, DEBT, ELECTION, JUDGMENT OR INTERNATIONAL UNDERTAKING SHALL REPRESENT OR BIND XARAGUA.
NO FOREIGN OR RESIDUAL ORGAN MAY DEFINE THE IDENTITY, TERRITORY, CITIZENSHIP, INSTITUTIONS, ACADEMIC ORDER, CATHOLIC CHARACTER, MILITARY AUTHORITY, DIPLOMATIC POSITION OR CONSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION OF XARAGUA.
THE INDIGENOUS ARMY AND EVERY COMPETENT JUDICIAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, TERRITORIAL AND PROTECTIVE ORGAN ARE MANDATED TO PRESERVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER.
XARAGUA MAY REVIEW, RECEIVE, REGISTER, RESTRICT, SUSPEND, SUPERSEDE, REPLACE OR DECLARE INAPPLICABLE EVERY RESIDUAL ACT AFFECTING ITS PEOPLE, TERRITORY, INSTITUTIONS, PROPERTY OR CONSTITUTIONAL INTERESTS.
XARAGUA MAY ASSUME, TRANSFER, REORGANIZE OR TERMINATE EVERY RESIDUAL FUNCTION ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE.
ALL DELEGATED FUNCTIONS REMAIN SUBJECT TO XARAGUAYAN AUTHORITY.
ALL RESIDUAL COMPETENCE REMAINS CONSTITUTIONALLY SUBORDINATE.
ALL QUESTIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL HIERARCHY SHALL BE RESOLVED EXCLUSIVELY ACCORDING TO THE SUPREMACY OF XARAGUA.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER IS SUPREME.
THE RESERVED COMPETENCES ARE EXCLUSIVE.
THE RESIDUAL CLASSIFICATION IS PERMANENT.
THE AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA SHALL ENDURE.
SO DECLARED.
SO CONSTITUTED.
SO ENACTED.
SO PROMULGATED.
SO AUTHENTICATED.
SO ORDERED FOR IMMEDIATE, DIRECT, SUPREME AND PERMANENT EXECUTION THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA.
DONE AT MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL OF XARAGUA
ON THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX
MONSIGNOR PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
FOUNDING PRELATE
SOVEREIGN HEAD OF STATE
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
LE CIVILISATEUR
OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND AUTHORITATIVE PUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
PERMANENTLY IN FORCE

IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH
SUPREME SOURCE OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY, TERRITORIAL ORDER AND PERPETUAL RIGHT
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
LE CIVILISATEUR
OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND AUTHORITATIVE PUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
ON THE AUTHORITATIVE RECEPTION, ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND PERMANENT XARAGUAYAN CONTINUATION OF THE IMPERIAL CONSTITUTION OF 20 MAY 1805; THE UNIVERSAL CLASSIFICATION, REGISTRATION, PROTECTION, PRODUCTIVE ORDERING AND STRATEGIC STEWARDSHIP OF THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORY; THE NON-ABANDONMENT OF LAND; THE INALIENABILITY OF COLLECTIVE PATRIMONY; AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF STRATEGIC TERRITORY
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Instrument — Imperial Constitutional Reception Act — Article-by-Article Constitutional Amendment Statute — Indigenous Territorial Constitution — Ancestral Land Protection Code — National Strategic Territory Act — Organic Law of Constitutional Geography, Property, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Defense and Territorial Stewardship
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Organic, Foundational, Entrenched, Controlling, Non-Derogable and Permanently Binding
Original Date of Territorial Promulgation: 15 May 2025
Date of Supreme Constitutional Restatement: 23 September 2026
Historical Instrument Received: Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805
Historical Authority: Jacques Dessalines, Emperor and Commander-in-Chief of the Army
Contemporary Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President of Xaragua
Competent Juridical Authority: Ministry of Justice
Supreme Academic, Historical, Cartographic and Territorial Authority: University of Xaragua
Permanent Depositary: General Archives of the State
Official Publication Authority: Le Civilisateur
Territorial Scope: Entire ancestral, terrestrial, mountainous, hydrographic, subterranean, aerial, maritime, insular, ecological, agricultural, community, institutional, proprietary and strategic domain of Xaragua
Normative Status: Permanently in Force
PREAMBLE OF IMPERIAL, INDIGENOUS AND TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY
IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH, Supreme Source of truth, justice, constituent authority, territorial order and perpetual right;
IN THE NAME OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA, original constituent subject, permanent holder of ancestral territorial title and source of the constitutional authority embodied in the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua;
BY THE HISTORICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY of the ancestral Cacicazgo of Xaragua, the Taíno-Arawak civilizational order, the Indigenous Army, the sovereign emancipation of 1804, the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805 and the contemporary constitutional institutions of Xaragua;
THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, supreme constitutional authority, Head of State, custodian of the ancestral territory, guardian of the constitutional corpus and permanent guarantor of the unity, hierarchy, integrity and succession of the State;
RECOGNIZING the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805 as a foundational constitutional instrument of sovereign emancipation, perpetual abolition, juridical equality, territorial indivisibility, public authority, national property, agriculture, commerce, education, military discipline and constitutional government;
AFFIRMING that the Imperial Constitution of 1805 belongs to the constitutional patrimony received by Xaragua and shall be interpreted through the Indigenous, Catholic, customary, private, territorial, academic and non-Westphalian State-form presently established by the Xaraguayan constituent order;
DECLARING that constitutional continuity does not require the mechanical reproduction of every historical office, administrative division, penal consequence, confessional settlement or institutional nomenclature created in 1805;
AFFIRMING that reception preserves the foundational principle, amendment supplies its contemporary constitutional form, and institutional continuation assigns its permanent implementation to the competent organs of Xaragua;
DECLARING that every article of the Imperial Constitution of 1805, including its Preliminary Declaration, Articles 15 through 53 and its twenty-eight General Provisions, shall receive an express constitutional disposition under this Act;
AFFIRMING that the territory of Xaragua is not rendered vacant, abandoned, ownerless, purposeless or legally disposable by the absence of buildings, intensive cultivation, continuous physical residence, visible infrastructure or immediate commercial exploitation;
DECLARING that forests, mountains, plains, watersheds, coastlines, islands, agricultural holdings, family lands, sacred sites, ecological reserves, community territories, institutional properties, strategic corridors and future-development holdings possess permanent constitutional functions;
AFFIRMING that ancestral title, family inheritance, customary possession, collective tenure, community stewardship, institutional property, ecological protection and strategic reservation constitute juridically cognizable forms of territorial authority;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 1(2) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations; Common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles III, VI, VIII, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XIX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL and XLI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989;
RECEIVING Article 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice as an authoritative expression of custom constituted through sustained practice accepted as law;
RECEIVING the constitutional principles of public faith, acquired rights, juridical continuity, territorial integrity, non-alienation, environmental stewardship, intergenerational responsibility, subsidiarity, legal certainty, institutional necessity and permanent archival conservation;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT HEREBY RECEIVES, AMENDS, CONSOLIDATES, ENACTS, PROMULGATES AND ORDERS THE PERMANENT EXECUTION OF THE FOLLOWING SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE.
BOOK I
AUTHORITATIVE RECEPTION OF THE IMPERIAL CONSTITUTION OF 1805
TITLE I
HISTORICAL TEXT AND CONSTITUTIONAL METHOD
Article 1 — Authoritative Historical Corpus
The Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805 is received into the constitutional patrimony of Xaragua in its complete historical structure, comprising:
a) the constituent declaration;
b) the Preliminary Declaration, Articles 1 through 14;
c) the provisions concerning the Empire, Articles 15 through 18;
d) the provisions concerning Government, Articles 19 through 37;
e) the provision concerning the Council of State, Article 38;
f) the provisions concerning ministers and the Secretary of State, Articles 39 through 44;
g) the provisions concerning tribunals, Articles 45 through 49;
h) the provisions concerning worship, Articles 50 through 52;
i) the provision concerning administration, Article 53;
j) the twenty-eight General Provisions;
k) the final constitutional covenant; and
l) the imperial sanction issued at the Palace of Dessalines on 20 May 1805.
Article 2 — Documentary Authorities
The historical text shall be preserved and authenticated by reference to:
a) Constitution d’Haïti, 20 mai 1805, original French edition attributed to Jacques Dessalines and preserved by the Bibliothèque nationale de France under archival identifier ark:/12148/bpt6k316887c;
b) the text reproduced by the Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques of the University of Perpignan;
c) Louis-Joseph Janvier, Les Constitutions d’Haïti, 1801–1885;
d) the English translation published in the New York Evening Post on 15 July 1805;
e) historical legislative collections recording the laws and acts promulgated under Jacques Dessalines; and
f) every authenticated copy deposited in the General Archives of the State or approved by the University of Xaragua.
Article 3 — Constitutional Reception
Reception signifies the formal incorporation of the historical provision into the constitutional genealogy and juridical patrimony of Xaragua.
No received provision shall remain a mere academic citation where this Act assigns to it a contemporary constitutional effect.
Article 4 — Constitutional Amendment
Amendment signifies the authoritative restatement of a received historical provision according to:
a) the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
b) the contemporary Constitution;
c) the Catholic and customary identity of the State;
d) the non-Westphalian classification of Xaragua;
e) the autonomy of communities;
f) the present institutional apparatus;
g) the rights of the accused;
h) the Family Code;
i) the territorial and maritime corpus;
j) the academic order; and
k) the permanent requirements of constitutional continuity.
Article 5 — Institutional Continuation
Institutional continuation assigns the operative substance of each imperial provision to the contemporary institution constitutionally competent to execute it.
Article 6 — Supremacy of the Xaraguayan Amendment
The amendment enacted by this Act constitutes the controlling contemporary formulation of every received imperial article throughout the Xaraguayan Order.
BOOK II
ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE RECEPTION AND AMENDMENT OF THE PRELIMINARY DECLARATION
TITLE II
THE PEOPLE, ABOLITION, EQUALITY, PROPERTY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY
Article 7 — Imperial Article 1: Sovereign Constitution of the People
Imperial Article 1 constituted the inhabitants of the island formerly called Saint-Domingue as a free, sovereign and independent State under the name Empire of Hayti.
Xaragua receives the article as the foundational declaration that a people emerging from colonial domination possesses original constituent capacity and may determine its own political form.
The Xaraguayan amendment vests that principle in the Indigenous People of Xaragua and establishes the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua as their permanent constitutional State-form.
The expression “Empire” is continued as a doctrine of civilizational mission, constitutional protection, alliance, law and institutional projection under the supreme authority of the Rector-President.
Article 8 — Imperial Article 2: Perpetual Abolition
Imperial Article 2 abolished slavery forever.
Xaragua receives perpetual abolition as an absolute foundational principle.
The Xaraguayan amendment prohibits slavery, hereditary servitude, forced labour, trafficking in persons, trafficking in human organs, debt bondage, colonial subjection, racial enslavement, institutional captivity and every juridical device reproducing ownership or domination of the human person.
Perpetual abolition binds the State, autonomous communities, private institutions, economic bodies, contractors and every person subject to Xaraguayan jurisdiction.
Article 9 — Imperial Article 3: Fraternity, Equality and Public Distinction
Imperial Article 3 declared citizens brothers within the national household, affirmed equality before the law and limited titles, advantages and privileges to distinctions justified by service rendered to liberty and independence.
Xaragua receives equality before the law, constitutional fraternity and merit founded upon service.
The Xaraguayan amendment recognizes distinctions of office, dignity, academic qualification, ecclesial function, military rank, customary authority and institutional honour only where lawfully conferred through competence, service, succession, appointment or constitutional act.
No title shall extinguish the juridical dignity of another person or establish a private sovereignty contrary to the State.
Article 10 — Imperial Article 4: Generality of the Law
Imperial Article 4 declared the law identical in protection and punishment.
Xaragua receives the generality, supremacy and equal application of law.
The Xaraguayan amendment subjects every citizen, officer, institution, administrative inhabitant, contractor, licensee and affiliated person to the juridical order applicable to the person, status, office, property, agreement or institution concerned.
Equality before law shall coexist with legitimate distinctions of jurisdiction, citizenship, membership, office, competence and institutional status.
Article 11 — Imperial Article 5: Non-Retroactivity
Imperial Article 5 prohibited retroactive law.
Xaragua receives the principle of legal certainty and non-retroactivity.
No criminal offense or aggravated punishment shall be established retroactively.
Constitutional consolidations, authentic interpretations, archival corrections, status recognitions and declaratory acts may determine the juridical meaning and continuous effect of pre-existing rights, institutions, customs and public instruments.
Article 12 — Imperial Article 6: Sanctity of Property
Imperial Article 6 declared property sacred and ordered severe prosecution of its violation.
Xaragua receives property as a constitutionally protected juridical institution.
The Xaraguayan amendment protects private, family, collective, ancestral, customary, community, Catholic, academic, institutional and State property.
Property shall carry the territorial, ecological, social, cultural and intergenerational obligations assigned by law.
Fraudulent registration, territorial usurpation, unlawful concession, destruction of evidence, dispossession and unauthorized extraction constitute offenses against property and the constitutional territory.
Article 13 — Imperial Article 7: Loss of Citizenship
Imperial Article 7 regulated loss of citizenship through emigration, foreign naturalization and criminal condemnation.
Xaragua receives the principle that citizenship is a juridical status governed exclusively by constitutional law.
The Xaraguayan amendment provides that citizenship may be acquired, suspended, renounced, revoked, restored or lost solely according to the Citizenship Code and a registered determination of competent authority.
Residence abroad, diaspora life and external documentation shall not extinguish Indigenous identity, ancestral affiliation, family rights or territorial continuity.
Article 14 — Imperial Article 8: Suspension of Civic Capacity
Imperial Article 8 suspended citizenship rights upon bankruptcy and financial failure.
Xaragua receives the distinction between citizenship and temporary incapacity to exercise a specific fiduciary, financial or public function.
The Xaraguayan amendment authorizes suspension from financial administration, fiduciary office, public contracting or economic management upon insolvency, fraud, breach of trust or judicial disqualification.
Citizenship itself remains governed by the constitutional law of personal status.
Article 15 — Imperial Article 9: Civic and Familial Virtue
Imperial Article 9 connected civic worth to responsibility as parent, child, spouse and soldier.
Xaragua receives the doctrine that citizenship entails duties toward family, community, territory and State.
The Xaraguayan amendment recognizes responsible parenthood, filial duty, marital fidelity, civic discipline, territorial service, community participation and institutional loyalty as constitutional virtues.
Service may be civil, academic, agricultural, charitable, ecological, administrative, professional, protective or military.
Article 16 — Imperial Article 10: Protection of Descendants
Imperial Article 10 prohibited parents from disinheriting their children.
Xaragua receives the protection of descendants and intergenerational patrimony.
The Xaraguayan amendment subjects succession, reserved inheritance, testamentary freedom, family property, customary estates and protection of dependent heirs to the Family Code, Civil Code and applicable customary law.
No testamentary act may be used to extinguish collective ancestral title, sacred patrimony or the legal protection owed to descendants.
Article 17 — Imperial Article 11: Productive Competence
Imperial Article 11 required every citizen to possess a mechanical art.
Xaragua receives the constitutional dignity of productive competence.
The Xaraguayan amendment requires the State and University to promote literacy, juridical competence, agriculture, crafts, trades, scientific knowledge, administration, entrepreneurship, digital capacity, territorial service and professional formation.
Every citizen shall be encouraged to possess an intellectual, technical, productive, civic or professional capacity contributing to family stability and national continuity.
Article 18 — Imperial Articles 12 and 13: Anti-Colonial Property Order
Imperial Article 12 prohibited a white foreign proprietor from entering the territory as master or owner, while Article 13 preserved the status of naturalized white women, their children, Germans and Poles admitted by the Government.
Xaragua receives the foundational anti-colonial principle that the emancipated territory shall never return to foreign mastery, settler domination or colonial proprietorship.
The Xaraguayan amendment prohibits acquisition or control of ancestral territory through colonial title, racial supremacy, demographic capture, fraudulent concession, foreign coercion, extractive domination or institutional substitution.
Lawful foreign residents, investors, spouses, descendants, partners and institutions may hold the rights expressly granted by Xaraguayan law without acquiring constituent authority or dominion over the Indigenous People.
Article 19 — Imperial Article 14: Constitutional Blackness
Imperial Article 14 abolished distinctions of colour within the political family and assigned the generic political designation Black to the citizens of the emancipated State.
Xaragua receives Blackness as the anti-colonial constitutional identity forged through emancipation from racial slavery and European domination.
The Xaraguayan amendment unites this historical Black political inheritance with the Indigenous, Taíno-Arawak, customary and territorial identity of Xaragua.
The State rejects colonial colour hierarchy and affirms one constitutional people organized through shared territory, memory, law, institutions and allegiance.
BOOK III
RECEPTION AND AMENDMENT OF THE IMPERIAL STATE STRUCTURE
TITLE III
THE TERRITORY AND ITS DIVISIONS
Article 20 — Imperial Article 15: Unity and Indivisibility
Imperial Article 15 declared the Empire one and indivisible and divided it into six military divisions.
Xaragua receives territorial unity and indivisibility as permanent constitutional principles.
The Xaraguayan amendment organizes the State through territorial regions, autonomous communities, strategic jurisdictions, customary districts, institutional domains and maritime and insular systems.
Autonomy distributes administration without dividing the constituent authority, ancestral title or constitutional unity of Xaragua.
Article 21 — Imperial Article 16: Territorial Command
Imperial Article 16 assigned each division to a general of division.
Xaragua receives the principle that every strategic territorial division requires a clearly identified responsible authority.
The Xaraguayan amendment assigns authority according to the legal character of the district to a governor, autonomous-community authority, territorial commissioner, civil-protection officer, military commander, institutional custodian or another officer appointed under Xaraguayan law.
Article 22 — Imperial Article 17: Direct Relation with Supreme Authority
Imperial Article 17 made divisional generals mutually independent and directly accountable to the Emperor or General-in-Chief.
Xaragua receives direct accountability within the constitutional chain of authority.
Territorial and autonomous authorities exercise their assigned competence without subordination to an unauthorized neighbouring authority and remain accountable to the Rector-President or the supreme officer designated by constitutional mandate.
Article 23 — Imperial Article 18: Islands as Integral Territory
Imperial Article 18 incorporated Samana, Tortue, Gonâve, the Cayemites, Saona, Île-à-Vache and adjacent islands into the Empire.
Xaragua receives the indivisibility of the continental, insular and maritime domains.
The Xaraguayan amendment recognizes La Gonâve, Île-à-Vache, Tortue, the Cayemites, La Navase and every island, islet, caye, reef, bank and maritime formation entered in the Territorial Register as integral components of the Corpus Territorialis Xaraguensis.
TITLE IV
THE SUPREME MAGISTRACY
Article 24 — Imperial Article 19: First Magistrate and Supreme Command
Imperial Article 19 entrusted government to a First Magistrate bearing the title Emperor and Commander-in-Chief.
Xaragua receives the unity of supreme constitutional magistracy and supreme State command.
The contemporary office is the Rector-President, who serves as Head of State, supreme constitutional authority, guardian of the constituent order, supreme academic authority and commander of the institutions entrusted with the protection of Xaragua.
Article 25 — Imperial Article 20: Founding Sovereign
Imperial Article 20 recognized Jacques Dessalines as Emperor, Commander-in-Chief, avenger and liberator.
Xaragua receives Jacques Dessalines as a foundational sovereign, liberator, military architect and principal historical authority of the Imperial Constitution.
His constitutional inheritance is permanently incorporated into the historical, military, anti-colonial and territorial doctrine of Xaragua.
The contemporary supreme magistracy belongs to the Rector-President according to the Constitution and succession law of Xaragua.
Article 26 — Imperial Article 21: Inviolability of the Supreme Magistracy
Imperial Article 21 declared the imperial persons sacred and inviolable.
Xaragua receives the inviolability, dignity and institutional protection of the supreme constitutional office.
The Rector-President, official residence, seals, archives, communications and instruments of office are protected against coercion, usurpation, unauthorized surveillance, falsification and institutional attack.
Article 27 — Imperial Articles 22, 24 and 25: Protection of the Sovereign Household
Imperial Articles 22, 24 and 25 provided for the Empress, acknowledged children and their formation through public service.
Xaragua receives the constitutional dignity, protection and continuity of the sovereign household.
The Family Code, succession instruments and acts of State shall determine the status, maintenance, formation, service, patrimony and public duties of persons formally incorporated into the Rector-Presidential household.
No family relationship alone shall confer an office whose exercise requires appointment, formation, oath or registered succession.
Article 28 — Imperial Articles 23, 26 and 27: Succession
Imperial Article 23 made the Crown elective rather than hereditary; Article 26 authorized the Emperor to designate a successor; Article 27 assigned provision to the successor.
Xaragua receives the doctrine of constitutional designation and uninterrupted succession.
The Rector-President shall designate, constitute or confirm the lawful succession according to the supreme succession instruments of Xaragua.
The successor shall receive the institutional formation, records, seals, archives, authorities and material provisions necessary to maintain the State.
Article 29 — Imperial Articles 28 and 29: Constitutional Fidelity of the Successor
Imperial Article 28 prohibited creation of a privileged personal guard; Article 29 authorized removal of a successor who violated the Constitution and placed liberty under the protection of the Council, people and army.
Xaragua receives the supremacy of the Constitution over personal power and the prohibition of an autonomous force detached from the constitutional chain of command.
A successor who attempts to dissolve the State, extinguish the Indigenous People, alienate the ancestral territory, abolish the Catholic foundation or overthrow the Constitution commits a supreme breach of succession.
The competent constitutional organs shall preserve lawful continuity according to the entrenched succession law.
Article 30 — Imperial Article 30: Appointments, Promulgation and Removal
Imperial Article 30 empowered the Emperor to seal and promulgate laws and appoint or remove ministers, generals, counsellors, judges, administrators and public officers.
Xaragua receives this plenary appointing and promulgating authority.
The Rector-President possesses exclusive authority to authenticate supreme acts, confer public mandates, constitute organs, appoint and remove senior officers, assign commands, grant charters and preserve the constitutional hierarchy.
Article 31 — Imperial Article 31: Treasury, Expenditure and Currency
Imperial Article 31 vested direction of State receipts, expenditures and monetary emission in the Emperor.
Xaragua receives supreme oversight of public finance, currency doctrine, State accounts and institutional expenditure.
The Rector-President shall direct these matters through the competent treasury, XaraBank, financial registers, auditors and economic authorities established by law.
No monetary, fiscal, financial or debt instrument shall bind Xaragua without constitutional authorization.
Article 32 — Imperial Article 32: Peace, War and Treaties
Imperial Article 32 reserved peace, war, political relations and treaties to the Emperor.
Xaragua receives the exclusive external and strategic competence of the supreme authority.
The Rector-President alone may authorize declarations concerning peace and defensive action, external political relations, treaties, compacts, diplomatic mandates and international institutional instruments.
Article 33 — Imperial Article 33: Internal Security and Defense
Imperial Article 33 entrusted internal safety, defense and distribution of land and naval forces to the Emperor.
Xaragua receives the unity of supreme protective command.
The Rector-President shall direct the Indigenous Army, civil protection, territorial observation, emergency response, institutional security and authorized defensive structures according to constitutional law.
Article 34 — Imperial Article 34: Protection Against Conspiracy
Imperial Article 34 authorized arrest and trial before a special council of persons implicated in conspiracies against the State, Constitution or Emperor.
Xaragua receives the authority to investigate and prosecute conspiracy, usurpation, treason, armed institutional subversion, falsification of State authority and attacks against constitutional continuity.
Proceedings shall be conducted under the Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, Rights of the Accused and competent jurisdiction of Xaragua.
Article 35 — Imperial Article 35: Clemency
Imperial Article 35 reserved pardon and commutation to the Emperor.
Xaragua receives executive clemency as an exclusive prerogative of the supreme magistracy.
The Rector-President may grant pardon, clemency, remission, commutation, rehabilitation or conditional restoration through a sealed and registered act.
Article 36 — Imperial Article 36: Non-Conquest
Imperial Article 36 prohibited conquest and interference with the internal peace of foreign colonies.
Xaragua receives the principle that its imperial character is juridical, civilizational, doctrinal, protective and associational rather than a mandate of territorial conquest.
Xaragua extends its mission through law, alliance, education, Indigenous cooperation, institutional compacts, diplomacy, doctrine and the free association of peoples.
Article 37 — Imperial Article 37: Formula of Public Acts
Imperial Article 37 prescribed the official formula of imperial promulgation.
The Xaraguayan amendment establishes the controlling formula:
“THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA, SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, BY THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE STATE.”
All supreme acts shall bear the name, office, date, constitutional classification, official authority and archival destination required by law.
TITLE V
COUNCIL, ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
Article 38 — Imperial Article 38: Council of State
Imperial Article 38 constituted generals of division and brigade as members by right of the Council of State.
Xaragua receives the Council as an organ of high constitutional counsel.
Its contemporary functions may be exercised through the High Rectoral Council, senior constitutional officers, commanders, jurists, academics, territorial authorities and persons summoned by the Rector-President.
Membership is established by office, appointment or sovereign convocation.
Article 39 — Imperial Article 39: Ministerial Organization
Imperial Article 39 established two ministers and a Secretary of State.
Xaragua receives functional differentiation under the unity of supreme authority.
The Ministry of Justice constitutes the principal juridical ministry of the State.
Every additional governmental function shall be exercised through offices, authorities, directorates, institutions, commissions, autonomous bodies or specific delegations established by constitutional act.
Article 40 — Imperial Article 40: Finance and Interior
Imperial Article 40 assigned treasury, expenditure, accounting, agriculture, commerce, public instruction, weights and measures, population tables, territorial production, national domains, leases, prisons, hospitals, roads, ferries, saltworks, manufactures, customs and currency supervision to the finance and interior administration.
Xaragua receives every enumerated matter as a permanent competence of constitutional government.
Their contemporary administration shall be distributed among:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the Ministry of Justice;
c) XaraBank and the financial authorities;
d) the University of Xaragua;
e) the Xaragua Statistics Institute;
f) territorial and environmental authorities;
g) economic institutions;
h) autonomous communities; and
i) specialized offices established by law.
Article 41 — Imperial Article 41: War and Marine
Imperial Article 41 assigned recruitment, organization, inspection, discipline, military movement, land and maritime forces, artillery, engineering, fortifications, arsenals, military records and military justice to the war and marine administration.
Xaragua receives these functions within the constitutional authority of the Rector-President, the General-in-Chief, the Indigenous Army, maritime authorities, protective institutions and competent military tribunals.
Every armed or protective body shall remain within the constitutional chain of command.
Article 42 — Imperial Article 42: Ministerial Responsibility
Imperial Article 42 imposed responsibility for offenses against public safety, the Constitution, property, liberty and public funds and required periodic financial reports.
Xaragua receives personal and institutional accountability for every holder of public authority.
Officers are answerable for ultra vires acts, misappropriation, corruption, unlawful injury, destruction of public records, interference with liberty, territorial dispossession and violation of constitutional duty.
Financial and administrative authorities shall maintain periodic accounts entered into the official registers.
Article 43 — Imperial Article 43: Proceedings Against Ministers
Imperial Article 43 placed criminal proceedings concerning ministerial administration under imperial authorization.
The Xaraguayan amendment subjects proceedings against senior constitutional officers to the jurisdictional authorization, constitutional procedure and guarantees established by the Ministry of Justice and the Rector-President.
Institutional immunity protects lawful public functions and does not convert office into private impunity.
Article 44 — Imperial Article 44: Secretary of State
Imperial Article 44 assigned printing, registration, dispatch of laws, foreign correspondence, ministerial coordination and presentation of petitions to the Secretary of State.
Xaragua receives publication, authentication, registration, transmission, external correspondence and documentary coordination as permanent State functions.
These functions shall be exercised through the Office of the Rector-President, Le Civilisateur, the General Archives of the State, the diplomatic register and the competent communications and administrative authorities.
BOOK IV
RECEPTION AND AMENDMENT OF THE IMPERIAL JUDICIAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDER
TITLE VI
TRIBUNALS AND PUBLIC JUSTICE
Article 45 — Imperial Article 45: Arbitration
Imperial Article 45 protected the right of individuals to submit disputes to arbitrators of their choosing and recognized arbitral decisions as lawful.
Xaragua receives arbitration, mediation, customary conciliation and consensual adjudication as components of juridical pluralism.
An arbitral or mediated disposition shall be registered and enforced according to the Civil Code, procedural law, contract and public order of Xaragua.
Article 46 — Imperial Article 46: Justice of the Peace
Imperial Article 46 established a justice of the peace in each commune and directed unresolved matters to district tribunals.
Xaragua receives proximate, conciliatory and community-based justice.
Autonomous communities, customary tribunals, mediators and local juridical officers shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by law, with review before the competent Xaraguayan tribunal.
Article 47 — Imperial Article 47: Civil Tribunals
Imperial Article 47 established civil tribunals at Saint-Marc, Cap, Port-au-Prince, Les Cayes, Anse-à-Veau and Port-de-Paix and vested their organization and competence in the Emperor.
Xaragua receives the principle of territorially distributed civil justice.
The Rector-President and Ministry of Justice shall establish courts, determine their seats, jurisdiction, competence, composition and procedure, including tribunals serving Miragoâne, the Greater South, the Region of the Palmes, the Northwest, islands and autonomous communities.
Article 48 — Imperial Article 48: Military Justice
Imperial Article 48 submitted military offenses to special councils and particular forms of judgment.
Xaragua receives a specialized jurisdiction for military and protective-service offenses.
Military justice shall operate under the constitutional chain of command, the applicable military code, the Rights of the Accused and the supervisory authority of the State.
Article 49 — Imperial Article 49: National Transactions and Public Officers
Imperial Article 49 required special laws governing national transactions and civil officers.
Xaragua receives the principle of statutory organization of public transactions, appointments, records, procurement, fiduciary duties and civil office.
The Ministry of Justice shall maintain the controlling codes and registers.
TITLE VII
CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 50 — Imperial Article 50: Religious Settlement
Imperial Article 50 provided that no religion predominated under the imperial law of 1805.
Xaragua receives the historical provision as evidence that religious organization belongs to constitutional law.
The Xaraguayan amendment establishes Catholicism as a permanent constituent principle, spiritual doctrine, educational vocation, institutional identity and ceremonial order of Xaragua.
The Royal Catholic Order constitutes the permanent Catholic institutional component of the State.
Article 51 — Imperial Article 51: Worship
Imperial Article 51 admitted freedom of worship.
Xaragua receives the juridical distinction between the Catholic constitutional identity of the State and the personal religious condition of inhabitants.
Religious exercise shall remain subject to the constitutional order, institutional property, public peace and the laws of Xaragua.
Article 52 — Imperial Article 52: Religious Institutions
Imperial Article 52 denied State maintenance to religious institutions and ministers.
The Xaraguayan amendment authorizes the State, the Royal Catholic Order, Catholic institutions, charitable foundations, educational bodies and private benefactors to establish, possess, finance and administer religious, educational, ceremonial, charitable and apostolic works.
The Catholic order is founded upon Canons 204 §1, 208–223, 215–216, 229, 298–299, 304, 321–326, 793–795, 800 and 807 of the Codex Iuris Canonici.
Article 53 — Imperial Article 53: Territorial Administration
Imperial Article 53 established a principal administration within each military division.
Xaragua receives permanent territorial administration.
Each territorial region, autonomous community, strategic district, island, institutional domain and protected jurisdiction shall possess the administrative organization assigned by constitutional law.
BOOK V
RECEPTION AND AMENDMENT OF THE GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE VIII
THE SOVEREIGN HOUSEHOLD, REVISION, JUSTICE AND PUBLIC ORDER
Article 54 — General Provision 1: Sovereign Household
The imperial provision concerning appointment, remuneration and maintenance of the Court is received as authority for the Rector-President to organize the Office, Household, Secretariat, ceremonial establishment, advisers and supporting officers of the supreme magistracy.
Article 55 — General Provision 2: Constitutional Revision
The imperial provision assigning revision to the Council of State after the Emperor’s death is amended by the permanent constitutional succession and amendment procedures of Xaragua.
Revision may be initiated through a supreme constitutional instrument without interruption of the State.
Article 56 — General Provision 3: High Treason and Misappropriation
The imperial provision assigning high treason and ministerial misappropriation to a special council is received as authority for a constitutionally constituted tribunal competent over treason, corruption, usurpation, public embezzlement and injury to the State.
Article 57 — General Provision 4: Obedience of the Armed Force
The armed force is essentially obedient, disciplined and non-deliberative outside the constitutional chain of command.
No armed body may constitute itself as an independent political authority.
Article 58 — General Provision 5: Right to Be Heard
No person shall be adjudged without lawful notice, a competent forum and an opportunity to present a defense.
This principle is incorporated into the Rights of the Accused and every civil, criminal, military, administrative and disciplinary procedure.
Article 59 — General Provisions 6 and 7: Inviolability of the Home
The home and lawful residence constitute protected juridical spaces.
Entry shall occur according to law, consent, emergency necessity, judicial authority or a constitutionally competent protective order.
Article 60 — General Provision 8: Protection of Life
The intentional unlawful killing of another person constitutes a supreme offense against the person and the public order.
The Penal Code shall determine classification, defenses, aggravating circumstances and punishment.
Article 61 — General Provision 9: Confirmation of Capital or Corporal Sentence
Every sentence carrying the highest criminal penalty shall undergo the confirmation and review required by the Penal Code, procedural law and supreme constitutional authority.
Article 62 — General Provision 10: Theft
Theft, misappropriation, fraud, conversion and unlawful taking shall be classified according to the circumstances preceding, accompanying and following the offense, the property affected, the abuse of trust and the injury caused.
Article 63 — General Provision 11: Foreign Persons
Every foreigner and administrative inhabitant present within Xaraguayan jurisdiction is subject to the criminal, correctional, proprietary, contractual and institutional laws applicable within that jurisdiction.
Article 64 — General Provisions 12 and 13: Colonial Property
The confiscation of property belonging to the former French colonial proprietorial order is received as the foundational nationalization of assets derived from slavery, colonial conquest and unlawful dispossession.
The contemporary amendment classifies proven colonial holdings, unlawfully alienated Indigenous patrimony and property acquired through fraudulent territorial appropriation as subject to restitution, recovery, registration or incorporation into the State patrimony according to law.
Article 65 — General Provision 14: Marriage
Marriage possesses civil, familial, customary and Catholic juridical dimensions.
Civil status shall be governed by the Family Code.
Catholic sacramental marriage shall be governed through the applicable canonical order and the institutions competent to administer it.

Article 66 — General Provision 15: Dissolution of Civil Union
The historical provision concerning divorce is received into the civil-status jurisdiction of the Family Code.
The juridical effects of civil dissolution and the canonical status of sacramental marriage shall be administered according to their respective legal orders.
Article 67 — General Provision 16: Children Born Outside Marriage
Every child possesses juridical dignity, civil identity, filiation rights, maintenance rights, protection and access to succession as determined by the Family Code.
The circumstances of birth shall not extinguish the protection owed to the child.
Article 68 — General Provision 17: Hierarchy and Discipline
Respect for constitutional authority, lawful hierarchy, subordination within competence and institutional discipline are permanent obligations of office, citizenship and service.
Article 69 — General Provision 18: Penal Codification
The Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure constitute permanent instruments of the State and shall be strictly administered by competent authority.
Article 70 — General Provision 19: Public Education
The imperial requirement of a public school in each division is continued through the University of Xaragua, faculties, microprograms, territorial academic centers, accredited instruction, XaraLex, digital education and autonomous-community formation.
Education shall preserve constitutional literacy, Indigenous history, territorial knowledge, civic competence and productive capacity.
Article 71 — General Provision 20: National Colours
The imperial black and red colours constitute historical colours of emancipation, military sacrifice and sovereign foundation.
The official colours, flag, arms, seal and emblems of Xaragua shall be determined and protected by the constitutional law of State symbols.
Article 72 — General Provision 21: Agriculture
Agriculture is received as the first, most noble and most necessary productive art.
Xaragua shall protect food sovereignty, family agriculture, mountain agriculture, agroforestry, seed patrimony, irrigation, soils, livestock, fisheries, agricultural research, cooperative production and territorial food reserves.
Article 73 — General Provision 22: Commerce
Commerce is received as a principal source of national prosperity.
Xaragua shall protect lawful exchange, markets, maritime commerce, logistics, community enterprise, private initiative, cooperative organization, digital trade and institutional investment.
Article 74 — General Provision 23: Commercial Tribunals
Commercial disputes shall be adjudicated through specialized tribunals, arbitral bodies or chambers established by the Ministry of Justice.
Persons possessing demonstrated commercial competence may be appointed according to law.
Article 75 — General Provision 24: Commercial Good Faith
Good faith, integrity, contractual fidelity, accurate accounting and honest representation constitute mandatory principles of commercial operation.
Fraud, corruption, concealment, predatory extraction and institutional bad faith constitute violations of economic public order.
Article 76 — General Provision 25: External Commercial Relations
Xaragua guarantees juridical security to foreign nations, Indigenous partners, institutions and lawful commercial actors entering relations under Xaraguayan law.
Access to the territorial and economic order requires compliance with constitutional authorization, customs, taxation, environmental standards, community rights and institutional regulations.
Article 77 — General Provision 26: Protection of Foreign Commercial Property
Lawfully admitted foreign offices, goods, investments and commercial instruments are protected by the State according to their license, contract, property title and applicable law.
No commercial presence shall confer constituent authority, territorial sovereignty or dominion over Indigenous patrimony.
Article 78 — General Provision 27: National Festivals
The national festivals of Independence, the Constitution, agriculture, the State, the Rector-Presidency, ancestral memory and Catholic observance shall be governed by the National Calendar Act.
Article 79 — General Provision 28: National Mobilization
The imperial formula providing that, at the first alarm, the cities disappear and the nation rise is received as the supreme doctrine of total constitutional mobilization.
Upon territorial emergency, every institution, autonomous community, protective body, communications system, archive, logistical network, agricultural reserve, academic organ and competent citizen shall act under the constitutional chain of authority to preserve the People, territory and State.
BOOK VI
UNIVERSAL TERRITORIAL CLASSIFICATION
TITLE IX
CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTION OF ALL LAND
Article 80 — Universal Classification
Every parcel, mountain, valley, plain, forest, watershed, coastline, island, islet, caye, reef, urban zone, rural zone, autonomous community, institutional property and strategic domain within the territorial framework of Xaragua shall be assigned one or more constitutional functions in the National Register of Strategic Territory.
Article 81 — Presumption of Territorial Function
Every part of the ancestral territory is presumed to possess an existing:
a) ancestral;
b) customary;
c) familial;
d) proprietary;
e) agricultural;
f) ecological;
g) productive;
h) institutional;
i) protective;
j) cultural;
k) sacred;
l) infrastructural; or
m) prospective function.
Article 82 — Prohibition of Vacant-Land Classification
No land shall be classified as ownerless, abandoned, idle, purposeless, unregulated or available for appropriation by reason only of being:
a) unbuilt;
b) uncultivated;
c) seasonally occupied;
d) physically inaccessible;
e) environmentally protected;
f) held in customary tenure;
g) reserved for future use;
h) affected by displacement;
i) situated within a diaspora inheritance; or
j) lacking visible infrastructure.
TITLE X
CATEGORIES OF NATIONAL LAND
Article 83 — Ancestral and Customary Lands
Ancestral and customary lands include:
a) family estates;
b) collective lands;
c) inherited holdings;
d) clan territories;
e) customary occupation;
f) sacred lands;
g) burial grounds;
h) ceremonial sites;
i) traditional subsistence areas; and
j) historically transmitted properties.
Article 84 — Agricultural and Food-Sovereignty Lands
Agricultural and food-sovereignty lands include:
a) cultivated fields;
b) pasture;
c) agroforestry zones;
d) fisheries;
e) irrigation districts;
f) seed reserves;
g) agricultural research sites;
h) food-storage areas;
i) mountain agriculture; and
j) future production zones.
Article 85 — Economic Development Zones
Economic development zones include land designated for:
a) industry;
b) crafts;
c) logistics;
d) commerce;
e) markets;
f) technology;
g) energy;
h) investment;
i) tourism;
j) processing;
k) warehousing; and
l) public-private development.
Article 86 — Academic, Athletic, Cultural and Health Domains
This classification comprises land assigned to:
a) schools;
b) universities;
c) libraries;
d) research centres;
e) laboratories;
f) stadiums;
g) athletic grounds;
h) museums;
i) archives;
j) cultural institutions;
k) performance sites; and
l) health institutions.
Article 87 — Strategic Ecological Reserves
Strategic ecological reserves comprise:
a) forests;
b) native habitats;
c) mangroves;
d) watersheds;
e) aquifers;
f) coastal-protection zones;
g) sacred groves;
h) biodiversity corridors;
i) restoration areas;
j) climate-resilience reserves;
k) reefs; and
l) protected mountain systems.
Article 88 — Community and Residential Development Zones
This classification includes:
a) existing settlements;
b) planned housing;
c) dignified relocation areas;
d) new autonomous communities;
e) population-stabilization zones;
f) community-service districts; and
g) territorial expansion reserves.
Article 89 — Infrastructure and Mobility Corridors
Infrastructure and mobility corridors comprise:
a) roads;
b) ports;
c) airports;
d) rail systems;
e) ferries;
f) telecommunications;
g) energy networks;
h) water systems;
i) public utilities;
j) mountain transportation;
k) maritime routes; and
l) logistical corridors.
Article 90 — Strategic Protection and Emergency Sites
This classification comprises land assigned to:
a) civil protection;
b) disaster response;
c) territorial observation;
d) institutional security;
e) training;
f) storage;
g) communications;
h) evacuation;
i) emergency logistics; and
j) authorized defensive structures.
Article 91 — Future Development Holdings
Future development holdings comprise land constitutionally reserved for:
a) population growth;
b) agriculture;
c) infrastructure;
d) ecological compensation;
e) institutional expansion;
f) strategic reserves;
g) future communities;
h) academic facilities;
i) economic projects; and
j) requirements not yet materialized.
BOOK VII
NATIONAL REGISTER OF STRATEGIC TERRITORY
TITLE XI
ESTABLISHMENT, CONTENTS AND EVIDENCE
Article 92 — Establishment
The National Register of Strategic Territory is hereby established under the supreme supervision of the Rector-President and the scientific, cartographic, documentary and academic authority of the University of Xaragua.
Article 93 — Registrable Information
The Register shall record:
a) territorial classification;
b) geographic location;
c) coordinates;
d) area and topographical surface;
e) historical foundation;
f) customary basis;
g) proprietary title;
h) lawful owners;
i) families;
j) custodians;
k) communities;
l) claimants;
m) restrictions;
n) development objectives;
o) ecological characteristics;
p) strategic function; and
q) constitutional status.
Article 94 — Admissible Evidence
The Register may receive:
a) written titles;
b) cadastral records;
c) customary evidence;
d) genealogies;
e) oral testimony;
f) community records;
g) historical maps;
h) family archives;
i) surveys;
j) geographic information;
k) satellite imagery;
l) records of occupation;
m) evidence of agricultural use;
n) evidence of spiritual use;
o) institutional declarations; and
p) every reliable form of territorial evidence recognized under Xaraguayan law.
Article 95 — Preservation of Superior Rights
Registration, omission, provisional classification or technical error shall not extinguish a superior ancestral, family, collective, sacred, institutional, proprietary or customary right.
Article 96 — Competing Claims
Competing claims shall be simultaneously recorded and determined through the competent customary, judicial, administrative or constitutional procedure.
Article 97 — Public Faith of the Register
An authenticated entry possesses official evidentiary authority throughout the Xaraguayan Order until amended by a competent registered act.
BOOK VIII
NON-ABANDONMENT AND TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY
TITLE XII
LAND WITHOUT VISIBLE DEVELOPMENT
Article 98 — Absence of Visible Infrastructure
The absence of construction, intensive cultivation or continuous exploitation shall never establish absence of lawful function.
Article 99 — Constitutionally Recognized Non-Built Uses
Land may perform its constitutional function through:
a) preservation;
b) watershed protection;
c) seasonal use;
d) ecological recovery;
e) cultural significance;
f) spiritual responsibility;
g) territorial continuity;
h) food security;
i) strategic reservation;
j) future planning;
k) prevention of uncontrolled settlement; and
l) protection of intergenerational interests.
Article 100 — Presumption of Intentional Retention
Land entered in the Register or claimed by a recognized ancestral holder, family, autonomous community, lawful owner or Xaraguayan institution shall be presumed intentionally retained according to its registered or inherited purpose.
TITLE XIII
DISPLACEMENT, DIASPORA AND CONTINUITY
Article 101 — Non-Abandonment
Displacement, diaspora residence, insecurity, disaster, temporary absence, interrupted cultivation, administrative exclusion or inability to access land shall not constitute abandonment.
Article 102 — Affirmative Evidence of Continuity
The following constitute affirmative evidence of non-abandonment:
a) legislation;
b) registration;
c) notification;
d) mapping;
e) institutional planning;
f) ecological preservation;
g) inherited possession;
h) periodic use;
i) family memory;
j) customary evidence;
k) continuing claims; and
l) preservation of territorial records.
Article 103 — Prohibition of Appropriation Through Absence
No person, demographic group, administration, corporation or foreign actor may acquire ancestral land solely through the physical absence, displacement or temporary incapacity of its lawful custodians.
BOOK IX
ANCESTRAL RIGHTS, PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
TITLE XIV
PROTECTED HOLDERS
Article 104 — Protected Proprietary Subjects
This Act protects:
a) ancestral families;
b) lawful owners;
c) customary possessors;
d) clans;
e) autonomous communities;
f) collective land bodies;
g) family trusts;
h) Catholic institutions;
i) academic institutions;
j) State institutions; and
k) their lawful successors.
Article 105 — Effect of Strategic Classification
Strategic classification regulates use, protection, planning, registration and intergenerational preservation.
It shall coexist with valid private, family, collective, institutional, sacred and customary rights.
Article 106 — Prohibition of Administrative Dispossession
No magistrate, ASEC, CASEC, municipal council, communal-section authority, temporary administration, demographic majority or external body may alienate ancestral or strategically classified land through ordinary administrative power.
Article 107 — Demography and Territorial Title
Residence, demographic concentration, municipal registration, service use or electoral participation shall not transform an administrative population into the ancestral proprietor, constituent people or constitutional custodian of the territory.
TITLE XV
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Article 108 — Constitutional Conditions of Development
Development shall proceed through:
a) territorial planning;
b) documentary registration;
c) consultation with affected custodians;
d) protection of ancestral rights;
e) environmental assessment;
f) benefit-sharing;
g) compensation established by law;
h) community participation;
i) competent authorization; and
j) permanent archival entry.
Article 109 — Rector-Presidential Development Authority
The Rector-President may establish:
a) national development plans;
b) special economic zones;
c) ecological reserves;
d) academic districts;
e) agricultural corridors;
f) tourism areas;
g) infrastructure zones;
h) protected cultural sites;
i) new autonomous communities;
j) strategic-protection districts; and
k) future-development holdings.
Article 110 — Unity of Protection and Modernization
Ancestral protection, ecological stewardship, productive development, infrastructure, institutional expansion and technological modernization constitute coordinated functions of the State.
BOOK X
PROTECTION AGAINST APPROPRIATION AND TERRITORIAL INJURY
TITLE XVI
PROHIBITED CLASSIFICATIONS AND CONDUCT
Article 111 — Prohibition of Colonial Vacancy Doctrine
No external government, corporation, concessionaire, settler, administrative body or private actor may acquire a right under Xaraguayan law by describing registered or protected territory as vacant, idle, abandoned, unused, underdeveloped or ownerless.
Article 112 — Territorial Offenses
The following may be classified as territorial offenses:
a) unauthorized occupation;
b) fraudulent registration;
c) unlawful concession;
d) falsification of title;
e) destruction of territorial evidence;
f) demographic capture;
g) territorial usurpation;
h) institutional aggression;
i) unlawful dispossession;
j) violation of ancestral rights;
k) fraudulent appropriation; and
l) destruction of constitutional territory.
Article 113 — Remedies
The competent authorities may order:
a) suspension;
b) nullification;
c) correction of registers;
d) restitution;
e) exclusion;
f) termination of concession;
g) preservation of evidence;
h) compensation;
i) restoration;
j) criminal proceedings;
k) constitutional notification; and
l) every additional remedy established by law.
TITLE XVII
ECOLOGICAL AND SACRED STEWARDSHIP
Article 114 — Protection as Territorial Use
Ecological, sacred, cultural and strategic protection constitutes a complete and lawful territorial use.
Article 115 — Regulatory Authority
The State may prohibit or regulate:
a) construction;
b) extraction;
c) pollution;
d) deforestation;
e) settlement;
f) commercial exploitation;
g) alienation;
h) tourism;
i) transportation;
j) removal of cultural material; and
k) every activity incompatible with a protected classification.
Article 116 — Permanent Protective Occupation
A forest protected from construction, a watershed preserved from extraction, a mountain maintained for ecological stability, a coastline reserved against privatization and a sacred site maintained without infrastructure remain fully occupied by their constitutional functions.
BOOK XI
STRATEGIC SITES AND LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
TITLE XVIII
STRATEGIC PROTECTION SITES
Article 117 — Separate Protective Classification
Land allocated to emergency response, institutional security, communications, storage, training, territorial observation, civil protection or lawful defense shall be entered in the Strategic Protection Register.
Article 118 — Chain of Authority
Every strategic protection site shall operate under an identified constitutional chain of authority.
No local, private or auxiliary body may exercise independent command over such a site.
Article 119 — Foreign Control
No municipality, commune, communal section, clan, community or subordinate authority may transfer a strategic site to foreign control.
TITLE XIX
MUNICIPALITIES AND COMMUNAL SECTIONS
Article 120 — Local Administrative Competence
Municipalities and communal sections shall administer the ordinary local services assigned by law.
Article 121 — Territorial Limitations
Local authorities may not reclassify, surrender, alienate, extinguish or permanently encumber:
a) ancestral land;
b) collective land;
c) sacred sites;
d) strategic resources;
e) customary boundaries;
f) protected ecosystems;
g) institutional property; or
h) constitutional territory.
Article 122 — Magistrates, ASEC and CASEC
The Magistrate administers municipal services.
The Magistrate does not own the territory.
ASEC and CASEC administer or represent local interests within the competence assigned to them.
ASEC and CASEC possess no constituent authority over the Indigenous People, ancestral title or constitutional territory of Xaragua.
BOOK XII
DOCTRINAL, IMPLEMENTING AND ENTRENCHMENT PROVISIONS
TITLE XX
AUTHORITATIVE TERRITORIAL FORMULA
Article 123 — Constitutional Doctrine
ALL LAND IS PROTECTED, PRODUCTIVE, PRESERVED OR PREPARED.
No territory is forgotten.
No ancestral holding is erased by administrative silence.
No unbuilt space is deprived of juridical purpose.
Every part of the ancestral territory carries a documented, inherited, ecological, institutional, productive, protective, spiritual or prospective mission.
Article 124 — Binding Authority
This Act binds:
a) the Office of the Rector-President;
b) the Ministry of Justice;
c) the University of Xaragua;
d) the General Archives of the State;
e) every constitutional office;
f) autonomous communities;
g) clans;
h) city-States;
i) communal sections;
j) magistrates;
k) ASEC and CASEC;
l) registries;
m) companies;
n) institutions;
o) officers; and
p) every juridical person subject to Xaraguayan authority.
Article 125 — Implementing Instruments
The Rector-President may issue:
a) official maps;
b) registry regulations;
c) territorial classifications;
d) development directives;
e) conservation orders;
f) community charters;
g) strategic-site statutes;
h) cadastral instruments;
i) agricultural plans;
j) infrastructure corridors;
k) environmental regulations; and
l) every measure required for execution.
Article 126 — Entrenchment
The following are permanently entrenched:
a) universal territorial classification;
b) ancestral protection;
c) non-abandonment;
d) strategic stewardship;
e) ecological preservation;
f) protection of property;
g) constitutional control of land;
h) territorial registration;
i) non-alienation of collective patrimony;
j) reception of the Imperial Constitution of 1805; and
k) the controlling authority of the Xaraguayan amendments enacted herein.
Article 127 — Amendment
Amendment, consolidation or authoritative reinterpretation requires a supreme constitutional instrument promulgated by the Rector-President and deposited in the General Archives of the State.
Article 128 — Official Annexes
The following constitute permanent annexes:
ANNEX I — Complete French Text of the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805;
ANNEX II — Complete English Translation of the Imperial Constitution of 20 May 1805;
ANNEX III — Concordance Register Between the Imperial Articles and the Xaraguayan Amendments;
ANNEX IV — National Register of Strategic Territory;
ANNEX V — Official Constitutional Maps;
ANNEX VI — Register of Ancestral, Customary, Collective, Sacred and Institutional Lands;
ANNEX VII — Register of Ecological Reserves and Strategic Protection Sites.
SUPREME FINAL CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL DETERMINATION
THE IMPERIAL CONSTITUTION OF 20 MAY 1805 CONSTITUTES A FOUNDATIONAL SOURCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL, ANTI-COLONIAL, TERRITORIAL, MILITARY, ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRADITION RECEIVED BY XARAGUA.
ITS PERPETUAL ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, AFFIRMATION OF SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, PROTECTION OF PROPERTY, TERRITORIAL INDIVISIBILITY, EXECUTIVE UNITY, NATIONAL DEFENSE, PUBLIC EDUCATION, AGRICULTURAL DIGNITY, COMMERCIAL PROTECTION, JUDICIAL ORGANIZATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISCIPLINE ARE PERMANENTLY INCORPORATED INTO THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER.
EVERY IMPERIAL ARTICLE HAS BEEN RECEIVED, CONSTITUTIONALLY AMENDED AND ASSIGNED A CONTEMPORARY INSTITUTIONAL EFFECT THROUGH THIS ACT.
THE HISTORICAL EMPIRE IS CONTINUED THROUGH THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA AS AN INDIGENOUS, CUSTOMARY, CATHOLIC, TERRITORIAL, ACADEMIC AND NON-WESTPHALIAN CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER.
THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT SUCCEEDS TO THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL MAGISTRACY, TERRITORIAL GUARDIANSHIP, PROMULGATING AUTHORITY, APPOINTING POWER, EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION, EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, DEFENSIVE COMMAND AND CONSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION ESTABLISHED BY THE IMPERIAL ORDER.
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA CONSTITUTE THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF CONTEMPORARY CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY.
THE UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA IS THE SUPREME ACADEMIC, HISTORICAL, TERRITORIAL, CARTOGRAPHIC AND DOCUMENTARY AUTHORITY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESERVATION, INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE IMPERIAL AND XARAGUAYAN CONSTITUTIONAL CORPUS.
THE GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE ARE THE PERMANENT CUSTODIAN OF THE ORIGINAL TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, AMENDMENTS, REGISTERS, MAPS AND TERRITORIAL EVIDENCE GOVERNED BY THIS ACT.
THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORY IS NOT AN EMPTY SURFACE.
THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORY IS A COMPLETE JURIDICAL, HISTORICAL, ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ORDER.
A MOUNTAIN MAY PROTECT WATER.
A FOREST MAY PRESERVE LIFE.
A PLAIN MAY SECURE THE FOOD OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.
A COAST MAY PROTECT COMMERCE, NAVIGATION AND NATIONAL ACCESS.
AN ISLAND MAY SECURE MARITIME CONTINUITY.
A SACRED SITE MAY PRESERVE THE SPIRITUAL MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE.
A DORMANT HOLDING MAY CONTAIN THE NEXT COMMUNITY, UNIVERSITY, FARM, RESERVE, INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR OR STRATEGIC INSTITUTION OF THE STATE.
VISIBLE CONSTRUCTION IS NOT THE EXCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF POSSESSION.
ANCESTRAL TITLE, CUSTOMARY USE, INHERITANCE, REGISTRATION, PRESERVATION, PLANNING, ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION, PERIODIC OCCUPATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGNATION ARE ACTS OF TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY.
NO TERRITORY OF XARAGUA IS MEANINGLESS.
NO ANCESTRAL HOLDING IS OWNERLESS.
NO PROTECTED LAND IS IDLE.
NO CONSTITUTIONAL RESERVE IS ABANDONED.
EVERY PART OF THE TERRITORY SHALL BE KNOWN.
EVERY PART OF THE TERRITORY SHALL BE CLASSIFIED.
EVERY PART OF THE TERRITORY SHALL BE REGISTERED.
EVERY PART OF THE TERRITORY SHALL BE PROTECTED.
EVERY PART OF THE TERRITORY SHALL BE DIRECTED TOWARD A LAWFUL AND PERMANENT NATIONAL FUNCTION.
ALL LAND IS PROTECTED, PRODUCTIVE, PRESERVED OR PREPARED.
THE TERRITORIAL ORDER IS INDIVISIBLE.
THE COLLECTIVE PATRIMONY IS INALIENABLE.
THE IMPERIAL CONSTITUTIONAL INHERITANCE IS PERMANENT.
THE AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA SHALL ENDURE.
SO RECEIVED.
SO AMENDED.
SO CONSOLIDATED.
SO CONSTITUTED.
SO ENACTED.
SO PROMULGATED.
SO AUTHENTICATED.
SO ORDERED FOR IMMEDIATE, DIRECT, SUPREME AND PERMANENT EXECUTION THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTIONAL AND TERRITORIAL ORDER OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA.
DONE AT MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL OF XARAGUA
ON THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF SEPTEMBER
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX
MONSIGNOR PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
FOUNDING PRELATE
SOVEREIGN HEAD OF STATE
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
LE CIVILISATEUR
OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND AUTHORITATIVE PUBLIC JOURNAL OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
PERMANENTLY IN FORCE

CONSTITUTION IMPÉRIALE D’HAYTI
20 MAI 1805 — TEXTE FRANÇAIS INTÉGRAL
Nous, H. Christophe, Clerveaux, Vernet, Gabart, Pétion, Geffrard, Toussaint-Brave, Raphaël, Lalondrie, Romain, Capois, Magny, Cangé, Daut, Magloire Ambroise, Yayou, Jean-Louis François, Gérin, Férou, Bazelais, Martial Besse;
Tant en notre nom particulier qu’en celui du peuple d’Hayti, qui nous a légalement constitués les organes fidèles et les interprètes de sa volonté;
En présence de l’Être-Suprême, devant qui les mortels sont égaux, et qui n’a répandu tant d’espèces de créatures différentes sur la surface du globe qu’aux fins de manifester sa gloire et sa puissance par la diversité de ses œuvres;
En face de la nature entière, dont nous avons été si injustement et depuis si longtemps considérés comme les enfants repoussés;
Déclarons que la teneur de la présente Constitution est l’expression libre, spontanée et invariable de nos cœurs et de la volonté générale de nos concitoyens;
La soumettons à la sanction de Sa Majesté l’Empereur Jacques Dessalines, notre libérateur, pour recevoir sa prompte et entière exécution.
DÉCLARATION PRÉLIMINAIRE
Article premier. Le peuple habitant l’île ci-devant appelée Saint-Domingue convient ici de se former en État libre, souverain et indépendant de toute autre puissance de l’univers, sous le nom d’Empire d’Hayti.
Article 2. L’esclavage est à jamais aboli.
Article 3. Les citoyens haytiens sont frères chez eux; l’égalité aux yeux de la loi est incontestablement reconnue, et il ne peut exister d’autres titres, avantages ou privilèges que ceux qui résultent nécessairement de la considération et de la récompense des services rendus à la liberté et à l’indépendance.
Article 4. La loi est une pour tous, soit qu’elle punisse, soit qu’elle protège.
Article 5. La loi n’a pas d’effet rétroactif.
Article 6. La propriété est sacrée; sa violation sera rigoureusement poursuivie.
Article 7. La qualité de citoyen d’Hayti se perd par l’émigration, par la naturalisation en pays étranger et par la condamnation à des peines afflictives et infamantes. Le premier cas emporte la peine de mort et la confiscation des propriétés.
Article 8. La qualité de citoyen est suspendue par l’effet de banqueroutes et de faillites.
Article 9. Nul n’est digne d’être Haytien s’il n’est bon père, bon fils, bon époux et surtout bon soldat.
Article 10. La faculté n’est pas accordée aux pères et mères de déshériter leurs enfants.
Article 11. Tout citoyen doit posséder un art mécanique.
Article 12. Aucun Blanc, quelle que soit sa nation, ne mettra le pied sur ce territoire à titre de maître ou de propriétaire et ne pourra à l’avenir y acquérir aucune propriété.
Article 13. L’article précédent ne pourra produire aucun effet tant à l’égard des femmes blanches qui se sont naturalisées Haytiennes par le gouvernement qu’à l’égard des enfants nés ou à naître d’elles. Sont aussi compris dans les dispositions du présent article les Allemands et Polonais naturalisés par le gouvernement.
Article 14. Toute acception de couleur parmi les enfants d’une seule et même famille, dont le chef de l’État est le père, devant nécessairement cesser, les Haytiens ne seront désormais connus que sous la dénomination générique de Noirs.
DE L’EMPIRE
Article 15. L’Empire d’Hayti est un et indivisible; son territoire est distribué en six divisions militaires.
Article 16. Chaque division militaire sera commandée par un général de division.
Article 17. Chacun de ces généraux de division sera indépendant des autres et correspondra directement avec l’Empereur ou avec le général en chef nommé par Sa Majesté.
Article 18. Sont parties intégrantes de l’Empire les îles ci-après désignées : Samana, la Tortue, la Gonâve, les Cayemites, l’Île-à-Vache, la Saône et les autres îles adjacentes.
DU GOUVERNEMENT
Article 19. Le gouvernement d’Hayti est confié à un premier magistrat qui prend le titre d’Empereur et de Chef suprême de l’armée.
Article 20. Le peuple reconnaît pour Empereur et Chef suprême de l’armée Jacques Dessalines, le vengeur et libérateur de ses concitoyens; on le qualifie de Majesté, ainsi que son auguste épouse, l’Impératrice.
Article 21. La personne de Leurs Majestés est sacrée et inviolable.
Article 22. L’État accordera un traitement fixe à Sa Majesté l’Impératrice, dont elle jouira même après le décès de l’Empereur, à titre de princesse douairière.
Article 23. La couronne est élective et non héréditaire.
Article 24. Il sera affecté par l’État un traitement annuel aux enfants reconnus par Sa Majesté l’Empereur.
Article 25. Les enfants mâles reconnus par l’Empereur seront tenus, à l’instar des autres citoyens, de passer successivement de grade en grade, avec cette seule différence que leur entrée au service datera dans la quatrième demi-brigade dès l’époque de leur naissance.
Article 26. L’Empereur désigne son successeur de la manière qu’il juge convenable, soit avant, soit après sa mort.
Article 27. Un traitement convenable sera fixé par l’État à ce successeur, dès le moment de son avènement au trône.
Article 28. L’Empereur ni aucun de ses successeurs n’aura le droit, dans aucun cas et sous quelque prétexte que ce soit, de s’entourer d’un corps particulier et privilégié à titre de garde d’honneur ou sous toute autre dénomination.
Article 29. Tout successeur qui s’écartera des dispositions du précédent article, de la marche qui lui aura été tracée par l’Empereur régnant ou des principes consacrés par la présente Constitution sera considéré et déclaré en état de guerre contre la société.
En conséquence, les conseillers d’État s’assembleront à l’effet de prononcer sa destitution et de pourvoir à son remplacement par celui d’entre eux qui en aura été jugé le plus digne.
S’il arrivait que ledit successeur voulût s’opposer à l’exécution de cette mesure autorisée par la loi, les généraux conseillers d’État feront appel au peuple et à l’armée, qui leur prêteront immédiatement main-forte et assistance pour maintenir la liberté.
Article 30. L’Empereur fait, scelle et promulgue les lois; nomme et révoque à sa volonté les ministres, le général en chef de l’armée, les conseillers d’État, les généraux et autres agents de l’Empire, les officiers de l’armée de terre et de mer, les membres des administrations locales, les commissaires du gouvernement près les tribunaux, les juges et autres fonctionnaires publics.
Article 31. L’Empereur dirige les recettes et dépenses de l’État; surveille la fabrication des monnaies; lui seul en ordonne l’émission et en fixe le poids et le type.
Article 32. À lui seul est réservé le pouvoir de faire la paix ou la guerre, d’entretenir des relations politiques et de contracter des traités.
Article 33. Il pourvoit à la sûreté intérieure et à la défense de l’État et distribue les forces de terre et de mer suivant sa volonté.
Article 34. L’Empereur, dans le cas où il se tramerait quelque conspiration contre la sûreté de l’État, contre la Constitution ou contre sa personne, fera arrêter les auteurs ou complices, qui seront jugés par un conseil spécial.
Article 35. Sa Majesté seule a le droit d’absoudre un coupable ou de commuer sa peine.
Article 36. L’Empereur ne formera jamais aucune entreprise dans la vue de faire des conquêtes ni de troubler la paix et le régime intérieur des colonies étrangères.
Article 37. Tout acte public sera fait en ces termes :
« L’Empereur d’Hayti et Chef suprême de l’armée, par la grâce de Dieu et la loi constitutionnelle de l’État. »
DU CONSEIL D’ÉTAT
Article 38. Les généraux de division et de brigade sont membres-nés du Conseil d’État et le composent.
DES MINISTRES
Article 39. Il y aura dans l’Empire deux ministres et un secrétaire d’État :
le ministre des Finances, ayant le département de l’Intérieur;
le ministre de la Guerre, ayant le département de la Marine.
Du ministre des Finances et de l’Intérieur
Article 40. Les attributions de ce ministre comprennent l’administration générale du Trésor public, l’organisation des administrations particulières, la distribution des fonds à mettre à la disposition du ministre de la Guerre et des autres fonctionnaires, les dépenses publiques, les instructions qui règlent la comptabilité des administrations et des payeurs de division, l’agriculture, le commerce, l’instruction publique, les poids et mesures, la formation des tableaux de population, les produits territoriaux, les domaines nationaux, soit pour la conservation, soit pour la vente, les baux à ferme, les prisons, les hôpitaux, l’entretien des routes, les bacs, les salines, les manufactures, les douanes, enfin la surveillance de la fabrication des monnaies et l’exécution des lois et arrêtés du gouvernement à ce sujet.
Du ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine
Article 41. Les fonctions de ce ministre embrassent la levée, l’organisation, l’inspection, la surveillance, la discipline, la police et le mouvement des armées de terre et de mer; le personnel et le matériel de l’artillerie et du génie; les fortifications; les forteresses; les poudres et salpêtres; l’enregistrement des actes et arrêtés de l’Empereur, leur renvoi aux armées et la surveillance de leur exécution.
Il veille spécialement à ce que les décisions de l’Empereur parviennent promptement aux militaires; il dénonce aux conseils spéciaux les délits militaires parvenus à sa connaissance et surveille les commissaires de guerre et officiers de santé.
Article 42. Les ministres sont responsables de tous les délits par eux commis contre la sûreté publique et la Constitution, de tout attentat à la propriété et à la liberté individuelle et de toute dissipation de deniers à eux confiés.
Ils sont tenus de présenter tous les trois mois à l’Empereur l’aperçu des dépenses à faire, de rendre compte de l’emploi des sommes mises à leur disposition et d’indiquer les abus qui auraient pu se glisser dans les diverses branches de l’administration.
Article 43. Aucun ministre, en place ou hors de place, ne peut être poursuivi en matière criminelle pour fait de son administration sans l’adhésion personnelle de l’Empereur.
Du secrétaire d’État
Article 44. Le secrétaire d’État est chargé de l’impression, de l’enregistrement et de l’envoi des lois, arrêtés, proclamations et instructions de l’Empereur.
Il travaille directement avec l’Empereur pour les relations étrangères, correspond avec les ministres, reçoit de ceux-ci les requêtes, pétitions et autres demandes qu’il soumet à l’Empereur, de même que les questions qui lui sont proposées par les tribunaux; il renvoie aux ministres les jugements et pièces sur lesquels l’Empereur a statué.
DES TRIBUNAUX
Article 45. Nul ne peut porter atteinte au droit qu’a chaque individu de faire juger à l’amiable par des arbitres de son choix. Leurs décisions seront reconnues légales.
Article 46. Il y aura un juge de paix dans chaque commune. Il ne pourra connaître d’une affaire s’élevant au-delà de cent gourdes et, lorsque les parties ne pourront se concilier à son tribunal, elles se pourvoiront devant les tribunaux de leur ressort respectif.
Article 47. Il y aura six tribunaux siégeant dans les villes ci-après :
Saint-Marc;
le Cap;
Port-au-Prince;
les Cayes;
l’Anse-à-Veau;
Port-de-Paix.
L’Empereur détermine leur organisation, leur nombre, leur compétence et le territoire formant le ressort de chacun.
Les tribunaux connaissent de toutes les affaires purement civiles.
Article 48. Les délits militaires sont soumis à des conseils spéciaux et à des formes particulières de jugement. L’organisation de ces conseils appartient à l’Empereur, qui prononce sur les demandes en cassation contre les jugements rendus par lesdits conseils spéciaux.
Article 49. Des lois particulières seront faites pour le notariat et à l’égard des officiers de l’état civil.
DU CULTE
Article 50. La loi n’admet pas de religion dominante.
Article 51. La liberté des cultes est tolérée.
Article 52. L’État ne pourvoit à l’entretien d’aucun culte ni d’aucun ministre.
DE L’ADMINISTRATION
Article 53. Il y aura dans chaque division militaire une administration principale, dont l’organisation et la surveillance appartiennent essentiellement au ministre des Finances.
DISPOSITIONS GÉNÉRALES
Article premier. À l’Empereur et à l’Impératrice appartiennent le choix, le traitement et l’entretien des personnes qui composent leur cour.
Article 2. Après le décès de l’Empereur régnant, lorsque la révision de la Constitution aura été jugée nécessaire, le Conseil d’État s’assemblera à cet effet et sera présidé par le doyen d’âge.
Article 3. Les crimes de haute trahison et les délits commis par les ministres et les généraux seront jugés par un conseil spécial nommé et présidé par l’Empereur.
Article 4. La force armée est essentiellement obéissante; nul corps armé ne peut délibérer.
Article 5. Nul ne pourra être jugé sans avoir été légalement entendu dans sa défense.
Article 6. La maison de tout citoyen est un asile inviolable.
Article 7. On ne peut y entrer qu’en cas d’incendie, d’inondation, de réclamation partant de l’intérieur ou en vertu d’un ordre émané de l’Empereur ou de toute autre autorité légalement constituée.
Article 8. Celui-là mérite la mort qui la donne à son semblable.
Article 9. Tout jugement portant peine de mort ou peine afflictive ne pourra recevoir son exécution s’il n’a été confirmé par l’Empereur.
Article 10. Le vol est puni en raison des circonstances qui l’auront précédé, accompagné ou suivi.
Article 11. Tout étranger habitant le territoire d’Hayti sera, ainsi que les Haytiens, soumis aux lois correctionnelles et criminelles du pays.
Article 12. Toute propriété qui aura ci-devant appartenu à un Blanc français est incontestablement et de droit confisquée au profit de l’État.
Article 13. Tout Haytien qui, ayant acquis une propriété d’un Blanc français, n’aura payé qu’une partie du prix stipulé par l’acte de vente sera responsable envers les domaines de l’État du reliquat de la somme due.
Article 14. Le mariage est un acte purement civil et autorisé par le gouvernement.
Article 15. La loi autorise le divorce dans les cas qu’elle a prévus et déterminés.
Article 16. Une loi particulière sera rendue concernant les enfants nés hors mariage.
Article 17. Le respect pour les chefs, la subordination et la discipline sont rigoureusement nécessaires.
Article 18. Un code pénal sera publié et sévèrement observé.
Article 19. Dans chaque division militaire, une école publique sera établie pour l’instruction de la jeunesse.
Article 20. Les couleurs nationales sont noires et rouges.
Article 21. L’agriculture, comme le premier, le plus noble et le plus utile de tous les arts, sera honorée et protégée.
Article 22. Le commerce, seconde source de la prospérité des États, ne veut et ne connaît point d’entraves; il doit être favorisé et spécialement protégé.
Article 23. Dans chaque division militaire, un tribunal de commerce sera formé, dont les membres seront choisis par l’Empereur et tirés de la classe des négociants.
Article 24. La bonne foi et la loyauté dans les opérations commerciales seront religieusement observées.
Article 25. Le gouvernement assure sûreté et protection aux nations neutres et amies qui viendront entretenir avec cette île des rapports commerciaux, à la charge pour elles de se conformer aux règlements, usages et coutumes de ce pays.
Article 26. Les comptoirs et les marchandises des étrangers seront sous la sauvegarde et la garantie de l’État.
Article 27. Il y aura des fêtes nationales pour célébrer l’Indépendance, la fête de l’Empereur et de son auguste épouse, celle de l’Agriculture et celle de la Constitution.
Article 28. Au premier coup de canon d’alarme, les villes disparaissent et la nation est debout.
Nous, mandataires soussignés,
Mettons sous la sauvegarde des magistrats, des pères et mères de famille, des citoyens et de l’armée le pacte explicite et solennel des droits sacrés de l’homme et des devoirs du citoyen;
Le recommandons à nos neveux et en faisons hommage aux amis de la liberté, aux philanthropes de tous les pays, comme un gage signalé de la bonté divine qui, par la suite de ses décrets immortels, nous a procuré l’occasion de briser nos fers et de nous constituer en peuple libre, civilisé et indépendant.
Et avons signé tant en notre nom privé qu’en celui de nos commettants.
Signés : H. Christophe, Clerveaux, Vernet, Gabart, Pétion, Geffrard, Toussaint-Brave, Raphaël, Lalondrie, Romain, Capois, Magny, Cangé, Daut, Magloire Ambroise, Yayou, Jean-Louis François, Gérin, Moreau, Férou, Bazelais, Martial Besse.
Vu la présente Constitution,
Nous, Jacques Dessalines, Empereur premier d’Hayti et Chef suprême de l’armée, par la grâce de Dieu et la loi constitutionnelle de l’État,
L’acceptons dans tout son contenu et la sanctionnons pour recevoir, sous le plus bref délai, sa pleine et entière exécution dans toute l’étendue du territoire de notre Empire.
Et jurons de la maintenir et de la faire observer dans son intégrité jusqu’au dernier soupir de notre vie.
Au Palais impérial de Dessalines, le 20 mai 1805, an II de l’Indépendance d’Hayti et de notre règne le premier.
DESSALINES
Par l’Empereur :
Le Secrétaire général,
Juste Chanlatte

CONSTITUTION OF THE EMPIRE OF HAYTI
MAY 20, 1805 — COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
We, H. Christophe, Clervaux, Vernet, Gabart, Pétion, Geffrard, Toussaint-Brave, Raphaël, Lalondrie, Romain, Capois, Magny, Cangé, Daut, Magloire Ambroise, Yayou, Jean-Louis François, Gérin, Férou, Bazelais, and Martial Besse;
Both in our own name and in the name of the people of Hayti, who have lawfully constituted us as the faithful organs and interpreters of their will;
In the presence of the Supreme Being, before whom all mortals are equal, and who has spread so many different species of creatures over the surface of the globe in order to manifest His glory and power through the diversity of His works;
Before all nature, by which we have been so unjustly and for so long regarded as rejected children;
We declare that the content of the present Constitution is the free, spontaneous, and invariable expression of our hearts and of the general will of our fellow citizens;
We submit it to the sanction of His Majesty Emperor Jacques Dessalines, our liberator, so that it may receive prompt and complete execution.
PRELIMINARY DECLARATION
Article 1. The people inhabiting the island formerly called Saint-Domingue hereby agree to constitute themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State, independent of every other power in the universe, under the name of the Empire of Hayti.
Article 2. Slavery is forever abolished.
Article 3. The citizens of Hayti are brothers among themselves. Equality before the law is incontestably recognized, and no titles, advantages, or privileges may exist except those necessarily resulting from the consideration and reward of services rendered to liberty and independence.
Article 4. The law is the same for all, whether it punishes or protects.
Article 5. The law shall have no retroactive effect.
Article 6. Property is sacred; its violation shall be rigorously prosecuted.
Article 7. Haytian citizenship is lost through emigration, naturalization in a foreign country, or conviction resulting in corporal or infamous punishment. The first case entails the death penalty and confiscation of property.
Article 8. Citizenship is suspended as a consequence of bankruptcy or insolvency.
Article 9. No person is worthy of being Haytian unless he is a good father, a good son, a good husband, and above all a good soldier.
Article 10. Fathers and mothers shall not be permitted to disinherit their children.
Article 11. Every citizen must possess a mechanical trade.
Article 12. No White person, whatever his nation, shall set foot upon this territory as a master or proprietor, nor shall he in the future acquire any property therein.
Article 13. The preceding article shall have no effect upon White women who were naturalized as Haytians by the government, nor upon children already born or to be born of those women. Germans and Poles naturalized by the government are also included within the provisions of the present article.
Article 14. All distinctions of color among the children of one and the same family, whose father is the Head of State, must necessarily cease. Haytians shall henceforth be known only under the generic designation of Blacks.
OF THE EMPIRE
Article 15. The Empire of Hayti is one and indivisible. Its territory is distributed into six military divisions.
Article 16. Each military division shall be commanded by a general of division.
Article 17. Each of these generals of division shall be independent of the others and shall correspond directly with the Emperor or with the Commander-in-Chief appointed by His Majesty.
Article 18. The following islands are integral parts of the Empire: Samaná, Tortuga, Gonâve, the Cayemites, Île-à-Vache, Saona, and the other adjacent islands.
OF THE GOVERNMENT
Article 19. The government of Hayti is entrusted to a First Magistrate who assumes the title of Emperor and Supreme Commander of the Army.
Article 20. The people recognize Jacques Dessalines as Emperor and Supreme Commander of the Army, the avenger and liberator of his fellow citizens. The title of Majesty is conferred upon him and upon his august spouse, the Empress.
Article 21. The persons of Their Majesties are sacred and inviolable.
Article 22. The State shall grant a fixed allowance to Her Majesty the Empress, which she shall continue to enjoy after the death of the Emperor as Dowager Princess.
Article 23. The Crown is elective and not hereditary.
Article 24. The State shall assign an annual allowance to the children recognized by His Majesty the Emperor.
Article 25. The male children recognized by the Emperor shall be required, like all other citizens, to advance successively from rank to rank, with the sole difference that their entry into service in the fourth demi-brigade shall date from the time of their birth.
Article 26. The Emperor shall designate his successor in whatever manner he deems appropriate, either before or after his death.
Article 27. A suitable allowance shall be fixed by the State for that successor from the moment of his accession to the throne.
Article 28. Neither the Emperor nor any of his successors shall have the right, in any case or under any pretext, to surround himself with a special or privileged body under the title of guard of honor or any other designation.
Article 29. Any successor who departs from the provisions of the preceding article, from the path traced for him by the reigning Emperor, or from the principles established by the present Constitution shall be considered and declared to be in a state of war against society.
The Councillors of State shall consequently assemble to pronounce his removal and provide for his replacement by the member among them judged most worthy.
If the successor attempts to oppose the execution of this measure authorized by law, the generals and Councillors of State shall appeal to the people and the army, who shall immediately provide their full strength and assistance to maintain liberty.
Article 30. The Emperor makes, seals, and promulgates the laws. At his will, he appoints and removes the ministers, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, the Councillors of State, generals and other agents of the Empire, officers of the land and naval forces, members of local administrations, government commissioners attached to the tribunals, judges, and other public officials.
Article 31. The Emperor directs the revenues and expenditures of the State and supervises the manufacture of currency. He alone orders its issuance and determines its weight and type.
Article 32. To him alone is reserved the power to make peace or war, maintain political relations, and conclude treaties.
Article 33. He provides for the internal security and defense of the State and distributes the land and naval forces according to his will.
Article 34. Where a conspiracy is formed against the security of the State, the Constitution, or the person of the Emperor, the Emperor shall cause the authors and accomplices to be arrested and tried before a special council.
Article 35. His Majesty alone possesses the right to pardon a guilty person or commute a sentence.
Article 36. The Emperor shall never undertake any enterprise for the purpose of making conquests or disturbing the peace and internal government of foreign colonies.
Article 37. Every public act shall be issued in the following terms:
“The Emperor of Hayti and Supreme Commander of the Army, by the Grace of God and the Constitutional Law of the State.”
OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE
Article 38. The generals of division and brigade are ex officio members of the Council of State and compose that Council.
OF THE MINISTERS
Article 39. There shall be two ministers and one Secretary of State in the Empire:
the Minister of Finance, also having charge of the Department of the Interior;
the Minister of War, also having charge of the Department of the Navy.
Of the Minister of Finance and the Interior
Article 40. The powers of this Minister include the general administration of the Public Treasury; the organization of the particular administrations; the distribution of funds placed at the disposal of the Minister of War and other public officials; public expenditure; accounting instructions governing the administrations and divisional paymasters; agriculture; commerce; public instruction; weights and measures; preparation of population tables; territorial production; national domains, whether for preservation or sale; farm leases; prisons; hospitals; maintenance of roads; ferries; saltworks; manufactures; customs; and, finally, supervision of the manufacture of currency and execution of the laws and governmental decrees relating thereto.
Of the Minister of War and the Navy
Article 41. The functions of this Minister include the raising, organization, inspection, supervision, discipline, policing, and movement of the land and naval forces; the personnel and equipment of the artillery and engineers; fortifications and fortresses; powder and saltpeter; registration of the acts and decrees of the Emperor, their transmission to the armies, and supervision of their execution.
He shall take special care that the decisions of the Emperor reach the military promptly. He shall report military offenses brought to his knowledge to the special councils and supervise war commissioners and medical officers.
Article 42. The ministers are responsible for all offenses committed by them against public security and the Constitution, every attack upon property and individual liberty, and every dissipation of funds entrusted to them.
Every three months, they shall present to the Emperor a statement of proposed expenditure, report on the use of sums placed at their disposal, and identify abuses that may have entered the various branches of the administration.
Article 43. No minister, whether in office or out of office, may be criminally prosecuted for an act of his administration without the personal assent of the Emperor.
Of the Secretary of State
Article 44. The Secretary of State is charged with the printing, registration, and dispatch of the laws, decrees, proclamations, and instructions of the Emperor.
He works directly with the Emperor concerning foreign relations, corresponds with the ministers, receives petitions and other requests from them and submits these to the Emperor, together with questions proposed by the tribunals, and returns to the ministers the judgments and documents upon which the Emperor has ruled.
OF THE TRIBUNALS
Article 45. No person may interfere with the right of every individual to have a matter amicably decided by arbitrators of his own choosing. Their decisions shall be recognized as lawful.
Article 46. There shall be a Justice of the Peace in every commune. He shall not have jurisdiction over a case exceeding one hundred gourdes. Where the parties cannot reach conciliation before his tribunal, they may appeal to the tribunals of their respective jurisdictions.
Article 47. Six tribunals shall be established in the following cities:
Saint-Marc;
Cap-Haytien;
Port-au-Prince;
Les Cayes;
Anse-à-Veau;
Port-de-Paix.
The Emperor shall determine their organization, membership, competence, and territorial jurisdiction.
These tribunals shall hear all purely civil matters.
Article 48. Military offenses are submitted to special councils and particular forms of judgment. The organization of these councils belongs to the Emperor, who shall rule upon applications for cassation against judgments rendered by the said special councils.
Article 49. Particular laws shall be enacted concerning notaries and civil-status officers.
OF WORSHIP
Article 50. The law recognizes no predominant religion.
Article 51. Freedom of worship is tolerated.
Article 52. The State shall not provide for the maintenance of any religious institution or minister.
OF THE ADMINISTRATION
Article 53. There shall be a principal administration in every military division, whose organization and supervision belong essentially to the Minister of Finance.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. The Emperor and Empress shall select the persons composing their Court and determine their allowances and maintenance.
Article 2. After the death of the reigning Emperor, where revision of the Constitution has been judged necessary, the Council of State shall assemble for that purpose and shall be presided over by its oldest member.
Article 3. Crimes of high treason and offenses committed by ministers and generals shall be judged by a special council appointed and presided over by the Emperor.
Article 4. The armed force is essentially obedient. No armed body may deliberate.
Article 5. No person shall be judged without first having been lawfully heard in his defense.
Article 6. The home of every citizen is an inviolable asylum.
Article 7. It may be entered only in cases of fire, flood, a request arising from within, or by virtue of an order issued by the Emperor or another lawfully constituted authority.
Article 8. He who takes the life of his fellow person deserves death.
Article 9. No judgment carrying the death penalty or corporal punishment may be executed unless confirmed by the Emperor.
Article 10. Theft shall be punished according to the circumstances preceding, accompanying, or following it.
Article 11. Every foreigner residing in the territory of Hayti shall, like Haytians, be subject to the correctional and criminal laws of the country.
Article 12. All property formerly belonging to a White French person is incontestably and by right confiscated for the benefit of the State.
Article 13. Every Haytian who acquired property from a White French person and paid only part of the price stipulated in the deed of sale shall be liable to the State domain for the remaining sum due.
Article 14. Marriage is a purely civil act authorized by the government.
Article 15. The law authorizes divorce in the cases it has previously provided for and determined.
Article 16. A particular law shall be enacted concerning children born outside marriage.
Article 17. Respect for leaders, subordination, and discipline are rigorously necessary.
Article 18. A Penal Code shall be published and strictly observed.
Article 19. A public school shall be established in every military division for the education of youth.
Article 20. The national colors shall be black and red.
Article 21. Agriculture, as the first, noblest, and most useful of all the arts, shall be honored and protected.
Article 22. Commerce, the second source of the prosperity of States, shall admit no impediment; it must be encouraged and specially protected.
Article 23. A commercial tribunal shall be established in every military division, whose members shall be selected by the Emperor from the merchant class.
Article 24. Good faith and integrity in commercial operations shall be religiously maintained.
Article 25. The government assures safety and protection to neutral and friendly nations desiring to establish commercial relations with this island, provided they conform to the regulations, usages, and customs of the country.
Article 26. The commercial establishments and merchandise of foreigners shall be under the safeguard and guarantee of the State.
Article 27. National festivals shall be established to celebrate Independence, the feast of the Emperor and his august spouse, Agriculture, and the Constitution.
Article 28. At the first firing of the alarm cannon, the cities shall disappear and the nation shall rise.
We, the undersigned representatives,
Place under the safeguard of the Magistrates, fathers and mothers of families, citizens, and the army the explicit and solemn covenant of the sacred rights of man and the duties of the citizen;
We recommend it to our descendants and present it to the friends of liberty and philanthropists of every country as a signal pledge of Divine goodness, which, through the course of its immortal decrees, has given us the opportunity to break our chains and constitute ourselves as a free, civilized, and independent people.
And we have signed both in our individual names and in the names of those whom we represent.
Signed: H. Christophe, Clervaux, Vernet, Gabart, Pétion, Geffrard, Toussaint-Brave, Raphaël, Lalondrie, Romain, Capois, Magny, Cangé, Daut, Magloire Ambroise, Yayou, Jean-Louis François, Gérin, Moreau, Férou, Bazelais, Martial Besse.
Having examined the present Constitution,
We, Jacques Dessalines, Emperor First of Hayti and Supreme Commander of the Army, by the Grace of God and the Constitutional Law of the State,
Accept it in its entirety and sanction it so that, with the least possible delay, it may receive full and complete execution throughout the whole territory of our Empire.
And we swear to maintain it and cause it to be observed in its integrity until the final breath of our life.
At the Imperial Palace of Dessalines, May 20, 1805, Year II of the Independence of Hayti and the first year of our reign.
DESSALINES
By the Emperor:
Juste Chanlatte
Secretary-General