H2elyolegom
The H2elyolegom is the legal code designed with International Council of Nations (ICoN) appointed consultants to rule, provide rights, guarantees, protections and rule of law procedures for humans in Hergom.
Background
Prior to the signing of the Accord for Restrained Arms and International Harmony (ARAIH), humans in Hergom existed in complete legal limbo and were at the mercy of haphazard rules, local needs and attitudes, the political and development currents of Hergom. Individually, humans were at complete risk of impunity without any assurances of their safety and prosperity. Only the Gahnam and Chalam of the northern post-first coalition war territories had any form of legal certainty, largely as these Gahnam and Chalam dominated territories retained their elites, whom the Wolgos used to maintain control. The human elites of the north actively interpreted Wolgos' will and negotiated their authority and allowances, and they used their autonomy to rule over their human subjects.
The signing of the ARAIH accords without a pre-determined legal framework would have caused even deeper uncertainty and conflict within Wolgos and potentially harm to human communities. To prevent such outcomes, Hergom, at the behest of ICoN, created a legal corpus (the H2elyolegom) to rule human affairs; ICoN]] diplomats and advisors were adamant that Hergom should heed their advice and concerns or jeopardise the treaty as a whole.
Reluctantly, Hergom cooperated with ICoN's Hominid Rights Bureau to synthesise a hybrid legal system that would satisfy Hergom's interests and concerns while pushing for the greatest possible level of legal certainty and protection the Wolgos could be persuaded to grant. The committee was composed of two hundred ICoN member nations' legal experts and an equal number of Wolgos chief arbitrators, tribal leaders and theologians.
The committee synthesised a compact legal code comprised of eleven books and eight hundred pages. The code was designed to minimise Hergom's commitments and the inescapable expenses of implementing it. Hergom's ideological commitment to a minimal government with a decentralised and largely private administration allowed for little room for an extensive government-managed bureaucracy for a legal system for humans. Hergom was steadfast in refusing to give up or share any sovereignty over the affairs of humans or allow monitoring, and Hergom was reluctant to give up the privileges of the government over humans. Nevertheless, Hergom agreed to heavily curtain the impunity that the Wolgos population and local authorities enjoyed over humans and agreed to a range of enforcement mechanisms to prevent the Wolgos from breaking new human guarantees and for punitive measures for those willing to ignore the legal code pertaining to humans.
ICoN pushed for many guarantees and avoided using terminology alluding to rights, which the Wolgos heavily objected to. Foremost ICoN pushed for respect for human personhood and dignity (another term Hergom was uncomfortable using, with the committee settling for "indulgences"), followed by the "indulgences" for families, communities, identity and individual autonomy. Codifying guarantees and indulgences that outside her gym would have determined to be so fundamental that they would be given and not necessary to explicitly codify. As holistic ARAIH treaty negotiations progressed and Hergom pushed for a more comprehensive elimination of trade and financial sanctions, the Hominid Rights Bureau saw the opportunity to push for a greater and more holistic expansion of human guarantees and indulgences. The committee negotiated a codification of contractual, employment, safety, property and financial codes, amongst others, to further expand the potential for human communities.
The most contentious issues during the synthesis were codes about affairs and disputes between humans and Wolgos. The code, to the dismay of many human experts, had to make concessions that they found offensive to human dignity. The code codified many pedantic duties for humans towards wolgos individuals and the state. The code places upon humans the duty to respect the notion of Wolgos as understood by the wolgos in a large myriad of ways, along with penalties for infractions. For example, humans must adhere to etiquette codes when interacting with Wolgos, and the Wolgos are allowed to apply "reasonable" correction when something is broken.
When pertaining to injury towards a Wolgos individual where the human is at fault, the code gives Wolgos jurisprudence preference and gives law enforcement and State prosecution the sole responsibility, thereby bypassing courts for humans or advocacy. When the injured person is a human, and the fault lies with a Wolgos, the code outlines an exceptionally lenient penalty regime for the Wolgos and for justice to involve arbitration rather than adversarial court justice.
Preamble book of the H2elyolegom
The first book of the H2elyolegom, The Preamble, sets forth the most basic codes for guarantees relation to human personhood and the indulgence of "courtesy to humanity", and additionally the etiquette duties for inter-species interaction and deference to the Wolgos.
Section 1: Ownership of a human body by the imperfect soul residing within
- 1.1 - Human sentience is recognised as deserving the courtesy of other humans, Wolgos and higher matters, and their imperfect creation should not be held against their blameless self for their human condition. Stewardship and the courtesy to avoid injury to the imperfect soul and its disfigurement lies with the willed ones. (In other words, humans should not be placed under wilful extreme psychological hardship or torture)
- 1.2 - The human vessel is the sole possession of the imperfect soul residing within. The imperfect soul holds the right to bodily integrity and autonomy that must not be wilfully interfered with without legally sanctioned circumstances. (The human body is the property of the person within; the body must not be interfered with without consent, including external and transient interference)
- 1.3 - The conjunction of the body and imperfect soul, or the constituent parts, must not be unwillingly compelled to action, thought, labour or sacrifice that the imperfect soul does not consent free of coercion. The body constitutes the realm and proximity without and within the vessel. (Humans are protected corporally and mentally from exploitation such as forced labour, organ harvesting, experimentation, and blood sports without wilful and uncoerced consent).
Section 2: The guarantees of family, community and sentient expression
- 2.1 - The imperfect soul and the vessel are recognised as having an immutable yearning for those that precede and are to succeed the ones created from corrupted seed. Human ties to their young and elders are to be given the courtesy of existing and enduring as long as it does not harm any bond member. Only the state preserves the privilege of breaking bonds in exceptional circumstances. (Right to have a family, and for its unity to be respected)
- 2.2 - Humans are recognised to have bonds beyond their blood lineages, bonds of shared experienced, customs and traditions, to be known as proximal bonds. Proximal bonds are to be given the courtesy of enduring unless the state must use its total action privilege in exceptional circumstances. (Right to a community).
- 2.3 - It is recognised that Dlrocha, the creator, has bestowed the imperfect souls with the gifts, abilities and drive to speak, listen, see and feel. As such, the expression of language, art, tradition and the yearning to experience these expressions are not corruptions but elements of creation that are to be given the courtesy of existing. Nevertheless, they are lesser gifts and must exercise their expression in accordance with the higher natural order and not cause detriment to those tasked with the stewardship of creation.
Section 3: Ambulatory and Accumulative Indulgences
- 3.1: With the gift of will and the ability to transverse distances, appreciate the wonders within creation and the yearning to seek out opportunities and experiences. Humans are recognised as being granted the courtesy of movement within sovereign wolgos territories. The Wolgos, as the stewards of creation, have the responsibility of shepherding humans to maintain the balance of creation, a privilege delegated to and only to be exercised by the state.
- 3.2: Human movement and yearning to exercise their daily activities must not be capriciously restricted without the estate having a just cause or under exceptional circumstances.
- 3.3: Objects and items that humans have vested their labour on and obtained through harmonious means can be understood to be extensions of their imperfect soul's expression, as such they must not be capriciously seized without consent or recompense by Wolgos individuals or the state. Only the state may seize objects and items human claims as under their will with reasonable reason and only under exceptional circumstances.
- 3.4: Humans occupy a physical realm; Dlrocha has gifted humans with the ability to inhabit the physical realm, where they are tasked by a higher will to survive. As such, it is logical that humans seek out a place for shelter and comfort or to labour within. Such places must be recognised as under their domain as long as they are obtained through harmonious means and not to the detriment of the domain of others or the stewardship of creation by the willed ones and the state. Only when the claim of domain comes at the detriment of creation can the state of the preexisting domain be seized.
- 3.5: Humans endeavour to labour for survival, contributing to the prosperity of the Wolgos and the state. As such, it must be recognised that human labour has a value that needs satisfactory recompense to maintain harmony and a productive creation.
- 3.6: Human gains through their labour and the holding of harmoniously obtained objects of value, tokens of value and legal tender shall be given the courtesy of remaining in their possession without reasonable cause to seize, a privilege delegated by the Wolgos to the state.
Section 4: Human standing before the law, appeals and procedure
- 4.1 - Humans have been given by the creator the will and ability to express discomfort and distress. These expressions not only exist to reaffirm the standing of the willed ones and to comfort them in their duty of stewardship but also to guide the willed ones in shepherding the corrupted creations and maintaining harmony. As such, it is wise not only to take comfort in their distress but also to listen and understand them, to listen to them when respectfully expressed with the aim of enhancing the harmonious state of creation.
- The state shall listen to concerns from imperfect souls when made respectfully and harmoniously and act on complaints as it best promotes harmony and mutual progress and benefit.
- 4.2 - As the stewards of creation who delegate authority to the state, the wolgos, through the will of the state, will treat human affairs with impartiality, without favouritism and regardless of a humans religious or ethnic characteristics. Law enforcement and legal procedures will treat all humans with impartiality.
- 4.3 - Humans are given the indulgence of seeking intervention from the state in human matters to preserve harmony between humans and human communities.
- 4.4 - When a human harms or injures a Wolgos practically and metaphorically, they have perverted the naturally ordained order, Wolgos law enforcement and Wolgos arbitrators reserve the privilege of setting the balance and harmony in order to impose appropriate and exemplary punitive measures to the extent that the injury calls for.
- 4.5 - When a wolgos harms or injures a human practically and metaphorically, arbitrators will assess the extent of the injury, assess if redress is warranted, and, if so, negotiate an appropriate redress. In cases of grave action that leads to significant discord to the human, family or community, the Wolgos shall be compelled to be educated about the implications of their actions and the harm they caused to their stewardship in addition to redress provisions.
Books of the H2elyolegom Corpus
Book 1: Fundamental Guarantees and Indulgences
This book expands on the preamble and outlines further indulgences and guarantees, including judicial procedure and humans' duties to the Wolgos.
Book 2: Soul Bonds and Social Pacts
A book dealing with civil matters such as contracts, inheritance, property and family law.
Book 3: Offences and Infringements on Harmony and Retribution Procedure
The book has a comprehensive layout of what is treated as an offence to harmony and how harmony should be restored via arbitration and punishments. The book describes court procedure and the judicial system for humans and its intersections with the Wolgos system.
Book 4: Labour, Recompense and Safety
It covers all aspects of human employment in Hergom, compelled employment, unemployment penalties, workplace safety, salary rules, and procedures for grievances between involved parties.
Book 5: Economic and Financial Regulations
Book governing human businesses, trade, savings, interest, taxation and regulations on transactions. Outlines disharmonious practices and perversions of the natural order (infringements on Wolgos interests) and penalties.
Book 6: Affairs of Humans With the State
Outlines governance over humans, human interactions with the state, tribes and local government. outlines how humans can show deference and respect to the authorities and decorum for making petitions and voice concerns.
Book 7: Non-hindrance Guarantees for Auto-provision of Services and Welfare
Book that describes the state's commitment to not interfere with wolgos commerce and industry that aim to provide healthcare and other welfare services to the human market. It provides regulation to humans wishing to provide services to their communities and to Wolgos entrepreneurs wishing to do the same.
Book 8: Cultural and Religious Guarantees
This is a book outlining all affairs of culture and religion and the law pertaining to the expression of culture and religion. It outlines duties to harmony of the state and harmony of logos cultural and religious aspects.
===Book 9: Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
A book outlining both human and wolves-led arbitration and resolution procedure, pre-trial resolution and enforcement of resolutions.
===Book 10: Privileges of the State and State Security
A book that describes all the state powers, procedures pertaining to humans, privileges over humans and conditions for suspension of guarantees and indulgences.
Impact
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Physiology topics: Wolgos Psyche - Wolgos Development From Birth to Adulthood - Death for the Wolgos - Wolgos Sexuality - Wolgos Masculinity - Wolgos Womanhood | |||||
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| Dhonowlgos | The Bind | Hergom ep swekorwos | United New Kingdoms | ||
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History of Dhonowlgos: History of Dhonowlgos - Stained Era - Era of Rising Lilies
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| Politics & Economy |
Dhonowlgos Politics: Politics - Foreign Relations
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| Society & Culture |
Dhonowlgos Society: Monuments - Society - Brochs of Dhonowlgos
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| History & Geography |
History of The Bind: History - Geography - Military - Science - Brochs of The Bind
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| Politics & Economy |
Politics of The Bind: Politics - Military - Administrative Divisions of the Bind
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| Society & Culture |
Society in The Bind: Brochs of The Bind - communication in The Bind - Demographics
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| History & Geography |
History of The United New Kingdoms: History
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| Politics & Economy |
Politics of The United New Kingdoms: Politics - Military
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| Society & Culture |
Society and Culture in The United New Kingdoms: Wolgos Culture in the UNK - Demographics - Humans of the UNK
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