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Civil unions and marriage: All you need is love! (and consent)

All civil unions between mutually-consenting adult parties must be recognized by the government as they pertain to legal and taxation matters. Religious marriages are also recognized as civil unions, so long as they are between mutually-consenting adult parties.



Collective bargaining rights for all

All citizens and permanent residents have the right to collective bargaining. No public or private for-profit or non-profit business; collective; government office; or religious, civil or educational institution may inhibit the ability for any members of its workforce to unionize or to strike. Striking activities of members of the workforce of essential services are scheduled and regulated insofar as to prevent critical harm from befalling those depending on such services.



Keep your laws off my body

All people are entitled to autonomy of their own bodies; so things such as public nudity and displays of affection; euthanasia; personal use of recreational drugs; abortion; consented postmortem cannibalism; tissue, organ, blood and plasma donation; and prostitution are legal (though not entirely unregulated). Consistent with this entitlement, courts and law enforcement agencies may not detain a person without legal justification, collect involuntary or coerced DNA samples, or take away the life of anyone in retribution for crimes committed (no capital punishment). The state may not force upon nor use extortion to compel people to accept inoculations against their will. People may dress themselves however they wish; so, for instance, public schools may not require pupils to wear uniforms and the state may not restrict one's choice to wear religious or culturally-significant garments or accessories or things such as leather harnesses, masks and leashes.



Rehabilitation over punishment

The guiding principle in law enforcement is that people who commit crimes can and should be rehabilitated to correct behaviors that lead to illegal activity. Because there are numerous differing degrees of seriousness of crimes and complex, dynamic causes and vast underlying contributing factors, there exists a law enforcement system to match this complexity.

Prisons do not exist in the conventional sense. Behavioral modification, character development, education, employable skills training, and inclusive social reintegration are how the vast majority of criminal behaviors are successfully corrected. This is accomplished through collaboration of the legal system, the National Healthcare Department, the National Education Department, and the National Workforce Department. For those rare occasions when a person is too far-gone to safely reintegrate into society following a criminal offense, mandatory life-long hospitalization, monitoring and periodic reevaluations are used in lieu of capital punishment or mere solitary confinement.

Criminal behavior by individuals is socially considered a shared failure of that individual's family to properly raise the individual and of society to adequately care for all of its citizens as well as the individual's. Crime is pretty much unknown throughout the nation as all people have extensive economic, civil and political rights that essentially eliminate one's need to pursue criminal activities. Since a live-and-let-live culture is so pervasive throughout society and within the legal system, one can't really break any laws unless intentionally infringing upon the rights, health, safety and well-being of others.

Public criminal records are considered barriers to rehabilitation and reintegration, and as harmful and demoralizing shaming mechanisms that inevitably lead to recidivism; so after one has paid their debts to society for a particular offense, that offense is removed from their public record.



Arms and self-defense: Legal, but regulated

Citizens and permanent residents have conditional and regulated rights to own weapons of self-defense and to partake in martial arts training. Registry, background checks, routine mental and vision impairment screenings, bias recognition screening, multicultural awareness training, alternative dispute resolution training, ethics courses, and weapons safety training are mandatory for all who wish to possess arms and learn martial arts.









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