Constitutional Convention Called to Order

A call by the Senate for a new constitutional convention to draft a new constitution after a referendum approved a switch to a semi-presidential system has been heeded, and a new convention has assembled on Cenaci. The convention is expected to write the semi-presidential system into the constitution, describing the powers of the President, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Vice President. They are also expected to write about the role of the Council of Advisors, as well as the Council of Species and the Council of Ministers. Some rights put forth for addition are the right to same-sex marriage, abortion, due process, privacy, and the right to representation. Also included on the list are the legal principle of Nulla poena sin lege, and a provision banning a Guantanamo Bay-like thing from happening. “I expect this constitution to be better than the old one, and hope it will turn out to be good for the people of Ceni,” Kyn Tucin said upon his acceptance to be a delegate from Cenaci. The sector legislatures selected delegates based on their population; one delegate for every 1,894 billion people. Cenaci sector elected 12 delegates; Kyn Tucin, senator Luke Dickson, Supreme Court Chief Justice Masnol Binnill, Supreme Court justice Brian Foster, previous constitution signers Mary Chaumshire, Tartalom Quasi, and Peane Romney, Cenaci Court of Appeals Judge Ackbar Irizer, lawyer Onish Laro, University of Cenaci law professor Kerert Serger, constitutional law scholar Grunn Izack and Senator Sera Yuyak. Other famous names on the list are Senator Shadow B’betsy, Tentruck Mitchford, Michosplak Senator Robert Langley, Supreme Court Justice Kierra Porrieto, and Hannah Columbus. The convention started today, and the first thing they did was to elect Kyn Tucin President of the convention. Tucin remarked that the people convened at this convention were “demi-gods” and that they were the best of their kind in Ceni, and they would create a constitution that would last for eternity. The constitution would “be created by people with political experience, rooted in the writings of Locke and others,” Tucin said. The convention immediately voted to preserve secrecy. We will not know what happened at the convention until the notes of the secretary, Derrick Johnston, are released.