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Constitutions of 1975 and of 1989

The Principality of Sealand

Constitution of 1975

Preliminary Remark

Sealand is an island in the southern part of the North Sea, Latitude 51-53 North, Longitude 01-28 East. The Principality of Sealand was founded in 1967 and founded as a sovereign state. The Sovereign of the Principality of Sealand H. H. Prince Roy of Sealand has proclaimed in 1975 a fundamental law to his state. Based on this constitution several laws became legal. The knowledge of present laws is fundamentally important for national and international relations.

This first publication of the gathered statutes gives also information of special laws, but they do not cancel the British Law of Contract and the British Common Law on which the law of the Principality of Sealand is a modern state of justice.

May 1976, Roy of Sealand

The Constitution 1975

In consciousness of his responsibility before God and before man, and inspired by the will to serve the cause of Peace for his People and for all peoples in the world, the sovereign ruler of the Principality of Sealand, His Majesty Prince Roy of Sealand, for himself and for his successors to the throne, by virtue of his constitutional authority resolves, swears and proclaims:

§ 1. 

§ 1.1.The dignity of man is unimpeachable. To respect and preserve this dignity is the duty of all national authority.

§ 1.2.The Sovereign and his people acknowledge the inviolable and inalienable rights of man as the basis of every human community, of freedom and of justice in the world, and recognise that these rights are in complete accord with the General Declaration of Human Rights as already defined by other States on December l0th, 1948.

§ 1.3.The following rights are binding on the Sovereign, his successors, the legislature, the executive authority and the administration of justice, as immediately effective law.

§ 2. 

§ 2.1.Everyone has the right to the free development of his or her personality, as far as this does not infringe upon the rights of others.

§ 2.2.Everyone has the right to life and physical safety. The freedom of the person is unassailable and may be restricted only by law.

§ 3.All men are equal before the law. No one may suffer prejudice because of his or her sex, descent, race, language, native land and extraction, his or her faith or religious convictions.

§ 4.

 

§ 4.1.A subject of the State is that person who possesses citizenship or acquires it.