Supreme Court of Atlasia
Nyman, DC
Tack vs Atlasia
Opinion of the Court.
(Chief Justice Windjammer delivered the opinion of the Court)
After consideration of the submitted briefs and the facts of the case, the Court has come to a unanimous decision. Section 4 of the Atlasian Duels Act shall be struck down as follows:
HOUSE BILL
To reintroduce the practice of dueling to Atlasia.
Be it enacted in both Houses of Congress Assembled,
Atlasian Duels Act
1. Should there be a mutual agreement, any two Atlasians may engage in a duel.
2. Duels shall take place in a single match of any online game agreed upon by the participants, so long as the game can be fully recorded for independent verification.
3. A replay of the game must be saved and shared with others to confirm the duel happened and who won and who lost.
4. Whoever loses the duel shall be removed as a registered voter and prohibited from re-registering for a period of one week or two months, whichever the duelers mutually decide. Duelists may also agree to different terms provided that the agreement is made in public before the time of the duel. No citizen may be prohibited from re-registering for a period of longer than two months as the result of a duel.
The Atlasia Constitution gives Congress the right to regulate voter registration, and thus to regulate the right of voters to remain registered. The right of voters to remain registered shall not be considered as an unlisted natural right as it is listed in the Atlasian Constitution:
to regulate voter registration and federal elections.
Furthermore, according to Article 1 and Section 1 of the constitution, citizenship shall be defined as being registered into this political simulation:
All persons born or naturalized in the Republic of Atlasia, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the Republic of Atlasia and of the Region in which they reside, and shall in all cases be afforded equal protection under the law.
Thus, deregistered posters shall not possess the right of citizens to vote as they shall not be considered as citizens.
However, it is the opinion of the Court that the Atlasian Duel Act has established a new criminal offense , losing a duel, whose implementation violates Article 1 Section 5
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
For all criminal offenses established by Congress, a fair trial shall be held.
As the Atlasian Duel Act sentences Citizens of Atlasia, with no trial being held, to a temporary ban on reregistration, which shall be considered in that case as a criminal penalty following a criminal offense, losing a dual, the Atlasian Duel Act shall thus be struck down as follows:
Atlasian Duels Act
1. Should there be a mutual agreement, any two Atlasians may engage in a duel.
2. Duels shall take place in a single match of any online game agreed upon by the participants, so long as the game can be fully recorded for independent verification.
3. A replay of the game must be saved and shared with others to confirm the duel happened and who won and who lost.
4. Whoever loses the duel shall be removed as a registered voter and prohibited from re-registering for a period of one week or two months, whichever the duelers mutually decide. Duelists may also agree to different terms provided that the agreement is made in public before the time of the duel. No citizen may be prohibited from re-registering for a period of longer than two months as the result of a duel.
The Supreme Court would like to thank Attorney Truman and Citizen Tack for their cooperation
