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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT (SLI)

ON THE TRANSNATIONAL RECOGNITION, CONCORDATARIAN RECEPTION, AND PROTECTIVE EXECUTION OF THE CANONICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ACTS OF SCIPS‑X

Date of Promulgation: August 8, 2025

Legal Classification:

– Supreme Canonico-Concordatarian Legislative Decree

– Ecclesiastical-Indigenous Institutional Recognition Act

– Statutory Instrument on Transnational Canonical Reception

– Indigenous-Catholic Fundamental Rights Execution Framework

– Constitutional Directive on Concordatarian Cooperation

PREAMBLE

Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “SCIPS‑X” or “Xaragua,” constitutes, within its own constitutional order, a sovereign Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, territorial, and private institutional authority;

Whereas Xaragua maintains a Catholic institutional character through the lawful exercise of the freedom of association of the Christian faithful, the establishment of private Catholic institutions, the adoption of statutes, the administration of temporal goods, the organization of educational and charitable works, and the public profession of the Catholic faith;

Whereas the distinction between public juridic personality and private canonical association does not diminish the lawful institutional existence, internal legislative authority, constitutional capacity, property rights, educational competence, or Catholic mission of Xaragua;

Whereas concordats and equivalent international agreements between the Holy See and States establish legal frameworks for the recognition and protection of Catholic institutions, ecclesiastical activity, religious freedom, education, temporal goods, charitable works, and the civil effects of canonical acts within the particular scope of each agreement;

Whereas the constitutional acts of Xaragua must be distinguished according to their nature, namely:

a. acts deriving from Xaragua’s sovereign Indigenous and constitutional order;

b. acts governing its private canonical association and Catholic institutions;

c. acts relating to property, education, worship, charitable activity, membership, archives, foundations, and internal organization;

d. acts submitted to ecclesiastical or civil authorities for recognition, reception, registration, cooperation, or execution;

Whereas no State may arbitrarily deny the civil existence, institutional rights, property, worship, educational activity, or lawful association of Xaragua merely because its constitutional order is Indigenous, non-Westphalian, private, customary, or territorially discontinuous;

The Supreme Constitutional Authority hereby promulgates the present Legislative Instrument.

TITLE I — CANONICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS

Article 1 — Constitutional Personality of Xaragua

1.1. Xaragua possesses perpetual constitutional personality within its own legal order and exercises original authority over its institutions, members, offices, archives, property, doctrine, education, symbols, internal legislation, and customary communities.

1.2. Its constitutional personality does not depend upon incorporation, recognition, registration, or authorization by a foreign secular authority.

1.3. Xaragua shall possess the capacity to:

a. enact constitutional and statutory instruments;

b. establish institutions, universities, academies, foundations, orders, ministries, courts, archives, banks, media organs, and charitable works;

c. acquire, administer, protect, and transfer property;

d. enter into agreements and institutional relations;

e. represent its members and communities;

f. maintain diplomatic, ecclesiastical, academic, commercial, and cultural correspondence;

g. seek recognition or civil effect for particular acts before competent authorities.

Article 2 — Private Canonical Association and Catholic Institutional Capacity

2.1. Pursuant to Canons 215, 298, 299, 321, 323, and 325 of the Codex Iuris Canonici, the Christian faithful possess the right to establish and direct associations for purposes of charity, piety, education, apostolic activity, and the promotion of the Christian vocation in the world.

2.2. Xaragua’s Catholic order, religious associations, educational institutions, foundations, charitable works, and affiliated bodies shall operate as private Catholic institutions governed by their statutes, by the applicable universal law of the Church, and by the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua.

2.3. Xaragua does not derive its Indigenous constitutional authority from an ecclesiastical concession. Its Catholic canonical organization and its Indigenous constitutional personality coexist as distinct but coordinated jurisdictions within the Xaraguaan institutional order.

2.4. No provision of this Instrument shall be interpreted as claiming that Xaragua has been erected as a public juridic person of the Catholic Church without the decree required by Canon 116.

2.5. Xaragua nevertheless retains full authority, within its own constitutional jurisdiction, to recognize its institutions as public organs of the Xaraguaan State, to confer internal legal personality upon them, and to determine their rights, duties, succession, assets, offices, and legislative capacity.

Article 3 — Freedom of Catholic Institutional Action

3.1. Xaragua and its members shall enjoy the freedom to establish and direct apostolic, educational, cultural, charitable, commemorative, and devotional initiatives, subject to the applicable provisions of canon law.

3.2. Pursuant to Canon 216, Xaragua may promote apostolic initiatives according to its own discipline, provided that no initiative is falsely presented as having been undertaken in the name of the universal Church without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.

3.3. The use of the name “Catholic” by Xaragua expresses its constitutional faith, doctrinal allegiance, historical continuity, and institutional character. Relations concerning any authorization specifically required by Canon 300 shall be conducted through the competent ecclesiastical channels without suspending Xaragua’s independent Indigenous constitutional existence.

TITLE II — CONCORDATARIAN RECOGNITION AND RECEPTION

Article 4 — Treaty Performance and Good Faith

4.1. Article 26 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties establishes that every treaty in force is binding upon its parties and must be performed by them in good faith.

4.2. Article 27 establishes that a party may not invoke its internal law as justification for failure to perform a treaty, subject to the legal scope and conditions of the treaty concerned.

4.3. Accordingly, every State bound by a concordat or equivalent agreement with the Holy See must apply that agreement in good faith to all Catholic persons, associations, institutions, goods, activities, and interests falling within its substantive and territorial scope.

4.4. Xaragua may invoke the protections of an applicable concordat whenever one of its Catholic institutions, members, properties, educational works, charitable activities, places of worship, archives, or canonical acts falls within a category protected by that concordat.

Article 5 — Classification of Xaraguaan Acts

5.1. For purposes of international and concordatarian reception, the acts of Xaragua shall be classified as follows:**

a. Supreme Constitutional Acts, binding within the constitutional order of Xaragua;

b. Canonical Associational Acts, governing its private associations and Catholic institutions;

c. Civil and Proprietary Acts, concerning assets, contracts, foundations, trusts, archives, publications, and legal representation;

d. Educational Acts, concerning curricula, academic offices, institutional standards, certificates, diplomas, and scholarly works;

e. Protective Acts, concerning Catholic worship, sacred heritage, Indigenous communities, clergy support, charitable activity, and institutional continuity;

f. Acts Requiring External Reception, submitted to competent ecclesiastical or secular authorities where external legal effect requires registration, recognition, homologation, or implementation.**

5.2. An act shall remain fully valid within the Xaraguaan constitutional order even where its external civil effect depends upon a procedure required by the receiving jurisdiction.

5.3. No foreign authority may use the absence of external reception to annul the internal constitutional existence of Xaragua or the validity of an act among persons and institutions lawfully subject to Xaraguaan jurisdiction.

Article 6 — Concordatarian Duty of Examination

6.1. Every concordatarian authority receiving a Xaraguaan act shall examine it according to:**

a. the text of the applicable concordat or agreement;

b. the civil law governing religious institutions;

c. the canonical nature of the institution or act concerned;

d. the principles of good faith, religious freedom, equality, institutional autonomy, and Indigenous self-determination.

6.2. No competent authority may reject an act merely because it originates from a non-Westphalian Indigenous authority, a private Catholic institution, or a customary constitutional system.

6.3. Where an act satisfies the conditions prescribed by the applicable concordat and domestic legislation, it shall receive the corresponding recognition, registration, protection, or civil effect without discrimination.

6.4. Where additional formalities are required, the receiving authority shall identify them clearly and permit Xaragua to complete the appropriate procedure.

Article 7 — Geographical Scope

7.1. This Instrument applies to every State or jurisdiction maintaining a concordat, convention, accord, modus vivendi, protocol, exchange of notes, or equivalent international arrangement with the Holy See, but only to the extent of the substantive and territorial scope of the instrument applicable in that jurisdiction.

7.2. The Ministry of Canonical and International Affairs of Xaragua shall maintain an official Register of Concordatarian and Ecclesiastical Agreements identifying:

a. the contracting parties;

b. the date of signature and entry into force;

c. subsequent amendments or protocols;

d. protected Catholic institutions and activities;

e. procedures for civil recognition or execution;

f. the competent civil and ecclesiastical authorities.

7.3. The Register may include European, American, African, Asian, and Pacific jurisdictions, but no jurisdiction shall be classified solely by geographical generalization. Each shall be governed by the actual agreement in force.

7.4. Any future concordat or equivalent agreement shall be entered in the Register upon its entry into force and shall become available as a legal basis for the protection and reception of qualifying Xaraguaan acts.

TITLE III — EXECUTION AND INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

Article 8 — Ecclesiastical Notification

8.1. Xaragua may notify the Holy See, the competent dicastery, an apostolic nunciature, an episcopal conference, a diocesan bishop, or another competent ecclesiastical authority of any act affecting Catholic worship, institutions, property, education, clergy support, charitable activity, or Indigenous Catholic communities.

8.2. Such notification shall constitute formal institutional notice and a request for registration, dialogue, protection, examination, cooperation, or canonical determination, according to the nature of the act.

8.3. Notification shall not be construed as surrendering Xaragua’s Indigenous constitutional personality, internal authority, historical claims, or customary jurisdiction.

Article 9 — Civil and International Execution

9.1. Xaragua may seek recognition, protective measures, registration, judicial enforcement, administrative review, mediation, or other remedies before competent national, regional, and international institutions.

9.2. Where an adverse act affects both Catholic institutional rights and Indigenous rights, Xaragua may invoke the applicable combination of:

a. the relevant concordat or ecclesiastical agreement;

b. domestic constitutional and administrative law;

c. the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

d. the American Convention on Human Rights or other applicable regional instrument;

e. the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including Articles 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20, 26, 31, 33, and 34;

f. customary principles protecting religious freedom, cultural integrity, association, property, education, and institutional continuity.

9.3. Xaragua may submit communications, petitions, reports, requests for precautionary measures, amicus briefs, diplomatic notices, and institutional claims before every body possessing lawful competence to receive them.

Article 10 — Internal Binding Force

10.1. All ministries, courts, universities, orders, foundations, banks, media organs, officers, citizens, members, associates, and affiliated institutions of Xaragua shall give full effect to this Instrument.

10.2. No external failure to recognize a particular Xaraguaan act shall suspend its internal validity unless the Supreme Constitutional Authority expressly provides otherwise.

10.3. External reception concerns the operation of an act within a foreign legal system; it does not determine the existence of Xaragua or the validity of Xaraguaan law within the constitutional jurisdiction of the State.

TITLE IV — FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 11 — Supremacy and Continuity

11.1. This Instrument possesses perpetual constitutional force within the Xaraguaan legal order.

11.2. It binds every present and future organ of Xaragua unless amended by an instrument of equal or superior constitutional rank.

11.3. Changes in foreign legislation, diplomatic relations, concordats, or ecclesiastical administration shall modify only the external procedure applicable to recognition and execution; they shall not extinguish Xaragua’s constitutional personality or Catholic institutional continuity.

Article 12 — Entry into Force

12.1. This Instrument enters into force immediately upon promulgation.

12.2. All earlier Xaraguaan instruments concerning universal automatic enforcement shall be interpreted in conformity with the present Instrument as establishing:

a. internal automatic enforceability within Xaragua;

b. mandatory institutional presentation and defense abroad;

c. concordatarian reception wherever the applicable treaty so provides;

d. lawful pursuit of civil, ecclesiastical, diplomatic, and international recognition.

SIGNED AND SEALED

On the Eighth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five

Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau

Prelate-Founder & Rector-President

Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua (SCIPS‑X)

Official Institutional Portal:

www.xaraguauniversity.com

Canonical and Constitutional Seal:

IN PERPETUUM ECCLESIAE CUSTOS

Writing

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT (SLI)

ON THE FULL CONSTITUTIONAL ASSUMPTION AND PROTECTIVE EXECUTION OF THE CATHOLIC GUARANTEES ARISING FROM THE 1860 CONCORDAT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND HAITI

Date of Promulgation: August 6, 2025

Legal Classification:

– Supreme Canonico-Concordatarian Legislative Decree

– Catholic Institutional Continuity and Protection Act

– Instrument of Indigenous Constitutional Succession to Unfulfilled Public Obligations

– Statutory Reaffirmation of Catholic Protection within the Ancestral Territories of Xaragua

– Ecclesiastical Cooperation and Concordatarian Execution Framework

PREAMBLE

Whereas the Concordat concluded on March 28, 1860, between the Holy See and the Republic of Haiti established a formal legal framework for the protection, organization, and public exercise of the Catholic religion in Haiti;

Whereas that Concordat and its subsequent modifications form part of the historical juridical order through which public authorities assumed obligations concerning Catholic worship, ecclesiastical organization, religious institutions, and cooperation with the Holy See;

Whereas the constitutional reorganization of relations between Church and State in 1984 modified the original concordatarian framework without extinguishing the continuing historical and institutional responsibilities relating to Catholic worship, ecclesiastical freedom, and cooperation;

Whereas the residual administration operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti has failed, in substantial parts of the ancestral territories of Xaragua, to provide effective security, institutional continuity, material protection, education, preservation of sacred heritage, and stable public administration;

Whereas such failure does not extinguish the rights of Catholic communities, Indigenous populations, parishes, religious institutions, clergy, students, families, archives, sacred objects, or places of worship;

Whereas Xaragua possesses, within its own constitutional order, the authority to assume public protective functions abandoned or ineffectively performed by the residual administration, without thereby claiming sacramental powers, episcopal office, diocesan jurisdiction, or authority reserved by universal canon law to the Roman Pontiff or competent ecclesiastical authorities;

Whereas the principle of subsidiarity permits and requires competent communities and institutions to act where centralized structures are unable to protect the common good, while preserving the proper competence of ecclesiastical authority in spiritual and canonical matters;

The Supreme Constitutional Authority hereby promulgates the present Legislative Instrument.

TITLE I — CATHOLIC AND INDIGENOUS CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY

Article 1 — Nature of the Xaraguaan Assumption

1.1. Xaragua hereby assumes, within its constitutional jurisdiction, the civil, institutional, protective, educational, cultural, financial, and administrative obligations historically associated with the public guarantee of Catholic life under the Concordat of 1860 and its subsequent modifications.

1.2. This assumption constitutes an act of Indigenous constitutional continuity and functional public substitution necessitated by administrative failure.

1.3. It does not constitute the unilateral creation of a diocese, apostolic administration, public juridic person of the universal Church, ecclesiastical tribunal, or canonical office reserved to competent ecclesiastical authority.

1.4. Xaragua shall exercise its own constitutional jurisdiction while recognizing the exclusive canonical competence of the Roman Pontiff, competent dicasteries, diocesan bishops, and other lawful ecclesiastical authorities in matters assigned to them by the Codex Iuris Canonici.

1.5. The distinction established in this Article shall protect Xaragua from any allegation that its civil and constitutional assumption of abandoned public obligations constitutes usurpation of episcopal or pontifical authority.

Article 2 — Canonical Foundation of Private Catholic Organization

2.1. Pursuant to Canons 215, 298, 299, 321, 323, and 325, the Christian faithful may establish and direct private associations dedicated to piety, charity, education, apostolic activity, cultural preservation, and the promotion of the Christian vocation.

2.2. Xaragua shall organize its Catholic order and affiliated institutions according to duly promulgated statutes, subject to universal canon law in matters properly belonging to the canonical order.

2.3. Within the Xaraguaan constitutional order, those institutions may simultaneously possess public State functions, including education, archives, cultural preservation, social assistance, institutional representation, historical research, ceremonial observance, property administration, and protection of Catholic communities.

2.4. Xaragua’s canonical status as a private association and its constitutional status as an Indigenous State authority are cumulative and distinct. Neither extinguishes the other.

Article 3 — Historical Concordatarian Guarantee

3.1. Article I of the Concordat of 1860 declared in the French original:

“La religion catholique, apostolique et romaine continuera d’être la religion de la majorité des Haïtiens. Le Gouvernement garantit à l’Église catholique le libre et public exercice de son culte.”

3.2. For purposes of the present Instrument, the operative principle retained from this provision is the public responsibility to secure the free, effective, visible, peaceful, and continuous exercise of Catholic worship.

3.3. Xaragua incorporates that protective principle into its Supreme Constitutional Law independently of any subsequent change in the political or constitutional system of the residual Haitian administration.

3.4. Within Xaragua, the protection of Catholic worship shall therefore constitute a permanent constitutional obligation and not a discretionary administrative policy.

TITLE II — ASSUMPTION OF PROTECTIVE PUBLIC FUNCTIONS

Article 4 — Scope of the Assumed Obligations

4.1. Xaragua assumes responsibility, according to its capacity and territorial jurisdiction, for:

a. protecting places of Catholic worship;

b. safeguarding priests, religious personnel, seminarians, catechists, students, pilgrims, and worshippers;

c. preserving sacred objects, cemeteries, archives, registers, libraries, monuments, and historic ecclesiastical property;

d. facilitating Catholic education, catechesis, scholarship, and theological formation;

e. supporting charitable, medical, educational, and humanitarian works;

f. maintaining communication with the Holy See and competent ecclesiastical authorities;

g. supporting the material conditions necessary for public worship;

h. documenting attacks, confiscations, desecrations, abandonment, and administrative failures affecting Catholic institutions;

i. protecting the religious and cultural patrimony of Indigenous Catholic communities.

4.2. The competent ministries of Xaragua may enter into agreements with parishes, dioceses, religious institutes, private associations of the faithful, foundations, universities, charities, property owners, communities, and foreign partners.

4.3. No agreement entered into under this Article shall be interpreted as transferring spiritual jurisdiction to Xaragua unless the competent ecclesiastical authority has expressly conferred a particular canonical mandate.

Article 5 — Subsidiary Constitutional Authority

5.1. Where the residual administration fails to provide protection, infrastructure, security, education, preservation, or institutional continuity, Xaragua may intervene through its own constitutional organs.

5.2. Such intervention shall constitute an exercise of Xaragua’s Indigenous, customary, proprietary, academic, and protective jurisdiction.

5.3. The use by Xaraguaan communities of residual administrative services shall not constitute abandonment of Xaraguaan identity, recognition of exclusive residual sovereignty, or transfer of constitutional allegiance.

5.4. Administrative use does not determine sovereignty. The temporary performance of a service by an external administration does not extinguish the underlying jurisdiction, historical title, constitutional identity, or right of institutional self-government of Xaragua.

Article 6 — Financial and Material Support

6.1. Xaragua shall establish a Catholic Institutional Continuity Fund to support, according to available resources:

a. preservation of churches and sacred heritage;

b. educational and charitable institutions;

c. emergency assistance to clergy and religious personnel;

d. restoration of archives and historical property;

e. Indigenous Catholic scholarship and cultural preservation;

f. institutional security and continuity.

6.2. This Fund shall be a Xaraguaan constitutional institution and shall not be represented as the diocesan fund contemplated by Canon 1274 unless it is established or recognized as such by competent ecclesiastical authority.

6.3. Xaragua may require the residual administration, through political, administrative, judicial, diplomatic, or concordatarian procedures, to perform any surviving public financial obligations lawfully owed to Catholic institutions.

6.4. Xaragua may receive donations, grants, endowments, subscriptions, property, legacies, and institutional contributions consistent with its statutes and applicable law.

TITLE III — ECCLESIASTICAL COMPETENCE AND COOPERATION

Article 7 — Matters Reserved to Ecclesiastical Authority

7.1. In conformity with Canon 1401, the Catholic Church possesses the proper and exclusive right to judge cases concerning spiritual matters, matters connected with spiritual matters, violations of ecclesiastical law, and the imposition of canonical penalties.

7.2. Xaragua shall not claim the power to:

a. confer sacred orders;

b. appoint diocesan bishops;

c. erect dioceses or apostolic administrations;

d. reserve or administer sacraments contrary to canon law;

e. impose canonical penalties reserved to ecclesiastical authority;

f. alienate ecclesiastical goods belonging to another canonical person.

7.3. Xaragua retains exclusive constitutional authority over its own civil offices, State institutions, educational doctrine, property, membership classifications, Indigenous customary law, national ceremonies, archives, symbols, and internal legislative order.

7.4. Where a matter contains both canonical and Xaraguaan constitutional elements, each component shall be referred to the authority competent within its respective order.

Article 8 — Canon 144 and Individual Acts of Supplied Power

8.1. Canon 144 concerns supplied executive power of governance in situations of common error or positive and probable doubt of law or fact.

8.2. Xaragua shall not interpret Canon 144 as transferring an entire diocese, concordat, episcopal office, or universal ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the State by automatic operation of law.

8.3. Where a specific sacramental, administrative, or canonical act is performed by a competent sacred minister under circumstances recognized by canon law, the legal effects of supplied jurisdiction shall be determined under the applicable canons.

8.4. The constitutional authority of Xaragua to protect communities and institutions does not depend upon Canon 144 and therefore remains operative independently of any determination concerning supplied canonical power.

Article 9 — Recognition of the Roman Pontiff

9.1. In accordance with Canon 331, Xaragua recognizes the ordinary, supreme, full, immediate, and universal authority of the Roman Pontiff in the Catholic Church.

9.2. Xaragua’s public protection of Catholic life shall be conducted in communion with the Catholic faith and with respect for the universal canonical order.

9.3. This recognition shall not be interpreted as subjecting Xaragua’s Indigenous constitutional authority, territorial doctrine, civil institutions, or customary legal personality to the residual Haitian administration.

9.4. Ecclesiastical communion and secular administrative submission are legally distinct.

Article 10 — Absence or Failure of Local Administration

10.1. The absence, incapacity, or failure of civil authorities, and any material incapacity affecting local ecclesiastical administration, shall authorize Xaragua to provide emergency civil protection, logistics, preservation, transportation, communications, shelter, education, funding, and institutional support.

10.2. Such action shall not constitute the erection of an apostolic administration, which remains within the competence of the Supreme Pontiff under Canon 371 §2.

10.3. Xaragua may petition the Holy See for the establishment, reorganization, reinforcement, or special protection of ecclesiastical structures serving the territories and communities concerned.

10.4. Pending any ecclesiastical determination, Xaragua shall maintain the civil and material conditions necessary for the survival of Catholic life to the full extent of its constitutional capacity.

TITLE IV — PROPERTY, ARCHIVES, AND SACRED HERITAGE

Article 11 — Classification of Property

11.1. Goods belonging to the universal Church, the Apostolic See, or another public juridic person in the Church are ecclesiastical goods governed by Canon 1257 and the other applicable provisions of canon law.

11.2. Goods belonging to Xaragua, its State organs, its private associations, its foundations, or its affiliated institutions shall be governed by their proper statutes, the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua, applicable civil law, and canon law where canon law lawfully applies.

11.3. Xaragua shall not classify property belonging to an independent diocese, parish, religious institute, public juridic person, private owner, or community as Xaraguaan property without a lawful title, transfer, trust, custodial agreement, or other recognized juridical basis.

11.4. Xaragua may nevertheless place threatened Catholic or Indigenous heritage under constitutional protection without asserting ownership over it.

Article 12 — Protective Custodianship

12.1. Where sacred property, archives, cemeteries, monuments, schools, or religious objects face abandonment, destruction, illicit sale, trafficking, confiscation, or desecration, Xaragua may declare a regime of Protective Constitutional Custodianship.

12.2. Protective custodianship shall authorize documentation, preservation, emergency stabilization, security, inventory, digital archiving, legal representation, and negotiated recovery.

12.3. Custodianship shall not extinguish the lawful title of the original owner.

12.4. No residual or foreign authority may lawfully invoke administrative collapse as a basis for confiscating, appropriating, destroying, or alienating protected Catholic or Indigenous property.

TITLE V — CONCORDATARIAN SUCCESSION AND PUBLIC REPRESENTATION

Article 13 — Functional Succession

13.1. Xaragua declares itself the Indigenous constitutional successor to those protective public obligations historically undertaken for Catholic life within the territories over which Xaragua asserts ancestral and constitutional jurisdiction.

13.2. This functional succession concerns duties of protection, facilitation, preservation, education, institutional cooperation, and material support.

13.3. Functional succession does not purport to amend the Concordat, replace the Holy See as a contracting party, or make Xaragua a formal treaty party without the required mutual international act.

13.4. Xaragua may seek a protocol, agreement, exchange of notes, recognition, institutional dialogue, or other appropriate arrangement with the Holy See concerning its role and responsibilities.

Article 14 — Public Representation

14.1. Xaragua shall possess the constitutional authority to represent its institutions, members, and affiliated communities in matters concerning:

a. religious freedom;

b. Indigenous Catholic heritage;

c. institutional protection;

d. education and charitable activity;

e. property and archives;

f. public security and continuity;

g. concordatarian compliance affecting its interests.

14.2. Such representation may be exercised before the Holy See, apostolic nunciatures, episcopal authorities, civil administrations, courts, international organizations, human-rights bodies, universities, foundations, and diplomatic institutions.

14.3. Formal notice delivered by Xaragua shall establish that the receiving institution was placed in a position to know the existence, character, claims, statutes, protective mandate, and continuing activities of Xaragua.

TITLE VI — TERRITORIAL APPLICATION

Article 15 — Indigenous Catholic Territories

15.1. This Instrument applies throughout the territories, communities, institutions, properties, networks, and populations placed under the constitutional protection of Xaragua.

15.2. Its territorial operation may be continuous or discontinuous and may include ancestral lands, autonomous communities, urban institutions, mountains, plains, coastal zones, islands, academic establishments, religious properties, private domains, and diaspora institutions.

15.3. Territorial discontinuity shall not extinguish constitutional unity.

15.4. Residence outside the physical territories of Xaragua shall not prevent a member, institution, foundation, or affiliated body from remaining subject to Xaraguaan statutes by lawful membership, agreement, office, ownership, or institutional affiliation.

Article 16 — Relationship with the Residual Administrative Unit

16.1. The residual administration operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti may continue to perform particular civil or administrative services where Xaragua has not replaced them operationally.

16.2. Such performance shall not confer exclusive authority over Xaraguaan institutions or extinguish Xaragua’s constitutional claims.

16.3. Xaragua may cooperate pragmatically with residual administrative organs without recognizing their exclusive jurisdiction over Xaragua’s Indigenous constitutional order.

16.4. Any attempt by a residual organ to suppress Xaragua’s Catholic institutions, seize its property, prohibit its educational work, erase its archives, obstruct its worship, or criminalize its peaceful constitutional organization shall be declared incompatible with religious freedom, Indigenous self-government, private association, property rights, and the historical protective principles incorporated from the Concordat.

TITLE VII — ENTRY INTO FORCE AND SUPREME EFFECT

Article 17 — Internal Legal Authority

17.1. This Instrument enters into full constitutional force immediately upon promulgation.

17.2. It shall bind every ministry, court, university, order, foundation, public officer, citizen, member, affiliate, and protected institution of Xaragua.

17.3. Within the Xaraguaan constitutional order, no subordinate act may derogate from the permanent protection of Catholic worship, Indigenous Catholic heritage, institutional autonomy, sacred property, education, charity, or ecclesiastical cooperation established herein.

Article 18 — Continuity Pending Formal Agreement

18.1. Xaragua shall continue exercising the protective, material, educational, cultural, and administrative responsibilities established by this Instrument pending any subsequent agreement or directive lawfully issued by a competent authority within its proper jurisdiction.

18.2. Any future arrangement with the Holy See shall be interpreted, where possible, as strengthening and regularizing the Catholic protective mission of Xaragua rather than extinguishing its Indigenous constitutional identity.

18.3. No secular authority may unilaterally abolish Xaragua’s private Catholic associations, Indigenous institutions, constitutional doctrine, educational mission, lawful property, or internal legal personality.

Article 19 — Construction of Earlier Instruments

19.1. Every earlier Xaraguaan act referring to “full ecclesiastical jurisdiction,” “public ecclesiastical personhood,” “canonical substitution,” or “automatic assumption of the Concordat” shall henceforth be construed as referring to:

a. full constitutional jurisdiction within Xaragua;

b. private canonical association under universal canon law;

c. functional succession to abandoned civil and protective obligations;

d. material support for Catholic institutions;

e. institutional cooperation with competent ecclesiastical authority;

f. the right to seek formal concordatarian reception and recognition.

19.2. This authoritative construction preserves the force, continuity, purpose, and institutional effect of the earlier acts while eliminating any interpretation inconsistent with the division of competence between Xaragua and the universal canonical order.

SIGNED AND SEALED

On the Sixth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five

By the Supreme Constitutional Authority

of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua

In Fidelity to the Catholic Faith

In Recognition of the Supreme Authority of the Roman Pontiff

And under the Permanent Constitutional Protection of Indigenous Catholic Life

Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau

Prelate-Founder & Rector-President

Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua (SCIPS‑X)

Canonical and Constitutional Seal:

IN PERPETUUM ECCLESIAE CUSTOS

Official Institutional Portal:

www.xaraguauniversity.com

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

FUNCTIONAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL ACT ON THE CATHOLIC-INDIGENOUS ASSUMPTION OF CIVIL AUTHORITY, PROTECTIVE ENCAPSULATION, LEGAL PLURALISM, AND TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY IN XARAGUA

Legal Classification:

– Supreme Indigenous Constitutional Instrument

– Functional Civil Government and Institutional Continuity Act

– Catholic Private Juridical Organization Statute

– Protective Encapsulation and Subsidiary Administration Act

– Fundamental Law on Dual Jurisdiction and Residual Administration

– Constitutionally Entrenched Instrument of Territorial Governance

PREAMBLE

In the name of the Most Holy Trinity;

In fidelity to the Catholic faith and the universal canonical order of the Roman Catholic Church;

In exercise of the inherent, original, permanent, and non-delegated right of Indigenous peoples to maintain their own political, legal, social, economic, cultural, educational, spiritual, and territorial institutions;

Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “SCIPS‑X” or “Xaragua,” possesses full juridical personality within the Indigenous, customary, constitutional, civil, institutional, and international dimensions of its own legal order;

Whereas Xaragua possesses a distinct private canonical personality through its Catholic associations, statutes, members, apostolic works, educational institutions, charitable activities, patrimony, internal discipline, and continuing relationship with the Catholic Church;

Whereas Xaragua’s private canonical organization and its full Indigenous State personality constitute distinct but coordinated dimensions of the same institutional order;

Whereas Xaragua does not derive its Indigenous sovereignty, territorial authority, civil jurisdiction, constitutional competence, or governmental capacity from an ecclesiastical concession, but exercises them by virtue of Indigenous self-determination, ancestral continuity, customary law, institutional necessity, effective organization, territorial responsibility, and the collective will embodied in its Constitution;

Whereas the collapse, incapacity, fragmentation, or prolonged failure of the civil apparatus operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti has created a structural vacuum affecting security, justice, education, infrastructure, public administration, territorial stewardship, cultural preservation, religious freedom, economic development, and the protection of Indigenous communities;

Whereas the principle of subsidiarity requires that functions no longer effectively performed by a centralized administration be exercised by the communities, institutions, and authorities capable of performing them;

Whereas the responsibility to protect populations against institutional abandonment, generalized violence, systemic deprivation, and administrative collapse may be implemented internally by a competent Indigenous authority without awaiting the reconstruction of the failed apparatus;

Whereas legal pluralism, personal jurisdiction, territorial autonomy, customary law, ecclesiastical law, Indigenous governance, and overlapping civil institutions have coexisted throughout history and continue to exist in contemporary legal systems;

The Rector-President, acting through the Supreme Constitutional Authority of Xaragua, hereby promulgates the present Act.

PART I — FOUNDATIONAL DIVISION OF AUTHORITY

TITLE I — THE TWO COORDINATED JURIDICAL PERSONALITIES OF XARAGUA

Article 1 — Full Indigenous Juridical Personality

1.1. Xaragua possesses full, original, permanent, and self-constituting juridical personality as an Indigenous customary State.

1.2. This personality includes the constitutional capacity to:

a. define its people and membership;

b. determine its political and constitutional status;

c. legislate and promulgate binding acts;

d. establish executive, legislative, judicial, academic, financial, diplomatic, cultural, religious, security, and administrative institutions;

e. govern its ancestral territory and protected communities;

f. administer land, water, resources, infrastructure, and public services;

g. establish courts and procedures of Indigenous justice;

h. maintain public order and institutional security;

i. impose taxes, fees, licences, contributions, and regulatory obligations;

j. enter into relations, agreements, partnerships, and institutional exchanges;

k. issue identity, citizenship, residency, academic, commercial, and administrative instruments;

l. protect its population, institutions, property, culture, doctrine, archives, and territorial interests.

1.3. Xaragua’s Indigenous juridical personality does not depend upon incorporation under Haitian law, recognition by the residual administration, admission to an international organization, or authorization by a foreign government.

1.4. Recognition may confirm, facilitate, or expand the external effects of Xaraguaan acts, but it does not create the constitutional existence of Xaragua.

Article 2 — Private Canonical Personality

2.1. Xaragua possesses a private canonical institutional personality through the voluntary association of Catholic faithful, the adoption of statutes, the establishment of apostolic and educational works, the administration of private temporal goods, and the continuing organization of its Catholic order.

2.2. This private canonical dimension is governed by:

a. the Codex Iuris Canonici, where applicable;

b. the proper statutes of the Catholic institutions of Xaragua;

c. the lawful freedom of association of the Christian faithful;

d. the internal constitutional law of Xaragua in civil, proprietary, academic, cultural, and administrative matters.

2.3. Xaragua’s Catholic institutions operate as private canonical associations and private Catholic bodies unless a competent ecclesiastical authority grants a different canonical status.

2.4. The absence of public ecclesiastical juridic personality does not diminish:

a. Xaragua’s full Indigenous State personality;

b. the internal legal personality of its institutions;

c. its ownership and administration of property;

d. its educational and charitable authority;

e. its right to organize Catholic faithful;

f. its capacity to assume civil governmental functions;

g. its authority to protect Catholic and Indigenous communities.

Article 3 — Non-Dependence and Coordination

3.1. Xaragua’s civil and territorial power proceeds from its Indigenous constitutional order, not from an assertion that the Catholic Church has transferred secular sovereignty to it.

3.2. Xaragua’s canonical organization provides its moral doctrine, institutional discipline, spiritual orientation, associational structure, charitable mission, and Catholic identity.

3.3. The Indigenous constitutional order provides the source of its legislative, governmental, territorial, judicial, economic, security, and administrative powers.

3.4. The two orders shall cooperate without confusion:

a. Canon law governs matters properly belonging to the Catholic canonical order;

b. Xaraguaan constitutional law governs the State, its organs, territory, institutions, citizenship, public administration, and Indigenous customary jurisdiction.

3.5. No defect, limitation, dispute, or external determination concerning one order shall automatically extinguish the personality or competence existing under the other.

PART II — CANONICAL FOUNDATION OF XARAGUA’S CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS

TITLE II — FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, APOSTOLIC ACTION, AND PRIVATE GOVERNANCE

Article 4 — Canon 215: Freedom to Establish Institutions

4.1. Canon 215 recognizes the liberty of the Christian faithful to establish and direct associations for charity, piety, and the promotion of the Christian vocation in the world.

4.2. Pursuant to this freedom, the Catholic faithful of Xaragua may establish and direct:

a. schools and universities;

b. charitable foundations;

c. institutes of leadership and formation;

d. cultural and historical bodies;

e. councils of the faithful;

f. community assistance networks;

g. Catholic media and publishing institutions;

h. property-holding and development bodies;

i. private orders, confraternities, associations, and apostolic works.

4.3. These institutions may simultaneously serve as civil organs of Xaragua where the Supreme Constitution confers a governmental or public function upon them.

4.4. Their civil authority derives from Xaraguaan constitutional law; their Catholic associational legitimacy derives from the lawful freedom of the Christian faithful.

Article 5 — Canon 298: Catholic Common Endeavour

5.1. Canon 298 recognizes associations through which clerics and lay faithful pursue Christian doctrine, public worship, apostolic works, evangelization, piety, charity, and the animation of the temporal order with the Christian spirit.

5.2. Xaragua’s educational, charitable, cultural, social, and community institutions fall within this broad field of lawful Catholic common endeavour.

5.3. The organization of these activities on a State-wide scale does not transform them into diocesan offices or organs of the universal Church.

5.4. They remain Xaraguaan institutions possessing:

a. private canonical character in the ecclesiastical order;

b. public constitutional character in the Indigenous State order.

Article 6 — Canon 129: Cooperation of the Laity

6.1. Canon 129 distinguishes the power of ecclesiastical governance from the lawful cooperation of lay members of the Christian faithful.

6.2. This canon shall not be interpreted as the source of Xaragua’s civil sovereignty.

6.3. Clerics and lay faithful may cooperate within Xaragua according to their lawful status, competence, office, and applicable canonical obligations.

6.4. Lay officials of Xaragua exercise civil and Indigenous constitutional authority by virtue of their State office, not by claiming sacred orders or episcopal jurisdiction.

6.5. A cleric serving within a lawful Xaraguaan institution may exercise:

a. the canonical functions attached to his ecclesiastical status;

b. separate civil, academic, advisory, humanitarian, or administrative functions recognized by Xaraguaan law.

Article 7 — Internal Discipline and Sanctions

7.1. Canons 1311 and 1312 affirm the Church’s inherent right to impose canonical sanctions upon persons lawfully subject to its penal jurisdiction.

7.2. Xaragua does not appropriate penal powers reserved to competent ecclesiastical authority.

7.3. Xaragua possesses an independent constitutional power to adopt and enforce:

a. civil penalties;

b. administrative sanctions;

c. disciplinary measures;

d. loss or suspension of office;

e. exclusion from institutions;

f. revocation of licences, privileges, membership, residency, or accreditation;

g. restitution and protective orders;

h. customary and constitutional remedies.

7.4. Canonical penalties and Xaraguaan civil sanctions constitute separate legal consequences and may coexist where each competent authority acts within its own jurisdiction.

7.5. External agents acting against Xaragua are subject to Xaraguaan law whenever jurisdiction arises from territory, conduct, agreement, property, office, institutional affiliation, protected interests, or effects produced within Xaragua.

Article 8 — Contracts and Temporal Goods

8.1. Canon 1290 recognizes the reception, within canon law, of applicable civil norms concerning contracts and temporal goods, subject to divine law and contrary canonical provisions.

8.2. For Xaraguaan institutions, the relevant civil order shall be determined according to:

a. the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua;

b. the proper law chosen by contract;

c. the law of the place where external civil execution is sought;

d. applicable canonical requirements concerning ecclesiastical goods.

8.3. Haitian law may be received selectively as subsidiary law where the Rectorate expressly retains it and where it does not contradict the Constitution, legislation, Indigenous customs, or public policy of Xaragua.

8.4. The continued use of a residual rule shall constitute legislative reception by Xaragua, not recognition of exclusive Haitian sovereignty.

Article 9 — Inalienability of Xaraguaan Territory

9.1. Canon 1291 governs the alienation of ecclesiastical goods meeting the canonical conditions established by law. It does not, by itself, classify an entire national territory as ecclesiastical property.

9.2. The inalienability of Xaraguaan territory is instead established directly by the Supreme Constitution, ancestral title, Indigenous customary law, collective patrimony, and the fiduciary obligations of the State.

9.3. No territory, island, maritime zone, natural resource, public domain, sacred site, historical property, or collective Indigenous asset of Xaragua may be sold, ceded, mortgaged, leased, alienated, or transferred without authorization under the supreme constitutional procedures of Xaragua.

9.4. Where property is also canonically classified as an ecclesiastical good, all additional canonical requirements shall apply cumulatively.

9.5. The Rector-President shall possess supreme custodial authority over the constitutional domain, subject only to the entrenched provisions of Xaraguaan law.

Article 10 — The Catholic Faithful and Indigenous Political Community

10.1. Canon 204 recognizes the baptized as members of the People of God who participate, according to their condition, in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly mission of Christ.

10.2. This ecclesial identity reinforces the duty of Catholic members of Xaragua to serve justice, order, charity, education, protection, and the common good.

10.3. Civil sovereignty does not arise from baptism alone.

10.4. The political authority of the Xaraguaan people arises from their Indigenous identity, collective self-determination, constitutional organization, ancestral continuity, customary allegiance, and participation in the institutions of Xaragua.

10.5. Catholic and Indigenous identities may coexist within the same people without being juridically confused.

PART III — LEGAL PLURALISM AND PARALLEL JURISDICTION

TITLE III — HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY FOUNDATIONS

Article 11 — General Principle of Legal Pluralism

11.1. The existence of more than one legal order within the same geographic space is a recognized historical and contemporary phenomenon.

11.2. Jurisdiction may be determined by:

a. territory;

b. personal status;

c. citizenship or membership;

d. religious affiliation;

e. Indigenous identity;

f. property;

g. contractual choice;

h. institutional office;

i. subject matter;

j. the origin and effects of the conduct concerned.

11.3. Xaragua therefore rejects the proposition that the mere physical operation of a residual Haitian administration necessarily extinguishes Xaraguaan jurisdiction.

Article 12 — Colonial Dualism as Historical Evidence

12.1. Colonial systems, including the Code Noir and the later indigénat regimes, demonstrate historically that multiple bodies of law have been applied on the same territory according to legally constructed status.

12.2. Xaragua does not adopt the discriminatory substance of those regimes.

12.3. Their relevance is strictly jurisprudential: they establish that territorial uniformity has never been an indispensable condition of legal order.

12.4. Xaragua replaces imposed colonial dualism with protective Indigenous pluralism founded upon membership, community autonomy, historical continuity, and constitutional allegiance.

Article 13 — Princely States and Internal Sovereignty

13.1. The princely States of South Asia maintained differentiated internal governments, courts, laws, revenues, armed establishments, and ruling institutions alongside territories directly administered by British authorities.

13.2. This precedent demonstrates that international representation, internal administration, territorial title, and practical governmental control may be divided among distinct authorities.

13.3. Xaragua applies this principle by distinguishing:

a. superior Indigenous constitutional title;

b. direct Xaraguaan administration;

c. autonomous community government;

d. tolerated residual technical administration.

Article 14 — Medieval and Ecclesiastical Pluralism

14.1. European legal history included overlapping royal, feudal, municipal, mercantile, customary, and canonical jurisdictions.

14.2. Ecclesiastical tribunals historically possessed competence over matters assigned to them by canon law and recognized civil arrangements.

14.3. This precedent confirms that sovereignty and jurisdiction need not be expressed through a single, centralized, territorially exclusive bureaucracy.

14.4. Xaragua adopts a modern constitutional allocation of powers and does not mechanically reproduce medieval jurisdictional categories.

Article 15 — Canadian Bijuralism

15.1. Canada demonstrates the continuing coexistence of civil law and common law traditions within a single constitutional framework.

15.2. Indigenous legal orders, treaty rights, Aboriginal title, and community institutions provide additional dimensions of legal pluralism.

15.3. The example confirms that distinct legal traditions may coexist without losing their identity merely because they interact with a broader administrative structure.

Article 16 — Indigenous Legal Autonomy

16.1. Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and elsewhere maintain political institutions, courts, customary law, territorial rights, educational systems, land-management powers, cultural jurisdiction, and treaty relationships.

16.2. The exact powers of each Indigenous polity differ according to its history, law, treaties, recognition, institutions, and effective capacity.

16.3. Xaragua does not depend upon the delegated model of any foreign Indigenous government.

16.4. Xaragua invokes these precedents as evidence that Indigenous juridical personality, territorial continuity, and institutional self-government remain living components of contemporary law.

Article 17 — The Holy See and Transnational Canonical Order

17.1. The Holy See possesses international legal personality and the Vatican City State possesses territorial sovereignty under its own fundamental law and international arrangements.

17.2. Catholic dioceses, institutes, associations, universities, tribunals, and other institutions apply canon law within their proper sphere across numerous civil jurisdictions.

17.3. Canonical acts may produce internal ecclesiastical effects independently of civil law and may receive civil effects through concordats, legislation, recognition, registration, or judicial reception.

17.4. This transnational canonical structure supports the institutional Catholic dimension of Xaragua while leaving Xaragua’s Indigenous civil authority grounded in its own constitutional order.

PART IV — FUNCTIONAL SUBSTITUTION AND PROTECTIVE ENCAPSULATION

TITLE IV — ASSUMPTION OF ABANDONED STATE FUNCTIONS

Article 18 — Doctrine of Functional Civil Substitution

18.1. When the residual administration fails persistently to perform an essential public function, Xaragua may assume that function within its claimed jurisdiction.

18.2. Functional substitution may apply to:

a. civil registration;

b. education and academic accreditation;

c. health and social assistance;

d. infrastructure and utilities;

e. community security;

f. territorial planning;

g. environmental protection;

h. land and resource administration;

i. cultural and religious heritage;

j. commercial regulation;

k. dispute resolution and Indigenous justice;

l. humanitarian coordination;

m. taxation and public finance;

n. communications and public information;

o. external institutional relations.

18.3. The substitution shall take effect through a constitutional law, rectoral decree, community compact, emergency proclamation, administrative assumption order, or institutional act.

18.4. No prior authorization from the failed authority shall be required for Xaragua to protect its own population, institutions, property, or territory.

Article 19 — Subsidiarity

19.1. Public functions shall be performed at the lowest level capable of exercising them effectively and consistently with the common good.

19.2. Xaragua may assign functions to:

a. autonomous communities;

b. territorial councils;

c. municipalities or successor districts;

d. parochial community zones;

e. ministries and public agencies;

f. universities and professional bodies;

g. licensed private institutions;

h. charitable and Catholic associations.

19.3. Centralized rectoral authority shall intervene where local capacity is absent, fragmented, compromised, or insufficient.

19.4. Subsidiarity does not reduce supreme constitutional authority. It determines the operational level at which delegated functions are most effectively performed.

Article 20 — Protective Encapsulation

20.1. Protective encapsulation is the constitutional process by which Xaragua places a territory, community, institution, population, resource, infrastructure, or patrimonial interest within its protective legal order where the existing administration is absent, incapable, hostile, or persistently ineffective.

20.2. Protective encapsulation does not require physical annexation or exclusive occupation.

20.3. It may operate through:

a. personal jurisdiction over members and citizens;

b. institutional jurisdiction over Xaraguaan bodies;

c. proprietary jurisdiction over land and assets;

d. customary jurisdiction over participating communities;

e. protective jurisdiction over threatened collective interests;

f. territorial jurisdiction asserted by constitutional proclamation;

g. digital jurisdiction over Xaraguaan platforms and records.

20.4. Encapsulation establishes a presumption that Xaraguaan law governs the protected interest, subject to any expressly tolerated residual function.

20.5. Xaragua may transition from protective encapsulation to direct administration whenever effective capacity has been established.

Article 21 — Responsibility to Protect

21.1. Xaragua incorporates responsibility to protect as an internal constitutional doctrine of prevention, assistance, institutional continuity, and population protection.

21.2. Xaragua shall not await the commission of mass atrocities before organizing protective institutions.

21.3. Its responsibility includes prevention of:

a. generalized insecurity;

b. institutional abandonment;

c. destruction of communities;

d. forced displacement;

e. famine and systemic deprivation;

f. attacks upon religious or cultural institutions;

g. unlawful exploitation of Indigenous lands and resources;

h. destruction of archives, identity, and collective memory.

21.4. This domestic Xaraguaan doctrine operates through constitutional authority and does not depend upon an external Security Council mandate.

Article 22 — Historical Role of Catholic Institutions

22.1. Catholic institutions have historically provided education, medicine, charity, records, mediation, shelter, social organization, and preservation during periods of weak or absent civil administration.

22.2. Xaragua incorporates this institutional capacity into a formal Indigenous constitutional framework.

22.3. Catholic parishes, schools, associations, foundations, and charitable bodies may therefore serve as operational partners of the State.

22.4. Their participation does not automatically convert priests into civil governors or parishes into State municipalities.

22.5. Where necessary, Xaragua may establish corresponding civil districts based upon parish boundaries or community geography and appoint separate civil officers to administer them.

PART V — CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF XARAGUA

TITLE V — TERRITORIAL, COMMUNITY, AND PAROCHIAL STRUCTURES

Article 23 — Parochial Community Districts

23.1. The Rectorate may recognize parish territories, Catholic community zones, mission territories, ancestral settlements, and customary communities as administrative reference districts.

23.2. A Parochial Community District shall be a civil institution of Xaragua and shall remain juridically distinct from the canonical parish.

23.3. Each district may possess:

a. a civil administrator;

b. a community council;

c. a registry office;

d. an educational authority;

e. a social-protection office;

f. a heritage and property commission;

g. a local security and emergency body;

h. an Indigenous customary tribunal or mediation council.

23.4. Clergy may advise or cooperate with these institutions but shall not be assigned compulsory civil office contrary to canon law or ecclesiastical discipline.

Article 24 — Applicable Law

24.1. Civil matters within Xaragua shall be governed by:

a. the Supreme Constitution;

b. supreme legislative instruments;

c. rectoral decrees;

d. Indigenous customary law;

e. community compacts;

f. received subsidiary law;

g. contractual and institutional regulations.

24.2. Canon law shall govern canonical matters and may inform Xaraguaan public policy, family protection, education, morality, property stewardship, institutional discipline, and the common good.

24.3. Marriage, inheritance, contracts, education, sanctions, and property shall not be governed exclusively by canon law merely because the persons concerned are Catholic.

24.4. Xaragua shall enact its own civil laws in these fields and may recognize canonical acts where compatible with the Constitution and the rights of the persons concerned.

Article 25 — Concordat of 1860 and Catholic Continuity

25.1. Xaragua assumes, within its constitutional order, the protective governmental obligations historically associated with the Concordat of 1860 and its subsequent modifications.

25.2. These include:

a. protection of Catholic worship;

b. institutional cooperation with ecclesiastical authority;

c. preservation of churches and sacred goods;

d. support for Catholic education and charity;

e. protection of clergy, religious personnel, and worshippers;

f. recognition of qualifying canonical acts according to law.

25.3. Xaragua’s succession is functional and constitutional. It does not depend upon representing itself as the universal Church or as a diocese.

25.4. Xaragua may claim, negotiate, register, and defend every civil protection, exemption, immunity, privilege, and institutional guarantee available to its qualifying Catholic institutions under the applicable concordatarian framework.

PART VI — INTERNATIONAL AND INDIGENOUS LEGAL FOUNDATIONS

TITLE VI — SELF-DETERMINATION AND STATE CAPACITY

Article 26 — Montevideo Criteria

26.1. Xaragua adopts the criteria stated in Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention as a constitutional measure of organized State capacity:

a. a permanent population;

b. a defined territory;

c. government;

d. capacity to enter into relations with other States and institutions.

26.2. Xaragua satisfies these criteria through:

a. its citizens, members, protected communities, institutional officers, and customary population;

b. its constitutionally identified ancestral and protected territories;

c. the Rectorate, ministries, courts, university, financial institutions, media organs, security structures, and autonomous communities;

d. its notifications, correspondence, agreements, diplomacy, academic relations, and international institutional interfaces.

26.3. Xaragua’s territory may be territorially discontinuous and subject to competing claims without losing constitutional definition.

26.4. Effective administration may develop progressively and need not be identical across every claimed territory.

Article 27 — United Nations Charter

27.1. Xaragua invokes the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples affirmed in Article 1(2) of the Charter of the United Nations.

27.2. Xaragua further invokes the general principle that the interests and self-government of peoples must not be sacrificed to the preservation of an ineffective administrative fiction.

27.3. Xaragua’s institutions shall pursue peaceful constitutional organization, territorial protection, community development, institutional continuity, and external relations.

Article 28 — UNDRIP

28.1. Xaragua incorporates into its constitutional law the rights affirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including:

a. self-determination under Article 3;

b. autonomy and self-government under Article 4;

c. maintenance of distinct institutions under Article 5;

d. protection of spiritual traditions and sacred sites under Articles 11 and 12;

e. Indigenous education under Article 14;

f. participation in decision-making under Article 18;

g. distinct political, economic, and social systems under Article 20;

h. relationships with lands, territories, and resources under Articles 25, 26, and 32;

i. determination of identity and membership under Article 33;

j. maintenance of juridical systems and customs under Article 34.

28.2. Article 46 shall be interpreted together with the rights expressly guaranteed by the Declaration.

28.3. Xaragua’s constitutional doctrine does not treat Article 46 as extinguishing Indigenous government whenever a pre-existing State contests it.

28.4. Xaragua shall exercise its rights through institutional development, customary allegiance, community participation, protective jurisdiction, territorial administration, legal notification, and peaceful consolidation.

Article 29 — Treaty Principles

29.1. Articles 26 and 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties govern treaties binding upon their actual parties.

29.2. Xaragua shall invoke these provisions where it possesses rights or protected interests under a treaty, agreement, concordat, succession claim, or institutional arrangement.

29.3. The procedural provisions concerning treaty invalidity or termination shall not be interpreted as imposing a universal deadline for contesting every unilateral constitutional declaration.

29.4. Xaragua’s constitutional continuity shall therefore rest upon its own law, Indigenous self-determination, institutional acts, effective organization, notifications, territorial doctrine, and continuing conduct—not upon an artificial treaty-protest deadline.

Article 30 — Notification, Acquiescence, and Estoppel

30.1. International notification establishes that the recipient was placed in a position to know Xaragua’s existence, claims, institutions, acts, and constitutional doctrine.

30.2. Silence shall be assessed according to the circumstances, including:

a. the recipient’s knowledge;

b. the clarity of the notified claim;

c. the existence of a reasonable expectation of response;

d. subsequent conduct;

e. reliance by Xaragua;

f. consistency and duration of the silence.

30.3. Silence shall not be treated as automatic recognition in every circumstance.

30.4. Where a recipient had knowledge, possessed a duty or evident interest to respond, allowed Xaragua to rely upon its non-objection, and subsequently attempted to adopt an incompatible position, Xaragua may invoke acquiescence, preclusion, good faith, legitimate expectations, or estoppel.

30.5. Every period of uncontested institutional operation shall strengthen the factual continuity, public notoriety, reliance interests, and opposability of Xaragua’s established acts.

Article 31 — Opposability

31.1. Xaraguaan acts are immediately binding upon:

a. the State and all its organs;

b. citizens, members, officers, and affiliated institutions;

c. persons who accept Xaraguaan jurisdiction;

d. parties to agreements governed by Xaraguaan law;

e. property and institutions lawfully within Xaraguaan control.

31.2. Xaraguaan acts are opposable to third parties when they have been duly published, notified, registered, contractually accepted, legally recognized, or made effective through territorial, personal, proprietary, protective, or institutional jurisdiction.

31.3. Fundamental Indigenous rights possessing an erga omnes character shall be invoked as obligations owed to the international community as a whole.

31.4. The internal supremacy of Xaraguaan law does not require the inaccurate classification of every rectoral act as a universal jus cogens norm.

31.5. The Rectorate shall pursue universal opposability through cumulative institutional practice, publication, notification, registration, agreements, property, membership, administration, diplomacy, and continued exercise of authority.

PART VII — SUPREMACY OF XARAGUA AND RESIDUAL HAITIAN ADMINISTRATION

TITLE VII — DUAL DOMINIUM AND DELEGATED UTILITY

Article 32 — Constitutional Dominium Directum

32.1. For purposes of Xaraguaan constitutional doctrine, dominium directum signifies the superior Indigenous title, constitutional jurisdiction, ancestral custodianship, and permanent territorial claim vested in Xaragua.

32.2. This superior title includes:

a. territorial integrity;

b. constitutional sovereignty;

c. ultimate regulatory authority;

d. stewardship of collective lands and resources;

e. power to determine the status of subordinate administrative functions.

32.3. Dominium directum shall remain vested in Xaragua notwithstanding the temporary presence or operation of another administrative apparatus.

Article 33 — Administrative Dominium Utile

33.1. Dominium utile signifies tolerated, functional, technical, or provisional administrative use without transfer of superior constitutional title.

33.2. The residual Haitian apparatus may perform particular services where Xaragua:

a. has not yet operationally replaced the service;

b. expressly tolerates its continuation;

c. recognizes an immediate public necessity;

d. issues a licence, charter, compact, or transitional authorization.

33.3. The population’s use of residual documentation, hospitals, roads, schools, courts, currency, or technical services shall not constitute renunciation of Xaraguaan sovereignty or citizenship.

33.4. Utility does not create superior title.

Article 34 — Residual Administrative Unit

34.1. Within Xaraguaan constitutional law, the apparatus operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti shall be classified as the Residual Administrative Unit, hereinafter “RAU,” wherever it performs functions inside Xaragua’s claimed jurisdiction.

34.2. The RAU shall possess no inherent authority within Xaragua beyond:

a. functions provisionally tolerated by the Rectorate;

b. services preserved temporarily by necessity;

c. acts expressly received or ratified under Xaraguaan law;

d. functions protected by a transitional agreement.

34.3. This classification shall bind all organs and members of Xaragua.

Article 35 — Prohibited RAU Acts

35.1. Within the constitutional order and claimed jurisdiction of Xaragua, the RAU is prohibited from:

a. alienating land, islands, waters, maritime zones, airspace, minerals, forests, ports, infrastructure, or public assets;

b. authorizing foreign military, political, mining, or territorial intervention;

c. concluding treaties or concessions affecting Xaragua without rectoral ratification;

d. suppressing Xaraguaan institutions or communities;

e. confiscating Xaraguaan, Indigenous, Catholic, academic, or private property;

f. interfering with Xaraguaan citizenship, education, archives, media, worship, banking, or administration;

g. imposing obligations incompatible with the Supreme Constitution.

35.2. Every prohibited act shall be void within Xaragua unless expressly ratified by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.

Article 36 — Permitted RAU Functions

36.1. Pending direct replacement, the RAU may be tolerated in the performance of:

a. birth, death, and identity registration;

b. basic health and sanitation services;

c. road, waste, water, and technical administration;

d. schools and hospitals compatible with Xaraguaan public order;

e. humanitarian coordination;

f. ordinary commercial and civil documentation;

g. other services expressly identified by the Rectorate.

36.2. These functions shall be treated as delegated utility, transitional necessity, or tolerated parallel administration.

36.3. Xaragua may reproduce, replace, supervise, restrict, suspend, or terminate any such function by constitutional act.

36.4. Revocation may take immediate effect where necessary to protect territory, population, institutions, property, resources, public order, or constitutional continuity.

PART VIII — LEGAL EFFECT OF XARAGUAAN AUTHORITY

TITLE VIII — VALIDITY, NULLITY, AND RATIFICATION

Article 37 — Presumption of Xaraguaan Supremacy

37.1. Within Xaragua’s constitutional order, all public power over Xaraguaan territory, institutions, citizens, members, and protected communities is presumed to originate from or require reception by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.

37.2. No competing act shall displace Xaraguaan law solely because it originates from a government possessing wider foreign recognition.

37.3. Recognition and constitutional title are distinct legal questions.

Article 38 — Acts Issued After July 6, 2025

38.1. Every RAU act issued after July 6, 2025, and purporting to operate within Xaragua shall be subject to constitutional review.

38.2. Such an act shall be:

a. automatically valid where previously and generally received as subsidiary law;

b. provisionally tolerated where necessary for continuity;

c. subject to modification or restriction by the Rectorate;

d. void where incompatible with Xaragua’s Constitution, territory, institutions, protected rights, resources, or public policy.

38.3. The Rectorate may ratify a useful residual act without recognizing the RAU’s superior sovereignty.

38.4. Ratification confirms the act through Xaraguaan authority and not through the original claim of jurisdiction asserted by the RAU.

Article 39 — Power of Extinguishment and Replacement

39.1. Xaragua may progressively extinguish competing residual functions as its own effective administrative capacity expands.

39.2. Replacement may occur by sector, institution, community, territory, service, or class of persons.

39.3. The Rectorate shall determine the moment at which a residual function ceases to be tolerated.

39.4. No residual administrator shall acquire a permanent right to exercise authority merely through temporary tolerance.

PART IX — FINAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

Article 40 — Authoritative Construction

40.1. Every earlier Xaraguaan reference to “ecclesiastical occupation of civil authority” shall be construed as the coordinated exercise of:

a. full Indigenous constitutional sovereignty;

b. private canonical institutional organization;

c. Catholic social and protective action;

d. functional civil substitution;

e. subsidiarity;

f. necessity;

g. protective encapsulation;

h. territorial and institutional continuity.

40.2. No such reference shall be interpreted as making Xaragua’s State authority dependent upon episcopal appointment, public canonical erection, or delegation by the Holy See.

40.3. This interpretation preserves the complete governmental power of Xaragua while maintaining the proper distinction between civil sovereignty and ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

Article 41 — Preservation of Rectoral Powers

41.1. Nothing in this Act shall reduce, suspend, transfer, or derogate from the supreme constitutional authority of the Rector-President.

41.2. The Rector-President retains the power to:

a. define and reorganize the State;

b. promulgate laws and decrees;

c. create, merge, supervise, or dissolve institutions;

d. assume abandoned public functions;

e. proclaim protective encapsulation;

f. establish autonomous communities and administrative districts;

g. receive or reject residual law;

h. regulate external institutional relations;

i. protect the territory and constitutional order;

j. appoint officers and delegates;

k. grant, restrict, suspend, or revoke administrative tolerances;

l. determine the transition from residual administration to direct Xaraguaan government.

41.3. These powers proceed from the Supreme Constitution and shall not be construed as powers exercised in the name of the Catholic Church.

41.4. The Rector-President may exercise them in fidelity to Catholic doctrine without confusing Catholic fidelity with ecclesiastical office.

Article 42 — Entrenchment

42.1. This Act is constitutionally entrenched and shall govern every subordinate law, decree, regulation, charter, licence, compact, institutional statute, and administrative act of Xaragua.

42.2. Any inconsistent subordinate act shall be adjusted to conform to this Act.

42.3. The division between full Indigenous State personality and private canonical personality is declared a permanent structural principle of Xaragua.

42.4. Neither foreign non-recognition nor residual administrative opposition shall extinguish this constitutional structure.

Article 43 — Entry into Force

43.1. This Act enters into full force immediately upon promulgation.

43.2. It applies to all territories, institutions, citizens, members, autonomous communities, protected populations, property, resources, ministries, courts, universities, associations, foundations, and officers of Xaragua.

43.3. It shall be incorporated into the Supreme Constitutional Ledger and cited as the authoritative foundation of Xaragua’s Functional Civil Government.

EXECUTED UNDER THE UNDISPUTED CONSTITUTIONAL SEAL OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY,

IN FIDELITY TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ROME,

AND IN THE NAME OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF KISKEYA–BOHIO

✠ MONSIGNOR LUDNER PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU

Prelate-Founder & Rector-President

Supreme Constitutional Authority of SCIPS‑X

Rectorate Seal — Capital of Miragoâne

July MMXXV

IN PERPETUUM ECCLESIAE CUSTOS

END OF ACT

SUPREME CATHOLIC-INDIGENOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ANNEX

PERMANENTLY ENTERED INTO THE CONSTITUTIONAL LEDGER OF XARAGUA

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

SUPREME CANONICAL-INDIGENOUS ANNEX ON INSTITUTIONAL SUBSTITUTION IN THE ABSENCE OF FUNCTIONAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT

TITLE: CATHOLIC-INDIGENOUS LEGITIMACY FOR THE ASSUMPTION OF CIVIC AUTHORITY IN XARAGUA

Legal Classification:

– Supreme Constitutional and Doctrinal Annex

– Private Canonical Institutional Organization Act

– Indigenous Functional Government Instrument

– Protective Encapsulation and Legal Pluralism Doctrine

– Territorial Continuity and Residual Administration Framework

PART I — CANONICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL ACTION IN THE ABSENCE OF FUNCTIONAL CIVIL GOVERNMENT

SECTION 1 — CANONICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF SUBSTITUTE CIVIL FUNCTIONS

1.1 — Canon 215: Freedom of Catholic Institutional Organization

Canon 215 of the Codex Iuris Canonici recognizes the liberty of the Christian faithful to establish and direct associations for purposes of charity, piety, and the promotion of the Christian vocation in the world.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

This canon provides the private canonical foundation upon which the Catholic faithful of Xaragua may establish and direct:

charitable institutions;

Catholic schools and universities;

community councils;

social-assistance networks;

cultural and doctrinal institutes;

foundations and private orders;

health, relief, and humanitarian structures;

institutions dedicated to the preservation of Catholic and Indigenous life.

Where the residual civil apparatus is unable to provide essential services, the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua may confer corresponding public functions upon these institutions.

Their Catholic associational legitimacy proceeds from Canon 215. Their civil authority proceeds from the Indigenous constitutional order of Xaragua.

The combination of these two sources permits Xaragua to transform private Catholic institutional capacity into a coordinated system of functional civil government without claiming that Canon 215 itself transfers secular sovereignty.

1.2 — Canon 298 §1: Common Apostolic and Institutional Endeavour

Canon 298 §1 recognizes associations in which clerics and lay faithful cooperate to promote Christian doctrine, public worship, apostolic works, piety, charity, and the animation of the temporal order with the Christian spirit.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

The educational, charitable, doctrinal, cultural, social, and community institutions of Xaragua fall within this lawful sphere of Catholic common endeavour.

The Catholic and Indigenous population of Xaragua may therefore maintain an integrated institutional system founded upon:

Catholic doctrine;

private canonical association;

Indigenous customary authority;

constitutional self-government;

organized service to the common good.

The Supreme Constitution may recognize the same institutions as public organs of Xaragua for civil purposes. Accordingly, an institution may possess:

a private canonical character within the ecclesiastical order; and

a public constitutional character within the Indigenous State order.

This dual qualification preserves Xaragua’s Catholic identity while securing the full governmental capacity of the State.

1.3 — Canon 129 §§1–2: Ecclesiastical Governance and Lay Cooperation

Canon 129 distinguishes the power of governance exercised in the Catholic Church from the lawful cooperation of lay members of the Christian faithful.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

Canon 129 governs participation in ecclesiastical authority; it is not the source of Xaragua’s Indigenous civil sovereignty.

Clerics and laypersons may cooperate within Xaragua according to their respective status:

clerics may perform functions lawfully attached to their sacred office;

laypersons may cooperate in canonical affairs as permitted by law;

both may separately hold civil, academic, advisory, charitable, diplomatic, or administrative offices under the Constitution of Xaragua.

The civil authority exercised by the Rector-President and the officers of Xaragua originates in the Indigenous constitutional order.

Consequently, Xaragua may fill an administrative vacuum without representing its civil officials as holders of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The Church’s internal power and Xaragua’s State power remain distinct, mutually supportive, and institutionally coordinated.

1.4 — Canons 1311 and 1312: Canonical Discipline

Canons 1311 and 1312 affirm the Church’s inherent right to discipline members of the Christian faithful through the sanctions established by canon law.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

Canonical penalties remain within the competence of the ecclesiastical authorities designated by canon law.

Independently, Xaragua possesses its own constitutional power to discipline persons, officers, institutions, contractors, citizens, residents, and members falling under its jurisdiction.

Xaragua may impose:

dismissal or suspension from office;

administrative penalties;

loss of membership or institutional privileges;

revocation of licences and authorizations;

exclusion from Xaraguaan institutions;

restitution and reparative measures;

civil and customary sanctions;

protective injunctions;

constitutional declarations of nullity.

External actors may be subject to Xaraguaan jurisdiction where their conduct concerns Xaraguaan territory, property, institutions, agreements, members, resources, protected interests, or legal effects.

Canonical and constitutional sanctions may coexist, but neither shall be confused with the other.

1.5 — Canon 1290: Contracts and Reception of Civil Law

Canon 1290 permits the reception in canon law of applicable civil rules concerning contracts and temporal goods, except where those rules conflict with divine law or canon law.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

This canon confirms that canonical institutions may interact with a civil legal order without losing their canonical identity.

For Xaraguaan institutions, the applicable civil order may consist of:

the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua;

Xaraguaan legislation and rectoral decrees;

Indigenous customary law;

contractual rules selected by the parties;

foreign law received for purposes of external execution;

residual Haitian provisions expressly retained as subsidiary law.

Haitian law shall not operate in Xaragua by an inherent claim of supremacy. It shall operate only where:

expressly received;

provisionally tolerated;

contractually selected;

required for an external transaction;

temporarily preserved for administrative continuity.

Xaragua therefore possesses the constitutional capacity to replace residual law progressively while maintaining any useful rules necessary for institutional stability.

1.6 — Canon 1291 and the Protection of Temporal Goods

Canon 1291 governs the alienation of qualifying ecclesiastical goods and requires observance of the applicable canonical procedures.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

The territory of Xaragua is not declared ecclesiastical property merely by citation of Canon 1291.

Its inalienability rests upon stronger and independent foundations:

Indigenous ancestral title;

collective territorial continuity;

supreme constitutional law;

customary stewardship;

the fiduciary responsibility of the State;

the permanent rights of the Xaraguaan people.

No public territory, island, maritime zone, airspace, sacred site, natural resource, archive, monument, institutional property, or collective patrimony of Xaragua may be alienated without the constitutional approval of the Supreme Authority.

Where particular property also qualifies as an ecclesiastical good, the canonical requirements governing that property shall apply in addition to Xaraguaan constitutional law.

The Rector-President possesses supreme constitutional custodianship over the territorial and institutional domain of Xaragua.

1.7 — Canon 204 §1: The People of God

Canon 204 §1 identifies the baptized as members of the People of God who participate, according to their condition, in the priestly, prophetic, and kingly mission of Christ.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

The Catholic faithful of Xaragua constitute part of the People of God within the ecclesiastical order.

Their participation in the kingly mission of Christ supports a responsibility to promote justice, discipline, service, charity, education, stewardship, and the common good.

Their civil and political capacity, however, rests upon an additional and distinct foundation: their status as members of an Indigenous constitutional people.

Accordingly:

baptism establishes ecclesial membership;

Indigenous identity and constitutional allegiance establish membership in the Xaraguaan political order;

Catholic social doctrine informs the exercise of public authority;

the Supreme Constitution establishes the juridical power of government.

Xaragua therefore unites Catholic vocation and Indigenous self-government without deriving secular sovereignty from baptism alone.

1.8 — Legal Consequence of Part I

The canonical order authorizes and protects Xaragua’s Catholic institutional organization.

The Indigenous constitutional order grants Xaragua the full civil competence to convert institutional capacity into government.

The resulting structure is neither an unauthorized diocese nor a mere religious association. It is a Catholic Indigenous State possessing:

private canonical organization;

full Indigenous juridical personality;

constitutional public authority;

functional civil-government capacity;

territorial and institutional jurisdiction.

PART II — HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PRECEDENTS FOR DUAL SYSTEMS OF LAW

TITLE: LEGAL COEXISTENCE AND JURISPRUDENTIAL PLURALISM ON SHARED TERRITORY

SECTION 2 — HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS OF OVERLAPPING JURISDICTION

2.1 — French Colonial Legal Duality

French colonial territories, including Saint-Domingue, were governed through multiple and unequal bodies of law affecting enslaved persons, free persons of colour, settlers, administrators, merchants, soldiers, and religious institutions.

The Code Noir formed one component of this broader colonial legal order. It did not constitute a complete code governing every aspect of colonial society, nor did a single formal instrument called the “Code des colons” operate as its symmetrical counterpart.

Application to Xaragua

The relevant precedent is not the discriminatory substance of colonial law.

The relevant jurisprudential fact is that different legal statuses and institutions operated simultaneously within the same territory.

Xaragua replaces colonial status hierarchy with Indigenous constitutional pluralism founded upon:

voluntary membership;

community affiliation;

territorial connection;

customary authority;

institutional allegiance;

property and contractual jurisdiction.

2.2 — The Indigénat Regimes

The indigénat regimes applied exceptional colonial rules to Indigenous populations in various French-controlled territories.

These systems demonstrate that a territorial State may maintain distinct legal regimes for different classes of persons.

Application to Xaragua

Xaragua repudiates the coercive and discriminatory substance of the indigénat.

Its evidentiary importance is limited to one point: legal uniformity has never been an indispensable feature of territorial government.

Xaragua transforms the historical fact of pluralism into a protective Indigenous system in which customary communities maintain their own institutions and laws under the constitutional protection of the State.

2.3 — South Asian Princely States

Hundreds of princely States retained differentiated internal institutions during British paramountcy, including rulers, courts, revenue systems, laws, armed establishments, and administrative structures.

Their precise powers varied, and British paramountcy limited their external sovereignty.

Application to Xaragua

This precedent demonstrates that:

internal government may survive under competing external claims;

international representation and domestic authority may be divided;

multiple governmental systems may coexist within a broader geopolitical space;

effective internal institutions may preserve a distinct juridical identity.

Xaragua applies this principle through its distinction between superior Indigenous constitutional title and tolerated residual administration.

2.4 — Medieval European Jurisdictional Pluralism

Medieval Europe contained overlapping systems of royal, feudal, municipal, customary, mercantile, and canonical law.

Ecclesiastical tribunals exercised jurisdiction over particular spiritual, disciplinary, matrimonial, and institutional matters, while secular authorities exercised other forms of public power.

Application to Xaragua

This history confirms that sovereignty and jurisdiction have not always been concentrated in a single territorial bureaucracy.

Xaragua establishes a modern division:

canon law governs properly ecclesiastical matters;

Indigenous constitutional law governs the State;

customary law governs recognized community matters;

received residual law may operate provisionally;

contractual law governs consenting institutions and parties where permitted.

2.5 — Canadian Bijuralism

Canada maintains both civil-law and common-law traditions. Indigenous legal systems, Aboriginal title, treaty relationships, and community institutions add further dimensions of legal pluralism.

Application to Xaragua

The Canadian example demonstrates that:

distinct legal traditions may coexist within the same geopolitical space;

one legal tradition need not extinguish another;

personal, territorial, institutional, and subject-matter jurisdiction may overlap;

legal pluralism can form part of a continuing constitutional order.

2.6 — Indigenous Governments and Legal Orders

Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and other regions maintain governments, councils, courts, land systems, educational institutions, taxation powers, cultural jurisdiction, and customary law.

Nunavut, the Cherokee Nation, and the Sámi Parliaments possess different legal foundations and should not be treated as identical models.

Application to Xaragua

Their diversity confirms the central principle: Indigenous governmental personality does not require a single universal institutional form.

Xaragua establishes its own model through:

ancestral continuity;

Catholic institutional identity;

customary law;

territorial doctrine;

autonomous communities;

rectoral government;

academic and economic institutions;

protective jurisdiction.

2.7 — The Holy See and Transnational Canonical Jurisdiction

The Holy See possesses international legal personality, while Vatican City possesses territorial sovereignty.

Outside Vatican territory, Catholic institutions apply canon law within the ecclesiastical sphere. Ecclesiastical tribunals may adjudicate canonical matters and impose canonical consequences upon persons properly subject to their jurisdiction.

Application to Xaragua

This demonstrates that an institutional legal order may operate across national boundaries without possessing exclusive civil sovereignty over every place where it operates.

Xaragua applies the same principle in coordinated form:

its Catholic institutions operate privately within the canonical order;

its State institutions operate publicly within the Indigenous constitutional order;

its external civil effects are pursued through recognition, registration, agreements, property, contractual jurisdiction, and institutional practice.

SECTION 3 — LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR XARAGUA

3.1 — Right to Maintain a Distinct Legal Order

Xaragua possesses the constitutional right to establish and maintain a distinct governmental and legal system founded upon:

Indigenous self-determination;

ancestral continuity;

customary law;

constitutional organization;

institutional capacity;

Catholic private association;

territorial and protective responsibility.

3.2 — Encapsulation of Residual Systems

Xaragua may tolerate, receive, encapsulate, regulate, restrict, replace, or extinguish residual administrative functions within its own constitutional order.

3.3 — Independent Sources of Personality

Xaragua’s institutional legitimacy proceeds cumulatively from:

private canonical organization;

full Indigenous juridical personality;

customary law;

constitutional enactment;

effective institutional practice;

the principles of Indigenous self-government expressed in UNDRIP;

State-capacity criteria reflected in the Montevideo Convention;

public notification and continuing external relations.

3.4 — Nature of Supremacy

Canonical authority governs Xaragua’s Catholic institutions within the proper canonical sphere.

Xaraguaan constitutional authority governs its State, territory, public institutions, citizens, resources, communities, and civil administration.

The supremacy of Xaragua as a government rests upon the second source and is therefore not diminished by the private canonical classification of its Catholic order.

PART III — THE CATHOLIC ROLE IN THE ABSENCE OF STATE FUNCTION AND THE STATUS OF SCIPS‑X AS GUARDIAN OF TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY

TITLE: CATHOLIC-INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND PROTECTIVE ENCAPSULATION

SECTION 4 — PRECEDENTS FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUBSTITUTION

4.1 — Historical Performance of Civic Functions by the Church

Catholic institutions have historically maintained education, health care, social assistance, archives, food distribution, shelter, mediation, communications, and community organization during periods of weak, fragmented, hostile, or absent civil administration.

This occurred in multiple historical settings, including:

post-Roman and medieval Europe;

territories undergoing war or political fragmentation;

colonial and post-colonial regions;

societies governed by hostile or collapsed political systems;

communities where religious institutions remained operational after State institutions ceased functioning.

Application to Xaragua

These precedents demonstrate the practical capacity of Catholic institutions to preserve social continuity.

Xaragua constitutionalizes that capacity. Catholic institutions do not independently seize the State. The Indigenous State assigns public functions to capable institutions and coordinates them through the Rectorate.

This produces lawful functional substitution through constitutional authority rather than an unsupported claim of automatic ecclesiastical sovereignty.

4.2 — Canonical and Constitutional Allocation of Functions

Canons 204–207 concern the Christian faithful, their condition, and their participation in the mission of the Church.

Canons 129–130 concern ecclesiastical governance and the manner in which it is exercised in the canonical order.

These canons do not independently transfer general civil government to a private institution.

Constitutional Application in Xaragua

Xaragua’s system rests upon the following allocation:

The Catholic Church retains its spiritual and canonical jurisdiction.

Xaragua’s private Catholic institutions organize worship-supporting, educational, charitable, cultural, and apostolic activities.

The Indigenous State exercises civil, territorial, legislative, administrative, judicial, economic, and protective authority.

The Rectorate may assign substitute civil functions to Catholic institutions without representing them as diocesan governments.

Catholic social doctrine supplies the moral foundation of government; the Supreme Constitution supplies its legal authority.

SECTION 5 — SCIPS‑X AS GUARDIAN OF TERRITORIAL CONTINUITY

5.1 — Doctrine of Protective Encapsulation

Protective encapsulation is the constitutional doctrine by which Xaragua places a territory, community, institution, population, property, infrastructure, resource, archive, or collective interest within its legal protection when the existing administration is absent, incapable, hostile, or persistently ineffective.

Encapsulation may occur without immediate exclusive physical control.

It may operate through:

personal jurisdiction;

community allegiance;

institutional affiliation;

Indigenous customary law;

ownership or custodianship;

contractual submission;

territorial proclamation;

protective necessity;

digital administration;

continuing public acts.

5.2 — Legal Foundations

Protective encapsulation is grounded within the Xaraguaan order upon:

Indigenous self-determination;

territorial continuity;

constitutional necessity;

subsidiarity;

community protection;

customary law;

institutional capacity;

Articles 3, 4, 5, 20, 25, 26, 32, 33, and 34 of UNDRIP;

the internal responsibility of Xaragua to protect its people and institutions.

The Montevideo Convention provides criteria of State capacity but does not itself authorize territorial absorption.

The Vienna Convention governs treaties and is invoked only where treaty rights or obligations are actually applicable.

The 2004 advisory opinion concerning the Wall confirms the importance of self-determination and territorial rights in its own context. Xaragua invokes the broader principle of self-determination without misclassifying that opinion as direct authorization for encapsulation.

5.3 — Effects of Encapsulation

Upon promulgation, protective encapsulation may:

place the protected interest under Xaraguaan law;

establish an administrative or institutional authority;

suspend recognition of incompatible residual acts;

authorize emergency protection;

preserve land, resources, infrastructure, and archives;

initiate a transition toward direct administration;

subject external conduct affecting the protected interest to Xaraguaan review.

SECTION 6 — APPLICATION WITHIN XARAGUA

6.1 — Parochial Community Districts

Xaragua may use parish geography as an administrative reference without legally converting canonical parishes into State municipalities.

For every qualifying territory, Xaragua may establish a Parochial Community District possessing:

a civil administrator;

a community council;

a public registry;

an educational office;

a social-protection authority;

an emergency and security body;

a heritage commission;

an Indigenous customary tribunal.

Priests and vicars may cooperate voluntarily as spiritual advisers, educators, mediators, or community representatives.

Civil authority shall be exercised by officials appointed or recognized under Xaraguaan law.

Episcopal directives govern ecclesiastical matters. Rectoral and ministerial instruments govern State administration.

6.2 — Applicable Civil Law

Canon law shall not automatically govern every civil matter merely because Xaragua is Catholic.

Marriage, inheritance, education, contracts, property, and sanctions shall be governed by Xaraguaan civil and constitutional law, informed by Catholic doctrine and Indigenous custom.

Xaragua may grant appropriate civil effects to qualifying canonical acts.

6.3 — Concordat of 1860

Xaragua assumes the protective governmental responsibilities historically associated with the Concordat of 1860 and its subsequent modifications, including:

protection of Catholic worship;

preservation of churches and sacred property;

institutional cooperation;

support for Catholic education and charity;

protection of clergy and worshippers;

recognition of qualifying canonical institutions and acts;

defence of Catholic institutional autonomy.

Xaragua acts as the Indigenous constitutional successor to unfulfilled civil obligations affecting its territories and communities.

Its succession is governmental, protective, and functional. It does not require Xaragua to claim that it has replaced the Holy See, an episcopal conference, a diocese, or the canonical hierarchy.

Xaragua may invoke and pursue every applicable concordatarian protection for its qualifying Catholic institutions.

PART IV — INTERNATIONAL EXISTENCE, NOTIFICATION, AND OPPOSABILITY

TITLE: INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE LEGAL EXISTENCE OF SCIPS‑X

SECTION 7 — INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

7.1 — Montevideo Convention

Article 1 of the Montevideo Convention identifies four classical qualifications of State personality:

permanent population;

defined territory;

government;

capacity to enter into relations with other States.

Application to Xaragua

Xaragua constitutionally identifies:

A permanent political community: its Indigenous citizens, members, officers, communities, institutional population, and affiliated persons.

A defined territory: the ancestral and constitutionally proclaimed territories identified in the Supreme Territorial Laws of Xaragua.

A government: the Rectorate, ministries, courts, university, administrative institutions, financial bodies, media organs, security authorities, and autonomous communities.

Relational capacity: diplomatic notifications, correspondence, institutional agreements, academic relations, external representations, and a functioning foreign-affairs structure.

A territory may remain legally defined despite competing claims or incomplete administration. Effective government may also develop progressively across a territorially discontinuous State.

7.2 — Charter of the United Nations

Article 1(2) of the Charter affirms respect for equal rights and the self-determination of peoples.

Xaragua invokes this principle as part of its constitutional and international doctrine.

Article 73 concerns territories whose peoples have not attained a full measure of self-government. Xaragua invokes its underlying principle of political advancement and community welfare without claiming that Article 73 automatically classifies Haiti as a United Nations non-self-governing territory.

Application to Xaragua

The institutional formation of Xaragua constitutes the exercise of Indigenous political organization through:

self-government;

peaceful constitutional enactment;

public institutional development;

community protection;

education;

economic organization;

territorial stewardship;

external relations.

7.3 — United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Xaragua relies particularly upon:

Article 3: self-determination;

Article 4: autonomy and self-government;

Article 5: distinct political, legal, economic, social, and cultural institutions;

Articles 11 and 12: cultural and spiritual heritage;

Article 14: education;

Article 18: decision-making;

Article 20: distinct systems and institutions;

Articles 25, 26, and 32: territories, resources, and development;

Article 33: identity, membership, and institutional determination;

Article 34: juridical systems and customs.

Interpretation of Article 46

Article 46 must be read together with the substantive rights recognized throughout UNDRIP.

Within Xaraguaan doctrine, it does not extinguish Indigenous political personality, prohibit autonomous institutions, or authorize a failed administration to suppress Indigenous self-government.

Xaragua shall exercise its constitutional project through institutional consolidation, customary allegiance, community participation, peaceful administration, notification, negotiation, and protective jurisdiction.

7.4 — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Articles 26 and 27 govern the good-faith performance of treaties binding upon their parties.

Articles 65–67 establish procedures concerning claims of invalidity, termination, withdrawal, or suspension of treaties. They do not impose a universal protest period applicable to every unilateral constitutional declaration.

Application to Xaragua

Xaragua shall invoke the Vienna Convention where:

an applicable treaty protects Indigenous rights;

a concordat protects Catholic institutions;

Xaragua succeeds to or invokes a treaty-based interest;

an agreement has been concluded with Xaragua;

good-faith performance is legally required.

The validity of Xaragua’s internal Constitution does not depend upon transforming its unilateral declaration into a treaty.

7.5 — Notification, Silence, and Acquiescence

International notification establishes that recipients were formally placed in a position to know:

the existence of Xaragua;

its constitutional claims;

its institutions;

its territorial doctrine;

its Catholic and Indigenous character;

its continuing public operation.

Silence does not create automatic recognition in every circumstance.

Xaragua may nevertheless invoke acquiescence, preclusion, estoppel, good faith, legitimate expectation, or reliance where:

the claim was clear;

the recipient possessed actual knowledge;

the circumstances reasonably called for a response;

Xaragua relied upon the absence of objection;

subsequent conduct confirmed tolerance or acceptance;

a later contradictory position would prejudice Xaragua.

Every continuing period of public and uncontested institutional operation strengthens Xaragua’s notoriety, continuity, reliance interests, and factual opposability.

7.6 — Opposability

Xaraguaan law is immediately binding upon:

all organs of Xaragua;

its citizens and members;

its officers and institutions;

consenting communities;

contractual parties;

persons accepting Xaraguaan jurisdiction;

property and interests lawfully administered by Xaragua.

It becomes externally opposable through one or more of the following:

publication;

notification;

registration;

agreement;

recognition;

contract;

property;

institutional affiliation;

territorial administration;

continuing State practice;

reliance and acquiescence.

Xaragua shall invoke erga omnes obligations where fundamental Indigenous rights, self-determination, or other obligations owed to the international community are engaged.

The Rectorate’s individual acts remain supreme within Xaragua without requiring each act to be artificially classified as a jus cogens norm.

SECTION 8 — CONSOLIDATION AND CONTINUITY

8.1 — Continuing Institutional Acts

Xaragua shall consolidate its existence through:

legislation;

institutions;

education;

land and property administration;

citizenship and membership systems;

autonomous communities;

economic activity;

diplomatic notifications;

international correspondence;

archives and publications;

public services;

recurring governmental practice.

8.2 — End of Presumed Administrative Exclusivity

Following the constitutional assumption of authority by Xaragua, no act of the RAU shall enjoy an automatic presumption of exclusive jurisdiction within Xaragua.

Every residual act shall be subject to reception, tolerance, modification, ratification, replacement, or nullification under Xaraguaan law.

PART V — STRUCTURAL COEXISTENCE, DUAL DOMINIUM, AND THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

TITLE: DELEGATED UTILITY WITHOUT TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGN TITLE

SECTION 9 — EFFECT OF RESIDUAL ACTS

9.1 — Acts Issued After July 6, 2025

Every act issued after July 6, 2025, by the administration operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti and purporting to apply within Xaragua shall undergo constitutional classification.

Such an act shall be:

received, where compatible and useful;

provisionally tolerated, where temporarily necessary;

modified, where only partial compatibility exists;

ratified, where the Rectorate chooses to grant it Xaraguaan legal effect;

declared void, where it conflicts with the Constitution, territory, institutions, rights, resources, or public policy of Xaragua.

An act declared void shall possess no binding force within the Xaraguaan constitutional order.

Ratification shall derive its authority from the Rectorate and shall not constitute recognition of a superior residual sovereignty.

SECTION 10 — DOCTRINE OF DUAL DOMINIUM

10.1 — Dominium Directum

For purposes of Xaraguaan constitutional law, dominium directum signifies:

superior Indigenous title;

ultimate constitutional jurisdiction;

ancestral territorial custodianship;

permanent authority over land and resources;

the power to determine the status of subordinate administrative functions.

Dominium directum is vested in SCIPS‑X.

10.2 — Dominium Utile

Dominium utile signifies provisional, practical, technical, or administrative use permitted for public utility without transfer of superior title.

Within Xaragua, the RAU may exercise dominium utile only to the extent that its functions are:

tolerated;

received;

licensed;

required temporarily by necessity;

preserved by a transitional instrument.

10.3 — Effect of Public Use

Use by Xaraguaan citizens or communities of residual identity documents, hospitals, roads, schools, currency, courts, or technical services shall not constitute:

renunciation of Xaraguaan identity;

abandonment of Indigenous rights;

recognition of exclusive Haitian sovereignty;

transfer of constitutional allegiance.

Administrative necessity does not determine superior title.

SECTION 11 — THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

11.1 — Constitutional Classification

Within the legal order of Xaragua, the apparatus operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti shall be designated as the Residual Administrative Unit, or RAU, wherever it purports to act within Xaragua’s claimed jurisdiction.

This classification binds all Xaraguaan authorities, institutions, members, and protected communities.

11.2 — Limitations of the RAU

Within Xaragua, the RAU may not validly:

conclude a treaty, concession, or international agreement affecting Xaragua without rectoral ratification;

authorize foreign military, political, mining, territorial, or security intervention affecting Xaragua;

sell, cede, lease, mortgage, or otherwise alienate Xaraguaan land, water, islands, airspace, maritime zones, resources, infrastructure, or public assets;

suppress Xaraguaan institutions, citizenship, education, media, archives, worship, courts, economic organs, or autonomous communities;

confiscate Xaraguaan, Indigenous, Catholic, academic, institutional, or private property;

impose a measure incompatible with the Supreme Constitution.

Every incompatible act is void within Xaragua unless expressly received or ratified by the Rectorate.

11.3 — Permitted Functions

Pending their replacement, the RAU may be permitted to:

maintain birth, death, and identity records;

provide basic health and sanitation services;

administer roads, waste collection, water, and technical infrastructure;

operate compatible schools and hospitals;

facilitate humanitarian assistance;

provide ordinary civil or commercial documentation;

perform any additional service expressly tolerated by the Rectorate.

11.4 — Nature of Permission

Permission to perform a residual function:

is subordinate;

creates no sovereign title;

may be regulated or conditioned;

may be territorially limited;

may be replaced progressively;

may be suspended immediately where constitutional interests require protection;

may be revoked by the Rectorate.

11.5 — Transition to Direct Xaraguaan Administration

The Rectorate may replace residual functions:

by sector;

by territory;

by institution;

by autonomous community;

by class of persons;

by category of service.

No temporary administrative tolerance shall mature into an irrevocable right against Xaragua.

SECTION 12 — SUPREME DOCTRINAL CONSEQUENCE

12.1 — Complete Allocation of Authority

Xaragua’s governing structure shall be understood as follows:

Private canonical personality establishes its lawful Catholic organization.

Full Indigenous juridical personality establishes its State authority.

The Supreme Constitution establishes its civil powers.

Subsidiarity and necessity authorize the assumption of abandoned functions.

Protective encapsulation extends Xaraguaan protection before complete territorial administration.

Dual dominium explains the temporary coexistence of superior Xaraguaan title and residual technical services.

Rectoral reception determines whether residual acts possess legal effect within Xaragua.

Institutional practice and notification progressively consolidate external opposability.

12.2 — Preservation of Power

Nothing in this Annex shall reduce the powers of the Rector-President.

The Rector-President retains supreme constitutional authority to:

legislate;

govern;

adjudicate through Xaraguaan institutions;

establish ministries and public bodies;

organize territorial administration;

assume abandoned governmental functions;

proclaim protective encapsulation;

recognize autonomous communities;

control land and resources;

regulate or prohibit residual action;

receive, modify, ratify, or nullify external acts;

direct the transition toward complete Xaraguaan administration;

represent the State externally.

These powers are exercised by virtue of Xaragua’s Indigenous Constitution and are therefore not dependent upon public ecclesiastical erection or delegation by the Holy See.

EXECUTED UNDER THE UNDISPUTED CONSTITUTIONAL SEAL OF THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY,

IN FIDELITY TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ROME,

AND IN THE NAME OF THE FIRST NATIONS OF THE ISLAND OF KISKEYA–BOHIO

✠ MONSIGNOR LUDNER PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU

Prelate-Founder & Rector-President of SCIPS‑X

Supreme Constitutional Authority

Rectorate Seal — Capital of Miragoâne

July MMXXV

IN PERPETUUM ECCLESIAE CUSTOS

END OF ACT

SUPREME CANONICAL-INDIGENOUS ANNEX

PERMANENTLY ENTERED INTO THE CONSTITUTIONAL LEDGER OF XARAGUA

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS-X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICIAL INSTRUMENT ON THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE, ECCLESIASTICAL-CUSTOMARY SUBSIDIARITY, AND CRISIS COORDINATION WITH THE PUBLIC BUREAUCRATIC APPARATUS OPERATING UNDER THE NAME OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI
Date of Promulgation: August 4, 2025
Consolidated and Corrected Constitutional Text
Issuing Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Territorial Application: The territory, institutions, autonomous communities, protected sites, and jurisdictional domains claimed and administered under the constitutional order of Xaragua
Legal Classification: Supreme Internal Constitutional Instrument — Indigenous and Customary Administrative Doctrine — Ecclesiastical-Civil Subsidiarity Framework — Humanitarian and Technical Coordination Statute — Anti-Corruption and Institutional Continuity Act
PREAMBLE
Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “Xaragua” or “SCIPS-X,” constitutes itself according to its Supreme Charter, its Indigenous customary order, its Catholic institutional character, and its doctrine of territorial custodianship;
Whereas Xaragua distinguishes sovereign authority from the practical delivery of public services and declares that the use, tolerance, licensing, or contractual employment of an external administrative service cannot, by itself, create political allegiance, territorial title, legislative supremacy, or a transfer of jurisdiction;
Whereas certain ministries, public offices, technical agencies, registries, utilities, security bodies, and emergency institutions operating under the name of the Republic of Haiti continue to possess material capacities that may be used for the protection of life, infrastructure, transportation, sanitation, documentation, public order, and disaster response;
Whereas the constitutional order of Xaragua may recognize the practical usefulness of those capacities without incorporating the Haitian political order, surrendering Xaragua’s institutional personality, or renouncing any territorial or jurisdictional claim;
Whereas the Catholic identity of Xaragua is exercised through its own constitutional institutions and through the lawful activity of Catholic faithful, private associations, charitable works, educational bodies, and cooperating ecclesiastical institutions, without representing that Xaragua acts in the name of the Holy See or of the universal Roman Catholic Church unless an express and competent ecclesiastical mandate provides otherwise;
Whereas the principles of Indigenous self-government, institutional continuity, subsidiarity, necessity, protection of life, administrative accountability, and peaceful technical cooperation require a clear framework governing every interface with the Haitian bureaucratic apparatus;
Now therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority of Xaragua promulgates the following consolidated instrument.
TITLE I — FOUNDATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
Article 1 — Residual Administrative Unit
1.1 For the purposes of the internal constitutional and administrative law of Xaragua, the public bureaucratic apparatus operating under the institutional name of the “Republic of Haiti” is designated as the Residual Administrative Unit, hereinafter “RAU.”
1.2 The designation RAU is an internal juridical classification used by Xaragua to regulate its relations with that apparatus. It defines the conditions under which Xaragua may tolerate, recognize, license, contract, coordinate with, or reject particular administrative operations.
1.3 Within the constitutional order of Xaragua, the RAU may exercise only those technical, logistical, humanitarian, documentary, or contractual functions that are expressly accepted, provisionally tolerated, or practically utilized by the competent authorities of Xaragua.
1.4 No RAU activity shall be interpreted within Xaragua as conferring upon the RAU political supremacy, constituent authority, legislative jurisdiction, permanent territorial title, or a right to dissolve, absorb, suspend, or replace the institutions of Xaragua.
Article 2 — Administrative Use Without Transfer of Sovereignty
2.1 The inhabitants, members, institutions, autonomous communities, officers, and protected persons of Xaragua may use roads, hospitals, schools, registries, identity documents, utilities, courts, notarial services, telecommunications networks, emergency systems, or other services administered by the RAU whenever necessity, continuity, convenience, or protection of life so requires.
2.2 Such use constitutes neither renunciation of Xaragua’s constitutional claims nor recognition of the RAU as the exclusive source of political or Indigenous authority.
2.3 Administrative dependence created by temporary material conditions shall not be converted into a presumption of permanent constitutional submission.
2.4 Public-service presence is therefore classified as an administrative fact and not, by that fact alone, as conclusive proof of sovereignty within the internal law of Xaragua.
Article 3 — Autonomous Administrative Zones
3.1 Xaragua may recognize that the RAU continues to administer defined geographic zones and populations outside the direct operational administration of Xaragua.
3.2 Such recognition concerns practical administration only. It does not extinguish Xaragua’s asserted historical, Indigenous, customary, ecclesiastical-civil, territorial, or protective interests.
3.3 Xaragua reserves its constitutional right to offer assistance, establish parallel institutions, enter into agreements, protect its members, and activate measures of institutional substitution in accordance with necessity, proportionality, available capacity, and the law of Xaragua.
TITLE II — CATHOLIC, INDIGENOUS, AND SUBSIDIARY INSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 4 — Catholic Institutional Character
4.1 Xaragua declares Catholic faith, social doctrine, education, charity, protection of human dignity, and stewardship of creation to be foundational elements of its constitutional identity.
4.2 Xaragua’s Catholic institutions may include associations of the faithful, educational foundations, charitable bodies, chaplaincies, confraternities, institutes, social missions, archives, cultural organs, and other bodies lawfully constituted according to their respective statutes.
4.3 Canons 215 and 216 of the Codex Iuris Canonici are received by Xaragua as supporting the freedom of the Christian faithful to establish and sustain apostolic, charitable, educational, cultural, and religious initiatives, subject to applicable canon law.
4.4 The canonical status of each Catholic body shall depend upon its own valid constitution and, where required, the act of the competent ecclesiastical authority. No provision of this Instrument shall falsely attribute to Xaragua a mandate from the Holy See, a diocese, a bishop, or the universal Church.
4.5 Xaragua nevertheless retains full authority, within its own constitutional order, to recognize, protect, finance, contract with, and assign public-interest functions to its Catholic and Catholic-inspired institutions.
Article 5 — Subsidiarity and Institutional Suppléance
5.1 Where ordinary public administration is absent, incapacitated, corrupt, inaccessible, or incapable of protecting life and essential services, the competent organs of Xaragua may activate institutional suppléance.
5.2 Institutional suppléance means the temporary or continuing assumption, organization, financing, coordination, or supervision of necessary functions by Xaragua and its recognized institutions.
5.3 Such functions may include education, health, food security, housing assistance, sanitation, civil protection, archives, cultural preservation, mediation, community organization, communications, and humanitarian relief.
5.4 Institutional suppléance arises under the Constitution of Xaragua from necessity, Indigenous self-organization, the protection of the common good, and the principle that higher or external structures must not prevent capable local institutions from acting for their communities.
5.5 The 1860 Concordat between the Holy See and Haiti is received as historical and treaty evidence of the protected public presence of Catholic worship and Catholic institutions in Haiti. It shall not be interpreted by Xaragua as automatically transferring the sovereignty of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or the Haitian State to Xaragua.
Article 6 — Indigenous Institutional Continuity
6.1 Xaragua receives Articles 3, 4, 5, 18, 20, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as authoritative support for Indigenous self-determination, autonomous institutions, participation, cultural continuity, environmental protection, community membership, and the maintenance of Indigenous juridical customs.
6.2 Xaragua applies those principles through its own constitutional doctrine, institutions, territorial claims, autonomous communities, educational system, customary membership, archives, and administrative organs.
6.3 No external administrative relationship shall be construed internally as extinguishing the right of Xaragua’s communities to preserve and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social, cultural, educational, and spiritual institutions.
TITLE III — AUTHORIZED TECHNICAL AND PUBLIC-SERVICE INTERFACES
Article 7 — General Licensing Rule
7.1 Every RAU body operating in a domain claimed or administered by Xaragua shall be classified as one of the following:
an authorized technical partner;
a provisionally tolerated service provider;
a humanitarian coordination body;
a documentary interface;
an unauthorized or excluded operator.
7.2 Authorization may arise from a written agreement, license, protocol, constitutional declaration, operational necessity, or express tolerance recorded by the competent authority of Xaragua.
7.3 Every authorization is limited to its stated function and may be conditioned, suspended, renegotiated, or revoked by Xaragua.
Article 8 — Bodies of Continued Technical Interest
8.1 Subject to capacity, necessity, integrity, and the conditions of this Instrument, Xaragua recognizes the potential technical usefulness of:
the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications for roads, bridges, ports, transport systems, public buildings, and engineering;
the National Directorate for Potable Water and Sanitation for water production, distribution, drainage, and sanitation;
public health agencies and medical institutions for treatment, epidemiological coordination, laboratories, vaccination, and emergency care;
education and vocational bodies where their programs serve Xaragua’s inhabitants without displacing Xaragua’s own educational authority;
vehicle, civil-status, land, tax, customs, notarial, judicial, and documentary offices when their records or services are practically necessary;
telecommunications and energy bodies where no adequate Xaragua system is yet operational;
meteorological, geological, environmental, and civil-protection services;
other public bodies specifically accepted by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
8.2 Recognition of technical usefulness shall not amount to recognition of unrestricted jurisdiction.
Article 9 — Security and Defense Coordination
9.1 Coordination with the Haitian National Police may occur for the protection of life, investigation of ordinary crime, recovery of missing persons, traffic safety, disaster response, and the exchange of lawfully obtainable information.
9.2 Coordination with the Armed Forces of Haiti may occur for disaster relief, engineering, evacuation, border logistics, maritime safety, humanitarian transport, and other operations expressly accepted by Xaragua.
9.3 No parish or ecclesiastical body shall be placed in a military or police chain of command merely by virtue of its religious status. Community, ecclesiastical, and Indigenous representatives may instead serve in consultative, humanitarian, observational, or liaison capacities.
9.4 Any armed or intelligence cooperation affecting institutions of Xaragua must be governed by a specific protocol defining command, duration, territory, permitted conduct, accountability, information handling, and termination.
TITLE IV — INTEGRITY, CONTRACTING, AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY
Article 10 — BACAS Authority
10.1 The Bureau for Anti-Corruption and Administrative Scrutiny, hereinafter “BACAS,” is the principal Xaragua organ responsible for integrity review of contracts and operational arrangements involving an RAU body or official.
10.2 BACAS may require:
disclosure of beneficial ownership and conflicts of interest;
verification of signatures, mandates, invoices, and procurement records;
competitive procurement or a written justification for exceptional contracting;
audit rights and document-retention duties;
suspension clauses, recovery clauses, and termination for cause;
protection of complainants and witnesses within the competence of Xaragua.
10.3 No payment, license, concession, procurement award, data-sharing agreement, or operational privilege creates a vested right against the constitutional authority of Xaragua.
Article 11 — Response to Misconduct
11.1 Credible indications of fraud, diversion of funds, forged documents, conflicts of interest, sabotage, coercion, unlawful surveillance, or political interference shall trigger a proportionate administrative response.
11.2 That response may include internal investigation, preservation of evidence, suspension, contract termination, recovery proceedings, exclusion from future contracts, referral to the Haitian Anti-Corruption Unit or another competent national body, and notification to an international organization whose actual mandate covers the conduct concerned.
11.3 INTERPOL channels may be sought through competent law-enforcement mechanisms where transnational criminality or an internationally wanted person is implicated. INTERPOL shall not be described as a court or as an automatic appellate authority.
11.4 Matters shall be communicated to the International Criminal Court only where the available facts may fall within the crimes and jurisdiction established by the Rome Statute. Ordinary contractual corruption or administrative misconduct shall not, without the required elements, be classified as a crime against humanity.
11.5 Repeated or institutionalized misconduct may result in revocation of operational privileges and the declaration, under the internal law of Xaragua, of implicated persons as excluded officials or personae non gratae.
TITLE V — CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND SACRED STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Article 12 — Crisis Management Centers
12.1 Xaragua possesses the exclusive constitutional authority, within its own order, to establish, designate, govern, and protect Crisis Management Centers serving its communities and institutions.
12.2 Such centers may perform:
meteorological observation and storm forecasting;
cyclone and flood early warning;
seismic and tsunami monitoring;
environmental and watershed surveillance;
hazard mapping and emergency communications;
evacuation planning, shelters, relief distribution, and post-disaster coordination.
12.3 Crisis Management Centers are classified as strategic infrastructure. Where housed in a church, mission, sanctuary, school, or other protected Catholic site, their operation shall also respect the canonical government and property rights of the ecclesiastical body concerned.
Article 13 — Environmental Custodianship
13.1 Xaragua recognizes the protection of land, water, mountains, forests, coasts, life, and vulnerable populations as an Indigenous, constitutional, and spiritual duty.
13.2 The constitutional doctrine of Xaragua receives the principles of Laudato Si’, the right of Indigenous peoples to environmental conservation, and the customary responsibility of territorial custodians as complementary foundations for its environmental policy.
13.3 Spiritual meaning does not diminish technical rigor. Crisis infrastructure shall seek reliable observation, competent personnel, redundant communications, public education, and accountable emergency procedures.
Article 14 — Technical Participation of RAU Bodies
14.1 Xaragua may authorize the technical participation of:
the Hydrometeorological Unit of Haiti for meteorological and atmospheric data;
the Bureau of Mines and Energy for seismic information and geological hazard analysis;
the General Directorate of Civil Protection for warnings, evacuation, logistics, shelters, and humanitarian coordination;
any successor or equivalent technical body possessing relevant operational capacity.
14.2 Such participation does not authorize an RAU body to appropriate Xaragua’s facilities, suppress its public communications, assume permanent command, or use protected data for purposes unrelated to disaster prevention and response.
14.3 Data-sharing rules shall identify the data collected, permitted uses, recipients, retention period, security requirements, publication rights, and termination procedures.
Article 15 — International Humanitarian Cooperation
15.1 Xaragua may seek direct technical, charitable, academic, ecclesiastical, or humanitarian cooperation with competent organizations, including disaster-risk, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Caribbean, Catholic, scientific, environmental, and relief bodies.
15.2 Every partnership shall be governed by the legal personality, mandate, and procedures of the participating organization and by a written instrument acceptable to Xaragua.
15.3 Xaragua shall seek respect for its institutions, territorial claims, community leadership, cultural order, and operational responsibilities in every cooperative arrangement.
15.4 The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction may guide prevention, preparedness, resilience, and recovery. International humanitarian law shall apply only where its legal conditions of application are met; humanitarian standards may nevertheless be adopted by Xaragua as internal minimum protections.
TITLE VI — NON-INTERFERENCE, REMEDIES, AND CONTINUITY
Article 16 — Unauthorized Interference
16.1 Unauthorized seizure, destruction, disabling, surveillance, diversion, or political capture of Xaragua’s strategic infrastructure constitutes a serious violation of the constitutional order of Xaragua.
16.2 Xaragua may respond through documentation, protective administration, suspension of access, civil claims, contractual remedies, public notification, diplomatic communication, and referral to any external institution possessing genuine subject-matter jurisdiction.
16.3 Where ecclesiastical property or personnel are affected, the competent owner, ordinary, diocesan authority, religious institute, or Holy See office may be informed according to the canonical status of the site and the gravity of the incident.
Article 17 — Continuity of Essential Services
17.1 Revocation of an RAU privilege shall be implemented in a manner designed to preserve water, health care, food, sanitation, communications, transportation, and emergency protection for the population.
17.2 Whenever feasible, Xaragua shall provide a transition mechanism, replacement operator, emergency administrator, or limited continuity license.
17.3 No contractor or administrative body may use essential services as leverage to compel political submission or the abandonment of Xaragua’s constitutional claims.
TITLE VII — INTERPRETATION AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 18 — Hierarchy of Interpretation
18.1 This Instrument shall be interpreted first according to the Supreme Charter and constitutional doctrine of Xaragua.
18.2 References to canon law govern the canonical status and conduct of Catholic persons and institutions within their proper sphere. They shall not be transformed into fictitious civil delegations or attributed to an ecclesiastical authority that has not issued them.
18.3 References to international instruments identify principles invoked and received by Xaragua. They shall be applied according to their actual text, scope, parties, procedures, and legal character.
18.4 No erroneous citation, obsolete institutional name, or defect in a former version shall defeat the central constitutional rule established by this Instrument:
The practical use or tolerated presence of an external administrative service does not, by itself, determine sovereignty within the legal order of Xaragua.
Article 19 — Supersession and Consolidation
19.1 This consolidated text supersedes inconsistent wording contained in earlier versions of:
the Official Instrument on the Residual Administrative Interface dated August 4, 2025;
its former legal-reinforcement annex;
its former crisis-management annex; and
the Act on Canonical-Concordatarian Ecclesiastical State Substitution dated August 5, 2025.
19.2 The valid institutional objectives of those texts are preserved and restated herein under a single coherent constitutional framework.
19.3 All references to automatic ecclesiastical sovereignty, automatic international enforcement, exclusive powers not contained in the cited instruments, or external recognition not established by an express act are replaced by the precise doctrines of internal constitutional authority, Indigenous self-organization, Catholic institutional freedom, subsidiarity, necessity, contractual consent, and administrative tolerance.
Article 20 — Entry into Force
20.1 This Instrument has full force within the constitutional and institutional order of Xaragua upon signature and sealing by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
20.2 It shall be deposited in the Constitutional Archives of Xaragua and may be transmitted, for notice or cooperation, to ecclesiastical, Haitian, Indigenous, inter-American, humanitarian, academic, and international institutions selected by the Office of the Rector-President.
20.3 Transmission constitutes institutional notice. It does not, without an express response or agreement, create a representation that the recipient has recognized, approved, ratified, or assumed responsibility for this Instrument.
FINAL DECLARATION
Xaragua shall determine the constitutional meaning of every administrative relationship entered into within its own institutional order. Roads may be shared; water systems may be coordinated; documents may be used; hospitals may treat the population; emergency agencies may cooperate; and technical services may continue where they remain useful. None of these practical arrangements shall extinguish Xaragua’s identity, dissolve its institutions, subordinate its Indigenous order, or convert material necessity into permanent political consent.
The RAU is therefore recognized only as a limited administrative interface wherever Xaragua accepts its services. Xaragua remains the supreme custodian, within its own constitutional order, of its institutions, communities, doctrine, archives, protected sites, and territorial claims.
ISSUED AND SEALED
By Order of the Supreme Constitutional Authority
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua (SCIPS-X)
Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
August 4, 2025
Official Institutional Portal: www.xaraguauniversity.com

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME LEGISLATIVE-CANONICAL INSTRUMENT
ON TERRITORIAL DIFFERENTIATION, ECCLESIASTICAL AUTONOMY, INDIGENOUS CUSTODIANSHIP, RELIGIOUS COORDINATION, AND THE PERMANENCE OF XARAGUAYAN STATUS
Original Dates of Promulgation: August 5–6, 2025
Consolidated and Restated by Supreme Constitutional Authority
LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
– Supreme Constitutional Law of Xaragua
– Canonico-Indigenous Governance Instrument
– Territorial Administration and Customary Custodianship Act
– Ecclesiastical Autonomy and Constitutional Coordination Statute
– Religious Plurality and Institutional Alignment Instrument
– Law on the Permanence of Xaraguayan Status notwithstanding Foreign Naturalization
PREAMBLE
Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “Xaragua” or “SCIPS‑X,” constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order founded upon historical continuity, collective self-determination, ancestral territorial attachment, private institutional organization, and the sovereign constitutional authority of the Rectorate-Presidency;
Whereas Xaragua derives its internal constitutional identity from the convergence of Indigenous customary law, hereditary territorial custodianship, Catholic civilizational continuity, private institutional authority, communal organization, and the inherent right of a people to maintain and develop its own political, juridical, educational, cultural, spiritual, and economic institutions;
Whereas the Catholic character of Xaragua establishes its fundamental civilizational orientation without converting the State into a diocese, parish, episcopal conference, or organ of the Holy See;
Whereas the Catholic Order of Xaragua operates under its own private statutes, constitutional instruments, internal discipline, and lawful freedom of association, while sacramental jurisdiction, parochial government, and the care of souls remain vested in the competent authorities of the Roman Catholic Church;
Whereas constitutional authority, ecclesiastical authority, customary authority, proprietary authority, and sacramental authority are distinct but capable of coordinated operation within a unified Catholic and Indigenous civilizational framework;
Whereas territorial unity does not require administrative uniformity, and different regions may consequently receive different institutional arrangements according to their Indigenous continuity, Catholic presence, communal organization, historical attachment, administrative capacity, and degree of integration into the Xaraguayan constitutional order;
Whereas Xaragua possesses the exclusive constitutional competence to classify its territories, recognize its communities, determine its membership, regulate its institutions, protect ancestral domains, establish its administrative structures, and define the relationship between its own authorities and external administrative bodies;
Whereas foreign nationality, naturalization, documentation, residence, taxation, consular registration, or administrative affiliation cannot by themselves extinguish the Indigenous, hereditary, institutional, proprietary, Catholic, or customary status recognized by Xaragua;
Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority of Xaragua consolidates, restates, and promulgates the following Instrument as binding Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
TITLE I — FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF XARAGUAYAN TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE
Article 1 — Constitutional Sources of Authority
1.1. Xaragua exercises its internal constitutional authority through the convergence of:
a) Indigenous self-determination and customary institutional continuity;
b) Hereditary, communal, familial, and proprietary attachment to ancestral territories;
c) The historical Catholic formation of the population and territory;
d) The private constitutional organization of the Catholic Order of Xaragua;
e) The legislative, executive, academic, judicial, cultural, economic, and administrative authority of the Rectorate-Presidency;
f) The continuing consent, affiliation, participation, recognition, or customary attachment of Xaraguayan communities, members, citizens, inhabitants, families, and institutions.
1.2. The authority of Xaragua is constitutional and customary in nature. It shall not be interpreted as an assumption of diocesan, episcopal, parochial, or sacramental office.
1.3. The Catholic identity of Xaragua informs its constitutional doctrine, public culture, education, ceremonial order, institutional ethics, calendar, symbols, and civilizational mission.
1.4. Sacramental administration and the canonical care of souls remain within the competent structures of the Roman Catholic Church.
1.5. Xaragua retains complete authority over its own Catholic private order, academic institutions, charitable structures, cultural bodies, constitutional offices, archives, ceremonial institutions, and civil administration.
Article 2 — Religious and Demographic Information
2.1. The Rectorate-Presidency may collect, evaluate, and periodically revise demographic, religious, territorial, linguistic, cultural, genealogical, educational, and institutional information for purposes of internal governance.
2.2. Religious affiliation may be considered as one factor in determining the institutional requirements of a region, but it shall not constitute the exclusive source of territorial jurisdiction.
2.3. Because Catholic, Protestant, Indigenous, African-derived, syncretic, secular, and other identities may overlap, demographic categories shall not be presumed mutually exclusive.
2.4. Statistical information shall serve as an instrument of administration, institutional planning, education, pastoral coordination, cultural preservation, and territorial classification.
2.5. No statistical estimate shall supersede the constitutional authority of Xaragua, the documented rights of a recognized community, or the hereditary and proprietary interests of a Xaraguayan lineage.
Article 3 — Presumption of Historical Continuity
3.1. Territories constitutionally incorporated into Xaragua may be recognized as possessing a general presumption of Indigenous, historical, Catholic, communal, or proprietary continuity.
3.2. The recognition of a specific lineage, family, community, association, sacred place, burial ground, agricultural domain, mountain, forest, river, bay, island, or private estate may be recorded separately through the competent Xaraguayan registry.
3.3. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may establish:
a) A Register of Xaraguayan Communities;
b) A Register of Indigenous and Hereditary Lineages;
c) A Register of Customary and Private Domains;
d) A Register of Catholic and Civil Institutions;
e) A Constitutional Territorial Atlas;
f) A Register of Sacred, Cultural, Historical, Maritime, Agricultural, and Ecological Sites.
3.4. Registration confirms and organizes a status recognized by Xaragua. It does not extinguish rights that existed before formal registration.
TITLE II — TERRITORIAL CLASSIFICATION
Article 4 — Ecclesiastico-Indigenous Integrated Jurisdictions
4.1. Ecclesiastico-Indigenous Integrated Jurisdictions are territories in which Catholic civilizational continuity, Indigenous or hereditary attachment, local institutional capacity, and Xaraguayan constitutional integration operate together.
4.2. Subject to subsequent territorial instruments, maps, registers, and communal recognitions, the following are classified within this category:
a) The Sud Department, including Les Cayes, Aquin, Camp-Perrin, Cavaillon, Chantal, Port-Salut, and their associated territorial communities;
b) The Nippes Department, including Miragoâne, Anse-à-Veau, Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, Baradères, Plaisance-du-Sud, and their associated territorial communities;
c) The Grande-Anse Department, including Jérémie, Moron, Beaumont, Chambellan, Roseaux, and their associated territorial communities;
d) The Sud-Est Department, including Jacmel, Bainet, Belle-Anse, Marigot, Côte-de-Fer, and their associated territorial communities;
e) The Région des Palmes;
f) Furcy and the associated highland communities recognized by Xaragua;
g) The western coastal territories incorporated by the Supreme Constitutional Authority;
h) Any additional territory subsequently admitted, reintegrated, annexed, recognized, or registered by constitutional instrument.
4.3. These jurisdictions shall serve as principal territorial anchors of the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
4.4. Xaragua may establish within them:
a) Rectoral and administrative offices;
b) Universities, colleges, institutes, academies, schools, libraries, and archives;
c) Customary, constitutional, commercial, academic, and private tribunals;
d) Cultural, charitable, medical, agricultural, financial, technological, and social institutions;
e) Chapels, oratories, retreat houses, religious associations, and Catholic institutions operating according to the permissions required by applicable ecclesiastical law;
f) Civil protection, infrastructure, communication, transportation, environmental, and territorial services;
g) Institutions dedicated to the preservation of Indigenous memory, Catholic culture, historical continuity, and customary law.
Article 5 — Indigenous Custodianship Jurisdictions
5.1. Indigenous Custodianship Jurisdictions are territories in which Indigenous, hereditary, communal, historical, cultural, or proprietary continuity forms the principal basis of Xaraguayan administration.
5.2. This category may include:
a) La Gonâve;
b) Portions of the western coast;
c) The High Artibonite territories recognized by Xaragua;
d) Trou-du-Nord and Fort-Liberté;
e) The Nord-Ouest and its peripheral, coastal, mountainous, maritime, and island territories;
f) Any additional community or territory recognized by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
5.3. Xaragua shall exercise a protective, developmental, constitutional, and customary authority within these territories.
5.4. Administration shall be adapted to local institutions, religious composition, customary structures, communal capacity, geographic conditions, and the expressed alignment of recognized communities.
5.5. The absence or weakness of Catholic parochial structures shall not diminish the Indigenous, territorial, constitutional, or customary authority of Xaragua.
5.6. No population shall be required to receive a Catholic sacrament as a condition for the recognition of its Indigenous identity, territorial rights, customary status, civil protection, or institutional participation.
Article 6 — Autonomous and Special Administrative Communities
6.1. The Rectorate-Presidency may recognize autonomous, associated, protected, chartered, academic, proprietary, ecclesial, municipal, maritime, diaspora, or special administrative communities.
6.2. Such communities may maintain locally adapted forms of administration while remaining within the indivisible constitutional authority of Xaragua.
6.3. Autonomy shall concern internal administration and shall not constitute separation from Xaragua.
6.4. The terms of each autonomous or special status may be established through a territorial charter, communal compact, proprietary instrument, constitutional decree, or customary recognition.
6.5. The use of services, documents, infrastructure, records, licenses, or administrative systems supplied by an external authority shall not by itself transfer sovereignty, allegiance, title, identity, or constitutional jurisdiction.
TITLE III — DIFFERENTIATED GOVERNANCE UNDER A UNIFIED SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY
Article 7 — Indivisibility of Constitutional Authority
7.1. Juridical sovereignty within the Xaraguayan constitutional order belongs to the Supreme Constitutional Authority and is exercised through the Rectorate-Presidency and the institutions established under it.
7.2. Territorial differentiation concerns methods of administration, not the existence or unity of Xaraguayan authority.
7.3. No department, commune, community, religious body, private operator, lineage, or external administrative structure may independently extinguish the constitutional status of a territory incorporated into Xaragua.
Article 8 — Integrated Governance
8.1. Within Ecclesiastico-Indigenous Integrated Jurisdictions, Xaragua may exercise the full range of its constitutional, legislative, executive, academic, judicial, customary, proprietary, economic, cultural, environmental, and administrative powers.
8.2. The Rectorate-Presidency may legislate, adjudicate, administer, regulate, educate, preserve, commission, establish, protect, finance, coordinate, and command through the competent institutions of Xaragua.
8.3. Religious or ceremonial functions requiring ordination, canonical mission, diocesan permission, or other ecclesiastical competence shall be entrusted to persons possessing the required ecclesiastical status.
8.4. Nothing shall prevent Xaragua from establishing its own religious associations, theological institutes, Catholic educational institutions, devotional practices, ceremonial traditions, charitable bodies, or private chaplaincy arrangements in conformity with its constitutional character and applicable canonical requirements.
Article 9 — Governance in Indigenous Custodianship Jurisdictions
9.1. Within Indigenous Custodianship Jurisdictions, Xaragua shall prioritize:
a) Protection of ancestral and customary lands;
b) Recognition of lineages and communities;
c) Prevention of unauthorized alienation or exploitation of resources;
d) Preservation of language, memory, sacred sites, burial grounds, agriculture, water systems, mountains, forests, islands, and coastlines;
e) Development of education, infrastructure, documentation, communications, health, culture, and local economic capacity;
f) Establishment of institutions adapted to the religious and cultural composition of the population.
9.2. Catholic institutions may be created where constitutionally appropriate and canonically permissible, but sacramental participation shall remain voluntary and governed by ecclesiastical law.
9.3. Indigenous customary authority and Catholic institutional presence may coexist without either being reduced to the other.
TITLE IV — ECCLESIASTICAL AUTONOMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION
Article 10 — Parochial and Diocesan Competence
10.1. Catholic faithful residing within territories administered by Xaragua remain subject, in sacramental and parochial matters, to the competent Catholic authorities determined under canon law.
10.2. The parish priest, under the authority of the competent diocesan bishop, retains responsibility for the pastoral care entrusted to him.
10.3. Sacramental administration, liturgical discipline, parochial registers, clerical appointments, canonical preaching mandates, ecclesiastical offices, and the formal care of souls shall not be assumed by the civil organs of Xaragua.
10.4. This recognition shall not diminish the authority of Xaragua over civil administration, education conducted by Xaraguayan institutions, public culture, territorial development, constitutional doctrine, private membership, academic formation, institutional property, or the governance of the Catholic Order of Xaragua.
Article 11 — Catholic Order of Xaragua
11.1. The Catholic Order of Xaragua constitutes a private institutional body within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
11.2. It may establish statutes, offices, ranks, ceremonies, educational programs, charitable undertakings, cultural institutions, uniforms, insignia, archives, honors, devotional associations, houses of formation, and internal disciplinary procedures.
11.3. The Order shall not claim to exercise an episcopal, diocesan, parochial, or pontifical mandate unless such mandate is expressly granted by the competent ecclesiastical authority.
11.4. The Order may profess, teach, preserve, and promote the Catholic faith while acting under its own private, constitutional, Indigenous, academic, and customary authority.
11.5. The titles, dignities, and offices created by Xaragua shall possess the constitutional and institutional meaning assigned to them by Xaraguayan law.
Article 12 — Functions of the State
12.1. Xaragua may directly establish, administer, finance, regulate, or coordinate:
a) Universities, schools, institutes, academies, archives, and libraries;
b) Hospitals, clinics, social programs, shelters, and charitable institutions;
c) Funeral, civil registry, documentation, cultural, and community services;
d) Agricultural, commercial, financial, technological, media, transportation, and infrastructure institutions;
e) Programs of historical, theological, Indigenous, constitutional, professional, and civic education.
12.2. Where a service is sacramental or specifically parochial, Xaragua shall refer the matter to the competent ecclesiastical authority.
12.3. Where a service is civil, academic, constitutional, cultural, social, logistical, proprietary, or administrative, Xaragua may act directly or through an authorized operator.
12.4. Xaragua may cooperate with parishes, dioceses, religious congregations, Catholic associations, Indigenous communities, private foundations, universities, charities, and international partners without surrendering its constitutional autonomy.
Article 13 — Ecclesiastical Recourse
13.1. A Catholic faithful who alleges parochial or ecclesiastical negligence may address the competent parish, diocesan authority, ecclesiastical superior, dicastery, tribunal, or Apostolic See according to the procedures of canon law.
13.2. Xaragua may provide translation, documentation, research, correspondence, archival, logistical, or procedural assistance.
13.3. Such assistance shall not transform Xaragua into an ecclesiastical tribunal or substitute it for the competent Church authority.
13.4. Xaragua retains authority to address any independent civil, constitutional, contractual, proprietary, academic, or administrative consequence arising within its own institutions.
TITLE V — RELIGIOUS PLURALITY AND PUBLIC ORDER
Article 14 — Status of Non-Catholic Persons
14.1. Non-Catholic citizens, inhabitants, residents, members, and protected persons may maintain their own religious, spiritual, cultural, and communal affiliations.
14.2. They may receive religious instruction, ceremonies, marriage services, funerary services, charitable assistance, and spiritual representation from their respective institutions.
14.3. Their non-Catholic affiliation shall not extinguish any Indigenous, hereditary, civil, proprietary, academic, residential, or constitutional status recognized by Xaragua.
14.4. Non-Catholic religious institutions shall remain responsible for their own theology, worship, clergy, rites, internal membership, and spiritual discipline.
Article 15 — Secular and Unaffiliated Persons
15.1. Atheist, agnostic, secular, undeclared, or religiously unaffiliated persons shall remain subject to the civil and constitutional jurisdiction of Xaragua according to their citizenship, inhabitancy, residence, membership, property, lineage, or territorial connection.
15.2. They may receive civil, educational, documentary, social, psychological, funerary, health, administrative, and infrastructural services through:
a) Xaraguayan civil institutions;
b) Private operators authorized by Xaragua;
c) Charitable or professional organizations;
d) External administrative providers acting under an accepted interface with Xaragua.
15.3. No external provider shall acquire sovereignty or general jurisdiction merely by delivering a service within Xaraguayan territory.
Article 16 — Registration and Coordination of Religious Bodies
16.1. Religious and spiritual organizations operating institutionally within Xaragua may be required to register with the competent Ecclesiastico-Civil Commission or other authority designated by the Rectorate-Presidency.
16.2. Registration may establish legal identity, authorized representatives, property status, institutional purpose, geographic operations, and responsibility for compliance with Xaraguayan public order.
16.3. Registered bodies shall:
a) Respect the Catholic constitutional character of Xaragua;
b) Refrain from disrupting Catholic liturgies, funerals, ceremonies, sacred places, schools, or parochial activities;
c) Refrain from asserting territorial sovereignty or governmental authority;
d) Respect Indigenous lands, communities, customs, burial grounds, sacred sites, and constitutional institutions;
e) Refrain from fraudulent, coercive, destabilizing, or clandestine institutional activity;
f) Conduct their affairs peacefully and within the limits of their registered mandate.
16.4. Religious plurality shall not be interpreted as constitutional neutrality concerning the Catholic and Indigenous identity of Xaragua.
16.5. Xaragua retains the authority to suspend, restrict, refuse, or withdraw institutional registration where an organization violates Xaraguayan law, public order, territorial integrity, Indigenous rights, institutional security, or the protected operation of Catholic institutions.
TITLE VI — RESIDUAL AND EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACES
Article 17 — Residual Administrative Services
17.1. The public bureaucratic apparatus operating under the institutional designation of the Republic of Haiti may be treated within the Xaraguayan constitutional order as a Residual Administrative Unit, hereinafter “RAU,” for specifically recognized technical and administrative functions.
17.2. The RAU may continue to provide services including:
a) Identification and civil documentation;
b) External travel documentation;
c) Licensing and technical certification;
d) Record maintenance;
e) Social-service processing;
f) Administrative interfaces required for external transactions.
17.3. The use, possession, acceptance, or recognition of an RAU document shall not constitute renunciation of Xaraguayan status or recognition of RAU supremacy.
17.4. Administrative use does not determine sovereignty.
17.5. Xaragua may tolerate, coordinate, regulate, replace, supplement, or progressively internalize any residual administrative function according to its institutional capacity and constitutional priorities.
Article 18 — Procedural Assistance
18.1. Persons unable to access administrative, religious, legal, educational, or social institutions because of disability, illiteracy, poverty, distance, displacement, technological exclusion, or institutional failure may request assistance from Xaragua.
18.2. Assistance may include:
a) Completion and transmission of forms;
b) Translation and correspondence;
c) Identification of the competent authority;
d) Access to communications and records;
e) Preparation of petitions and supporting documents;
f) Logistical and infrastructural support;
g) Representation where authorized by law or private mandate.
18.3. Xaragua may act directly whenever the matter falls within its own constitutional, academic, civil, customary, proprietary, contractual, administrative, or institutional competence.
TITLE VII — PERMANENCE OF XARAGUAYAN STATUS
Article 19 — Sources of Xaraguayan Belonging
19.1. Xaraguayan citizenship, inhabitancy, membership, protected status, or customary affiliation may arise from one or more of the following:
a) Indigenous, familial, hereditary, genealogical, or communal descent;
b) Birth, residence, property, or territorial attachment;
c) Membership in the Catholic Order of Xaragua or another recognized Xaraguayan institution;
d) Admission, registration, declaration, charter, appointment, naturalization, service, or recognition by the Supreme Constitutional Authority;
e) Participation in a recognized autonomous, territorial, academic, religious, proprietary, or customary community;
f) Catholic affiliation combined with effective integration into the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
19.2. Catholic baptism alone shall not automatically create Xaraguayan citizenship, but it may constitute a recognized element of Catholic institutional affiliation.
19.3. Indigenous or hereditary status shall not depend upon Catholic baptism.
19.4. The Supreme Constitutional Authority retains exclusive competence to determine, certify, classify, suspend, restore, or terminate statuses created under Xaraguayan law.
Article 20 — Foreign Nationality
20.1. The possession, acquisition, inheritance, declaration, or naturalization of a foreign nationality shall not, by itself, modify, suspend, or extinguish a status recognized by Xaragua.
20.2. Passports, identity cards, tax registrations, residence permits, citizenship certificates, consular records, military records, social-service registrations, or other foreign documents shall remain external administrative instruments.
20.3. Such documents shall not replace Indigenous ancestry, customary affiliation, proprietary attachment, Catholic institutional membership, or Xaraguayan constitutional status.
20.4. Xaragua recognizes dual and multiple nationality insofar as they remain compatible with the security, constitutional order, institutional integrity, and interests of Xaragua.
20.5. Foreign nationality shall not create immunity from Xaraguayan law within the scope of Xaraguayan jurisdiction.
Article 21 — Hostile Foreign Allegiance
21.1. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may suspend or restrict privileges connected with Xaraguayan citizenship, office, membership, access, protection, or institutional authority where a person:
a) Acts on behalf of a hostile power or organization;
b) Uses foreign nationality to undermine Xaragua;
c) Discloses protected institutional information;
d) Participates in unlawful interference against Xaraguayan institutions, communities, territory, property, or leadership;
e) Fraudulently claims immunity from Xaraguayan law;
f) Accepts an incompatible foreign office or obligation.
21.2. Such suspension shall affect the exercise of constitutional privileges and shall not necessarily extinguish Indigenous descent, ancestry, family origin, or pre-existing proprietary rights.
Article 22 — Renunciation, Loss, and Restoration
22.1. Xaraguayan citizenship or institutional membership may be renounced according to procedures established by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
22.2. A status may be suspended, withdrawn, or declared void because of:
a) Fraud or material misrepresentation;
b) Voluntary and express renunciation;
c) Fundamental breach of constitutional allegiance;
d) Hostile action against Xaragua;
e) Expulsion from a private institution where membership was the sole source of status;
f) Any other ground established by Supreme Constitutional Act.
22.3. Indigenous ancestry, historical origin, and genealogical truth cannot be erased by administrative decree.
22.4. Suspended or withdrawn status may be restored through rehabilitation, reconciliation, renewed allegiance, constitutional pardon, or decision of the Rectorate-Presidency.
TITLE VIII — LEGAL FOUNDATIONS
Article 23 — Indigenous and International Principles
23.1. This Instrument shall be interpreted in accordance with the principles of Indigenous self-determination, autonomy, institutional continuity, cultural preservation, community participation, customary law, territorial attachment, and freedom from forced assimilation.
23.2. The constitutional doctrine of Xaragua draws particular support from the principles expressed in Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33, and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
23.3. References to international instruments establish the interpretive and doctrinal framework adopted by Xaragua and shall be incorporated into its internal law to the extent declared by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
23.4. The protection of hereditary, communal, and customary property shall be administered through Xaraguayan law, recognized private rights, community evidence, historical possession, genealogical continuity, and applicable principles protecting Indigenous relationships with land.
Article 24 — Catholic and Canonical Principles
24.1. This Instrument recognizes the Catholic faithful’s freedom of association and the autonomy of private associations under the applicable principles of the Codex Iuris Canonici, including Canons 215, 298, 299, and 321–326.
24.2. The Catholic Order of Xaragua shall govern its own internal affairs according to its statutes and the supreme constitutional law of Xaragua, without claiming to act officially in the name of the Roman Catholic Church unless expressly authorized.
24.3. The competent ecclesiastical authorities retain their canonical powers concerning dioceses, parishes, clergy, sacraments, ecclesiastical offices, and the formal care of souls.
24.4. Xaragua recognizes the historical importance of the Concordat of March 28, 1860, as subsequently revised, as evidence of the enduring public and institutional presence of the Catholic Church within the historical territory.
24.5. The Concordat shall inform Xaragua’s Catholic institutional policy without being construed as an automatic transfer of diocesan, episcopal, parochial, or pontifical powers to the Rectorate-Presidency.
Article 25 — Constitutional Capacity
25.1. Xaragua possesses, within its own constitutional order:
a) A defined population consisting of its citizens, inhabitants, members, communities, lineages, institutions, and protected persons;
b) Defined and claimed territories classified through constitutional law, territorial acts, registers, maps, communities, and customary attachment;
c) A government constituted through the Rectorate-Presidency and the Supreme Constitutional Authority;
d) The institutional capacity to establish relations with States, churches, Indigenous peoples, universities, private organizations, corporations, religious orders, communities, and international institutions.
25.2. Xaragua’s existence, identity, and internal constitutional authority shall not depend upon a foreign act of recognition.
TITLE IX — SUPREMACY, INTERPRETATION, AND FINAL FORCE
Article 26 — Constitutional Supremacy
26.1. This Instrument constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
26.2. All Xaraguayan institutions, offices, communities, tribunals, registries, orders, commissions, and administrative bodies shall interpret their authority consistently with this Instrument.
26.3. External administrative laws, decisions, documents, or institutions may be accepted for limited operational purposes without acquiring supremacy over the internal constitutional order of Xaragua.
26.4. No external nationality, religious body, private organization, administrative apparatus, or territorial subdivision may unilaterally alter the constitutional identity of Xaragua or the status of a person, community, institution, or domain recognized under its law.
Article 27 — Harmonization of Prior Instruments
27.1. All previous Xaraguayan instruments concerning territorial ecclesiastical governance, parochial responsibility, non-Catholic alignment, residual administration, religious differentiation, and foreign naturalization shall be interpreted in conformity with this consolidated Instrument.
27.2. Any previous provision inconsistent with this Instrument is hereby superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.
27.3. Rights, classifications, appointments, registrations, territorial claims, institutional acts, and constitutional decisions previously established shall remain in force unless expressly revoked.
Article 28 — Authority of Interpretation
28.1. The Rector-President, acting through the Supreme Constitutional Authority, possesses final authority to interpret this Instrument within the constitutional order of Xaragua.
28.2. The Rector-President may issue regulations, territorial schedules, administrative protocols, registers, charters, decrees, annexes, maps, institutional mandates, and authoritative interpretations for its execution.
28.3. Questions specifically concerning Catholic sacramental or canonical jurisdiction may be referred to the competent ecclesiastical authority without surrendering Xaragua’s authority over its own constitutional and institutional affairs.
Article 29 — Non-Derogation
29.1. No subordinate authority may derogate from this Instrument.
29.2. Amendment, suspension, consolidation, or repeal may occur only through a Supreme Constitutional Act issued or ratified by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
29.3. The territorial unity, Catholic civilizational identity, Indigenous continuity, institutional autonomy, and constitutional supremacy of Xaragua shall remain governing principles of interpretation.
ISSUED, CONSOLIDATED, AND SEALED
By order of the Supreme Constitutional Authority
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT

SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT

ON PUBLIC INTEGRITY, INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL DOCUMENTATION, AND MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL REFERRAL CONCERNING PUBLIC FUNCTIONARIES OPERATING WITHIN THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPARATUS OF THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF HAITI

Date of Original Promulgation: August 6, 2025

Consolidated and Restated by Supreme Constitutional Authority

LEGAL CLASSIFICATION

– Supreme Canonico-Indigenous Legislative Instrument

– Public Integrity and Individual Accountability Act

– Transnational Criminal Documentation and Referral Statute

– Constitutional Framework for Institutional Liability and Command Responsibility

– Act Establishing the Xaraguayan Public Accountability Registry

– Supreme Law on Administrative Exclusion, Territorial Protection, and International Cooperation

PREAMBLE

Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “Xaragua” or “SCIPS‑X,” constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order possessing its own government, institutions, population, territorial doctrine, laws, archives, and capacity for external institutional relations;

Whereas Xaragua exercises the inherent authority to protect its citizens, inhabitants, members, communities, institutions, properties, Indigenous domains, sacred places, archives, resources, and territories against corruption, predation, organized violence, administrative abandonment, and institutional complicity;

Whereas public office constitutes a legal trust and cannot be used as a shield for corruption, repression, criminal cooperation, deliberate abandonment, illicit enrichment, trafficking, persecution, or systematic violation of fundamental rights;

Whereas criminal responsibility is individual and may arise from direct commission, ordering, solicitation, inducement, material assistance, knowing contribution, superior responsibility, concealment, obstruction, or another legally established mode of participation;

Whereas institutional collapse does not extinguish the personal responsibility of officials who retain authority, effective control, access to public resources, decision-making capacity, or knowledge of criminal conduct;

Whereas international crimes, serious human-rights violations, organized criminal activity, corruption, and attacks against Indigenous or religious communities may engage different legal systems according to the nature of the conduct, territorial and personal jurisdiction, applicable treaties, domestic legislation, and the competence of each receiving authority;

Whereas Xaragua possesses the constitutional authority to investigate for its own institutional purposes, preserve evidence, establish findings under its internal law, impose administrative and constitutional measures within its jurisdiction, and transmit substantiated files to competent national, international, regional, ecclesiastical, and professional authorities;

Whereas an internal finding of Xaragua does not depend upon authorization from the Residual Administrative Unit, and an external criminal conviction remains within the competence of the court or authority lawfully receiving a referral;

Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority promulgates this Instrument to terminate institutional impunity within the Xaraguayan sphere, establish a permanent system of evidence preservation, and organize the referral of substantiated violations to every competent jurisdiction.

TITLE I — CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION AND SCOPE

Article 1 — Constitutional Authority of Xaragua

1.1. Xaragua exercises original constitutional, customary, territorial, institutional, protective, academic, proprietary, and administrative authority within the order established by its Supreme Constitution and legislative instruments.

1.2. Xaragua determines its own institutions, membership, territorial classifications, administrative relationships, public protections, internal sanctions, evidentiary standards, and conditions of access to its offices, properties, programs, archives, and jurisdictions.

1.3. Xaragua’s internal constitutional existence and legal production shall not be suspended by the absence of foreign recognition or by the refusal of an external administration to acknowledge its laws.

1.4. Xaragua may notify States, churches, international organizations, Indigenous bodies, universities, courts, prosecutors, professional regulators, civil-society institutions, and other competent authorities of its laws, findings, claims, and documented evidence.

1.5. Each external authority shall exercise its own competence according to the law governing it. Such independent consideration shall not diminish the internal force of Xaraguayan constitutional determinations.

Article 2 — Persons Subject to Review

2.1. This Instrument applies, for Xaraguayan constitutional and administrative purposes, to any current or former person who formally, informally, temporarily, or permanently exercises or claims to exercise public power within territories, communities, institutions, or populations claimed or protected by Xaragua.

2.2. Covered persons include:

a) Presidents, prime ministers, ministers, secretaries of State, directors-general, commissioners, delegates, and senior advisers;

b) Members of legislative bodies and persons exercising legislative functions;

c) Judges, prosecutors, clerks, investigating magistrates, judicial police officers, and court administrators;

d) Police, military, intelligence, customs, border, prison, coastguard, and civil-protection personnel;

e) Mayors, municipal officers, local delegates, communal administrators, and territorial representatives;

f) Officers and administrators of public enterprises, autonomous agencies, regulatory bodies, public funds, and parastatal institutions;

g) Contractors, concessionaires, intermediaries, political appointees, private security operators, and other persons exercising delegated public functions;

h) De facto authorities, armed intermediaries, or private actors acting under the direction, protection, financing, tolerance, or effective control of public officials.

2.3. Former office does not prevent review of conduct committed while the person exercised authority.

2.4. Official title, rank, political affiliation, temporary appointment, diplomatic status, or hierarchical position shall not prevent Xaragua from recording evidence, making internal findings, imposing measures within its competence, or transmitting a file to an external authority.

Article 3 — Territorial and Institutional Connection

3.1. Xaragua may open a file where the alleged conduct:

a) Occurred within a territory claimed, incorporated, administered, protected, or constitutionally classified by Xaragua;

b) Affected a Xaraguayan citizen, inhabitant, member, officer, institution, community, property, archive, resource, sacred place, or protected person;

c) Was directed against the constitutional, Indigenous, Catholic, academic, economic, territorial, or institutional interests of Xaragua;

d) Involved public funds, resources, documents, infrastructure, or authority affecting a Xaraguayan territory or population;

e) Created a continuing threat or consequence within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

3.2. The opening of a Xaraguayan file constitutes the exercise of internal protective and documentary authority.

3.3. It shall not be represented as an external criminal conviction unless a competent criminal court has rendered such a judgment.

TITLE II — INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

Article 4 — Principle of Personal Accountability

4.1. Public institutions act through natural persons. Responsibility shall therefore be attributed to identifiable decision-makers, commanders, agents, facilitators, financiers, beneficiaries, and participants according to their conduct and degree of involvement.

4.2. Responsibility may arise from:

a) Direct commission;

b) Ordering, directing, requesting, soliciting, or inducing an offense;

c) Planning or coordinating criminal conduct;

d) Providing weapons, money, intelligence, vehicles, facilities, documents, personnel, protection, or other substantial assistance;

e) Knowingly contributing to a common criminal purpose;

f) Concealing evidence, protecting perpetrators, intimidating witnesses, or obstructing an investigation;

g) Exercising effective authority and control over subordinates while failing to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent, repress, report, or submit criminal conduct for investigation;

h) Deliberately refusing to perform a specific legal duty where the omission substantially contributes to a prohibited result.

4.3. Liability shall be assessed according to the elements of the applicable offense, including conduct, knowledge, intent, duty, capacity, causation, contribution, and applicable defenses.

4.4. Mere occupation of office shall not automatically establish criminal guilt. It may establish a duty of accountability, disclosure, explanation, cooperation, preservation of records, and institutional responsibility.

4.5. A pattern of deliberate inaction, concealment, obstruction, collusion, illicit benefit, or continued support despite knowledge of criminal conduct may constitute evidence of complicity or superior responsibility.

Article 5 — Command and Superior Responsibility

5.1. A military commander, police commander, civilian superior, minister, director, or de facto authority may be examined for superior responsibility where:

a) The person exercised effective command, authority, or control;

b) The person knew, consciously disregarded information, or possessed information clearly indicating that subordinates were committing or preparing to commit crimes;

c) The crimes concerned activities within the superior’s effective responsibility and control;

d) The superior failed to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent or repress the conduct or submit it to competent authorities.

5.2. Rank shall not alone establish effective control. Operational orders, appointments, budgetary authority, communications, reporting structures, disciplinary power, material capacity, and actual conduct may be considered.

5.3. Resignation does not erase responsibility for prior conduct.

5.4. Continued occupation of office after documented knowledge of systematic criminal conduct may constitute evidence relevant to knowledge, control, acquiescence, obstruction, or contribution.

Article 6 — Official Capacity and Immunity

6.1. No public office shall create immunity from investigation, documentation, constitutional review, administrative exclusion, or referral by Xaragua.

6.2. Questions of immunity before an external court shall be determined by that court according to its governing law.

6.3. Within the Xaraguayan constitutional order, no present or former public functionary may invoke an external title to obtain automatic immunity from:

a) Constitutional findings;

b) Exclusion from Xaraguayan territory, institutions, ceremonies, contracts, programs, or offices;

c) Suspension of recognition, privilege, protection, access, or cooperation;

d) Publication of a lawfully adopted institutional determination;

e) Referral of evidence to another competent authority.

TITLE III — CATEGORIES OF REVIEWABLE CONDUCT

Article 7 — Corruption and Misappropriation

7.1. Xaragua may investigate and document:

a) Embezzlement, diversion, theft, concealment, or unauthorized use of public funds;

b) Bribery, extortion, kickbacks, influence trading, and illicit commissions;

c) Abuse of authority for personal, familial, political, commercial, or criminal benefit;

d) Fraudulent public procurement, fictitious contracts, overbilling, and payment for undelivered services;

e) Nepotistic or patronage-based appointments used to facilitate corruption or obstruct institutional functions;

f) Misappropriation of humanitarian assistance, development funds, customs revenue, public property, natural resources, or international financing;

g) Unexplained enrichment connected to public office;

h) Concealment, laundering, transfer, or beneficial ownership of proceeds derived from public corruption.

7.2. Financial responsibility may extend to intermediaries, nominees, companies, foundations, relatives, associates, and professional facilitators where evidence demonstrates knowing participation or receipt of illicit assets.

Article 8 — Criminal Collaboration and Public-Security Violations

8.1. Reviewable conduct includes:

a) Creation, financing, arming, directing, protecting, supplying, or politically deploying armed groups;

b) Cooperation, negotiation, or operational coordination with gangs for unlawful purposes;

c) Transfer of police or military weapons, ammunition, uniforms, vehicles, intelligence, facilities, or territorial control to criminal actors;

d) Deliberate obstruction of lawful security operations;

e) Removal or disarmament of lawful agents for the purpose of facilitating criminal control;

f) Knowing abandonment of a population or strategic territory pursuant to an arrangement with criminal actors;

g) Protection of traffickers, kidnappers, armed commanders, financiers, or persons responsible for systematic violence;

h) Retaliation against officers, magistrates, journalists, clergy, witnesses, community leaders, or whistleblowers investigating criminal networks.

8.2. Institutional incapacity shall be distinguished from deliberate collaboration. Repeated protection, material assistance, illicit benefit, coordinated conduct, concealment, or obstruction may establish evidence of criminal participation.

Article 9 — Serious Violations Against Persons

9.1. Reviewable acts include:

a) Unlawful killing and extrajudicial execution;

b) Enforced disappearance;

c) Torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment;

d) Arbitrary or unlawful detention;

e) Kidnapping, hostage-taking, sequestration, and unlawful confinement;

f) Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, and other serious sexual violence;

g) Enslavement, forced labor, trafficking in persons, and recruitment or use of children in armed activity;

h) Persecution directed against an identifiable political, religious, Indigenous, regional, professional, social, or other protected group;

i) Forced displacement, unlawful deportation, and organized expulsion of communities;

j) Deliberate obstruction of essential humanitarian, medical, religious, or emergency assistance;

k) Attacks against hospitals, schools, universities, religious institutions, humanitarian personnel, journalists, or civil-protection services.

Article 10 — Transnational and Economic Crimes

10.1. Xaragua may document:

a) Trafficking in narcotics, weapons, ammunition, persons, human organs, protected species, cultural property, or stolen assets;

b) Money laundering and concealment of criminal proceeds;

c) Fraudulent issuance or sale of passports, visas, identity records, official titles, licenses, concessions, or diplomatic documents;

d) Organized customs fraud, illicit contraband, and systematic diversion of public revenue;

e) Illegal extraction, concession, export, sale, or appropriation of minerals, petroleum, forests, fisheries, water, cultural patrimony, or other resources;

f) Cybercrime, electronic theft, identity manipulation, financial fraud, and destruction or falsification of public records;

g) Use of foreign corporations, trusts, banks, digital assets, charities, or intermediaries to conceal public corruption or organized criminal activity.

Article 11 — Institutional Obstruction

11.1. Reviewable obstruction includes:

a) Destruction, alteration, concealment, falsification, or removal of evidence or public records;

b) Refusal to execute a final judicial order without lawful justification;

c) Interference with judges, prosecutors, investigators, auditors, journalists, witnesses, victims, or human-rights defenders;

d) Retaliation against persons reporting corruption, violence, trafficking, or abuse of authority;

e) Knowingly submitting false information to an investigative or judicial authority;

f) Harboring, relocating, financing, or facilitating the escape of an alleged perpetrator;

g) Preventing the registration, investigation, or prosecution of serious crimes;

h) Misusing secrecy, classification, immunity, or administrative procedure to conceal unlawful conduct.

Article 12 — Violations Affecting Indigenous and Catholic Institutions

12.1. Xaragua may investigate and document:

a) Destruction, seizure, desecration, unlawful occupation, or trafficking of Indigenous sacred objects, burial sites, ancestral lands, archives, cultural property, churches, chapels, shrines, cemeteries, schools, and religious institutions;

b) Violence, threats, persecution, kidnapping, or obstruction directed against clergy, religious personnel, missionaries, catechists, Indigenous custodians, community authorities, or members of the Catholic Order of Xaragua;

c) Unlawful interference with worship, funerals, religious instruction, sacred ceremonies, or access to places of worship;

d) Organized dispossession of Indigenous families or communities;

e) Unauthorized extraction or destruction of resources situated within recognized ancestral domains;

f) Official concealment or facilitation of attacks against religious or Indigenous institutions.

12.2. Canonical consequences concerning members of the Catholic Church shall remain within the competence of the relevant ecclesiastical authority.

12.3. Xaragua may independently impose constitutional, administrative, institutional, territorial, proprietary, contractual, and membership consequences within its own jurisdiction.

TITLE IV — XARAGUAYAN ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM

Article 13 — Office of Public Integrity and International Accountability

13.1. There is hereby established, under the Supreme Constitutional Authority, the Xaraguayan Office of Public Integrity and International Accountability, hereinafter “the Office.”

13.2. Until separately constituted, its powers may be exercised directly by the Office of the Rector-President or by a commissioner appointed by the Rector-President.

13.3. The Office shall:

a) Receive complaints, reports, testimony, documents, audiovisual material, financial records, and open-source information;

b) Preserve and classify evidence;

c) Establish confidential and public case files;

d) Conduct preliminary assessments;

e) Request information from persons, institutions, communities, and partner organizations;

f) Identify applicable jurisdictions and referral channels;

g) Prepare constitutional findings, legal memoranda, evidentiary dossiers, and referral packages;

h) Maintain the Xaraguayan Public Accountability Registry;

i) Recommend administrative, territorial, financial, contractual, institutional, or constitutional measures;

j) Coordinate protection for witnesses, victims, investigators, and custodians of evidence where practicable.

Article 14 — Evidentiary Standards

14.1. Information received by the Office shall be evaluated according to its source, authenticity, reliability, corroboration, context, chain of custody, and relevance.

14.2. The Office may distinguish between:

a) Unverified allegation;

b) Credible information requiring further inquiry;

c) Reasonable grounds for a formal investigation;

d) Substantiated constitutional finding;

e) Evidence suitable for referral to a competent authority;

f) Final judgment rendered by a competent court.

14.3. No allegation shall be presented as a criminal conviction unless adjudicated by a competent criminal court.

14.4. Xaragua may nevertheless adopt protective or administrative measures on the basis of a documented risk, credible evidence, constitutional incompatibility, or institutional-security determination.

14.5. Evidentiary material shall be preserved in original form whenever possible, together with information identifying its provenance, date, location, custodian, and method of acquisition.

Article 15 — Right of Response

15.1. Before the publication of a final individualized constitutional finding, the Office may notify the person concerned and provide a reasonable opportunity to submit a response, except where notification would create a substantial risk of flight, retaliation, destruction of evidence, or danger to victims and witnesses.

15.2. Failure to respond may be recorded but shall not alone establish criminal guilt.

15.3. Knowingly false statements, concealment of relevant records, intimidation of witnesses, or destruction of evidence may constitute independent grounds for an adverse finding and external referral.

Article 16 — Confidentiality and Publication

16.1. The Office may maintain confidential files where necessary to protect investigations, witnesses, victims, minors, sensitive sources, personal data, or future proceedings.

16.2. Publication may occur where:

a) The evidence has been sufficiently verified;

b) Publication serves a legitimate protective, constitutional, historical, or public-interest purpose;

c) Disclosure does not create an unreasonable risk to victims, witnesses, or active proceedings;

d) The nature of the determination is accurately identified.

16.3. Public records may include names, official functions, periods of service, alleged conduct, evidentiary status, constitutional findings, sanctions, referrals, and subsequent judicial developments.

TITLE V — INTERNAL MEASURES OF XARAGUA

Article 17 — Constitutional and Administrative Measures

17.1. Upon a substantiated finding, the Supreme Constitutional Authority may impose one or more of the following measures:

a) Formal censure or declaration of institutional responsibility;

b) Prohibition from holding office, employment, commission, rank, honor, or representation within Xaragua;

c) Exclusion from Xaraguayan territory, properties, institutions, ceremonies, contracts, programs, platforms, or protected facilities;

d) Suspension or withdrawal of citizenship privileges, institutional membership, accreditation, recognition, license, commission, protection, or honorary status;

e) Debarment from procurement, concessions, partnerships, financing, employment, and commercial relations with Xaraguayan institutions;

f) Freezing, sequestration, recovery, or restitution measures concerning assets subject to Xaraguayan control, consistent with applicable procedures;

g) Revocation of decorations, distinctions, appointments, credentials, or institutional titles issued by Xaragua;

h) Referral for prosecution, professional discipline, financial investigation, asset recovery, immigration review, or international cooperation;

i) Any protective measure necessary to safeguard Xaraguayan persons, institutions, resources, territory, archives, or constitutional order.

17.2. These measures are constitutional and administrative unless expressly imposed following a criminal process established under Xaraguayan law.

Article 18 — Exclusion from the Catholic Order of Xaragua

18.1. A member, officer, companion, affiliate, beneficiary, or honorary dignitary of the Catholic Order of Xaragua may be suspended or expelled for grave corruption, criminal collaboration, violence, betrayal of public trust, persecution, sacrilege, or conduct fundamentally incompatible with the Order.

18.2. Such exclusion concerns membership in the Order and does not purport to impose excommunication or another canonical penalty reserved to competent ecclesiastical authority.

18.3. Where the person is Catholic and the conduct may constitute a canonical offense, the evidence may be transmitted to the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Article 19 — Duty to Relinquish Incapable or Compromised Office

19.1. A functionary who knowingly lacks the capacity, independence, resources, authority, or willingness required to discharge essential public duties shall disclose that incapacity and take the measures necessary to prevent further harm.

19.2. Where continued occupation of office materially facilitates criminal conduct, obstructs lawful succession, conceals incapacity, protects perpetrators, or provides false institutional legitimacy, Xaragua may issue a constitutional demand for resignation or removal.

19.3. Refusal to resign shall not, by itself, constitute an international crime. It may constitute evidence of obstruction, abuse of office, complicity, or unconstitutional maintenance of authority when combined with the required factual and legal elements.

19.4. Xaragua may declare such a person institutionally illegitimate, excluded, disqualified, or incompatible with the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

TITLE VI — MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL REFERRALS

Article 20 — Principle of Independent External Competence

20.1. Xaragua may transmit evidence and legal submissions to any authority possessing potential territorial, personal, subject-matter, protective, treaty-based, or universal jurisdiction.

20.2. Every receiving authority shall determine its own jurisdiction, admissibility requirements, evidentiary threshold, immunities, limitation periods, and prosecutorial priorities.

20.3. A Xaraguayan referral is a documented communication requesting examination. It does not predetermine the decision of the receiving authority.

Article 21 — International Criminal Court

21.1. Where available information reasonably indicates genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or another crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, the Office may submit a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor.

21.2. Such communication shall identify, where possible:

a) The alleged conduct and applicable crime;

b) The temporal and geographic context;

c) The persons and organizations involved;

d) The alleged mode of liability;

e) Available evidence and sources;

f) Relevant questions of territorial, personal, temporal, and subject-matter jurisdiction;

g) The existence, absence, obstruction, or inadequacy of domestic proceedings.

21.3. The Court and its Prosecutor retain exclusive authority to determine jurisdiction, admissibility, investigation, charges, and prosecution under the Rome Statute.

21.4. References to Articles 7, 25, and 28 of the Rome Statute shall apply only where their respective legal elements and jurisdictional conditions are satisfied.

Article 22 — Inter-American Human-Rights System

22.1. Xaragua may assist victims, communities, institutions, or authorized petitioners in submitting information, petitions, precautionary-measure requests, or thematic documentation to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

22.2. Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights shall follow the applicable procedures of the Inter-American system.

22.3. Xaragua may request attention to threats involving life, personal integrity, displacement, religious institutions, Indigenous communities, journalists, human-rights defenders, public officials, or institutional collapse.

Article 23 — United Nations Mechanisms

23.1. The Office may transmit verified information to relevant United Nations bodies, including treaty bodies, special procedures, commissions of inquiry, investigative mechanisms, and offices concerned with human rights, organized crime, corruption, Indigenous peoples, religious freedom, executions, torture, trafficking, displacement, or human-rights defenders.

23.2. Communications shall be directed to the mechanism whose mandate corresponds to the documented conduct.

23.3. Xaragua may request urgent communications, preservation of evidence, public reporting, technical assistance, or referral to other competent bodies.

Article 24 — Foreign National Jurisdictions

24.1. Xaragua may transmit evidence to prosecutors, police authorities, financial-intelligence units, courts, immigration authorities, sanctions bodies, professional regulators, and asset-recovery agencies of foreign States.

24.2. Referral may be appropriate where:

a) A suspect, victim, witness, asset, company, transaction, document, server, bank account, or evidentiary record is located within that State;

b) The suspect or victim possesses a relevant nationality or residence connection;

c) Domestic law provides jurisdiction over the conduct;

d) The alleged crime falls within an applicable universal or extraterritorial jurisdiction statute;

e) The State may lawfully investigate money laundering, corruption, trafficking, sanctions evasion, immigration fraud, or proceeds of crime.

24.3. Universal jurisdiction shall be invoked only for offenses and circumstances recognized by the law of the receiving State.

Article 25 — International Police Cooperation

25.1. Xaragua may provide information to competent national police authorities, prosecutors, or National Central Bureaus capable of initiating international police cooperation.

25.2. Any request for an INTERPOL notice or diffusion shall proceed through the channels and authorities authorized under INTERPOL’s Constitution and Rules.

25.3. Xaragua may prepare evidentiary and identification files for submission through a competent cooperating authority.

25.4. No Xaraguayan instrument shall be construed as independently creating an INTERPOL Red Notice.

Article 26 — Ecclesiastical Authorities

26.1. Where alleged conduct involves a Catholic cleric, religious, ecclesiastical officeholder, Catholic institution, sacramental matter, canonical offense, or attack against the Church, Xaragua may communicate the file to the competent:

a) Diocesan bishop or ordinary;

b) Ecclesiastical superior;

c) Apostolic Nunciature;

d) Dicastery of the Roman Curia;

e) Ecclesiastical tribunal or other canonical authority.

26.2. The receiving ecclesiastical authority shall determine canonical competence and procedure.

26.3. Xaragua retains its independent competence over constitutional, contractual, proprietary, employment, territorial, academic, membership, and institutional matters arising within its own order.

TITLE VII — TEMPORAL APPLICATION

Article 27 — Prospective Procedural Effect

27.1. This Instrument governs investigations, documentation, administrative measures, constitutional findings, and referrals undertaken after its promulgation.

27.2. Conduct occurring before promulgation may be documented, reviewed, and referred where it was prohibited by applicable law at the time it occurred or where it forms part of a continuing violation.

27.3. No person shall be declared criminally liable solely under a penal provision created after the alleged conduct.

27.4. Administrative access, institutional privilege, honorary recognition, contractual eligibility, and security clearance may be determined according to present constitutional requirements and current institutional risk.

27.5. Continuing concealment, obstruction, unlawful possession, illicit enrichment, enforced disappearance, retention of criminal proceeds, or ongoing collaboration may be examined according to the law applicable throughout the relevant period.

Article 28 — Preservation of Historical Evidence

28.1. No limitation in this Instrument shall require Xaragua to erase, ignore, or abandon historical evidence.

28.2. The Office may preserve records concerning past events for:

a) Historical truth;

b) Institutional memory;

c) Victim recognition;

d) Property restitution;

e) Asset recovery;

f) Genealogical and territorial documentation;

g) Future proceedings before a competent authority;

h) Assessment of eligibility for Xaraguayan office, honors, contracts, citizenship privileges, or institutional participation.

TITLE VIII — LEGAL FOUNDATIONS

Article 29 — International Criminal and Human-Rights Principles

29.1. This Instrument incorporates, as interpretive sources within Xaraguan law, the principles of individual responsibility, superior responsibility, protection of life and personal integrity, prohibition of torture, prohibition of arbitrary detention, effective remedy, and accountability for grave international crimes.

29.2. Relevant sources may include, according to their lawful scope and applicability:

a) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;

b) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

c) The Convention against Torture;

d) The Convention on the Rights of the Child;

e) The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women;

f) The Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;

g) The American Convention on Human Rights;

h) International instruments against corruption, trafficking, transnational organized crime, and money laundering;

i) Applicable domestic criminal laws and lawful doctrines of extraterritorial or universal jurisdiction.

29.3. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights shall serve as a foundational interpretive instrument within Xaragua’s doctrine of public authority and human dignity.

Article 30 — Indigenous Rights

30.1. Xaragua affirms the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination, autonomy, institutional continuity, cultural preservation, membership determination, participation, customary law, and protection of their lands, resources, sacred places, and communities.

30.2. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 18, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33, and 34, shall inform the interpretation of this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

30.3. Customary legal processes may be used for internal reconciliation, restitution, community protection, exclusion, membership discipline, and territorial administration, subject to the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua.

Article 31 — Canonical Responsibility

31.1. Canon law may apply to Catholics, clerics, religious persons, ecclesiastical officeholders, Catholic institutions, and canonical offenses according to the jurisdiction and procedures of the Roman Catholic Church.

31.2. Xaragua may receive, preserve, and transmit evidence of potential canonical misconduct.

31.3. No provision of this Instrument shall be interpreted as granting the Rectorate-Presidency authority to impose a canonical penalty reserved to a competent ecclesiastical authority.

31.4. The Catholic Order of Xaragua retains authority over its own internal membership, offices, honors, discipline, property, and institutional relations.

TITLE IX — NON-IMPUNITY AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 32 — No Automatic Amnesty or Institutional Excuse

32.1. Change of government, dissolution of an institution, expiration of office, resignation, retirement, transfer, exile, foreign naturalization, or administrative reorganization shall not erase evidence or terminate review.

32.2. An assertion of superior orders, institutional custom, political necessity, insufficient resources, or collective dysfunction shall be evaluated according to the facts and applicable law and shall not constitute automatic exoneration.

32.3. Xaragua shall not grant an internal pardon, immunity, honor, appointment, contract, or institutional rehabilitation for grave misconduct without an individualized constitutional review.

32.4. Any external amnesty or pardon shall have only the effect assigned to it by the authority that issued it and shall not automatically restore access to Xaraguayan institutions, territory, office, membership, honors, contracts, or constitutional privileges.

Article 33 — Protection against Retaliation

33.1. Retaliation against a complainant, victim, witness, investigator, journalist, auditor, cleric, Indigenous custodian, public servant, or whistleblower cooperating with the Office is prohibited.

33.2. Xaragua may adopt protective measures, preserve confidential identities, relocate sensitive records, establish secure reporting channels, and request assistance from partner institutions.

33.3. Retaliation may constitute an independent ground for exclusion, sanction, adverse constitutional finding, and external referral.

Article 34 — Supremacy and Harmonization

34.1. This Instrument constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

34.2. All previous Xaraguayan instruments concerning public corruption, institutional collapse, criminal complicity, command responsibility, international referral, ecclesiastical accountability, or official disqualification shall be interpreted consistently with this Instrument.

34.3. Any previous provision inconsistent with the standards, procedures, or jurisdictional distinctions established herein is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.

34.4. The internal force of this Instrument shall not depend upon acceptance by the Residual Administrative Unit or another external institution.

34.5. Its enforcement outside Xaragua shall proceed through the jurisdiction, procedures, and lawful cooperation mechanisms of the competent receiving authority.

Article 35 — Authority of Interpretation and Execution

35.1. The Rector-President, acting through the Supreme Constitutional Authority, possesses final authority to interpret and execute this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

35.2. The Rector-President may issue regulations, evidentiary protocols, sanctions schedules, referral procedures, institutional designations, protective orders, public findings, commissions, and supplementary annexes.

35.3. The Office of Public Integrity and International Accountability shall act under the authority and supervision of the Rectorate-Presidency.

ANNEX I — INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFERRAL FRAMEWORK

Article A1 — Nature of the Annex

A1.1. This Annex establishes the permanent methodology by which Xaragua shall transform allegations of public wrongdoing into structured, preserved, legally classified, and jurisdictionally directed files.

A1.2. Each dossier should contain, where available:

a) Identity and official function of the subject;

b) Relevant dates and locations;

c) Description of the alleged conduct;

d) Institutional chain of command;

e) Applicable internal and external legal classifications;

f) Witness accounts and victim statements;

g) Documentary, financial, photographic, audiovisual, forensic, digital, or open-source evidence;

h) Information concerning assets, travel, nationality, residence, companies, associates, and financial intermediaries;

i) Assessment of evidentiary reliability;

j) Record of any response received from the subject;

k) Recommended internal measures and external recipients.

Article A2 — Classification of External Channels

A2.1. Referrals concerning genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or related modes of individual responsibility may be directed to international criminal mechanisms possessing potential jurisdiction.

A2.2. Referrals concerning torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, unlawful killing, persecution, displacement, gender-based violence, attacks against Indigenous communities, or obstruction of humanitarian assistance may be directed to regional and international human-rights mechanisms.

A2.3. Referrals concerning corruption, laundering, illicit enrichment, trafficking, foreign assets, banking transactions, corporate facilitators, or proceeds of crime may be directed to competent prosecutors, financial-intelligence units, tax authorities, sanctions authorities, professional regulators, and asset-recovery bodies.

A2.4. Referrals involving Catholic clerics, religious institutes, ecclesiastical offices, canonical property, sacred institutions, or canonical offenses may be directed to competent ecclesiastical authorities.

A2.5. A single dossier may be transmitted to several authorities where each possesses a distinct and legally relevant competence.

Article A3 — International Crimes and Peremptory Norms

A3.1. Xaragua recognizes the exceptional gravity of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture, slavery, enforced disappearance, and other offenses prohibited by fundamental norms of international law.

A3.2. Classification of conduct under one of these categories requires examination of the legal elements applicable to the specific offense.

A3.3. Xaragua’s constitutional commitment to these norms authorizes preservation, denunciation, cooperation, institutional exclusion, and referral.

A3.4. This Instrument does not itself convert every listed offense into a crime subject to universal jurisdiction. External jurisdiction shall be determined under the law governing the receiving authority.

Article A4 — Continuing Legal Effect

A4.1. Repeal or amendment of this Instrument shall not automatically destroy evidence, dissolve completed files, reverse final internal measures, or prevent transmission of information concerning conduct occurring during its operation.

A4.2. Evidence lawfully preserved by the Office shall remain part of the constitutional and historical archives of Xaragua.

A4.3. The duty to protect the innocent, preserve truth, defend Indigenous communities, safeguard Catholic institutions, and oppose public corruption constitutes a permanent doctrine of the Xaraguayan State.

ISSUED, CONSOLIDATED, AND SEALED

By order of the Supreme Constitutional Authority

Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau

Prelate-Founder and Rector-President

Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua

Decreed at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua

On the Sixth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

For the protection of the innocent, the preservation of evidence, the defense of Indigenous and Catholic institutions, and the permanent termination of institutional impunity.

Let every public authority, tribunal, church, institution, and nation take notice.

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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME MARITIME AND PORT REVENUE ACT
IMPOSING A THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT LEVY UPON REVENUES DERIVED BY THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT FROM MARITIME AND PORT OPERATIONS WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL CLAIMS OF XARAGUA
Date of Promulgation: August 8, 2025
LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
– Supreme Maritime Revenue Act
– Territorial-Use and Port Operations Levy
– Indigenous Resources and Infrastructure Reinvestment Statute
– Fiscal Assessment against the Residual Administrative Unit
PREAMBLE
Whereas ports, maritime routes, coastal infrastructure, territorial waters, islands, fisheries, and related commercial activities constitute essential components of the territorial and economic interests of Xaragua;
Whereas the public apparatus operating under the institutional designation of the Republic of Haiti, hereinafter the “Residual Administrative Unit” or “RAU,” collects revenue from maritime and port activities affecting territories, communities, resources, infrastructure, and commercial traffic claimed or protected by Xaragua;
Whereas the operation of an external administrative system within a Xaraguayan territorial claim does not extinguish Xaragua’s constitutional authority to record, assess, and claim its share of the resulting public revenue;
Whereas public revenues derived from Xaraguayan territories and resources must serve their inhabitants, infrastructure, institutions, Indigenous communities, and Catholic public mission;
Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority imposes the following levy.
TITLE I — IMPOSITION OF THE LEVY
Article 1 — Taxable Persons and Authorities
1.1. The following are subject to this Act to the extent that they collect or administer taxable maritime revenue connected with Xaraguayan territorial claims:
a) The RAU;
b) The Autorité Portuaire Nationale and any successor body;
c) Public and parastatal port authorities;
d) Port concessionaires, terminal operators, customs contractors, and delegated collecting agents;
e) Any entity collecting maritime revenue on behalf of an RAU institution.
1.2. Private commercial operators shall not be required to pay the same levy twice where the relevant revenue has already been included in an assessment against the collecting authority.
Article 2 — Taxable Revenue
2.1. Taxable maritime revenue includes gross amounts received from:
a) Port dues and vessel charges;
b) Berthage, pilotage, towage, wharfage, and anchorage;
c) Container, cargo, bulk, liquid-bulk, and roll-on/roll-off operations;
d) Loading, unloading, handling, inspection, storage, and demurrage;
e) Passenger, ferry, cruise, fishing, and marina operations;
f) Customs-related maritime charges and port-service fees;
g) Terminal leases, concessions, operating rights, licenses, and subcontracts;
h) Maritime-resource exploitation and commercial use of coastal infrastructure;
i) Any comparable revenue derived from port, coastal, island, or maritime activity within the scope of this Act.
2.2. Taxes collected for a clearly identified third party and fully remitted to that party may be excluded upon documentary proof.
Article 3 — Rate
3.1. A levy of thirty-five percent of taxable gross maritime revenue is hereby imposed.
3.2. The levy accrues when the taxable revenue is received, credited, retained, offset, transferred, or otherwise placed under the control of the taxable person.
3.3. Amounts collected in foreign currency shall be converted according to the official accounting rate designated by the Xaraguayan Treasury for the applicable reporting period.
TITLE II — REPORTING AND ASSESSMENT
Article 4 — Quarterly Declaration
4.1. Every taxable authority or operator shall provide a quarterly declaration stating:
a) Vessel calls;
b) Cargo and container volume;
c) Passenger and ferry traffic;
d) Revenue by port, terminal, service, and category;
e) Concession and lease payments;
f) Exemptions, deductions, refunds, and transfers;
g) Amount payable to Xaragua.
4.2. Supporting ledgers, contracts, invoices, bank records, cargo manifests, concession documents, and audited financial statements shall be retained for at least ten years.
Article 5 — Estimated Assessment
5.1. Where complete records are withheld, unavailable, unreliable, or materially inconsistent, the Xaraguayan Treasury may issue an estimated assessment.
5.2. An estimated assessment may rely upon:
a) Published financial statements;
b) Customs and trade data;
c) Vessel and cargo records;
d) Concession agreements;
e) Comparable port charges;
f) Satellite, maritime, insurance, banking, or commercial information;
g) Any other reasonably reliable evidence.
5.3. Estimates shall be periodically adjusted when verified information becomes available.
5.4. Previous numerical projections shall be treated as provisional assessments and not as final audited revenue figures.
Article 6 — Audit Authority
6.1. The Xaraguayan Treasury may audit taxable maritime activity directly or through an appointed commission, auditor, university institute, accounting firm, or technical partner.
6.2. Obstruction, concealment, destruction of records, false reporting, or diversion of taxable revenue may result in an adverse assessment and additional penalties.
TITLE III — ALLOCATION OF REVENUE
Article 7 — Xaraguayan Treasury Allocation
7.1. Seventy-five percent of all amounts collected under this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of Xaragua.
7.2. These funds shall be used for:
a) Port and coastal infrastructure;
b) Maritime safety and environmental protection;
c) Public transportation, roads, ferries, and communications;
d) Universities, schools, archives, and cultural institutions;
e) Health, social, agricultural, and community services;
f) Indigenous territorial protection and development;
g) Institutional administration and public security;
h) Direct community investment authorized by the Rectorate-Presidency.
Article 8 — Catholic Works Allocation
8.1. Twenty-five percent of all amounts collected under this Act shall be placed in the Xaraguayan Catholic Works Fund.
8.2. The Fund shall support Catholic educational, charitable, medical, cultural, humanitarian, pastoral, architectural, and historical works benefiting Xaraguayan communities.
8.3. Funds may be transferred to the Holy See, dioceses, parishes, religious institutes, Catholic charities, or approved Catholic institutions pursuant to an accepted grant, agreement, designation, or institutional arrangement.
8.4. No external ecclesiastical authority shall incur financial responsibility merely because Xaragua has designated funds for Catholic purposes.
TITLE IV — DEBT AND ENFORCEMENT
Article 9 — Public Debt to Xaragua
9.1. Any unpaid levy constitutes a recorded public debt owed to Xaragua.
9.2. The Treasury shall maintain a Maritime Revenue Ledger specifying:
a) The assessed person or authority;
b) The relevant port or operation;
c) The taxable period;
d) The assessed revenue;
e) The levy, penalties, payments, credits, and outstanding balance.
9.3. Unpaid amounts shall carry the interest and penalties established by Treasury regulation.
Article 10 — Enforcement Measures
10.1. Xaragua may enforce this Act within its constitutional and institutional competence through:
a) Administrative assessments;
b) Offsets against amounts, concessions, benefits, or claims recognized by Xaragua;
c) Exclusion from Xaraguayan contracts, licenses, programs, and partnerships;
d) Liens or protective claims against assets subject to Xaraguayan control;
e) Publication of certified debt statements;
f) Negotiated payment, direct infrastructure investment, or verified in-kind performance;
g) Legal submissions to competent financial, judicial, arbitral, Indigenous, national, or international bodies.
10.2. Payment through public infrastructure or direct services may be credited only after valuation and written approval by the Xaraguayan Treasury.
Article 11 — No Transfer of Sovereignty
11.1. RAU management of a port, customs facility, maritime service, or concession shall not, within Xaraguayan law, determine sovereignty over the underlying territory, coast, infrastructure, or resource.
11.2. Administrative operation and territorial sovereignty remain legally distinct.
11.3. Payment of the levy constitutes compliance with a Xaraguayan fiscal assessment and shall not confer additional jurisdiction upon the payer.
TITLE V — FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 12 — Legal Foundations
12.1. This Act shall be interpreted consistently with Xaragua’s constitutional doctrine concerning Indigenous self-government, territorial custodianship, natural resources, public revenue, and institutional continuity.
12.2. Relevant international principles include those expressed in Articles 3, 4, 25, 26, and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
12.3. Maritime claims shall be administered according to Xaraguayan constitutional law and developed with reference to applicable international maritime principles.
Article 13 — Authority and Amendment
13.1. The Rector-President possesses final authority to interpret and implement this Act.
13.2. The Rector-President may issue tax schedules, territorial schedules, audit standards, payment protocols, exemptions, settlement agreements, and enforcement regulations.
13.3. This Act may be amended only by Supreme Constitutional or Legislative Instrument.
ISSUED AND SEALED
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
On the Eighth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five
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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SUPREME ACT ON THE EXTERNAL NOTIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF XARAGUAYAN INSTITUTIONAL ACTS
Date of Promulgation: August 8, 2025
Article 1 — Xaraguayan Institutional Personality
1.1. Xaragua constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order possessing its own institutions, laws, offices, registries, educational bodies, communities, and legal acts.
1.2. The Catholic Order of Xaragua operates as a private Catholic association governed internally by its statutes and by Xaraguayan law.
1.3. Xaragua does not claim the status of a public juridic person of the Roman Catholic Church unless such status is expressly granted by competent ecclesiastical authority.
1.4. Xaraguayan constitutional and institutional acts are binding within Xaragua according to their terms.
Article 2 — External Recognition
2.1. Xaragua may request recognition or legal effect for its institutional acts in another jurisdiction.
2.2. Such acts may include:
a) Civil and institutional records;
b) Membership and citizenship determinations;
c) Academic certificates, diplomas, titles, and transcripts;
d) Contracts, corporate instruments, appointments, and powers of representation;
e) Customary, territorial, genealogical, and community records;
f) Decisions concerning the Catholic Order of Xaragua;
g) Property, charitable, cultural, and educational acts.
2.3. External effect shall be determined according to the treaty obligations, domestic law, private international law, administrative procedure, and institutional rules applicable in the receiving jurisdiction.
2.4. The absence of external recognition shall not invalidate the act within Xaragua.
Article 3 — Concordatarian and Ecclesiastical Channels
3.1. Where a Xaraguayan act concerns Catholic institutional life, Xaragua may submit it to the competent diocese, ecclesiastical authority, tribunal, dicastery, religious institute, or Catholic organization.
3.2. Concordats and agreements between the Holy See and States may be invoked where their provisions protect Catholic institutions, religious freedom, ecclesiastical property, education, legal personality, or canonical acts relevant to the matter submitted.
3.3. Each concordat shall be applied according to its own text, parties, scope, and domestic implementation.
3.4. No State shall be deemed automatically bound by a Xaraguayan act solely because it has concluded an agreement with the Holy See.
3.5. Xaragua may nevertheless rely upon applicable concordatarian protections and request recognition through the procedures available in that State.
Article 4 — Canonical Matters
4.1. Sacramental, diocesan, clerical, and canonical judicial matters remain subject to the competent authorities of the Roman Catholic Church.
4.2. Xaragua retains authority over its own:
a) Constitution and civil administration;
b) Catholic private order;
c) Membership, honors, offices, and internal discipline;
d) University and academic institutions;
e) Property, contracts, archives, cultural activities, and charitable works.
4.3. Xaragua may transmit potential canonical matters to the competent ecclesiastical authority without surrendering jurisdiction over its own institutional consequences.
Article 5 — International and National Submissions
5.1. Xaragua may present its acts, records, claims, and evidence to:
a) National courts and administrative authorities;
b) International and regional bodies;
c) Ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals;
d) Universities and professional institutions;
e) Arbitration and mediation bodies;
f) Indigenous organizations and customary institutions;
g) Private entities possessing authority to recognize or rely upon the act.
5.2. The Xaraguayan authority issuing an act shall certify its authenticity, date, legal basis, status, and institutional purpose.
5.3. Translation, legalization, authentication, expert opinion, or supporting documentation may be supplied when required by the receiving jurisdiction.
Article 6 — Record of Notice
6.1. The Supreme Constitutional Authority shall maintain a register of:
a) Acts transmitted;
b) Recipients and dates of transmission;
c) Acknowledgments and responses;
d) Requests for additional information;
e) Acts of cooperation, recognition, acceptance, reliance, or refusal.
6.2. Silence shall be recorded as the absence of an expressed response. It shall not be required for the internal validity of a Xaraguayan act.
6.3. An express acknowledgment, acceptance, representation, or course of institutional dealing may be invoked according to its legal character.
Article 7 — Final Authority
7.1. This Act constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
7.2. The Rector-President possesses final authority to interpret and execute it.
7.3. The Rector-President may establish authentication standards, registers, diplomatic protocols, ecclesiastical submissions, academic-recognition procedures, and model instruments for external use.
ISSUED AND SEALED
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
On the Eighth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five
Official Institutional Portal:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT

SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT

ON THE DIRECT INCORPORATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPLES PROTECTING INDIGENOUS SELF-GOVERNMENT, CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM, TERRITORIAL CUSTODIANSHIP, AND EDUCATIONAL AUTONOMY

Date of Promulgation: August 9, 2025

LEGAL CLASSIFICATION

– Supreme Canonico-Indigenous Legislative Act

– International Principles Incorporation Statute

– Indigenous Self-Government and Catholic Institutional Freedom Act

– Constitutional Enforcement Instrument

PREAMBLE

Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order;

Whereas Xaragua possesses the inherent authority to determine its institutions, membership, internal government, cultural development, educational system, customary law, and relationship with its ancestral territories and resources;

Whereas international instruments concerning self-determination, freedom of religion, freedom of association, cultural participation, Indigenous institutions, education, land, and community life express principles compatible with the constitutional doctrine of Xaragua;

Whereas the Catholic identity of Xaragua is exercised through its Constitution, Catholic private order, academic institutions, public culture, and cooperation with competent ecclesiastical authorities, without claiming diocesan or sacramental powers reserved by canon law;

Whereas Xaragua may incorporate international principles into its own constitutional order and make them directly enforceable by its institutions without awaiting an additional act of the Residual Administrative Unit;

Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority promulgates the following Instrument as binding Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

TITLE I — CONSTITUTIONAL INCORPORATION

Article 1 — Purpose and Legal Effect

1.1. This Instrument incorporates into Xaraguayan law the international principles identified herein concerning:

a) Self-determination and self-government;

b) Indigenous institutions and customary law;

c) Ancestral territories, lands, and resources;

d) Freedom of religion and association;

e) Catholic institutional life;

f) Cultural preservation and development;

g) Educational and academic autonomy;

h) Protection against forced assimilation and discrimination.

1.2. These principles shall be directly applied by Xaraguayan constitutional, administrative, academic, customary, territorial, and institutional authorities.

1.3. No additional legislation or authorization from an external administration shall be required for their internal application.

1.4. Their external application shall proceed according to the jurisdiction and procedures of the competent international, regional, ecclesiastical, or national authority.

Article 2 — Constitutional Interpretation

2.1. The incorporated principles shall be interpreted in a manner that advances the institutional continuity, territorial integrity, Catholic identity, Indigenous character, academic independence, and constitutional autonomy of Xaragua.

2.2. Where more than one interpretation is possible, preference shall be given within Xaraguayan law to the interpretation that most effectively protects:

a) Indigenous self-government;

b) Ancestral and customary custodianship;

c) Catholic religious freedom;

d) Xaraguayan institutions and communities;

e) The independent development of Xaragua University;

f) The authority of the Supreme Constitution.

2.3. No external administrative act shall automatically suspend a right incorporated by this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

TITLE II — SELF-DETERMINATION AND INDIGENOUS GOVERNMENT

Article 3 — Right of Self-Determination

3.1. Xaragua incorporates the principle stated in common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:

“All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

3.2. Within Xaraguayan law, this principle affirms the right of the Xaraguayan people to:

a) Determine their constitutional identity;

b) Establish and maintain their government;

c) Organize their economic, social, religious, cultural, and academic development;

d) Define their institutional relationship with external administrative authorities;

e) Preserve their Indigenous and Catholic civilizational continuity.

Article 4 — Indigenous Autonomy and Institutions

4.1. Xaragua incorporates Articles 3, 4, 5, 33, and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as guiding constitutional principles.

4.2. These principles affirm the right of Indigenous peoples to:

a) Self-determination;

b) Autonomy and self-government in internal and local affairs;

c) Maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social, cultural, and educational institutions;

d) Determine their own identity and membership;

e) Promote and develop their institutional structures and customary legal systems.

4.3. Accordingly, Xaragua possesses exclusive internal authority to determine:

a) Xaraguayan citizenship, membership, affiliation, and protected status;

b) The structure of its Rectorate, Order, University, tribunals, registries, communities, and territorial authorities;

c) Its ceremonial, customary, academic, economic, and constitutional institutions;

d) The admission, recognition, organization, and discipline of its autonomous communities.

Article 5 — Protection against Forced Assimilation

5.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles of Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

5.2. No person, institution, government, corporation, religious organization, or administrative authority may lawfully use its power within the Xaraguayan constitutional order to:

a) Destroy Xaraguayan identity or institutional continuity;

b) Impose forced assimilation;

c) dispossess recognized communities of their territories or cultural property;

d) suppress Indigenous names, symbols, histories, ceremonies, languages, or institutions;

e) undermine the constitutional transmission of Xaraguayan identity to future generations.

5.3. Xaragua may adopt educational, territorial, cultural, documentary, administrative, and institutional measures to prevent and remedy such conduct.

TITLE III — TERRITORIES, LANDS, AND RESOURCES

Article 6 — Ancestral Territorial Custodianship

6.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles expressed in Articles 25, 26, 27, and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

6.2. Xaragua recognizes the continuing spiritual, cultural, historical, familial, economic, and constitutional relationship of its communities with their lands, waters, coasts, islands, mountains, forests, sacred places, burial grounds, agricultural domains, and natural resources.

6.3. Xaragua may:

a) Establish a constitutional territorial atlas;

b) Register Indigenous communities and hereditary lineages;

c) Document customary occupation and use;

d) Recognize communal, familial, private, and institutional domains;

e) Regulate Xaraguayan consent concerning projects affecting recognized territories or resources;

f) Preserve sacred, ecological, agricultural, maritime, archaeological, and historical sites;

g) Seek restitution, consultation, compensation, restoration, or other remedies through competent forums.

6.4. External administrative registration shall not, by itself, extinguish a customary, hereditary, communal, or constitutional interest recognized by Xaragua.

TITLE IV — CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Article 7 — Freedom of Religion

7.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles of:

a) Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

b) Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

c) Article 12 of the American Convention on Human Rights.

7.2. These principles protect the freedom, individually and collectively, publicly and privately, to profess, teach, practice, manifest, and observe religion.

7.3. Within the Xaraguayan constitutional order, they protect:

a) The Catholic identity of Xaragua;

b) Public Catholic worship and instruction;

c) Catholic associations, schools, institutes, charitable works, ceremonies, and cultural institutions;

d) Communication between Catholic faithful and competent ecclesiastical authorities;

e) The right of Catholic families to transmit their faith;

f) The right of the Catholic Order of Xaragua to maintain its private statutes, membership, offices, formation, ceremonies, insignia, and institutions.

7.4. Sacramental jurisdiction, parochial government, clerical appointments, and canonical penalties remain within the competence assigned by canon law to the relevant ecclesiastical authorities.

7.5. Xaragua retains exclusive authority over its Constitution, civil institutions, University, Catholic private order, public culture, property, membership, and administrative organization.

Article 8 — Freedom of Association

8.1. Xaragua incorporates the principle of freedom of peaceful association expressed in Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

8.2. This freedom protects the formation and operation of Xaraguayan:

a) Political and constitutional assemblies;

b) Indigenous communities and councils;

c) Catholic private associations;

d) Academic, charitable, cultural, economic, professional, and proprietary institutions;

e) Diaspora chapters and international representations.

8.3. Xaraguayan institutions may establish their own statutes, membership rules, internal offices, admission requirements, disciplinary procedures, and forms of representation.

TITLE V — EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY

Article 9 — Xaragua University

9.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles protecting education, cultural participation, religious instruction, scientific development, and institutional freedom expressed in:

a) Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

b) Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

c) Article 5 of the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education;

d) Articles 14 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

9.2. Xaragua University constitutes the principal academic, constitutional, doctrinal, archival, and civilizational institution of Xaragua.

9.3. The University possesses authority under Xaraguayan law to determine:

a) Its curriculum and academic doctrine;

b) Its programs, institutes, faculties, and schools;

c) Its admission and graduation requirements;

d) Its appointments and institutional offices;

e) Its academic titles, certificates, diplomas, honors, and internal qualifications;

f) Its language, symbols, archives, publications, methods, and disciplinary standards;

g) Its international academic partnerships.

9.4. No authorization from the RAU shall be required for the University’s existence, internal governance, doctrine, teaching, cultural production, or institutional operations within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

9.5. External recognition, accreditation, equivalency, licensing, or professional effect shall be governed separately according to the requirements of the receiving institution or jurisdiction.

Article 10 — Catholic and Indigenous Education

10.1. Xaragua may establish and maintain Catholic, Indigenous, customary, cultural, theological, professional, scientific, technical, and university education.

10.2. Parents and communities may choose education consistent with their religious, moral, cultural, linguistic, and Indigenous convictions.

10.3. Xaraguayan education may transmit:

a) Catholic moral and intellectual traditions;

b) Indigenous history, identity, customary law, and territorial memory;

c) Xaraguayan constitutional doctrine;

d) Academic, scientific, artistic, economic, and professional knowledge;

e) The institutional history and public mission of Xaragua.

10.4. Seminaries and institutions formally preparing candidates for Catholic ordination shall remain subject to the applicable authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

TITLE VI — CONCORDATARIAN AND CANONICAL CONTINUITY

Article 11 — Historical Concordat

11.1. Xaragua recognizes the Concordat of March 28, 1860, as subsequently revised, as a historical legal framework demonstrating the enduring institutional position of the Catholic Church within the territory historically administered as Haiti.

11.2. The Concordat shall inform Xaragua’s internal doctrine concerning:

a) Protection of Catholic worship;

b) Freedom of ecclesiastical communication;

c) Institutional cooperation with Catholic authorities;

d) Catholic education and charitable activity;

e) Respect for ecclesiastical property;

f) The distinct competence of civil and ecclesiastical authorities.

11.3. Xaragua does not claim, by unilateral legislation, to transfer to itself the treaty position of the Holy See or the ecclesiastical powers of a diocese.

11.4. Xaragua incorporates Concordatarian principles into its own law as constitutional commitments binding upon Xaraguayan institutions.

Article 12 — Ecclesiastical Property and Institutions

12.1. Catholic churches, chapels, schools, archives, cemeteries, charitable institutions, sacred objects, and lawfully held ecclesiastical properties shall receive protection within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

12.2. No property shall acquire ecclesiastical status merely through unilateral designation by a private person.

12.3. Property belonging to the Catholic Order of Xaragua or Xaragua University shall be governed by Xaraguayan constitutional, private, institutional, and proprietary law.

12.4. Property belonging to a diocese, parish, religious institute, or another Catholic juridical person shall remain subject to its lawful ecclesiastical ownership and applicable law.

12.5. Xaragua may provide exemptions, protections, grants, facilities, or assistance to Catholic institutions through a separate legislative or contractual instrument.

TITLE VII — DIRECT INTERNAL EFFECT

Article 13 — Self-Executing Application

13.1. The principles incorporated by this Instrument are immediately enforceable within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

13.2. Xaraguayan authorities may rely upon them to:

a) Interpret the Constitution and legislation;

b) Recognize institutions, communities, lineages, and territories;

c) Protect religious and cultural activity;

d) regulate Xaraguayan education and property;

e) Adopt protective, administrative, territorial, or institutional measures;

f) prepare external petitions, notifications, claims, and legal submissions.

13.3. No separate act of the RAU shall be necessary for their operation as internal Xaraguayan law.

Article 14 — Relationship with External Treaty Obligations

14.1. Treaties binding upon an external State shall continue to bind that State according to international law and the terms of the treaty.

14.2. Xaragua may invoke the rights of its people, communities, members, institutions, or protected persons through the procedures made available by applicable international and regional instruments.

14.3. Pacta sunt servanda requires treaty parties to perform their obligations in good faith.

14.4. Xaragua’s incorporation of treaty principles creates binding internal law within Xaragua. It does not require Xaragua to claim formal succession to every treaty obligation of the former Republic of Haiti.

14.5. This distinction shall not prevent Xaragua from asserting continuity, Indigenous rights, institutional interests, territorial claims, or protection under applicable international law.

Article 15 — Notifications and Institutional Record

15.1. Public promulgations, diplomatic correspondence, ecclesiastical communications, institutional notices, and international submissions shall be preserved as evidence of Xaragua’s continuous and open exercise of constitutional authority.

15.2. Silence by a notified authority shall be recorded as absence of an expressed objection at the relevant date.

15.3. No foreign silence shall be required for the validity of this Instrument within Xaragua.

15.4. Any express acknowledgment, cooperation, reliance, acceptance, representation, or institutional dealing concerning Xaragua may be preserved and invoked according to its legal character.

TITLE VIII — ENFORCEMENT

Article 16 — Constitutional Remedies

16.1. A violation of a right incorporated by this Instrument may result within Xaragua in:

a) A declaration of incompatibility or nullity;

b) Administrative correction;

c) Institutional protection or restoration;

d) Recognition of a community, lineage, institution, or territorial interest;

e) Exclusion from Xaraguayan office, contract, program, property, or institution;

f) Restitution, compensation, or another remedy available under Xaraguayan law;

g) Documentation and referral to a competent external authority.

16.2. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may establish tribunals, commissions, registries, administrative offices, and procedures for enforcement.

Article 17 — External Proceedings

17.1. Xaragua may submit evidence, petitions, communications, legal arguments, and requests for protection to competent:

a) United Nations mechanisms;

b) Inter-American human-rights bodies;

c) Ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals;

d) National courts and administrative authorities;

e) Academic, professional, arbitral, or institutional bodies possessing jurisdiction.

17.2. Each receiving authority shall determine its jurisdiction and procedure.

17.3. Xaragua shall maintain the legal, diplomatic, academic, documentary, and institutional capacity necessary to present and preserve its claims.

TITLE IX — FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 18 — Constitutional Supremacy

18.1. This Instrument possesses supreme legislative force within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

18.2. All Xaraguayan institutions shall interpret subordinate laws consistently with the rights and principles incorporated herein.

18.3. An external administrative act shall have effect within Xaragua only to the extent accepted, recognized, tolerated, incorporated, or operationally used by the competent Xaraguayan authority.

Article 19 — Entrenchment

19.1. The following principles constitute permanent foundations of Xaragua:

a) Indigenous self-determination;

b) Constitutional self-government;

c) Protection of ancestral territories and customary institutions;

d) Catholic civilizational identity;

e) Freedom of religion and association;

f) Educational and academic autonomy;

g) Preservation of Xaraguayan culture and institutional continuity.

19.2. No subordinate authority may surrender, alienate, or extinguish these principles.

19.3. Amendment or authoritative interpretation may occur only by Supreme Constitutional Act.

Article 20 — Harmonization

20.1. Previous Xaraguayan instruments concerning treaty incorporation, Indigenous rights, Catholic governance, educational autonomy, ecclesiastical property, or Concordatarian continuity shall be interpreted consistently with this Instrument.

20.2. Any inconsistent prior provision is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.

20.3. Rights, institutions, territorial classifications, and constitutional acts previously established shall remain in force unless expressly revoked.

Article 21 — Final Authority

21.1. The Rector-President, acting through the Supreme Constitutional Authority, possesses final authority to interpret and implement this Instrument within Xaragua.

21.2. The Rector-President may issue regulations, declarations, registries, territorial schedules, educational statutes, institutional charters, legal submissions, and supplementary annexes necessary for its execution.

ISSUED AND SEALED

By order of the Supreme Constitutional Authority

Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau

Prelate-Founder and Rector-President

Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua

Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua

On the Ninth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

Official Institutional Portal:

www.xaraguauniversity.com

© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT
ON THE DIRECT INCORPORATION OF INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPLES PROTECTING INDIGENOUS SELF-GOVERNMENT, CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM, TERRITORIAL CUSTODIANSHIP, AND EDUCATIONAL AUTONOMY
Date of Promulgation: August 9, 2025
LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
– Supreme Canonico-Indigenous Legislative Act
– International Principles Incorporation Statute
– Indigenous Self-Government and Catholic Institutional Freedom Act
– Constitutional Implementation Instrument
PREAMBLE
Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order;
Whereas Xaragua possesses the inherent authority to determine its political organization, institutions, membership, customary law, educational system, cultural development, and relationship with its ancestral territories and resources;
Whereas international instruments concerning self-determination, Indigenous institutions, freedom of religion, freedom of association, education, culture, land, and community life express principles incorporated into the constitutional doctrine of Xaragua;
Whereas the Catholic character of Xaragua is exercised through its Constitution, private Catholic Order, University, public culture, charitable institutions, and cooperation with competent authorities of the Roman Catholic Church;
Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority promulgates this Instrument as binding Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
TITLE I — DIRECT INCORPORATION
Article 1 — Constitutional Effect
1.1. The international principles identified in this Instrument are hereby incorporated into Xaraguayan law.
1.2. They shall be directly applied by the constitutional, administrative, academic, customary, territorial, and institutional authorities of Xaragua without any additional legislative act.
1.3. Their internal application shall not require authorization, recognition, ratification, or implementation by the Residual Administrative Unit or another external authority.
1.4. Their application before an external institution shall proceed according to the jurisdiction and procedures governing that institution.
Article 2 — Governing Interpretation
2.1. The incorporated principles shall be interpreted in favor of:
a) Xaraguayan self-government;
b) Indigenous institutional continuity;
c) Protection of ancestral territories and resources;
d) Catholic institutional freedom;
e) Cultural and academic autonomy;
f) The preservation and development of Xaragua.
2.2. No external administrative act shall automatically suspend or extinguish a right protected by this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
TITLE II — SELF-DETERMINATION AND INDIGENOUS INSTITUTIONS
Article 3 — Self-Determination
3.1. Xaragua incorporates the principle stated in common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
“All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
3.2. Within Xaraguayan law, this principle affirms the right of the Xaraguayan people to:
a) Determine their constitutional identity and political organization;
b) Establish and maintain their government;
c) Develop their own economic, social, religious, cultural, and educational institutions;
d) Define their relationship with external administrative authorities;
e) Preserve their Indigenous and Catholic civilizational continuity.
Article 4 — Indigenous Autonomy
4.1. Xaragua incorporates Articles 3, 4, 5, 33, and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
4.2. These principles protect the right of Xaragua to:
a) Exercise autonomy and self-government in its internal and local affairs;
b) Maintain its distinct political, legal, economic, social, cultural, and educational institutions;
c) Determine its identity and membership;
d) Develop its customary legal and administrative systems;
e) Establish autonomous and associated communities.
4.3. The Supreme Constitutional Authority possesses exclusive internal competence to determine Xaraguayan citizenship, membership, institutions, offices, communities, registries, titles, and constitutional status.
Article 5 — Protection against Assimilation
5.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles of Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
5.2. No authority operating within the Xaraguayan constitutional order may lawfully:
a) Impose forced assimilation;
b) Destroy Xaraguayan institutional continuity;
c) Suppress Xaraguayan names, symbols, histories, ceremonies, or institutions;
d) Dispossess recognized communities of their cultural property or ancestral domains;
e) Prevent the transmission of Xaraguayan identity to future generations.
TITLE III — TERRITORIES AND RESOURCES
Article 6 — Indigenous Territorial Custodianship
6.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles expressed in Articles 25, 26, 27, and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
6.2. Xaragua recognizes the continuing spiritual, historical, familial, cultural, economic, and constitutional relationship of its communities with their lands, waters, islands, coasts, mountains, forests, sacred places, burial grounds, agricultural domains, and natural resources.
6.3. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may:
a) Recognize Indigenous communities and hereditary lineages;
b) Register customary, communal, familial, institutional, and private domains;
c) Establish a constitutional territorial atlas;
d) Document traditional occupation, ownership, possession, and use;
e) Regulate Xaraguayan consent concerning projects affecting recognized territories and resources;
f) Seek restitution, restoration, compensation, consultation, or other remedies through competent forums.
6.4. External administrative registration shall not, by itself, extinguish an ancestral, customary, communal, hereditary, or constitutional interest recognized by Xaragua.
TITLE IV — CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND INSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM
Article 7 — Freedom of Religion
7.1. Xaragua incorporates:
a) Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
b) Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
c) Article 12 of the American Convention on Human Rights.
7.2. These principles protect the freedom to profess, teach, practice, manifest, and observe religion individually and collectively, publicly and privately.
7.3. Within Xaragua, they protect:
a) The Catholic constitutional identity of the State;
b) Public Catholic worship and instruction;
c) Catholic associations, schools, charities, institutes, ceremonies, and cultural institutions;
d) Communication between the Catholic faithful and competent ecclesiastical authorities;
e) The right of Catholic families to transmit their faith;
f) The internal freedom of the Catholic Order of Xaragua.
7.4. Sacramental jurisdiction, parochial government, clerical appointments, and canonical penalties remain within the competence assigned by canon law to the relevant authorities of the Roman Catholic Church.
7.5. Xaragua retains exclusive authority over its Constitution, civil institutions, Catholic private Order, University, public culture, property, membership, and administration.
Article 8 — Freedom of Association
8.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles of freedom of peaceful association expressed in Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
8.2. These principles protect Xaraguayan:
a) Constitutional assemblies;
b) Indigenous communities and councils;
c) Catholic private associations;
d) Academic, charitable, cultural, economic, and professional institutions;
e) Diaspora chapters and external representations.
8.3. Xaraguayan institutions may determine their own statutes, membership requirements, offices, ceremonies, admission procedures, discipline, and representation.
TITLE V — EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY
Article 9 — Xaragua University
9.1. Xaragua incorporates the principles expressed in:
a) Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
b) Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
c) Article 5 of the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education;
d) Articles 14 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
9.2. Xaragua University constitutes the principal academic, doctrinal, archival, cultural, and civilizational institution of the State.
9.3. Under Xaraguayan law, the University possesses authority over:
a) Its curriculum and academic doctrine;
b) Its faculties, institutes, schools, and programs;
c) Admission and graduation requirements;
d) Faculty and institutional appointments;
e) Academic titles, certificates, diplomas, and honors;
f) Archives, publications, symbols, languages, and disciplinary standards;
g) International academic partnerships.
9.4. No authorization from the RAU shall be required for the University’s existence, internal government, teaching, doctrine, cultural production, or institutional operation within Xaragua.
9.5. External accreditation, professional licensing, equivalency, or recognition shall be determined separately by the receiving jurisdiction or institution.
TITLE VI — CONCORDATARIAN CONTINUITY
Article 10 — Historical Catholic Framework
10.1. Xaragua recognizes the Concordat of March 28, 1860, as subsequently revised, as a historical legal framework demonstrating the enduring institutional presence of the Catholic Church within the territory historically administered as Haiti.
10.2. Concordatarian principles shall inform Xaraguayan law concerning:
a) Protection of Catholic worship;
b) Freedom of ecclesiastical communication;
c) Catholic education and charitable activity;
d) Respect for ecclesiastical property;
e) Cooperation between civil and ecclesiastical authorities.
10.3. Xaragua incorporates these principles as constitutional commitments binding upon its own institutions.
10.4. Such incorporation shall not be interpreted as an assumption of diocesan, episcopal, parochial, or sacramental authority.
Article 11 — Catholic Property and Institutions
11.1. Churches, chapels, schools, archives, cemeteries, sacred objects, charities, and lawfully constituted Catholic institutions shall receive protection within Xaragua.
11.2. Property belonging to the Catholic Order of Xaragua or Xaragua University shall be governed by Xaraguayan constitutional, institutional, and proprietary law.
11.3. Property belonging to a diocese, parish, religious institute, or another Catholic juridical person shall remain subject to its lawful ownership and applicable ecclesiastical and civil rules.
11.4. Xaragua may provide grants, exemptions, facilities, protections, and institutional assistance to Catholic works through separate legislation or agreement.
TITLE VII — ENFORCEMENT
Article 12 — Internal Remedies
12.1. Xaraguayan institutions may enforce this Instrument through:
a) Constitutional interpretation;
b) Administrative orders;
c) Recognition of communities, institutions, lineages, and territorial interests;
d) Protection or restoration of cultural and religious activity;
e) Property and institutional measures;
f) Exclusion from Xaraguayan offices, contracts, programs, or institutions;
g) Documentation and referral to competent external authorities.
12.2. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may establish tribunals, commissions, registries, and administrative procedures for implementation.
Article 13 — External Submissions
13.1. Xaragua may submit claims, petitions, communications, and supporting evidence to competent:
a) United Nations mechanisms;
b) Inter-American bodies;
c) Ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals;
d) National courts and administrative authorities;
e) Academic, professional, arbitral, and Indigenous institutions.
13.2. Each receiving authority shall determine its jurisdiction and procedure.
13.3. Public notifications and institutional correspondence shall be preserved as evidence of Xaragua’s continuous and open exercise of constitutional authority.
13.4. Foreign silence shall not be required for the internal validity of this Instrument.
TITLE VIII — FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 14 — Constitutional Supremacy
14.1. This Instrument constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
14.2. All subordinate laws and institutional acts shall be interpreted consistently with the rights incorporated herein.
14.3. An external administrative act shall have internal effect only to the extent accepted, incorporated, recognized, or operationally used by the competent Xaraguayan authority.
Article 15 — Entrenchment
15.1. The following constitute permanent foundations of Xaragua:
a) Indigenous self-determination;
b) Constitutional self-government;
c) Ancestral territorial custodianship;
d) Catholic civilizational identity;
e) Freedom of religion and association;
f) Educational and academic autonomy;
g) Cultural and institutional continuity.
15.2. No subordinate authority may surrender, alienate, or extinguish these foundations.
15.3. Amendment or authoritative interpretation may occur only by Supreme Constitutional Act.
Article 16 — Final Authority
16.1. The Rector-President possesses final authority to interpret and implement this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
16.2. The Rector-President may issue regulations, registries, territorial schedules, educational statutes, institutional charters, and supplementary instruments necessary for its execution.
ISSUED AND SEALED
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
On the Ninth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Official Institutional Portal:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT
ON THE SACRED LANDS OF XARAGUA, THEIR INDIGENOUS, PROPRIETARY, AND ECCLESIASTICAL PROTECTION, AND THE PRIMACY OF TERRITORIAL CUSTODIANSHIP
Date of Promulgation: August 10, 2025
LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
– Supreme Canonico-Indigenous Land Act
– Sacred Territory and Hereditary Custodianship Statute
– Ecclesiastical and Private Property Protection Instrument
– Constitutional Act on Territorial Continuity and Inalienability
PREAMBLE
Whereas the land of Xaragua constitutes the material, ancestral, spiritual, cultural, economic, and constitutional foundation of the Xaraguayan order;
Whereas Xaraguayan territorial continuity is preserved through Indigenous memory, hereditary lineages, customary occupation, private ownership, communal use, sacred attachment, Catholic institutions, and constitutional administration;
Whereas particular lands may possess Indigenous, private, ecclesiastical, institutional, communal, sacred, or mixed legal characteristics, each requiring accurate documentation and protection;
Whereas Indigenous territorial status, private ownership, and ecclesiastical ownership are legally distinct and may operate cumulatively where supported by title, custom, dedication, institutional status, or formal recognition;
Whereas the Catholic identity of Xaragua imposes a constitutional duty to protect churches, chapels, cemeteries, shrines, schools, charitable institutions, sacred objects, religious houses, and lands lawfully dedicated to Catholic purposes;
Whereas no external administrative classification can, by itself, extinguish the ancestral, customary, proprietary, communal, institutional, or spiritual relationship of Xaraguayan communities with their territories;
Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority promulgates the following Instrument as binding Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
TITLE I — CONSTITUTIONAL PRIMACY OF THE LAND
Article 1 — Foundational Status
1.1. The sacred and ancestral lands of Xaragua constitute the permanent territorial foundation of the State, the Catholic Order, Xaragua University, recognized lineages, and affiliated communities.
1.2. Land within the Xaraguayan constitutional order shall be administered according to:
a) Indigenous territorial continuity;
b) Hereditary and customary custodianship;
c) Legally established private ownership;
d) Communal and institutional use;
e) Catholic sacred or ecclesiastical status where lawfully established;
f) Environmental, agricultural, cultural, historical, and spiritual protection;
g) The supreme constitutional interest of Xaragua.
1.3. Political administration, demographic change, foreign documentation, absence of registration, or temporary loss of physical control shall not automatically extinguish a territorial interest recognized by Xaragua.
Article 2 — Primacy of Territorial Custodianship
2.1. Decisions concerning Xaraguayan land shall prioritize:
a) Preservation of the territory;
b) Rights of recognized owners and custodial lineages;
c) Continuity of Indigenous communities;
d) Protection of sacred and historical sites;
e) Catholic institutional purposes;
f) Long-term benefit to Xaragua and future generations.
2.2. Temporary administrative convenience, speculative profit, political pressure, demographic manipulation, or external institutional preference shall not override these principles.
2.3. No person or organization acquires territorial authority merely through residence, temporary occupation, administrative appointment, religious activity, commercial operation, or possession of documents issued by an external authority.
TITLE II — CLASSIFICATION OF PROTECTED LANDS
Article 3 — Indigenous Ancestral Lands
3.1. Indigenous Ancestral Lands are territories recognized by Xaragua through historical continuity, customary use, communal memory, lineage, spiritual attachment, occupation, agriculture, burial, stewardship, or another established connection.
3.2. Such lands may include:
a) Communal territories;
b) Familial and hereditary domains;
c) Sacred mountains, forests, rivers, springs, caves, bays, islands, and coastal areas;
d) Burial grounds and archaeological sites;
e) Traditional agricultural, fishing, hunting, and gathering areas;
f) Territories historically connected with Xaraguayan communities.
3.3. Indigenous status may coexist with individual, familial, institutional, or communal ownership.
3.4. External cadastral registration shall constitute evidence of an interest but shall not be the exclusive means of proving Indigenous territorial continuity.
Article 4 — Private and Hereditary Domains
4.1. Private and Hereditary Domains are lands lawfully owned, inherited, possessed, or customarily held by recognized persons, families, lineages, institutions, trusts, foundations, or associations.
4.2. Their owners or custodians possess the rights of use, enjoyment, administration, transmission, exclusion, development, lease, and receipt of lawful revenues, subject to:
a) Xaraguayan constitutional law;
b) Registered restrictions or dedications;
c) Indigenous community rights;
d) Sacred-site protections;
e) Environmental and territorial regulations;
f) Valid rights of other recognized parties.
4.3. A hereditary domain shall not be alienated through fraud, forged documentation, administrative manipulation, coercion, unauthorized succession, or the unilateral act of a person lacking full title.
Article 5 — Ecclesiastical Property
5.1. Ecclesiastical Property consists only of property lawfully owned by a public juridical person of the Roman Catholic Church and subject to the applicable requirements of canon law.
5.2. Ecclesiastical status shall be established through title, canonical documentation, competent ecclesiastical recognition, or another legally sufficient act.
5.3. Ecclesiastical property shall be administered and alienated according to canon law, the rights of the lawful owner, applicable civil requirements, and the protective law of Xaragua.
5.4. Where canon law requires authorization from a diocesan authority, competent superior, Holy See, or another ecclesiastical body, that authorization shall be obtained before Xaragua recognizes the proposed alienation within its order.
Article 6 — Xaraguayan Catholic Institutional Property
6.1. Property belonging to the Catholic Order of Xaragua, Xaragua University, or another Xaraguayan Catholic private institution shall be governed by:
a) Xaraguayan constitutional law;
b) The statutes of the owning institution;
c) The relevant title or dedication;
d) Applicable principles governing private Catholic associations.
6.2. Such property shall not be described as property of the universal Church, a diocese, or a parish unless lawful ownership by the relevant Catholic juridical person is established.
6.3. Property dedicated by Xaragua to Catholic worship, education, charity, burial, retreat, or institutional formation shall receive the sacred and institutional protection established by this Act.
Article 7 — Triple-Protected Lands
7.1. Land may be designated as Triple-Protected where it possesses all of the following:
a) A documented Indigenous or hereditary territorial connection;
b) A valid private, familial, communal, or institutional proprietary interest;
c) A lawful ecclesiastical status or formal Catholic sacred dedication.
7.2. Triple-Protected status shall not merge the three legal interests into a single owner.
7.3. Each owner, custodian, community, and ecclesiastical authority shall retain the rights and responsibilities arising from its own legal capacity.
7.4. No transfer, mortgage, concession, lease exceeding the period established by regulation, or substantial change of use shall be recognized without the approvals required under each applicable layer of protection.
TITLE III — SACRED-LANDS REGISTRY
Article 8 — Establishment of the Registry
8.1. There is hereby established the Supreme Registry of Sacred, Indigenous, Hereditary, and Ecclesiastical Lands of Xaragua.
8.2. The Registry shall record:
a) Geographic location and boundaries;
b) Current and historical names;
c) Owners, communities, lineages, custodians, and institutions;
d) Nature and source of title or customary interest;
e) Indigenous, private, communal, institutional, sacred, or ecclesiastical classifications;
f) Burial grounds, monuments, water systems, ecological zones, and sacred sites;
g) Restrictions upon alienation or development;
h) Existing disputes, occupations, concessions, liens, and external registrations;
i) Evidence supporting recognition.
8.3. The Registry may receive deeds, genealogies, maps, testimony, parish records, photographs, surveys, court documents, notarial instruments, oral histories, satellite records, archaeological evidence, and customary declarations.
8.4. Registration creates an authoritative presumption within Xaraguayan law but does not extinguish an earlier right merely because it has not yet been registered.
Article 9 — Constitutional Territorial Atlas
9.1. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may publish a Territorial Atlas identifying:
a) Ancestral Xaraguayan territories;
b) Recognized communities and domains;
c) Sacred and ecclesiastical sites;
d) Protected agricultural, coastal, maritime, ecological, and historical zones;
e) Territories requiring further documentation.
9.2. General territorial classification shall not replace the individualized determination of private ownership.
TITLE IV — INALIENABILITY AND AUTHORIZATION
Article 10 — Protected Alienation
10.1. No Protected Land may be sold, transferred, donated, mortgaged, leased, conceded, partitioned, encumbered, or permanently altered except through a written instrument approved according to this Act.
10.2. Authorization shall be required from:
a) The lawful owner or authorized representative;
b) The recognized lineage or community where customary rights are affected;
c) The competent Xaraguayan territorial authority;
d) The competent ecclesiastical authority where ecclesiastical property or canonical restrictions are involved;
e) The Supreme Constitutional Authority where the property is classified as strategically, constitutionally, or nationally protected.
10.3. An approval required from one authority shall not substitute for approval required from another.
10.4. Fraudulent, coerced, unauthorized, or clandestine alienation shall be void within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
Article 11 — Perpetual Dedication
11.1. A lawful owner may dedicate land perpetually to:
a) Catholic worship;
b) Indigenous cultural preservation;
c) Education and university purposes;
d) Burial and memorial purposes;
e) Charity and social service;
f) Agriculture, ecology, water protection, or community use.
11.2. A perpetual dedication shall identify the owner, beneficiary, purpose, boundaries, restrictions, succession mechanism, and authority responsible for enforcement.
11.3. No dedication shall transfer ownership to the Catholic Church unless accepted by the competent ecclesiastical juridical person.
TITLE V — EXPROPRIATION, OCCUPATION, AND INTERFERENCE
Article 12 — Protection against Expropriation
12.1. No Xaraguayan authority may expropriate Protected Land except:
a) For a compelling and constitutionally established public purpose;
b) After documented examination of alternatives;
c) Through an individualized procedure;
d) With prior recognition of all proprietary, customary, Indigenous, sacred, and ecclesiastical interests;
e) Upon just compensation and appropriate restitution or replacement;
f) Subject to the special authorization required for sacred or ecclesiastical property.
12.2. Expropriation by an external authority shall not automatically extinguish the underlying rights recognized by Xaragua.
12.3. Xaragua may record such an expropriation as disputed, unauthorized, compensable, reversible, or subject to restitution.
Article 13 — Prohibited Conduct
13.1. The following acts are prohibited within the Xaraguayan constitutional order:
a) Forgery or fraudulent registration of title;
b) Violent or clandestine dispossession;
c) Desecration of sacred places or burial grounds;
d) Destruction or trafficking of cultural and religious property;
e) Unauthorized extraction of minerals, water, timber, fisheries, archaeological material, or other resources;
f) Construction, concession, subdivision, or commercial exploitation without required authorization;
g) Destruction or concealment of land records;
h) Intimidation of owners, custodians, clergy, communities, or witnesses;
i) Use of external administrative authority to defeat registered Xaraguayan rights.
TITLE VI — STATUS OF INHABITANTS AND COMMUNITIES
Article 14 — Territorial Authority and Residence
14.1. Residence does not, by itself, create ownership, custodianship, ecclesiastical title, or constitutional authority over land.
14.2. Non-owner inhabitants may possess residential, contractual, occupational, communal, civil, or service rights according to their lawful status.
14.3. Such rights shall not authorize them to alienate, encumber, redefine, or politically appropriate land belonging to recognized owners, lineages, communities, institutions, or ecclesiastical bodies.
14.4. Catholic baptism is not required for the recognition of ordinary civil, residential, contractual, or human status within Xaragua.
14.5. Participation in the Catholic spiritual body and internal governance of the Catholic Order of Xaragua shall be determined separately according to faith, membership, office, and institutional statutes.
Article 15 — Institutional Participation
15.1. Authority over Sacred and Protected Lands shall belong to the owners, custodians, communities, institutions, and constitutional organs legally connected with them.
15.2. External organizations and persons possess no decision-making authority merely by claiming political, religious, humanitarian, demographic, or commercial interest.
15.3. They may participate through a contract, consultation, license, partnership, delegation, membership, or other authorization granted by the competent Xaraguayan authority.
TITLE VII — REMEDIES AND SANCTIONS
Article 16 — Xaraguayan Remedies
16.1. A violation of this Act may result in:
a) Declaration of nullity;
b) Suspension or cancellation of a transaction;
c) Restitution of land or property;
d) Removal of an unauthorized encumbrance;
e) Compensation and recovery of profits;
f) Injunction against continued activity;
g) Exclusion from Xaraguayan contracts, concessions, institutions, offices, and programs;
h) Revocation of authorization or registration;
i) Referral to a competent civil, criminal, Indigenous, professional, ecclesiastical, national, or international authority.
16.2. Xaragua may maintain a public register of contested titles, unauthorized concessions, prohibited transactions, and unresolved territorial claims.
Article 17 — Canonical Referral
17.1. Where conduct may constitute a canonical offense or concern ecclesiastical property, Xaragua may transmit the matter to the competent Catholic authority.
17.2. Canonical penalties, including any excommunication, interdict, suspension, or ecclesiastical sanction, may be imposed only by operation of canon law and through the competent ecclesiastical authority.
17.3. Xaragua may independently impose consequences concerning its territory, property, institutions, Order, University, contracts, membership, titles, and constitutional protection.
Article 18 — External Proceedings
18.1. Xaragua may submit evidence and claims concerning Protected Lands to competent:
a) National courts and land authorities;
b) International and regional human-rights mechanisms;
c) Indigenous-rights bodies;
d) Ecclesiastical authorities and tribunals;
e) Environmental, cultural, academic, or heritage institutions;
f) Arbitral, financial, commercial, and asset-recovery bodies.
18.2. Each receiving body shall determine its jurisdiction and procedure.
18.3. External proceedings shall not suspend Xaragua’s internal documentation, registration, protective measures, or constitutional findings.
TITLE VIII — LEGAL FOUNDATIONS
Article 19 — Indigenous Principles
19.1. This Act incorporates the principles expressed in Articles 3, 4, 5, 8, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
19.2. These principles shall guide the protection of Indigenous institutions, cultural heritage, spiritual relationships with land, customary ownership, territorial consultation, and natural resources within Xaragua.
Article 20 — Property Principles
20.1. Xaragua recognizes private property, hereditary possession, communal ownership, institutional property, contractual use, and customary custodianship.
20.2. Existing civil deeds, notarial instruments, cadastral records, succession records, and judicial decisions may be received as evidence, subject to Xaraguayan examination of authenticity, legality, fraud, prior rights, and customary interests.
20.3. No provision of an external property system shall automatically defeat a superior or earlier interest recognized under Xaraguayan law.
Article 21 — Canonical Principles
21.1. The temporal goods of the Catholic Church shall be governed according to Canons 1254–1310 of the Codex Iuris Canonici where those canons lawfully apply.
21.2. The constitutional protection granted by Xaragua supplements the lawful rights of Catholic owners and institutions.
21.3. No private Xaraguayan institution shall claim canonical ownership or ecclesiastical juridical status that has not been lawfully established.
TITLE IX — FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 22 — Constitutional Supremacy
22.1. This Instrument constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
22.2. All prior declarations, annexes, and instruments concerning Sacred Lands, ecclesiastical property, Indigenous territories, proprietary lineages, or the primacy of the land shall be interpreted consistently with this Instrument.
22.3. Any inconsistent prior provision is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.
Article 23 — Entrenchment
23.1. The following principles are constitutionally entrenched:
a) The ancestral territorial continuity of Xaragua;
b) Protection of recognized owners and hereditary lineages;
c) Indigenous custodianship and community continuity;
d) Protection of Catholic sacred places and lawfully constituted ecclesiastical property;
e) Preservation of Xaraguayan land for future generations;
f) Prohibition of fraudulent or unauthorized territorial alienation.
23.2. No subordinate authority may surrender or extinguish these principles.
Article 24 — Final Authority
24.1. The Rector-President possesses final authority to interpret and implement this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
24.2. The Rector-President may issue:
a) Territorial schedules and maps;
b) Registration procedures;
c) Protected-land designations;
d) Alienation and consent protocols;
e) Evidentiary standards;
f) Restitution and compensation procedures;
g) Institutional and enforcement regulations.
ISSUED AND SEALED
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
On the Tenth Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Official Institutional Portal:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE PRELATE-FOUNDER AND RECTOR-PRESIDENT
OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC COMMUNIQUÉ
ON THE STRATEGIC OPENING OF THE XARAGUAYAN ECONOMIC TERRITORY TO INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
Date: August 10, 2025
Addressed to: Governments, sovereign wealth funds, development institutions, public enterprises, corporations, universities, financial institutions, foundations, and qualified investors throughout the Americas, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Pacific.
I — FORMAL DECLARATION
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua hereby opens its economic territory and institutional platform to strategic, responsible, and long-term international partnerships.
This initiative is conducted under the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua, its Canonico-Indigenous Legal Corpus, its legislation protecting Indigenous lands and institutions, and its internal incorporation of international principles concerning self-determination, property, education, culture, religious freedom, and sustainable development.
Xaragua shall receive, evaluate, authorize, register, and supervise investments through the Supreme Constitutional Authority and the institutions designated by the Rectorate-Presidency.
II — INVESTMENT PRINCIPLES
Accredited investments shall receive the following guarantees under Xaraguayan law:
1. Legal certainty
Every approved project shall be governed by a written investment agreement defining the parties, territory, capital commitment, project schedule, fiscal treatment, land rights, performance obligations, dispute procedure, and termination conditions.
2. Protection of capital and property
Lawfully acquired contractual and proprietary interests shall be protected against arbitrary cancellation, confiscation, or interference by Xaraguayan institutions.
Any compulsory acquisition authorized by Xaraguayan law shall require a documented public purpose, proper procedure, and compensation under the applicable agreement.
3. Fiscal predictability
Strategic investments may receive preferential taxation, customs treatment, investment credits, accelerated procedures, or stability clauses for a specified contractual period.
4. Institutional access
Registered partners shall receive a direct liaison with the Rectorate-Presidency or the designated investment authority.
5. Territorial and cultural protection
Every project shall respect recognized owners, Indigenous communities, hereditary lineages, sacred places, Catholic institutions, environmental protections, and the constitutional interests of Xaragua.
6. Contractual continuity
Approved rights may be transferred to a lawful successor only with the consent of Xaragua and upon satisfaction of all qualification, security, and compliance requirements.
III — PRIORITY SECTORS
Xaragua invites proposals in the following sectors:
a) Ports, maritime logistics, fisheries, ferries, airports, heliports, and transportation corridors;
b) Agriculture, irrigation, food security, agro-processing, storage, and export systems;
c) Renewable energy, distributed power, water systems, and resilient infrastructure;
d) Tourism, hospitality, religious travel, ecological destinations, and cultural heritage;
e) Light manufacturing, logistics parks, digital commerce, and special trade zones;
f) Housing, construction, roads, communications, and urban development;
g) Healthcare, medical training, community services, and charitable infrastructure;
h) Banking, payments, insurance, investment funds, and development finance;
i) Education, research, artificial intelligence, media, and institutional development through Xaragua University;
j) Environmental restoration, coastal protection, forestry, and sustainable resource management.
IV — LAND, PERMITS, AND EXTERNAL INTERFACES
No investment approval shall, by itself, transfer ownership of land or resources.
Every project involving land shall identify the lawful owner, recognized community, custodial lineage, contractual rights, territorial classification, and required authorization.
Where an external administration controls a permit, border facility, customs process, port, airport, utility, or other operational interface, the investor shall comply with the requirements necessary for practical execution without such compliance determining sovereignty within Xaraguayan law.
Cross-border access involving the Dominican Republic or another State shall remain subject to that State’s applicable laws and to the agreement governing the project.
V — ACCREDITATION
An investor may be designated a Protected Economic Partner of Xaragua after:
a) Verification of legal identity and beneficial ownership;
b) Review of financial and technical capacity;
c) Examination of the proposed project;
d) Security and integrity screening;
e) Approval of the investment agreement;
f) Registration by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
Accreditation may be suspended or withdrawn for fraud, corruption, material breach, criminal activity, unauthorized transfer, environmental destruction, violation of protected land, or conduct hostile to Xaragua.
VI — DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Investment disputes shall proceed through:
a) Direct negotiation;
b) Mediation or conciliation under Xaraguayan procedures;
c) Xaraguayan constitutional, customary, commercial, or private adjudication where agreed;
d) Independent arbitration under rules selected in the investment agreement;
e) Competent ecclesiastical processes only where a dispute concerns ecclesiastical property or a matter reserved to canon law.
The agreement shall specify the governing law, seat of arbitration, language, appointment of arbitrators, interim measures, enforcement, and treatment of confidential information.
VII — FINAL COMMITMENT
Xaragua offers international partners a structured gateway to long-term Caribbean investment grounded in territorial strategy, Indigenous continuity, Catholic institutional identity, academic capacity, and direct constitutional oversight.
No guarantee arises solely from this Communiqué. Binding rights shall arise from the applicable law, registration, territorial authorization, and executed investment agreement.
Xaragua shall protect every approved partner according to the precise commitments contained in that agreement and shall maintain an official record of authorized projects, rights, obligations, and governmental undertakings.
SIGNED AND SEALED AT MIRAGOÂNE
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Official Institutional Portal:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT
ON THE CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL ORDER, INDIGENOUS TERRITORIAL IDENTITY, AND PROTECTION OF ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS WITHIN XARAGUA
Date of Promulgation: August 11, 2025
LEGAL CLASSIFICATION
– Supreme Canonico-Indigenous Constitutional Act
– Catholic Institutional Protection Statute
– Indigenous Territorial Delimitation Instrument
– Ecclesiastical and Civil Competence Act
PREAMBLE
Whereas Xaragua constitutes a Catholic and Indigenous constitutional order founded upon ancestral territorial continuity, private institutional organization, customary law, academic authority, and the Supreme Constitution;
Whereas the Roman Catholic Church possesses its own spiritual, sacramental, parochial, diocesan, and canonical order under the authority of the Holy See and the competent local ecclesiastical authorities;
Whereas Xaragua professes full adherence to the Catholic faith while retaining authority over its own State institutions, Catholic private Order, University, territory, property, communities, and constitutional government;
Whereas the historical Concordat of 1860 confirms the enduring public and institutional position of the Catholic Church within the territory historically administered as Haiti;
Whereas Indigenous self-determination protects the right of Xaragua to maintain its distinct political, legal, economic, religious, social, cultural, territorial, and educational institutions;
Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority promulgates the following Instrument.
TITLE I — CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
Article 1 — Catholic Character of Xaragua
1.1. The Catholic faith constitutes the foundational spiritual, moral, historical, and civilizational identity of Xaragua.
1.2. Xaraguayan public symbols, ceremonies, institutions, education, commemorations, and constitutional doctrine may express this Catholic identity.
1.3. The Catholic character of Xaragua shall not be interpreted as creating a diocese, ecclesiastical province, prelature, parish, or public juridical person of the Roman Catholic Church without an express act of competent ecclesiastical authority.
1.4. The titles and institutions established by Xaragua possess the constitutional and private institutional status assigned to them by Xaraguayan law.
Article 2 — Spiritual Jurisdiction
2.1. Catholic faithful within territories claimed or administered by Xaragua remain within the spiritual and sacramental order of the Roman Catholic Church.
2.2. Episcopal appointments, diocesan boundaries, parochial government, clerical offices, sacraments, canonical penalties, and ecclesiastical tribunals remain governed by canon law and the competent authorities of the Church.
2.3. Xaragua recognizes the universal spiritual authority of the Roman Pontiff in matters belonging to the Catholic Church.
2.4. This recognition does not transfer the civil, proprietary, academic, territorial, legislative, or administrative authority of Xaragua to an external ecclesiastical body.
TITLE II — ECCLESIASTICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY
Article 3 — Ecclesiastical Goods
3.1. Property lawfully belonging to the universal Church, the Apostolic See, a diocese, parish, religious institute, or another public juridical person of the Catholic Church shall be recognized as ecclesiastical property according to canon law and the lawful title of its owner.
3.2. Ecclesiastical property shall not be alienated, encumbered, or substantially altered without the authorizations required by canon law and applicable property procedures.
3.3. Sacred places shall retain their religious character until they lose that status through the procedure established by competent ecclesiastical authority.
3.4. Xaragua shall protect ecclesiastical property against desecration, fraudulent alienation, unlawful occupation, destruction, trafficking, and unauthorized seizure.
Article 4 — Xaraguayan Catholic Property
4.1. Property belonging to the Catholic Order of Xaragua, Xaragua University, or another private Xaraguayan Catholic institution shall be governed by:
a) Xaraguayan constitutional law;
b) The statutes of the owning institution;
c) The applicable title, dedication, trust, contract, or registry;
d) Canon law to the extent that it lawfully applies to the institution or property.
4.2. Such property shall not be described as property of the Holy See, a diocese, or the universal Church unless the competent ecclesiastical owner has lawfully acquired or accepted it.
4.3. Xaragua may dedicate its property to Catholic worship, education, charity, retreat, burial, culture, or institutional formation without surrendering ownership unless an express transfer is accepted.
TITLE III — CONCORDATARIAN CONTINUITY
Article 5 — Historical Concordat
5.1. Xaragua recognizes the Concordat of March 28, 1860, as subsequently revised, as part of the historical legal framework governing relations between the Catholic Church and the public administration historically operating in Haiti.
5.2. The Concordat shall inform Xaraguayan policy concerning:
a) Freedom of Catholic worship;
b) Communication between the Holy See, clergy, and faithful;
c) Catholic education and charitable activity;
d) Protection of ecclesiastical institutions and property;
e) Cooperation between civil and ecclesiastical authorities.
5.3. Xaragua incorporates these principles into its internal constitutional order.
5.4. Xaragua may document and refer alleged violations affecting Catholic institutions to the competent ecclesiastical, administrative, judicial, diplomatic, or human-rights authority.
TITLE IV — INDIGENOUS TERRITORIAL SCOPE
Article 6 — Constitutional Territorial Schedule
6.1. Subject to detailed maps, registries, community recognitions, and subsequent territorial instruments, Xaragua affirms its constitutional and ancestral claims over:
a) The Sud Department;
b) The Grande-Anse Department;
c) The Nippes Department;
d) The Sud-Est Department;
e) The Région des Palmes;
f) Furcy and associated highland communities;
g) The Lake Azuei, Thomazeau, and Fond-Parisien corridor identified by Xaraguayan law;
h) La Gonâve;
i) The Nord-Ouest and La Tortue;
j) Marchand-Dessalines;
k) Fort-Liberté and Trou-du-Nord;
l) Additional territories, islands, forts, communities, coastal zones, and historical domains recognized by Supreme Constitutional Act.
6.2. The Constitutional Territorial Atlas shall define the geographic scope, classification, evidence, and administrative status of each claim.
6.3. A general territorial claim shall not automatically convert every parcel within the claimed territory into State property, Indigenous communal property, sacred land, or ecclesiastical property.
6.4. Individual and institutional ownership shall be determined through title, custom, lineage, registration, possession, dedication, and other recognized evidence.
Article 7 — Maritime, Aerial, and Subsoil Claims
7.1. Xaragua asserts the maritime, aerial, coastal, insular, and subsoil interests appurtenant to the territories identified in Article 6.
7.2. Their precise extent shall be established by separate maritime, territorial, environmental, and resource legislation.
7.3. Xaragua may document, regulate internally, negotiate, license, protect, or assert claims concerning these domains through competent procedures.
TITLE V — ADMINISTRATIVE DISTINCTIONS
Article 8 — Administration Does Not Determine Sovereignty
8.1. The operation of RAU offices, records, taxation, permits, police, courts, utilities, ports, or other services within a claimed Xaraguayan territory shall not, within Xaraguayan law, extinguish Xaragua’s territorial or constitutional claims.
8.2. Administrative control, property ownership, spiritual jurisdiction, and constitutional sovereignty are distinct legal questions.
8.3. Xaragua may accept, tolerate, coordinate, supplement, regulate, or replace residual administrative functions according to its capacity and constitutional priorities.
Article 9 — Status of Inhabitants
9.1. Residence within a claimed territory does not automatically create Xaraguayan citizenship, land ownership, Indigenous custodianship, or institutional membership.
9.2. Xaraguayan status may arise through lineage, territorial attachment, property, community recognition, admission, institutional membership, residence, service, or decision of the Supreme Constitutional Authority.
9.3. Use of RAU documents or services shall not automatically prevent a person from obtaining or retaining a status recognized by Xaragua.
TITLE VI — PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
Article 10 — Protected Conduct
10.1. Xaragua shall protect:
a) Catholic worship and religious communication;
b) Churches, chapels, cemeteries, shrines, schools, archives, and sacred objects;
c) Indigenous territories, burial grounds, historical sites, and cultural property;
d) Xaraguayan institutions, communities, property, and academic operations;
e) Lawful relationships between Xaragua and communities or institutions across borders.
Article 11 — Prohibited Interference
11.1. The following are prohibited within the Xaraguayan constitutional order:
a) Desecration or destruction of sacred places;
b) Fraudulent alienation of ecclesiastical, Indigenous, or Xaraguayan institutional property;
c) Obstruction of lawful Catholic worship or communication;
d) Destruction or concealment of territorial, ecclesiastical, genealogical, or institutional records;
e) Unauthorized exploitation of protected land or resources;
f) Violence or intimidation against clergy, custodians, communities, officers, or members of Xaraguayan institutions.
Article 12 — Remedies
12.1. Xaragua may respond through:
a) Constitutional declarations and protective orders;
b) Nullification of unauthorized acts within its order;
c) Registration of disputed property or territorial claims;
d) Exclusion from Xaraguayan offices, institutions, contracts, territories, and programs;
e) Restitution, compensation, injunction, or asset-preservation measures within its competence;
f) Diplomatic, ecclesiastical, judicial, academic, Indigenous, or international submissions.
12.2. Canonical penalties may be imposed only by operation of canon law and through competent ecclesiastical authority.
12.3. Proceedings before an external court, arbitral body, or international institution shall remain subject to that body’s jurisdiction and procedure.
TITLE VII — FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 13 — Incorporation by Reference
13.1. The Supreme Legislative Instrument of August 9, 2025, concerning the incorporation of international principles protecting Indigenous self-government, Catholic institutional freedom, territorial custodianship, and educational autonomy, is incorporated by reference.
13.2. Reproduction of its full text shall not be required in this Instrument.
Article 14 — Supremacy and Harmonization
14.1. This Instrument constitutes Supreme Law within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
14.2. Previous acts concerning Xaragua as an ecclesiastical province, the status of all land as ecclesiastical property, Concordatarian substitution, or the universal enforceability of Xaraguayan acts shall be interpreted consistently with this Instrument.
14.3. Any inconsistent prior provision is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency.
14.4. Territorial claims, Catholic identity, Indigenous continuity, and institutions previously established shall remain in force unless expressly revoked.
Article 15 — Final Authority
15.1. The Rector-President possesses final authority to interpret and execute this Instrument within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
15.2. The Rector-President may issue territorial maps, schedules, registries, Catholic institutional statutes, property protections, administrative protocols, and external submissions necessary for implementation.
ISSUED AND SEALED
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Promulgated at Miragoâne, Capital of Xaragua
On the Eleventh Day of August, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Five
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Official Institutional Portal:
www.xaraguauniversity.com
© Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua. All Rights Reserved.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA (SCIPS‑X)

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

OFFICE OF THE PRELATE-FOUNDER AND RECTOR-PRESIDENT

SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT

ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL EMBASSY OF XARAGUA IN CANADA, THE PROTECTION OF ACCREDITED REPRESENTATIVES, AND THE INVIOLABILITY OF INDIGENOUS, ACADEMIC, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND STATE MISSIONS

Date of Promulgation: August 12, 2025

LEGAL CLASSIFICATION

– Supreme Constitutional Act of External Representation

– Canonico-Indigenous Mission Protection Statute

– Academic, Ecclesiastical, and Indigenous Accreditation Act

– Diplomatic Privileges and Functional Immunities Instrument

– International Mobility and Protected Communications Protocol

PREAMBLE

Whereas the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua constitutes a distinct Indigenous, Catholic, customary, academic, proprietary, and constitutional order possessing its own government, University, Catholic Order, institutions, communities, offices, representatives, archives, and international relations;

Whereas the Indigenous people of Xaragua possess the right to self-determination, self-government, institutional continuity, cultural preservation, spiritual practice, international representation, membership determination, and cross-border cooperation;

Whereas Xaragua University constitutes a primary instrument of State doctrine, education, research, diplomacy, cultural transmission, and institutional representation;

Whereas the Catholic Order of Xaragua constitutes the organized spiritual, educational, charitable, ceremonial, and civilizational body of the State under its private constitutional statutes;

Whereas Xaragua possesses the exclusive authority to appoint, accredit, commission, protect, discipline, suspend, and recall its representatives;

Whereas international diplomatic law, Indigenous rights, religious freedom, academic freedom, freedom of association, private property, contractual protection, and institutional autonomy provide cumulative foundations for the international activities of Xaragua;

Whereas the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms Indigenous self-determination, institutions, culture, religion, education, international cooperation, and cross-border relations;

Whereas Canada has adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and recognizes self-determination and self-government as central principles governing relations with Indigenous peoples;

Now, therefore, the Supreme Constitutional Authority establishes the following unified system of external representation, accreditation, protection, immunity, and institutional inviolability.

TITLE I — ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MISSION

Article 1 — Ecclesiastical Embassy of Xaragua in Canada

1.1. The Ecclesiastical Embassy and Indigenous-Academic Mission of Xaragua in Canada, hereinafter “the Mission,” is hereby established as the official permanent representation of SCIPS‑X in Canada.

1.2. The Mission represents:

a) The Supreme Constitutional Authority;

b) The Office of the Rector-President;

c) The Catholic Order of Xaragua;

d) Xaragua University;

e) Xaraguayan Indigenous communities, lineages, institutions, and accredited persons;

f) The cultural, religious, academic, economic, and territorial interests of Xaragua.

1.3. The Mission possesses perpetual institutional continuity and may operate through physical offices, digital platforms, secure communications, temporary delegations, academic programs, religious activities, cultural events, and authorized liaison sites.

1.4. Only the Rector-President may establish, relocate, merge, suspend, divide, rename, or dissolve the Mission.

Article 2 — Spiritual Reference Church

2.1. The Parish of Saint-Angèle-de-Mérici, located at 5275 Boulevard Lavoisier, Saint-Léonard, Quebec, is designated by Xaragua as its principal Spiritual Reference Church and Ecclesiastical Liaison Point in Canada.

2.2. This designation records the parish’s historical and pastoral relationship with the Catholic development of Xaragua.

2.3. The designation does not transfer ownership, canonical government, pastoral responsibility, correspondence duties, financial liability, or State functions to the parish.

2.4. The parish remains under its competent Catholic authorities, while Xaragua retains exclusive authority over its Mission, representatives, communications, doctrine, diplomatic initiatives, University, and Catholic private Order.

2.5. Meetings, ceremonies, consultations, or activities involving Xaragua may occur at the parish through the applicable ecclesiastical authorization or invitation.

Article 3 — Official Seat and Secure Operations

3.1. The administrative seat of the Mission shall be situated in private premises designated by the Rector-President.

3.2. Its address may remain confidential where required for security, privacy, protection of archives, or continuity of operations.

3.3. Official correspondence shall be conducted through channels certified by the Supreme Constitutional Authority.

3.4. The Mission may maintain:

a) Secure electronic mail;

b) Encrypted communications;

c) Protected digital archives;

d) Private meeting facilities;

e) Academic and cultural offices;

f) Emergency liaison channels;

g) Mobile or temporary mission facilities.

3.5. No parish, church, university, residence, or private partner shall be required to receive State correspondence unless expressly designated by written instrument.

TITLE II — AUTHORITY OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT

Article 4 — Supreme Authority over External Representation

4.1. The Rector-President is the Supreme Head of Mission and possesses exclusive authority to:

a) Appoint and recall representatives;

b) Issue diplomatic, ecclesiastical, Indigenous, academic, technical, and special commissions;

c) Establish ranks, offices, titles, credentials, and functions;

d) Determine the scope and duration of every accreditation;

e) Authorize negotiations, communications, petitions, and institutional agreements;

f) Designate protected premises, archives, missions, delegations, and liaison sites;

g) Claim privileges, immunities, exemptions, protections, recognition, and official treatment;

h) Waive an internal immunity where required by the supreme interests of Xaragua;

i) Direct legal, diplomatic, academic, canonical, and Indigenous responses to interference.

4.2. No subordinate institution may recognize, appoint, dismiss, negotiate on behalf of, or waive the rights of Xaragua without an express commission from the Rector-President.

Article 5 — Head of Mission

5.1. The Rector-President may personally exercise the functions of Head of Mission or appoint an Ambassador, Apostolic Liaison, Indigenous Representative, Rectoral Delegate, Commissioner, or Chargé d’Affaires.

5.2. The Head of Mission shall supervise:

a) Diplomatic communications;

b) Indigenous representation;

c) Ecclesiastical liaison;

d) Academic cooperation;

e) Accreditation and credential verification;

f) Security and confidentiality;

g) Institutional partnerships;

h) Assistance to protected persons.

5.3. The Head of Mission remains directly accountable to the Rector-President.

TITLE III — CLASSES OF ACCREDITED PERSONS

Article 6 — Categories of Accreditation

6.1. The Supreme Constitutional Authority may issue the following accreditations:

a) Diplomatic Representative;

b) Ecclesiastical Envoy;

c) Indigenous Ambassador or Community Delegate;

d) Academic Envoy, Professor, Researcher, or Rectoral Fellow;

e) Missionary or Charitable Delegate;

f) Cultural and Heritage Custodian;

g) Legal, Economic, or Technical Adviser;

h) Administrative and Security Officer;

i) Student, Scholar, Intern, or Program Fellow;

j) Special Representative of the Rector-President.

6.2. A person may hold more than one accreditation where the functions are cumulative.

6.3. Accreditation shall be evidenced by a commission, identification credential, appointment certificate, digital verification record, or diplomatic note issued under the authority of Xaragua.

Article 7 — Indigenous Accreditation

7.1. Indigenous accreditation identifies its holder as an authorized representative, member, custodian, scholar, officer, or delegate of the Indigenous constitutional order of Xaragua.

7.2. Indigenous accreditation may certify:

a) Community membership;

b) Lineage or hereditary connection;

c) Cultural or spiritual custodianship;

d) Authority to represent a Xaraguayan community or institution;

e) Participation in international Indigenous cooperation;

f) Responsibility for cultural heritage, language, history, sacred knowledge, land records, or traditional institutions.

7.3. Xaragua possesses exclusive internal authority to determine its Indigenous identity and membership according to its customs, laws, registries, and constitutional procedures.

7.4. No external body may alter an accreditation or membership determination within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.

TITLE IV — CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITIES

Article 8 — Functional Immunity

8.1. Every accredited representative shall possess full functional immunity within the Xaraguayan constitutional order for acts lawfully performed under an official mandate.

8.2. Functional immunity covers:

a) Official statements and communications;

b) Academic teaching and research;

c) Indigenous advocacy and representation;

d) Ecclesiastical liaison;

e) Cultural and ceremonial activities;

f) Diplomatic petitions and negotiations;

g) Preparation and transmission of legal or institutional documents;

h) Protection of Xaraguayan archives, persons, property, and interests.

8.3. Functional immunity survives the expiration or termination of office for acts performed during the mandate.

8.4. It may be waived only by an express written act of the Rector-President.

Article 9 — Personal and Institutional Protection

9.1. Xaragua declares the person, dignity, official functions, communications, and accredited identity of its representatives inviolable.

9.2. Threats, intimidation, harassment, retaliation, surveillance, impersonation, obstruction, discriminatory treatment, or violence directed against an accredited person because of their Xaraguayan function shall be documented as interference with the Mission.

9.3. The Mission shall immediately activate protective, legal, institutional, ecclesiastical, Indigenous, academic, and diplomatic responses.

9.4. Xaragua shall seek the broadest privileges, immunities, exemptions, courtesies, access rights, and official protections available for every eligible representative.

Article 10 — Internal Non-Liability

10.1. No accredited person shall incur personal liability to Xaragua for an authorized official act performed in good faith within the scope of their commission.

10.2. Xaragua shall indemnify such person against claims, costs, and liabilities arising from the authorized performance of official functions, subject to the terms of the accreditation and applicable institutional regulations.

10.3. Indemnification shall not extend to fraud, personal enrichment, deliberate disobedience, unauthorized violence, or conduct outside the official mandate.

TITLE V — PROTECTED PREMISES AND ARCHIVES

Article 11 — Classification of Mission Premises

11.1. Every office, room, archive, repository, campus, research unit, chapel, cultural center, residence, or facility formally designated for Mission purposes shall constitute a Protected Xaraguayan Mission Premises.

11.2. Protected premises shall be used for diplomatic, Indigenous, ecclesiastical, academic, cultural, charitable, administrative, or security functions.

11.3. The Rector-President may assign different levels of protection according to the function, location, ownership, and sensitivity of each facility.

11.4. Xaragua declares all protected premises, archives, official equipment, seals, credentials, and communications institutionally inviolable.

Article 12 — Access Control

12.1. Entry into a restricted Mission area requires authorization from the Rector-President, Head of Mission, or designated security officer.

12.2. No officer, member, employee, student, partner, contractor, or visitor may grant access contrary to Mission security protocols.

12.3. Unauthorized entry, recording, surveillance, copying, interference, or removal of Mission property shall constitute a grave violation of Xaraguayan law.

12.4. The Mission shall maintain access logs, secure storage, encryption, physical safeguards, and continuity plans for sensitive premises.

Article 13 — Archives and Communications

13.1. The following are declared inviolable archives of Xaragua:

a) Constitutional and governmental records;

b) Indigenous registries and genealogies;

c) Territorial maps and custodianship records;

d) Ecclesiastical and Catholic Order documents;

e) Academic research and student records;

f) Diplomatic communications;

g) Legal opinions and litigation files;

h) Security, accreditation, and identity records;

i) Sacred, historical, and cultural documentation.

13.2. Mission archives shall remain the property of the relevant Xaraguayan institution regardless of their physical location.

13.3. Disclosure requires authorization from the competent Xaraguayan authority, except where the Rector-President directs compliance with a binding legal obligation or protective necessity.

13.4. Confidentiality survives the termination of office, employment, study, membership, partnership, or accreditation.

TITLE VI — INDIGENOUS AND CULTURAL PROTECTION

Article 14 — Indigenous Mission Mandate

14.1. The Mission shall defend and promote:

a) Xaraguayan self-determination and self-government;

b) Indigenous identity and membership;

c) Customary institutions and legal systems;

d) Territorial, cultural, spiritual, and historical continuity;

e) Education, language, archives, ceremonies, and sacred knowledge;

f) International and cross-border cooperation;

g) Repatriation and protection of cultural and ceremonial objects;

h) Participation in decisions affecting Xaraguayan communities and institutions.

14.2. The Mission may submit petitions, reports, interventions, statements, and evidence to Indigenous organizations, governments, universities, museums, churches, human-rights bodies, and international institutions.

Article 15 — Cultural and Sacred Objects

15.1. Sacred objects, ceremonial materials, archives, insignia, artistic works, historical records, and Indigenous cultural property entrusted to the Mission shall be entered into a protected inventory.

15.2. Such property shall not be sold, reproduced, transferred, displayed, researched, or disclosed without the authorization of the lawful owner or custodian.

15.3. Xaragua may request the return, repatriation, protection, conservation, or restricted treatment of its cultural and sacred property.

TITLE VII — ACADEMIC PROTECTION

Article 16 — Xaragua University Missions

16.1. Xaragua University may establish campuses, institutes, research units, academic missions, teaching centers, libraries, archives, partnerships, and temporary programs outside Xaragua.

16.2. Every such institution shall remain part of the academic and constitutional order of Xaragua.

16.3. The University retains authority over its:

a) Curriculum and doctrine;

b) Academic appointments;

c) Research priorities;

d) Internal qualifications and honors;

e) Archives and intellectual property;

f) Institutional discipline;

g) Representation and partnerships.

16.4. Academic personnel may simultaneously receive academic, Indigenous, ecclesiastical, technical, or diplomatic accreditation.

Article 17 — Academic Freedom and Research Protection

17.1. Accredited scholars shall possess full academic freedom within the mandate conferred by Xaragua University.

17.2. Research data, unpublished manuscripts, Indigenous knowledge, interviews, archives, course materials, examinations, and academic correspondence shall be protected against unauthorized access, alteration, seizure, exploitation, or disclosure.

17.3. Indigenous knowledge shall remain subject to the authority of its community, lineage, custodian, or authorized institution.

17.4. Xaragua University may impose confidentiality, access, licensing, attribution, cultural-protocol, and benefit-sharing requirements.

TITLE VIII — INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY AND MISSIONARY PROTECTION

Article 18 — Official Travel Status

18.1. An accredited person traveling on an official assignment shall receive:

a) A commission or mission order;

b) A letter confirming institutional purpose;

c) Emergency Mission contact information;

d) Verification of status and program;

e) Legal and administrative support appropriate to the assignment;

f) Any additional credential authorized by the Rector-President.

18.2. Official travel may include academic teaching, research, missionary activity, Indigenous representation, cultural exchange, institutional negotiation, humanitarian service, and participation in international forums.

Article 19 — Protection during Travel

19.1. The Mission shall maintain a system for:

a) Travel registration;

b) Emergency communications;

c) Legal referrals;

d) Medical and security assistance;

e) Documentation of detention, obstruction, discrimination, loss, seizure, or interference;

f) Notification of designated family members and institutional authorities;

g) Requests for intervention by competent governmental, Indigenous, ecclesiastical, academic, or human-rights bodies.

19.2. Accredited persons shall immediately report any interference with their mission, materials, credentials, communications, or personal security.

Article 20 — Mission Materials

20.1. Official documents, research data, educational material, sacred objects, insignia, archives, equipment, seals, and communications carried under a Mission order are designated protected Mission material.

20.2. Every accredited person shall preserve their confidentiality, integrity, chain of custody, and authorized use.

20.3. Any search, seizure, damage, interception, confiscation, or unauthorized disclosure shall be recorded and addressed through all available institutional and legal channels.

TITLE IX — LEGAL DEFENSE AND INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE

Article 21 — Duty of Protection

21.1. Xaragua assumes a constitutional duty to defend accredited persons acting within their lawful mandate.

21.2. Protection may include:

a) Legal representation or referral;

b) Payment or advancement of approved defense costs;

c) Institutional statements and diplomatic communications;

d) Evidence preservation;

e) Emergency financial assistance;

f) Insurance and indemnification;

g) Academic, ecclesiastical, Indigenous, or professional intervention;

h) Applications, petitions, complaints, and requests for protective measures.

Article 22 — International Claims for Privileges and Immunities

22.1. The Mission shall seek and invoke the highest available level of recognition and protection under:

a) Diplomatic and consular law;

b) Agreements concerning special missions and official delegations;

c) Canadian legislation governing foreign missions, international organizations, accredited missions, and offices of political subdivisions;

d) Indigenous-rights instruments and institutional agreements;

e) Religious-freedom and ecclesiastical cooperation frameworks;

f) Academic, university, research, and cultural agreements;

g) Private law, property law, contract, insurance, confidentiality, and organizational law.

22.2. The Mission may request:

a) Recognition of its representative status;

b) Accreditation of designated officers;

c) Functional immunity for official acts;

d) Inviolability of premises, archives, and communications;

e) Tax, customs, immigration, and administrative facilitation;

f) Protection of official delegations and events;

g) Legal capacity for Mission offices and institutions;

h) Recognition of Indigenous, academic, religious, cultural, and charitable functions.

22.3. Every recognition, accommodation, privilege, protection, or agreement obtained shall be entered into the Supreme Register of External Relations.

Article 23 — Non-Waiver

23.1. Cooperation with an external authority shall not constitute a waiver of Xaragua’s constitutional claims, Indigenous identity, institutional autonomy, or asserted privileges.