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Preamble

Article 1

1. All insurrectionist shall surrender themselves and their equipment. Those who do so within one month will be granted amnesty and returned the full rights and privileges of citizenship. The armed forces shall be empowered to subdue those who refuse to surrender.
2. Insurrectionist duchies shall swear an oath of loyalty. Such an oath shall forbid them from seceding without prior permission. Upon the swearing of such an oath, any territories of the duchy under military occupation and any equipment seized by the armed forces shall be returned. The armed forces shall participate in no wilful destruction of military or civil property while occupying any territories until such an oath is sworn.
3. The armed forces shall be allowed to maintain a presence in insurrectionist territories as long as is necessary to subdue remaining insurrectionist factions. The restored governments of the duchies shall render whatever aid is necessary to subdue such factions. Military forces shall withdraw once all such factions have been subdued.

Article the Nth: On the Establishment of a New Government

1. The Kingdom of Novmir shall instead be styled the United Empire of Novmir and the King of Novmir shall instead be styled the Emperor of Novmir.
2. The flags, coat of arms and other symbols of the Empire shall be unique and separate from those of the House of Pembroke-Havelock.
3. A common seat of government for the Empire shall be established by the cession of no more than a square kilometer of land from the Duchy of Beresovy within the borders of the City of Serebursk. The particulars of such a cession shall be negotiated and agreed upon within two years. The land ceded shall be administered directly by the Empire as an imperial district.

Article the Nth: On the Reform of the Monarchy

1. The Emperor shall have the right to nominate as many heirs to the throne as he wishes, and these heirs may be drawn from the House of Pembroke-Havelock. No heir, however, shall be considered legitimate without the subsequent approval of the Ducal Council. Such approval, once given, may not be revoked by the Ducal Council. Upon the death or abdication of the Emperor, his eldest legitimate heir shall be crowned as Emperor.
2. Should the Emperor have no legitimate heirs at the time of his death or abdication, then the Ducal Council shall elect a new Emperor from among the House of Pembroke-Havelock.
3. The Emperor shall not be permitted to alter the taxes, budget or laws without the consent of the Imperial Assembly. He, however, shall retain the right to veto all proposals of the Imperial Assembly and to negotiate treaties with foreign powers, and shall remain commander in-chief of the armed forces.

Article the Nth: On the Reform of the Ducal Council

1. The Ducal Council shall remain as the upper house of an Imperial Assembly.
2. Every duchy shall be entitled to a single representative on the Ducal Council. The fashion in which such representatives are selected and their term of office shall be decided by their respective duchies.
3. No proposal to alter the taxes, budget or laws, to enter into any treaty with a foreign power or to declare war may come into effect without the approval of the Ducal Council.
4. The Archduke and ministers of the Cabinet shall be nominated from among the Ducal Council's membership by the Emperor, but may only assume their offices upon the approval of the Ducal Council.

Article the Nth: On the Establishment of a Popular Council

1. A Popular Council shall be established as the lower house of an Imperial Assembly. It shall initially consist of two-hundred and fifty-one seats.
2. Within two years of the passage of this treaty the Imperial Government under the direction of the new Emperor shall take a census of all persons of at least twenty-one years of age who have been resident within the Kingdom of Novmir for at least eight years. All such persons shall be considered qualified to vote in elections of the Popular Council. Twenty electoral districts of ten shall be established, each of which shall contain as equal a number of such qualified persons as possible. A new census shall be performed every ten years and electoral districts shall be altered as necessary to ensure they continue to comply to the standards described above.
3. Within six months of the creation of appropriate electoral districts the first election of the Popular Council shall be held. Those qualified to vote shall vote for a participating political party of their choice. Within each electoral district the total votes for each party shall be tallied, and each party which has won at least one tenth of the total district votes will be awarded a share of the district seats as equal as possible to its share of the total district vote. Once all seats in electoral districts have been awarded, the total national vote for each party shall be tallied and the remaining fifty-one seats shall be awarded as necessary to ensure that the total share of seats of each party which has won at least one twentieth of the total national vote equals as closely as possible its share of the total national vote. This same methodology shall be used in all subsequent elections of the Popular Council.
4. The Emperor may propose a dissolution of the standing Popular Council and the Ducal Council may approve any such proposal. If such approval is given, new elections shall be held within two months. If five years have passed since the most recent election of the Popular Council, it will automatically be dissolved and a new election held.
5. No proposal to alter the taxes, budget or laws may be enacted without the approval of the Popular Council.

Article the Nth: On the Payment of Reparations

1. All parties agree to wave any and all demands of reparations[?]

Article the Nth: On the Devolution of Power to the Duchies

1. The duchies of the Empire shall be entitled to certain powers and privileges. The imperial government shall have no right to forbid the duchies these powers and privileges without their consent.
2. Every duchy shall have the right to determine the its own government, its own local internal political divisions and the structure of government of such divisions.
3. Every duchy shall have the right to its own taxes and budget independent of those of the imperial government.
4. Duchies shall have sole sovereignty over all matters which concern only the duchy itself.
5. Duchies shall have the right to maintain militias for the preservation of local order, so long as any such militias are subordinate to the imperial armed forces.
6. The territorial borders of any duchy may not be altered without its consent.

Article the Nth: On the Timeframe of this Treaty

1. All provisions of this treaty shall be effective immediately upon the passage of this treaty, which shall require its ratification by his Majesty Fredrick Maximilians Pembroke and by the government of each insurrectionist duchy.

Article the Nth: Supplementary Provisions