Provisional Constitution of Leonistria

Provisional Constitution of the Kingdom of Granderia
Overview
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of Leonistria
Created	20 December 2022 (2022-12-20)
Presented	December 23, 2022
Ratified	December 25, 2022
Date effective	25 December 2022 (2022-12-25)
System	Unitary Constitutionalist Quasi-Federal Absolute Monarchy
Head of state	William, Prince of Granderia
Chambers	Unicameral
Executive	Prince Regent
Judiciary	Judicial Committee of the S.R.C.
History
First legislature	30 April 2022 (2022-04-30)
First executive	30 April 2022 (2022-04-30)
First court	April 20, 2022
Amendments	TBD
Location	National Institute of Leonistrian History
Commissioned by	December 25, 2022
Author(s)	Prince Regent, William, Prince of Granderia
Signatories	50 of the 50 delegates to the Crownechester Conference

The Provisional Constitution of the Kingdom of Leonistria, formally the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Leonistria, was an agreement in the Kingdom of Leonistria that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the State Regency Council began on April 27, 2022. The Provisional Constitution was formally adopted on April 30.

Background and context

On April 27, 2022, in Crownechester, deputies to a "Constituent Convention" met to set about creating a new form of government. Their efforts resulted in, among other achievements, the drafting of a provisional constitution for what came to be known as the Kingdom of Leonistria.

Before the Constituent Convention could accomplish anything, it required a set of guidelines to follow. On April 27, William Braveheart, MCC proposed the creation of a Drafting Committee to draft a provisional constitution to grant congressional power to the convention. The committee appointed John Davis who had arrived at the convention with a draft already prepared, as their chair.

Key points and differences

All committee members were well educated and had extensive legislative experience. The necessity of a constitution made them work with considerable speed and report to the convention on December 25. Copies were then made and distributed to the convention's members, who spent relatively little time on debate. The key changes to the committee's draft were an inclusion of the phrase "Invoking the favor of Almighty God" into the preamble, the addition of an executive line-item veto, a removal of a conventional restriction of 15% on import tariffs, and the combination of the circuit and district court systems into one district system in which each Province comprised one district. The Provisional Constitution was then unanimously ratified around midnight on December 25, 2022. It was signed by all members present at noon on the day of Prince Regent's Inaugural Speech as Acting Prime Minister, January 1, 2023. There are 50 signatures in all.

Since the framers of the Provisional Constitution used the US Constitution & the Spanish Constitution as a basis for their own, there are many similarities. Large sections were copied heavily, and others had only cosmetic changes (such as replacing "United States" with "Kingdom of Leonistria"). In its haste, the Committee included important features such as a ratification process and decided to omit any mention of issues that were to be decided in the permanent constitution.

However, the most significant difference from the US Constitution was that under the Provisional Constitution, the Constituent Convention was a unicameral legislature, with only one chamber.

Signers

The signers and the states they represented were:

William, Prince of Granderia signed as the ultimate person of authority.