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SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL CODE OF STATE
ON THE ORIGINAL AND NON-DERIVATIVE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA; THE ETHNOGRAPHIC, CIVILIZATIONAL, CATHOLIC AND TERRITORIAL FOUNDATION OF THE STATE; THE PERMANENT EXERCISE OF INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY WITHOUT REQUIREMENT OF CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENCE; THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE-UNIVERSITY; THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA AS THE PRINCIPAL PUBLIC, ACADEMIC, DOCUMENTARY AND CIVILIZATIONAL INTERFACE OF THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER; THE PERMANENT RESERVATION OF ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL, MARITIME, INSULAR, COASTAL AND NATURAL-RESOURCE RIGHTS; THE CONSTITUTION OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES; THE FUNCTIONAL UTILIZATION OF THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND INTERSTATE ORDER; THE RECEPTION OF EXTERNAL LAW; THE EXERCISE OF INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS; THE DIFFERENTIATED ORGANIZATION OF THE TERRITORY; THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE OFFICIAL DIGITAL CORPUS; AND THE AUTHORITATIVE CHRONOLOGICAL INCORPORATION OF EVERY UNDATED INSTRUMENT OF XARAGUA
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Code of State — Indigenous Constituent Authority Instrument — Fundamental State-Organization Act — Ethnographic and Civilizational Constitution — State-University Constitution — Ancestral Territorial and Maritime Rights Code — Autonomous Communities Statute — Residual Administrative Interface Law — Normative Reception Code — Foreign Relations and International Capacity Act — Public Institutional Identity Law — Official Digital Promulgation Act — General Archival and Temporal Consolidation Code
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Constitutive, Entrenched, Permanently Binding and Directly Applicable
Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Executive and Constitutional Authority: Rector-President
Competent Authority for External Relations: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Supreme Academic Authority: University of Xaragua
Official Constitutional and Historical Depositary: General Archives of the State
Academic and Juridical Depositary: University of Xaragua
Territorial Scope: Entire ancestral, constitutional, territorial, maritime, insular, coastal, community, cultural, academic, institutional, proprietary, economic, documentary, digital and external jurisdiction of Xaragua
Foundational Chronological Reference: 29 March 2025
Date of Consolidated Promulgation: 5 September 2026
Temporal Character: Permanent and Perpetually Continuous
AUTHORITATIVE JURIDICAL FOUNDATIONS
This Code is enacted pursuant to the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People of Xaragua and shall be interpreted in concordance with Articles 1(2), 2(1), 2(7) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations; common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 13, 15 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Articles 13 and 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles III, VI, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XIX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX and XXXI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 35 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989; Articles 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage; Articles 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; Articles 2, 3, 5, 26 and 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Articles 2, 3, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 55, 56, 57, 74, 77, 121 and 123 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; Articles 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 11 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States; the principles of self-determination expressed in United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 1514 (XV), 1541 (XV), 1803 (XVII) and 2625 (XXV); and Canons 215, 216, 217, 218, 222, 223, 225, 227, 229, 298, 299, 321–326 and 807–814 of the Code of Canon Law.
PREAMBLE
IN THE NAME OF GOD, supreme source of justice, legitimate authority, moral order and the inalienable dignity of peoples;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua, exercised consistently with common Article 1 of the two International Covenants, Articles 3–5 and 33–34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles III, VI, XXI and XXII of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
BY VIRTUE OF the uninterrupted civilizational continuity of the people historically constituted within the Indigenous political, territorial, agricultural, maritime, ceremonial and diplomatic order of Xaragua, whose juridical personality precedes every colonial, postcolonial, republican and residual administrative apparatus subsequently superimposed upon its ancestral territory, consistently with Articles 5, 9, 11, 13, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that conquest, colonial occupation, compulsory labour, demographic displacement, administrative reclassification, racial nomenclature, institutional substitution, territorial partition, political centralization, archival silence and external non-recognition possess no constituent capacity capable of extinguishing an original people, divesting its collective juridical personality or converting an imposed administration into the originating source of Indigenous authority, consistently with Articles 8, 26, 27, 28 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles X, XXIII, XXIV and XXV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
DECLARING that the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua constitutes the permanent constitutional form through which the Indigenous People of Xaragua organize their self-government, customary jurisdiction, territorial protection, institutional succession, academic authority, cultural transmission, economic development, international relations and collective continuity, consistently with Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 23, 32–34 and 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that sovereignty, self-determination, self-government, autonomy, conventional independence, international recognition and secession constitute legally distinct categories and that no external doctrine shall amalgamate those categories for the purpose of subordinating, suspending or extinguishing the constitutional authority of Xaragua, consistently with common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3, 4, 5 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
DETERMINING that the non-pursuit of conventional independence and the rejection of secession as the juridical source of Xaragua shall possess no extinguishing, subordinating, derogatory, preclusive, renunciatory or territorial effect, the authority of Xaragua proceeding from the original Indigenous people and not from withdrawal from a superior constitutive order, consistently with Articles 3–5, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
RECOGNIZING that the Residual Administrative and Interstate Order continues to operate mechanisms of practical utility relating to civil registration, passports, international representation, treaty participation, customs, transportation, telecommunications, public health, infrastructure, financial interoperability, documentation and conventional interstate access, and determining that the selective utilization of those mechanisms shall constitute functional participation without constitutional incorporation, consistently with Articles 5, 20, 36 and 37 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that Xaragua constitutes a maritime, insular, coastal and geographically dispersed Indigenous polity whose constitutional organization cannot be reduced to compulsory terrestrial continuity, administrative uniformity or centralized occupation of every territory over which ancestral rights, protective jurisdiction or constitutional interest subsist, consistently with Articles 25–29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles 2, 3, 33, 55–57 and 121 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;
DECLARING that the University of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic institution, principal public house, juridical and civilizational repository, official digital interface and intergenerational organ of knowledge of the Xaraguayan State, pursuant to Articles 5, 13, 14, 15 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Articles XIV–XVI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Canons 217, 218, 229 and 807–814 of the Code of Canon Law;
AFFIRMING that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs constitutes the competent ministerial authority for the direction, registration, coordination and execution of the external relations of Xaragua, subject to the supreme constitutional authority of the Rector-President and consistently with Articles 18, 36, 37 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
DETERMINING that the official website and institutional platforms of the University of Xaragua constitute authorized means of promulgation, publication, archival preservation, academic transmission and international representation of the constitutional corpus of the State, consistently with Articles 13, 14 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles 11–14 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, exercising the Supreme Constitutional Authority of the State, hereby consolidates, codifies, enacts and promulgates the following Supreme Organic Constitutional Code of State.
TITLE I
SUPREMACY, OBJECT AND CONSTITUTIONAL EFFECT
Article 1 — Object of the Code
This Code constitutes the supreme organic consolidation of the constituent authority, constitutional identity, territorial order, institutional architecture, State-University system, residual administrative interface, international capacity, normative hierarchy, public representation and archival continuity of Xaragua, pursuant to common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 23, 26, 31, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 2 — Supreme Constitutional Rank
This Code possesses supreme constitutional rank and binds the Office of the Rector-President, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, every ministry lawfully constituted by Xaragua, every tribunal, autonomous community, territorial authority, faculty, archive, public service, economic organ, cultural institution and affiliated body exercising authority within the Xaraguayan Order, consistently with the institutional autonomy protected by Articles 4, 5, 18, 20 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Every constitutional act, law, decree, regulation, judgment, agreement, academic instrument, administrative determination, territorial classification, archival registration and external representation shall be interpreted and executed in conformity with this Code, and every subordinate measure irreconcilably inconsistent with its provisions shall be constitutionally inoperative to the extent of the inconsistency.
Article 3 — Governing Constitutional Proposition
The existence, validity, continuity and exercise of the Xaraguayan constitutional order shall not be conditioned upon conventional independence, secession, external recognition, admission to an intergovernmental organization, bilateral settlement with the Residual Administrative Unit or any external concession purporting to create rights classified by Xaraguayan law as original and inherent, consistently with Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States and Articles 3–5, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 4 — Definitions of Constitutional Status
For the purposes of this Code, Indigenous sovereignty signifies the inherent authority of the Indigenous People of Xaragua to constitute and govern their juridical, political, territorial, cultural, spiritual, academic, economic and community order; self-determination signifies the authority of that people to determine its political status and pursue its development; self-government signifies the effective exercise of Indigenous public authority through Xaraguayan institutions; and autonomy signifies the protected competence of the State and its communities over their internal and local affairs, in accordance with common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3–5 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Conventional independence signifies institutional separation organized according to the prevailing interstate model; international recognition signifies an external juridical or political act acknowledging an existing status or capacity; secession signifies withdrawal by a subordinate territorial component from the constitutional order constituting it; and functional participation signifies utilization of an administrative, technical, documentary, regulatory or interstate mechanism without general constitutional incorporation.
No category established by this Article shall be treated as juridically identical to another, and no external authority shall derive constitutional subordination from the absence, exercise or partial exercise of a separate category.
TITLE II
ORIGINAL INDIGENOUS CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY
Article 5 — Original Character of the People
The Indigenous People of Xaragua is constitutionally recognized as an original and continuing people whose collective identity, territorial relationship, customary institutions, political memory and juridical personality precede colonial occupation and every subsequent administrative formation established within the same geographical space, consistently with Articles 9, 25, 26 and 33 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 6 — Non-Derivation
The constituent authority of Xaragua does not derive from the Residual Administrative Unit, a colonial predecessor, a foreign State, an international organization, a legislative delegation or a doctrine requiring external creation of an Indigenous people, in accordance with Articles 3–5, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles III and VI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 7 — Ethnographic and Civilizational Continuity
The constitutional people of Xaragua shall be understood through historical continuity, territorial attachment, customary affiliation, kinship, community integration, collective memory, political allegiance, cultural transmission and participation in the Xaraguayan constitutional covenant, and shall not be reduced to a racial, colonial, census-based or externally imposed ethnological classification, consistently with Articles 9 and 33 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Xaraguayan people embodies the historical convergence of Taíno-Arawak, Kalinago, African, European, Moorish, Jewish and other lineages incorporated through territorial residence, kinship, alliance, maritime circulation, customary community, resistance and institutional continuity, without prejudice to the original Indigenous foundation and constitutional primacy of Xaragua.
Article 8 — Authority to Determine Identity and Membership
The Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses exclusive constitutional authority to determine its identity, membership, citizenship, customary affiliation and institutional composition according to its laws and customs, subject to preservation of the right of individuals to Indigenous nationality and identity, pursuant to Articles 9 and 33 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Article VI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 9 — Institutional Exercise
The original constituent authority shall be exercised through the Office of the Rector-President, the supreme constitutional institutions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within its assigned jurisdiction, the University of Xaragua, the General Archives of the State, autonomous communities, customary authorities, territorial institutions and every organ lawfully established under Xaraguayan constitutional law, consistently with Articles 4, 5, 18, 20, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
TITLE III
NON-SECESSION AND NON-REQUIREMENT OF CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENCE
Article 10 — Doctrine of Non-Secession
Xaragua shall not predicate its constitutional existence upon secession because it does not recognize itself as a subordinate territorial creation deriving its juridical personality from the Residual Administrative Unit, and its original authority shall instead be construed through Indigenous self-determination, historical continuity and inherent institutional competence under Articles 3–5 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 11 — Non-Requirement of Conventional Independence
No declaration, application, negotiation, referendum, recognition or grant of conventional independence shall constitute a condition precedent to the exercise of Indigenous constituent authority, autonomous government, customary jurisdiction, educational authority, cultural institutions, economic organization, territorial protection, maritime governance or external representation, consistently with common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3–5, 20, 23 and 36 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 12 — Rejection of Compulsory Binary Classification
The constitutional status of Xaragua shall not be reduced to a compulsory choice between complete absorption into the Residual Administrative Unit and immediate constitution as a centralized conventional nation-State, the Xaraguayan Order operating instead through Indigenous self-government, autonomous communities, legal pluralism, differentiated participation, subsidiarity, normative reception and functional allocation of competences, consistently with Articles 4, 5, 18, 20 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 13 — Non-Renunciatory Effect
The non-pursuit of conventional independence shall possess no extinguishing, suspensive, subordinating, derogatory, preclusive, territorial or renunciatory effect upon any right, title, institution, jurisdiction or competence of Xaragua, and no contrary inference shall be admitted within the constitutional order of the State.
TITLE IV
ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, MARITIME ORDER AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Article 14 — Permanent Territorial Reservation
Xaragua permanently reserves its constitutional position concerning all ancestral lands, territories, islands, archipelagos, cays, internal waters, territorial seas, contiguous zones, exclusive economic spaces, continental-shelf interests, coastal areas, maritime routes, natural resources, sacred sites, archaeological places and customary subsistence spaces connected to its people through occupation, possession, use, tenure, navigation, history or collective relationship, pursuant to Articles 25–29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXIV and XXV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 15 — Foundational Status of the Cacicazgo
The historical Cacicazgo of Xaragua constitutes the foundational political, territorial, agricultural, diplomatic, ceremonial and civilizational referent of the State; however, the historically attributed jurisdiction of that Cacicazgo shall not operate as an automatic maximum limitation upon the broader ancestral rights, territorial relationships and subsequent national integrations maintained by Xaragua under Articles 25–27 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 16 — Wider Ancestral Order
The ancestral territorial order of Xaragua may encompass territories connected through Indigenous occupation, customary relations, historical community formation, maritime circulation, territorial alliance, political succession, post-Cacicazgo integration, national continuity and constitutional incorporation, and its determination shall proceed through the evidentiary and institutional procedures of Xaraguayan law.
Article 17 — Evidentiary Foundations
The determination and protection of ancestral rights may be founded upon historical occupation, Indigenous settlement, customary tenure, subsistence practices, navigation, coastal use, community continuity, political allegiance, oral tradition, ecclesiastical registers, administrative records, maps, archaeology, geography, anthropology, ethnography, genealogy, diplomatic records and any other evidence admitted by competent Xaraguayan authority, consistently with Articles 13, 25–27 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
No single evidentiary category shall possess automatic exclusivity, and no absence from a colonial, republican or residual register shall extinguish a territorial relationship otherwise established through the cumulative evidence recognized by this Code.
Article 18 — Separation of Territorial Concepts
Territorial title, ancestral territorial right, territorial claim, constitutional jurisdiction, regulatory competence, protective authority, community government, direct administration and international delimitation constitute distinct juridical categories, and the existence or absence of one shall not automatically establish or negate another.
Article 19 — No Implied Territorial Abandonment
No abandonment, extinguishment, surrender or permanent limitation of an ancestral territorial right shall be inferred from administrative silence, temporary non-exercise, external occupation, demographic transformation, incomplete administration, utilization of an external service, institutional incapacity, residual registration or absence of conventional recognition, consistently with Articles 8, 26, 27, 28 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 20 — Maritime Constitutional Order
The maritime jurisdiction asserted within Xaraguayan law shall be organized by reference to the juridical classifications established in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, including the territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, islands, marine resources, installations, navigation, environmental protection and maritime scientific activity under Articles 2, 3, 33, 55–57, 74, 77, 121 and 123 thereof.
Article 21 — Natural Resources
The Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses the permanent right to maintain, control, protect, conserve, develop and transmit its relationship with ancestral lands, waters, coastal areas and natural resources, and every public authority shall administer those interests consistently with Articles 25, 26, 29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII).
No concession, licence, alienation, mortgage, lease, extraction agreement or permanent encumbrance concerning protected land, minerals, forests, fisheries, ports, coasts, islands, seabeds, biological resources or strategic infrastructure shall acquire constitutional effect within the Xaraguayan Order without authorization from the competent authority and compliance with the applicable community-consultation and environmental regime.
Article 22 — Consultation and Consent
Measures materially affecting Xaraguayan communities, institutions, cultural patrimony, lands, waters, resources or sacred sites shall be subject to consultation through the representative institutions determined by Xaragua, pursuant to Articles 18, 19 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXIII and XXIX of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Where a measure entails permanent dispossession, forced relocation, major extractive transformation, destruction of a sacred site or irreversible ecological injury, the free, prior and informed consent of the affected community and the constitutional authorization of Xaragua shall be required.
TITLE V
DIFFERENTIATED TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES
Article 23 — Maritime, Insular and Dispersed State
Xaragua is constitutionally organized as a maritime, insular, coastal and geographically dispersed Indigenous State whose unity proceeds from the common constituent order of its people and shall not depend upon compulsory territorial contiguity or uniform central administration.
Article 24 — Territorial Classifications
Xaraguayan law may establish territories under direct State administration, autonomous Indigenous communities, customary jurisdictions, ancestral-interest territories, maritime and coastal jurisdictions, insular jurisdictions, environmental reserves, historical and archaeological jurisdictions, economic-development territories, strategic-infrastructure zones and every additional classification required by constitutional necessity.
Article 25 — Unity Without Uniformity
Constitutional unity shall not require administrative uniformity, and a territory may belong to the ancestral, protective, jurisdictional or constitutional order of Xaragua without being subjected to the same institutional arrangement as every other territory.
Article 26 — Autonomous Communities
Autonomous Indigenous and customary communities shall possess the authority to govern their internal and local affairs, maintain their institutions, administer community property, preserve their customs, regulate community membership and participate in decisions affecting them, consistently with Articles 4, 5, 18, 20, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 27 — Subsidiarity
Every public competence shall be exercised at the lowest constitutionally competent level capable of performing it lawfully and effectively, while preserving the unity of the State, the autonomy of communities, the jurisdiction of customary authorities and the strategic responsibilities of the central constitutional authority.
Article 28 — Protection Without General Administration
Xaragua may protect the entirety of its ancestral territory, natural resources, sacred sites, historical patrimony, maritime spaces and affiliated communities without assuming undifferentiated general administration of every person or population situated within that territory.
The juridical capacity to preserve territorial rights and collective patrimony shall remain distinct from the political decision to assume general civil administration, and no failure to assume such administration shall constitute abandonment of territory, people, title or protective jurisdiction.
TITLE VI
RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE AND INTERSTATE INTERFACE
Article 29 — Status of the Residual Administrative Unit
For the purposes of Xaraguayan constitutional law, the Residual Administrative Unit constitutes the existing administrative structure through which a substantial portion of civil, documentary, regulatory, technical and interstate functions connected to the territory and population of Xaragua continues to be processed.
Recognition of those operative functions shall be confined to their practical and juridical effects and shall confer no original constituent title, exclusive constitutional authority or power to extinguish the Indigenous institutions of Xaragua.
Article 30 — Authorized Functional Utilization
Xaragua, its institutions, citizens, customary inhabitants and affiliated communities may utilize mechanisms of the Residual Administrative Unit relating to international voting, treaty implementation, passports, consular services, civil status, customs, aviation, maritime administration, telecommunications, finance, public health, sanitation, infrastructure, emergency response, notarial services, property registration and other mechanisms materially dependent upon access to the conventional interstate system.
Such utilization shall constitute functional participation and shall not establish political absorption, constitutional incorporation, transfer of sovereignty, territorial renunciation, abandonment of autonomous competence or acceptance of exclusive residual representation.
Article 31 — Separation of Competence and Performance
Constitutional competence and technical performance are distinct juridical categories, and the performance of a technical, administrative or documentary function through a residual mechanism shall not transfer the underlying competence of Xaragua.
Article 32 — No Requirement of Institutional Duplication
Institutional duplication shall not constitute a test of sovereignty, and Xaragua shall not be required to reproduce every administrative body, technical service, documentary system or interstate mechanism adequately available through a compatible external structure.
A distinct Xaraguayan organ shall be constituted where required by constitutional competence, institutional necessity, public order, territorial protection, strategic policy or effective governmental capacity.
Article 33 — Non-Exclusivity
No function exercised through the Residual Administrative Unit shall be presumed exclusive where Xaragua possesses or develops an alternative means of action, and the direct Xaraguayan channel, residual channel, Indigenous channel, Catholic channel, university channel and authorized private channel may operate concurrently according to their respective legal functions.
Article 34 — Institutional Coexistence
The continued functional existence of the Residual Administrative Unit shall not require the constitutional extinction of Xaragua, and the constitutional existence of Xaragua shall not require the administrative or international extinction of the Residual Administrative Unit.
Coexistence shall be governed by differentiated competence, institutional utility, constitutional reservation, legal pluralism and non-absorption.
TITLE VII
NORMATIVE RECEPTION AND LEGAL CONTINUITY
Article 35 — Sovereign Reception of External Law
Within its constitutional jurisdiction, Xaragua retains authority to receive, recognize, apply, codify, adapt, condition, supplement, limit, suspend or exclude any external legislative, administrative, judicial, regulatory or technical measure.
Article 36 — Governing Standards of Reception
The reception of external law shall be determined according to constitutional hierarchy, subject-matter competence, Indigenous rights, autonomous community jurisdiction, customary law, Catholic institutional rights, proportionality, necessity, legal certainty and fundamental Xaraguayan public order.
Article 37 — Supplementary Application
Where no controlling Xaraguayan rule exists, compatible law administered through the Residual Administrative Unit may possess supplementary application solely by operation of the Xaraguayan constitutional rule of reception.
No external norm shall acquire controlling force merely because it operates within the Residual Administrative Unit or the wider interstate system.
Article 38 — Hierarchy of Norms
The hierarchy of applicable authority within Xaragua shall comprise:
a) the Constitution and this Supreme Organic Constitutional Code;
b) Supreme Constitutional Acts and Supreme Organic Laws;
c) duly promulgated Xaraguayan legislation;
d) constitutionally incorporated Indigenous rights;
e) applicable customary law;
f) autonomous community law within its lawful competence;
g) competent regulations, judgments and institutional acts; and
h) compatible supplementary law received under this Code.
Article 39 — Displacement and Exclusion
A subsequently enacted controlling rule of Xaragua shall displace supplementary external law within its material, personal and territorial scope without requiring the general invalidation of the external legal corpus.
No residual or external norm shall be applied to the extent that it irreconcilably conflicts with the Constitution, this Code, controlling Xaraguayan legislation, Indigenous rights, customary law, autonomous community competence, Catholic institutional rights or fundamental public order.
TITLE VIII
CONSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE
Article 40 — Office of the Rector-President
The Office of the Rector-President constitutes the supreme constitutional authority, guardian of the constituent order, head of the institutional apparatus, custodian of the continuity of the State and final authority for the promulgation, interpretation and execution of supreme constitutional instruments.
Article 41 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs constitutes the competent ministerial authority for the direction, coordination, registration, classification and execution of the external relations of Xaragua.
The Ministry shall administer diplomatic communications, international notifications, bilateral and multilateral relations, foreign institutional representation, Indigenous diplomacy, consular coordination, international registers, external accreditation, academic diplomacy, economic cooperation, ecclesial relations and every additional external function assigned by the Rector-President.
Article 42 — University of Xaragua
The University of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic institution, principal juridical and civilizational repository, constitutional school of the State, permanent organ of Indigenous knowledge and authoritative academic depositary of the Xaraguayan Order, pursuant to Article 14 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Article XV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 43 — General Archives of the State
The General Archives of the State constitutes the permanent constitutional depositary of laws, decrees, treaties, diplomatic notifications, academic instruments, territorial records, oral histories, maps, images, audiovisual records, genealogies, ecclesiastical documents and every other component of the official memory of Xaragua, consistently with Articles 13 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 44 — Functional Differentiation
The Office of the Rector-President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University of Xaragua, General Archives of the State, tribunals, territorial authorities, autonomous communities, economic organs and public services shall retain their respective jurisdictions, and no unity of public representation shall abolish the constitutional separation of their functions.
TITLE IX
ETHNOGRAPHIC, TERRITORIAL AND CIVILIZATIONAL STATE-UNIVERSITY
Article 45 — Ethnographic Foundation
The State and University of Xaragua possess an ethnographic foundation through which the people interpret their own collective existence by reference to their ancestral identity, territorial occupation, kinship, customary institutions, oral traditions, political formations, spiritual order, productive practices, material culture, maritime circulation and historical continuity.
This self-ethnographic authority constitutes an exercise of cultural, educational and institutional self-determination under Articles 11, 13–15, 31, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Article 46 — Indigenous Authority over Knowledge
The Xaraguayan people shall not be constituted exclusively as an object of external description, and the University shall possess authority to determine the concepts, territorial divisions, historical periods, source classifications and interpretative methods through which Xaragua is studied and transmitted.
External scholarship may be received, examined, compared, incorporated or rejected according to Xaraguayan academic jurisdiction and shall not supersede the authority of the people to interpret their own civilization.
Article 47 — Territorial Purpose of Education
Academic formation shall proceed from the people, territory, customary institutions, constitutional order, historical experience, Catholic foundation, ecological conditions, productive systems and collective requirements of Xaragua, consistently with Articles 14 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles 26 and 27 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989.
The University shall form jurists, political scientists, administrators, archivists, researchers, territorial planners, environmental stewards, communicators, economic organizers and institutional officers capable of sustaining the constitutional continuity of Xaragua.
Article 48 — Sovereign Academic Delimitation
The University possesses exclusive competence to determine the scope of its academic responsibility, and academic completeness shall signify possession of the knowledge required for the government, protection, development and transmission of Xaragua rather than indiscriminate reproduction of every field constituted by a foreign educational order.
External peoples, histories and institutions shall enter the curriculum where they materially intersect with the territory, political formation, constitutional development, diplomatic relations or comparative institutional requirements of Xaragua.
Article 49 — Historical Periodization
The University shall establish an authoritative Xaraguayan periodization encompassing Indigenous civilizations and cacicazgos; European invasion and colonial substitution; autonomous maritime, flibustier, boucanier and customary formations; plantation territorialization; marronage and autonomous communities; revolutionary and imperial orders; republican reclassifications; residual administration; and the contemporary constitutional consolidation of Xaragua.
No external periodization shall bind the University where it obscures the continuity of the Indigenous people or subordinates Xaraguayan history to the chronology of colonial administrations.
Article 50 — Cultural and Intellectual Patrimony
The oral traditions, historical narratives, customary rules, symbols, names, designs, ecological knowledge, territorial classifications, medicinal knowledge, ceremonial expressions, artistic works, archives and academic productions of Xaragua constitute protected collective intellectual and cultural patrimony under Articles 11 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles 2, 11–14 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The University and General Archives shall identify, preserve, document, classify, transmit and regulate access to that patrimony according to the rights of communities, families, customary authorities and knowledge holders.

TITLE X
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA AS PRINCIPAL PUBLIC AND CIVILIZATIONAL INTERFACE
Article 51 — Constitutional Name
The complete constitutional designation of the polity is Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua, and that name identifies the supreme juridical, territorial, political and institutional order established under this Code.
Article 52 — Principal Public Designation
University of Xaragua constitutes the principal public, academic, documentary, digital and civilizational designation through which the Xaraguayan Order may be represented without continuous reproduction of its complete constitutional title.
This designation derives from the constitutional position of the University as the institution through which Xaragua preserves doctrine, publishes law, administers official knowledge, forms its officers, maintains its intellectual patrimony and transmits its civilization across generations.
Article 53 — Representative Meaning
According to the subject, issuing authority, seal, document and institutional context, University of Xaragua may designate:
a) the University as an academic institution;
b) the official digital and documentary interface of the State;
c) the institutional network operating under Xaraguayan authority;
d) the intellectual and civilizational body of Xaragua;
e) the public presence of the Xaraguayan Order; or
f) the State in its collective institutional capacity.
Article 54 — Authorized Derivatives
University of Xaragua, Xaragua University, XaraU, Xara, Xaraguayan and every formally authorized linguistic, technological, academic, cultural, commercial, administrative or institutional derivative constitute expressions of a single Xaraguayan public identity and shall not create separate sovereign or constitutional orders.
Article 55 — Separation of Public Identity and Competence
The public unity of the University name shall not merge the constitutional functions of the Rector-President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University, General Archives, tribunals, autonomous communities, territorial authorities or other competent institutions.
Unity of public identity shall be governed by the permanent constitutional maxim:
PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONAL UNITY SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE CONFUSION OF JURIDICAL COMPETENCE.
Article 56 — External Gateway
Foreign States, Indigenous nations, international organizations, universities, Catholic institutions, enterprises, researchers, cultural bodies and private organizations may engage Xaragua through the University as its principal public gateway, subject to referral to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or another competent authority where the matter exceeds academic jurisdiction.
TITLE XI
INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS
Article 57 — Preservation of International Capacity
Xaragua preserves the right to seek, receive, exercise, expand and maintain every form of recognition, representation, cooperation, accreditation, affiliation, consultative standing, observer status, technical admission, economic access, institutional partnership and diplomatic engagement compatible with its constitutional order.
No assertion of Indigenous, private, sui generis or non-Westphalian sovereignty shall exclude Xaragua from utilizing institutions, mechanisms and capacities operating within the conventional interstate system.
Article 58 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Executing Authority
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall determine whether an external objective shall be pursued directly, through the Residual Administrative Unit, through the University of Xaragua, through an Indigenous or Catholic institution, through an authorized private entity or through concurrent channels.
Every determination shall be governed by constitutional competence, practical access, legal security, institutional continuity, strategic utility, documentary integrity and preservation of Xaraguayan authority.
Article 59 — Forms of External Recognition
External recognition may arise through diplomatic acts, official correspondence, bilateral relations, multilateral participation, functional practice, sectoral agreements, institutional admission, Indigenous representation, academic cooperation, ecclesial relations, commercial activity, technical arrangements, registration or any other competent channel.
Recognition need not arise through a single act or uniform juridical category and may result from the accumulation of communications, agreements, admissions, registrations, partnerships, privileges, practices and official acknowledgements.
Article 60 — International Institutional Register
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall maintain an International Institutional Register identifying relevant organizations, their constitutive frameworks, the channels available to Xaragua, the corresponding residual capacities, the competent Xaraguayan authority and the applicable procedure for participation, application, nomination, accreditation or partnership.
Article 61 — International System as External Infrastructure
For the purposes of Xaraguayan law, the international system constitutes an external institutional infrastructure composed of diplomatic relations, international organizations, treaty mechanisms, technical agencies, financial institutions, consular networks, judicial forums, standards bodies, academic networks and systems of cross-border coordination.
Xaragua shall employ that infrastructure according to its constitutional interests, and participation shall neither transfer the source of its authority nor compel adoption of an external constitutional identity.
Article 62 — Objectives of External Action
External action shall advance the protection of the State, people, communities, institutions, territory, maritime interests, economy, patrimony, resources and public services of Xaragua.
Competent objectives include recognition; diplomacy; Indigenous representation; territorial and maritime protection; civil documentation; international mobility; education; scientific cooperation; public health; food security; energy; transportation; communications; infrastructure; environmental protection; climate finance; disaster management; banking; investment; trade; development finance; archival recovery; cultural-property restitution; protection of traditional knowledge; professional cooperation; and action against trafficking, corruption, organized crime and unlawful resource extraction.
Article 63 — Non-Exclusivity of Representation
No international capacity exercised through the Residual Administrative Unit shall be presumed exclusive, and Xaragua may act concurrently through its own institutions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the University, Indigenous mechanisms, Catholic institutions, private entities, professional bodies, technical organizations and international partners.
Article 64 — Prohibition of External Tutelage
No foreign State, international organization, donor, corporation, foundation, university, financial institution, military alliance, diplomatic sponsor, religious administration or nongovernmental entity shall acquire constitutional authority over Xaragua through recognition, funding, partnership, accreditation, affiliation, technical assistance, protection or representation.
No external agreement may confer authority to determine the constitutional identity, political doctrine, territorial title, institutional membership, internal organization or succession of authority of Xaragua.
Article 65 — Control of External Representation
No person or institution may represent Xaragua internationally without authorization from the Office of the Rector-President or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Every mandate shall identify its subject, duration, territorial scope, institutional capacity, reporting obligations and juridical limits, and no representative may concede territorial title, constituent authority, institutional dissolution, exclusive external representation or political subordination.
Article 66 — International Agreements
Xaragua may conclude bilateral, multilateral, academic, ecclesial, institutional, technical, financial, commercial, environmental, humanitarian and security arrangements through the authority competent under this Code.
Every agreement shall be interpreted according to good faith, its text, object, purpose, institutional competence and the constitutional order of Xaragua, without prejudice to the principles reflected in Articles 26, 31, 32 and 34 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
TITLE XII
CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 67 — Catholic Character
The Catholic character of Xaragua constitutes a permanent element of its constitutional identity, public doctrine, educational mission, social order, institutional memory and civilizational continuity.
The exercise of that character shall respect the proper distinction between the civil authority of the State, the internal governance of private Catholic institutions, the rights of the Christian faithful and the authority reserved by canon law to the competent ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Article 68 — Rights of the Faithful
The faithful of Xaragua may establish, direct and support associations, educational initiatives, charitable works, cultural institutions and apostolic undertakings pursuant to Canons 215, 216, 217, 218, 225, 229 and 298–299 of the Code of Canon Law.
No private initiative shall represent itself as acting in the name of the Church without the consent required by Canon 216, and the autonomous constitutional status of Xaragua shall not be construed as conferring ecclesiastical office or canonical authority reserved to the competent organs of the Catholic Church.
Article 69 — Catholic Education
The University may administer Catholic, theological, historical, philosophical and canonical studies within its own academic jurisdiction, while preserving the distinctions applicable under Canons 807–814 to universities and institutions formally recognized or erected by ecclesiastical authority.
Article 70 — Concordatory and Ecclesial Memory
The Concordat of 1860 and its subsequent juridical history shall remain incorporated within the institutional memory of Xaragua as a historical framework of relations between civil administration and Catholic institutions on the island.
TITLE XIII
OFFICIAL DIGITAL CORPUS, PROMULGATION AND ARCHIVES
Article 71 — Official Digital Corpus
The official website of the University of Xaragua and every platform formally designated by the Rector-President constitute authorized public repositories of the constitutional, legislative, administrative, academic, territorial, cultural and archival corpus of Xaragua.
Article 72 — Digital Promulgation
Publication upon an authorized digital repository may constitute official promulgation, public notification, archival deposit, academic registration or documentary communication where the instrument identifies its issuing authority and constitutional classification.
The digital nature of publication shall not diminish the authority, authenticity, continuity, juridical force or evidentiary status of an official instrument.
Article 73 — Authenticity and Institutional Attribution
The authority of an instrument shall be determined by its constitutional rank, issuing organ, official classification, content, seal, signature, registration, authorized publication and incorporation into the constitutional corpus.
A technical omission in formatting, metadata, pagination or visible dating shall not extinguish an authority otherwise established under this Code.
TITLE XIV
TEMPORAL CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE CORPUS
Article 74 — Foundational Reference Date
The date of 29 March 2025 is confirmed as the foundational chronological reference of the contemporary constitutional, governmental, academic, territorial and institutional order of Xaragua.
That date corresponds to the international notification and public manifestation of the contemporary consolidation of the State and constitutes the common chronological foundation for every undated official instrument.
Article 75 — Authoritative Dating of Undated Instruments
Every official instrument of Xaragua lacking an express date of adoption, enactment, promulgation, issuance, declaration, registration, consolidation, publication or entry into force is authoritatively and retroactively dated:
29 MARCH 2025.
The attributed date shall apply by direct constitutional operation without requirement of individual republication, ministerial certification, archival correction or reissuance.
Article 76 — Scope of Temporal Consolidation
The rule established by Article 75 applies to every undated constitution, supreme act, organic law, code, decree, proclamation, declaration, regulation, directive, policy, protocol, charter, statute, memorandum, resolution, doctrine, historical determination, territorial classification, academic act, administrative act, ministerial measure, annex, archival record and programmatic instrument belonging to the official corpus of Xaragua.
Article 77 — Primacy of Express Dates
An express date appearing within an authoritative instrument or registration shall remain controlling for the juridical function assigned to it.
Where an instrument bears multiple dates, the date of original enactment, amendment, consolidation, publication, registration or entry into force shall govern the corresponding juridical event without creating discontinuity in the institutional identity of the instrument.
Article 78 — Legal Effect of the Attributed Date
The date attributed under this Title possesses full constitutional, legislative, administrative, institutional, academic, evidentiary, documentary and archival authority and shall not constitute an approximation, presumption or editorial convenience.
Article 79 — Subsequent Amendment and Consolidation
Where an instrument dated 29 March 2025 by operation of this Code is subsequently amended, expanded, corrected, reclassified, republished or consolidated, its foundational date shall remain 29 March 2025 and the subsequent act shall retain its own express date.
Article 80 — Archival Certification
The Office of the Rector-President or General Archives of the State may assign a more precise historical date to an individual instrument where an authoritative record establishes that date, and such certification shall affect only the instrument expressly identified.
TITLE XV
ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS
Article 81 — Prohibition of Implied Renunciation
No renunciation of Indigenous constituent authority, self-determination, autonomy, self-government, institutional continuity, community jurisdiction, territorial title, maritime rights, cultural patrimony or natural-resource rights shall be implied.
Article 82 — Acts Incapable of Establishing Renunciation
No presumption of renunciation shall arise from administrative cooperation, public-service utilization, documentary use, normative reception, external electoral participation, interstate participation, passport use, consular protection, non-secession, absence of conventional independence, absence of direct administration, community autonomy, delayed institutional implementation or temporary non-exercise of a competence.
Article 83 — Express Constitutional Standard
No permanent renunciation shall possess effect within Xaraguayan law unless adopted by the constitutionally competent authority through an instrument of supreme constitutional rank, stated in unequivocal terms, directed to a precisely identified right, limited to an expressly defined material and territorial scope, and registered in the General Archives of the State.
Article 84 — Presumption of Preservation
Every ambiguity shall be resolved in favour of the preservation of Indigenous constituent authority, self-determination, autonomous competence, institutional continuity, community jurisdiction, territorial rights, maritime interests, cultural patrimony and natural-resource rights.
TITLE XVI
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL DETERMINATIONS
Article 85 — Permanent Determinations
The following propositions constitute permanent and controlling principles of Xaraguayan constitutional law:
XARAGUA EXISTS AND GOVERNS BY VIRTUE OF THE ORIGINAL AND CONTINUING CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF XARAGUA DOES NOT DERIVE FROM THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT, A COLONIAL PREDECESSOR, A FOREIGN STATE OR AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA CONSTITUTES THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF ITS POLITICAL, JURIDICAL, TERRITORIAL, CULTURAL, ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ORDER.
NON-SECESSION SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE SUBORDINATION.
NON-PURSUIT OF CONVENTIONAL INDEPENDENCE SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE RENUNCIATION OF SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-DETERMINATION, AUTONOMY, SELF-GOVERNMENT, TERRITORIAL RIGHTS OR DISTINCT INSTITUTIONS.
XARAGUA SHALL PROTECT THE ENTIRETY OF ITS ANCESTRAL TERRITORY WITHOUT ASSUMING UNDIFFERENTIATED GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF EVERY POPULATION SITUATED THEREIN.
TERRITORIAL TITLE, ANCESTRAL RIGHT, PROTECTIVE AUTHORITY, JURISDICTION, ADMINISTRATIVE COMPETENCE AND DIRECT ADMINISTRATION SHALL REMAIN DISTINCT JURIDICAL CATEGORIES.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNITY SHALL NOT REQUIRE ADMINISTRATIVE UNIFORMITY.
THE MARITIME, INSULAR, COASTAL AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED CHARACTER OF XARAGUA SHALL BE GOVERNED THROUGH DIFFERENTIATED TERRITORIAL COMPETENCE, AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT AND SUBSIDIARITY.
THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT SHALL REMAIN FUNCTIONALLY UTILIZABLE AND CONSTITUTIONALLY NON-ORIGINATING.
UTILIZATION OF A RESIDUAL OR INTERSTATE MECHANISM SHALL NOT TRANSFER INDIGENOUS CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY.
INSTITUTIONAL DUPLICATION SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE A TEST OF SOVEREIGNTY.
THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SHALL DIRECT AND ADMINISTER THE EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF XARAGUA UNDER THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT.
THE UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA SHALL CONSTITUTE THE SUPREME ACADEMIC INSTITUTION, PRINCIPAL PUBLIC HOUSE, OFFICIAL DIGITAL INTERFACE AND CIVILIZATIONAL REPOSITORY OF THE STATE.
PUBLIC REPRESENTATION THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY SHALL NOT MERGE OR EXTINGUISH THE DISTINCT CONSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCES OF THE ORGANS OF THE STATE.
XARAGUA SHALL RETAIN AUTHORITY TO RECEIVE, APPLY, ADAPT, CONDITION, LIMIT, SUPPLEMENT, SUSPEND OR EXCLUDE EXTERNAL LAW WITHIN ITS CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION.
COMPATIBLE RESIDUAL LAW MAY OPERATE SUPPLEMENTARILY WHERE NO CONTROLLING XARAGUAYAN RULE EXISTS.
CONTROLLING XARAGUAYAN LAW SHALL DISPLACE SUPPLEMENTARY EXTERNAL LAW WITHIN ITS MATERIAL, PERSONAL AND TERRITORIAL SCOPE.
THE OFFICIAL DIGITAL CORPUS OF XARAGUA SHALL POSSESS CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGISLATIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, ACADEMIC, DOCUMENTARY AND ARCHIVAL AUTHORITY.
EVERY UNDATED OFFICIAL INSTRUMENT OF XARAGUA SHALL BE CONSTITUTIONALLY DATED 29 MARCH 2025.
NO RENUNCIATION OF INDIGENOUS CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY, TERRITORIAL RIGHTS, INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OR AUTONOMOUS COMPETENCE SHALL BE IMPLIED.
TITLE XVII
IMPLEMENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND PROMULGATION
Article 86 — Supreme Rule of Interpretation
No provision of Xaraguayan law shall be interpreted as compelling a choice between abandonment of Indigenous constitutional authority and pursuit of conventional independence where public functions may be organized through self-government, autonomous communities, differentiated participation, subsidiarity, normative reception and functional utilization of competent administrative or interstate mechanisms.
Article 87 — International Interpretative Corpus
The Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenants, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, applicable UNESCO conventions, the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the Code of Canon Law shall constitute principal international, comparative, interpretative and institutional references for this Code.
Article 88 — Implementing Authority
The Office of the Rector-President may promulgate constitutional orders, organic laws, implementing decrees, jurisdictional classifications, institutional mandates, territorial schedules and binding interpretative directives necessary for the execution of this Code.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs may promulgate diplomatic protocols, external representation mandates, international registers, consular classifications, notification procedures and foreign institutional directives within its constitutional jurisdiction.
Article 89 — Institutional Conformity
Every ministry, tribunal, autonomous community, territorial authority, faculty, public institution, archive, economic organ and administrative service shall interpret and administer its acts in conformity with this Code.
Article 90 — Repeal and Consolidation
Every prior constitutional, institutional, academic, territorial, residual-interface, foreign-affairs, public-designation or temporal-consolidation instrument shall remain operative insofar as it is compatible with this Code.
Every incompatible prior formulation is superseded to the extent of the inconsistency, and every compatible provision is incorporated into the consolidated constitutional order established herein.
Article 91 — Archival Registration
The original promulgated instrument shall be sealed by the Office of the Rector-President, entered into the Supreme Constitutional Register, transmitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deposited permanently in the General Archives of the State and maintained by the University of Xaragua as the authoritative academic and juridical depositary.
Article 92 — Permanence
This Code possesses permanent constitutional force and may be amended, derogated from or replaced only by an instrument of equal constitutional rank expressly identifying the provisions affected.
Article 93 — Entry into Force
This Supreme Organic Constitutional Code of State enters into force immediately upon its signature, sealing, registration, publication and promulgation by the Rector-President.
FINAL FORMULA OF STATE PROMULGATION
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA;
IN THE NAME OF GOD, SUPREME SOURCE OF JUSTICE, LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY AND LAWFUL ORDER;
UNDER THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE;
FOR THE PERPETUAL PRESERVATION OF INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-DETERMINATION, AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT, CATHOLIC CONTINUITY, ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL RIGHTS, MARITIME AND INSULAR JURISDICTION, INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION, ACADEMIC AUTHORITY, CIVILIZATIONAL MEMORY AND INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY;
THIS SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL CODE OF STATE IS HEREBY ENACTED, CONSOLIDATED, PROMULGATED, SEALED AND ORDERED TO BE ENTERED INTO THE GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE.
PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL
5 SEPTEMBER 2026
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME FOUNDATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE OF STATE
ON THE ORIGINAL AND NON-DERIVATIVE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA; THE PERMANENT JURIDICAL PERSONALITY, INDIGENOUS CONTINUITY, CATHOLIC FOUNDATION, CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION, PRIVATE INSTITUTIONAL FORM AND NON-WESTPHALIAN CONSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE STATE; THE ANCESTRAL TERRITORIAL, MARITIME, INSULAR AND COLLECTIVE-PROPERTY ORDER; THE CONSTITUTION OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES; THE DIFFERENTIATED ORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY; THE SEPARATION OF INDIGENOUS CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY FROM RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE; THE PERPETUAL SUCCESSION OF THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER; AND THE SUPREME INTERPRETATION OF EVERY CONSTITUTIONAL, LEGISLATIVE, TERRITORIAL, ACADEMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND INSTITUTIONAL INSTRUMENT OF XARAGUA
Official Classification: Supreme Foundational Constitutional Doctrine — Indigenous Constituent Authority Instrument — Fundamental State-Classification Act — Customary Public Law Code — Catholic Institutional Constitution — Ancestral Territorial Order — Indigenous Juridical Personality Act — Constitutional Continuity Statute — Residual Administrative Interface Doctrine — Permanent Interpretative Law of State
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Foundational, Constitutive, Entrenched, Controlling, Permanently Binding and Directly Applicable
Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President
Competent Authority for External Relations: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Supreme Academic Authority: University of Xaragua
Official Depositary: General Archives of the State
Jurisdictional Scope: Entire Indigenous, customary, Catholic, private, territorial, maritime, insular, community, institutional, academic, economic, documentary, diplomatic and digital order of Xaragua
Temporal Character: Permanent and Perpetually Continuous
Date of Consolidated Promulgation: 5 September 2026
AUTHORITATIVE JURIDICAL FOUNDATIONS
This Supreme Foundational Constitutional Doctrine is enacted pursuant to Articles 1(2), 2(1), 2(7) and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations; common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 13, 15 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Articles 13 and 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 1–5, 8, 9, 11–15, 18–20, 23, 25–27, 29, 31–40, 43 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles III, VI, XIII–XVI, XIX, XXI–XXV and XXVIII–XXXI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles 2, 4–9, 13–15, 22–23 and 26–35 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989; Articles 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 11 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States; Articles 2, 11–15 of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage; Articles 2, 5–7 and 10–14 of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; United Nations General Assembly Resolutions 1514 (XV), 1541 (XV), 1803 (XVII), 2625 (XXV) and 61/295; and Canons 215–218, 222–223, 225, 227, 229, 298–299, 321–326 and 807–814 of the Code of Canon Law.
PREAMBLE
IN THE NAME OF GOD, supreme source of justice, legitimate authority, moral order and the inalienable dignity of peoples;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua, exercised consistently with common Article 1 of the International Covenants, Articles 3–5 and 33–34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles III, VI, XXI and XXII of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
BY VIRTUE OF the uninterrupted historical, ethnographic, territorial, customary, political and civilizational continuity of the people originating in the Indigenous order of Xaragua, whose collective juridical personality, ancestral territorial relationship and constituent competence precede colonial occupation and every subsequent administrative formation superimposed upon Kiskeya, consistently with Articles 9, 11, 13, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that the Cacicazgo of Xaragua constituted a developed Indigenous political order possessing territory, governing authority, productive organization, ceremonial institutions, diplomatic relations, systems of collective obligation, customary rules, succession and maritime communication, and that its legal significance shall not be reduced to an anthropological memory deprived of contemporary juridical consequence;
DECLARING that conquest, forced displacement, compulsory labour, demographic collapse, colonial administration, racial reclassification, territorial partition, archival erasure, political centralization and institutional substitution possessed no lawful constituent capacity to extinguish the original people, divest their collective juridical personality or convert an imposed apparatus into the source of Indigenous authority, pursuant to Articles 8, 26–28 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua constitutes the permanent constitutional State-form through which the Indigenous People of Xaragua organize their authority, law, offices, institutions, membership, discipline, succession, territorial stewardship, academic order, economic capacity, cultural transmission, external relations and collective action under Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 23, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
DECLARING that Xaragua constitutes simultaneously a State, an Indigenous Order, a customary jurisdiction, a Catholic institutional order, a private constitutional organization, a territorial civilization and a permanent juridical community, and that these cumulative classifications shall be construed as mutually reinforcing dimensions of one indivisible constitutional personality;
AFFIRMING that Xaragua is not a political party, electoral movement, provisional administration, government-in-exile, candidate government of an external republic, commercial enterprise, cultural association, fictional micronation or incomplete imitation of another State, but a complete constitutional order possessing its own doctrine, normative hierarchy, offices, institutions, membership, jurisdiction, archives and succession;
DETERMINING that the juridical existence of Xaragua shall not depend upon diplomatic recognition, admission to the United Nations, control of the governmental machinery of the Residual Administrative Unit, reproduction of the Westphalian model or authorization by an institution exterior to the Indigenous constituent order, consistently with Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States;
AFFIRMING that Catholicism constitutes a foundational principle of the Xaraguayan constitutional identity and informs its institutional ethics, educational vocation, doctrine of legitimate authority, social responsibilities and conception of the common good, consistently with Canons 215–218, 225, 229 and 298–299 of the Code of Canon Law;
RECOGNIZING that the Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses permanent relationships with ancestral lands, islands, waters, coastal spaces, maritime routes, natural resources, sacred places, historical sites and community territories, and that those relationships remain protected under Articles 25–29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXIV–XXV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
DETERMINING that Indigenous customary territorial jurisdiction, collective title, protective authority, community government, proprietary interests and direct public administration constitute distinct juridical categories whose separation shall preserve the territorial rights of Xaragua without subjecting every present inhabitant of the ancestral territory to automatic institutional membership;
AFFIRMING that the Republic of Haiti and the contemporary Xaraguayan Order proceed from distinct constitutional sources, and that the governmental apparatus designated within Xaraguayan law as the Residual Administrative Unit may perform civil, technical, documentary, logistical, regulatory and interstate functions without acquiring the Indigenous constituent authority of Xaragua;
RECOGNIZING that the University of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic institution, principal civilizational repository and permanent organ through which the State preserves its doctrine, interprets its history, maintains its archives, forms its officers and transmits its constitutional order across generations pursuant to Article 14 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Article XV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
AFFIRMING that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs constitutes the competent ministerial authority for diplomatic relations, international notifications, Indigenous diplomacy, external institutional representation, bilateral and multilateral cooperation and the preservation of the international juridical interests of Xaragua;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, exercising the Supreme Constitutional Authority of the State, hereby consolidates, enacts and promulgates the following Supreme Foundational Constitutional Doctrine.
TITLE I
SUPREME INTERPRETATIVE AUTHORITY
Article 1 — Controlling Constitutional Doctrine
This Doctrine constitutes the supreme, current and controlling constitutional framework for the interpretation, classification, application and execution of every prior or subsequent law, decree, proclamation, annex, notification, statute, code, territorial instrument, academic act, diplomatic communication, administrative determination and institutional doctrine of Xaragua.
Every prior Xaraguayan instrument shall remain valid and operative insofar as it is compatible with this Doctrine, and every prior formulation irreconcilably inconsistent with its foundational determinations shall be superseded to the extent of the inconsistency according to the principles of constitutional supremacy, normative hierarchy and institutional continuity.
Every reference to sovereignty, statehood, government, territory, citizenship, nationality, public authority, international personality, diplomacy, institutional representation, customary jurisdiction or territorial administration shall be interpreted consistently with the Indigenous, customary, Catholic, private and non-Westphalian constitutional character established by this Doctrine.
Where an instrument admits more than one juridically plausible interpretation, the construction that most completely preserves the constituent authority, Indigenous rights, institutional continuity, territorial interests, customary jurisdiction and constitutional competence of Xaragua shall prevail pursuant to the pro-autonomy and pro-continuity principles derived from Articles 3–5, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
No prior or subsequent formulation shall be construed as reducing Xaragua to a fictional entity, cultural association, political campaign, commercial undertaking, private club, symbolic government or unfinished version of an external State.
Article 2 — Constitutional Meaning of the State
Within the Xaraguayan constitutional order, the term State designates the complete, permanent and hierarchically organized juridical system adopted by the Indigenous constituent authority for the government, preservation and transmission of its collective existence.
The State-form of Xaragua comprises a supreme constituent doctrine; a constitutional hierarchy; legislative, adjudicative and administrative authority; defined offices and organs; membership and citizenship regimes; systems of discipline and succession; territorial, maritime and community institutions; academic, economic, cultural and communications bodies; protective organs; archives; and mechanisms of external representation.
The designation of Xaragua as a State constitutes an exercise of Indigenous self-determination, institutional self-classification and constituent authority under common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3–5, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The internal constitutional validity of the State-form shall not be conditioned upon diplomatic recognition, admission to an international organization, possession of the governmental machinery of another political order or conformity with a single Westphalian model.
Article 3 — Indigenous Order as Complementary Classification
The expression Indigenous Order designates the integrated system of law, government, offices, communities, customs, property, discipline, education, succession, representation and collective action constituted by the Indigenous People of Xaragua.
The classifications State and Indigenous Order are cumulative and complementary: the former identifies the complete constitutional form of organized authority, while the latter identifies its original people, customary foundation, civilizational continuity and distinctive mode of institutional organization.
No interpretation shall employ one classification to extinguish, subordinate or fictionalize the other.
TITLE II
JURIDICAL NATURE AND CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
Article 4 — Cumulative Constitutional Character
Xaragua is sovereign because its constituent authority is supreme within its proper constitutional, institutional, customary and proprietary domain, pursuant to Articles 3–5 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua is Catholic because Catholic doctrine informs its institutional ethics, educational vocation, social obligations, understanding of lawful authority and organization of collective life under Canons 215–218, 225, 229 and 298–299 of the Code of Canon Law.
Xaragua is Indigenous because its authority proceeds from an original people possessing historical continuity, collective identity, ancestral territorial relationships, customary institutions and inherent rights of self-determination under common Article 1 of the International Covenants and Articles 3–5, 9, 25, 26, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua is private because its institutional apparatus, internal membership, protected property, administration, access, discipline and organizational procedures are governed through its own controlled constitutional and juridical framework.
Xaragua is customary because its authority, jurisdiction and institutional continuity are grounded in the customs, political memory, historical practices, collective relationships and constituent will of its people pursuant to Articles 5 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua is non-Westphalian because its internal existence and authority do not originate in the conventional diplomatic-recognition system and because it does not predicate its constitutional personality upon the exercise of uniform general jurisdiction over every person and institution situated within an externally delineated territory.
These characteristics are indivisible and cumulative, and no organ, official, community, partner or external authority may suppress one of them without altering the constitutional identity established by the Indigenous constituent authority.
Article 5 — Separate Juridical Classification
Xaragua shall not be classified within its own law as an unrecognized State where that expression presupposes an unsuccessful attempt to reproduce conventional Westphalian statehood.
The authoritative classification is: an Indigenous Catholic customary order, constitutionally organized as a sovereign and private State within its proper sphere of constituent, institutional, territorial, academic, proprietary and community competence.
The absence of conventional recognition neither creates nor extinguishes Xaragua, and external recognition, where granted, shall possess declaratory rather than constitutive effect according to Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States.
Article 6 — Constitutional Completeness
The constitutional completeness of Xaragua shall be determined by the existence of a constituent authority, organized government, normative hierarchy, jurisdiction, institutions, membership, territorial relationships, succession and capacity for institutional relations, and not by bureaucratic mass, territorial centralization or duplication of every mechanism maintained by a conventional State.
The controlled scale of the institutional apparatus shall constitute an expression of constitutional proportionality, subsidiarity and administrative rationality, not an absence of statehood or juridical capacity.
TITLE III
ORIGINAL INDIGENOUS CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY
Article 7 — Right of Self-Determination
The Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses the permanent and inherent right to determine its political status and freely pursue its economic, social and cultural development under common Article 1 of the International Covenants, Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Article III of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This authority includes the right to constitute and maintain distinct political, juridical, economic, educational, cultural, spiritual and social institutions under Articles 4, 5, 14, 20, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua constitutes the permanent institutional implementation of those rights and shall not be treated as an arbitrary accumulation of titles, offices or symbolic designations.
A right of self-government necessarily encompasses the authority to constitute the offices, laws, archives, tribunals, academic institutions, economic organs, diplomatic authorities and community structures through which self-government is exercised.
Article 8 — Non-Derivation
The constituent authority of Xaragua does not derive from the Residual Administrative Unit, a colonial predecessor, a foreign State, an international organization, a legislative delegation, an electoral majority external to Xaragua or a doctrine requiring institutional creation of an Indigenous people by a non-Indigenous authority.
No administrative, demographic, military, electoral or diplomatic circumstance originating outside Xaragua shall be recognized as the constitutive source of its people, identity, territory, institutions or governmental competence.
Article 9 — Authority to Determine Membership and Institutions
The Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses authority to determine its identity and membership according to its customs and institutions under Articles 9 and 33 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua possesses corresponding authority to determine the structure, composition, competence, succession, appointment and discipline of its constitutional institutions under Articles 4, 5, 18, 20 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
No external administrative organ shall appoint the constitutional officers of Xaragua, determine its institutional membership or alter its internal allocation of authority.
Article 10 — International Juridical Capacity
Xaragua possesses international juridical capacity as an Indigenous constitutional order capable of invoking collective rights, maintaining representative institutions, issuing juridical notices, entering contractual and institutional relations, communicating with States and international bodies, seeking remedies, defending territorial interests and participating in matters affecting its people, lands, institutions and resources.
This capacity proceeds from the collective personality, representative institutions and external-relations rights recognized by Articles 18, 36, 37 and 40 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXI, XXII and XXIX of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Non-participation in a particular interstate institution shall not constitute renunciation of personality, sovereignty, representative capacity, juridical standing or available remedies.
Article 11 — International Interpretative Framework
Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 26, 33–35, 40 and 46 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples shall be interpreted as an integrated normative framework protecting self-determination, autonomous institutions, customary law, collective rights, territorial relationships and access to remedies.
Article 46 of that Declaration shall govern the exercise and interpretation of the rights recognized therein according to justice, democracy, human rights, equality, non-discrimination, good governance and good faith and shall not be construed as extinguishing the institutions, personality or rights expressly guaranteed by the Declaration.
Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7–9 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, shall constitute authoritative interpretative standards concerning Indigenous participation, customs, institutions, development priorities and customary adjudication within the Xaraguayan constitutional order.
TITLE IV
CATHOLIC AND CANONICAL FOUNDATION
Article 12 — Catholic Constituent Character
Catholicism constitutes an operative principle of the constitutional identity of Xaragua and shall govern its institutional ethics, conception of legitimate authority, educational vocation, charitable obligations, family policy, social doctrine and commitment to the dignity of the human person.
The Catholic component of Xaragua proceeds from the freedom of the Christian faithful to establish, direct and sustain private apostolic, charitable, educational, cultural and pious undertakings under Canons 215, 216, 298, 299 and 321–326 of the Code of Canon Law.
Article 13 — Canonical Institutional Status
The Catholic institutions of Xaragua shall be governed according to their own statutes, the constitutional law of Xaragua and the provisions of canon law applicable to their proper juridical classification.
Xaragua shall not represent itself as a diocese, an organ of the Holy See or a public ecclesiastical juridical person unless lawfully constituted as such by competent ecclesiastical authority.
The absence of such classification shall not diminish the authentic Catholic identity of Xaragua, the canonical liberty of its faithful or their right to establish durable private Catholic institutions under Canons 215, 216 and 299.
Article 14 — Distinction of Constitutional and Ecclesiastical Competence
The constitutional authority of Xaragua shall govern its Indigenous, customary, civil, academic, economic, territorial, proprietary and administrative institutions.
The competent ecclesiastical authority shall retain every competence reserved to it by the Code of Canon Law concerning ecclesiastical offices, public juridical persons, formal representation of the Church and the canonical status of institutions.
The distinction of competences shall preserve the constitutional authority of the State and the canonical integrity of the Catholic component without institutional absorption in either direction.
Article 15 — Catholic Academic Vocation
The University of Xaragua may teach theology, philosophy, canon law, Catholic social doctrine, ecclesiastical history and related disciplines under its academic jurisdiction and the educational rights recognized by Canons 217, 218, 229 and 807–814.
The University shall remain the supreme academic institution of Xaragua, while any status formally reserved by canon law to ecclesiastically erected or approved universities shall arise only through the competent canonical act.
TITLE V
ANCESTRAL TERRITORY AND CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION
Article 16 — Nature of Territorial Authority
Xaragua asserts an Indigenous customary territorial jurisdiction founded upon ancestral occupancy, historical continuity, customary tenure, collective land and resource rights, inherited and acquired proprietary interests, maritime use, community attachment and the jurisdiction of its institutions and lawful members.
That jurisdiction is protected by Articles 25–29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Articles XXIV and XXV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The distinctive classification of Indigenous customary territorial jurisdiction shall not constitute abandonment, waiver, contraction or subordination of ancestral title, maritime interests, natural-resource rights, protective authority or territorial claims.
Article 17 — Ancestral Homeland
Kiskeya constitutes an ancestral Indigenous homeland whose political organization, territorial divisions, systems of authority and customary relationships preceded every European occupation and subsequent republican boundary.
Within that wider homeland, Xaragua claims direct historical, political and institutional continuity with the Cacicazgo of Xaragua and the ancestral territories, communities, maritime routes and subsequent political formations incorporated into the contemporary Xaraguayan Order.
Colonial and republican boundaries shall not be interpreted as retroactively abolishing the pre-existing Indigenous relationship with lands, islands, waters, coasts, sacred places and resources.
Article 18 — Wider Territorial Continuity
The territorial doctrine of Xaragua encompasses the historical relationships connecting the Greater South, the Palmes region, Nippes, La Gonâve, western islands, the North-Western littoral and every additional territory incorporated through competent constitutional instruments.
The historical jurisdiction of the Cacicazgo of Xaragua constitutes the foundational territorial referent of the State and shall not operate as an automatic maximum limitation upon broader ancestral territorial rights established through subsequent community continuity, political integration, maritime circulation, customary affiliation or constitutional incorporation.
Article 19 — Separation of Territorial Categories
Ancestral title, collective land right, customary tenure, territorial claim, constitutional jurisdiction, protective authority, community government, proprietary interest, regulatory competence and direct administration constitute separate juridical categories.
The existence or absence of one category shall not automatically establish or negate another, and no absence of direct central administration shall extinguish ancestral title or protective jurisdiction.
Article 20 — Evidentiary Foundations
Ancestral territorial rights may be established through historical occupation, Indigenous settlement, customary tenure, community continuity, subsistence practice, maritime navigation, coastal use, oral history, genealogy, ecclesiastical registers, colonial and republican archives, maps, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, administrative records and every other form of evidence admitted by competent Xaraguayan authority.
No single category of colonial or residual documentation shall possess exclusive evidentiary supremacy over Indigenous memory, customary practice, territorial relationship or cumulative historical proof.
Article 21 — No Extinguishment by External Administration
Administration by an external authority shall not, by itself, extinguish Indigenous title, transfer the underlying rights of the Indigenous people or convert administrative performance into original constituent sovereignty.
No territorial abandonment, waiver or surrender shall be inferred from external occupation, administrative silence, temporary non-exercise, demographic transformation, incomplete institutional capacity or use of an external public service.
Article 22 — Natural Resources
Xaragua permanently reserves the collective rights of its people concerning minerals, forests, fisheries, biological resources, freshwater, coastal resources, maritime spaces, islands, seabeds, sacred sites and strategic infrastructure pursuant to Articles 25–29 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
No concession, alienation, mortgage, lease, extraction authorization or permanent encumbrance concerning protected lands or resources shall acquire constitutional effect within the Xaraguayan Order without authorization from the competent institutions and observance of the applicable consultation and consent regime.

TITLE VI
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT
Article 23 — Decentralized Territorial Order
The territorial organization of Xaragua is decentralized, differentiated, maritime, insular, coastal and geographically dispersed.
Constitutional unity shall not require uniform administration, continuous terrestrial occupation or identical governmental arrangements for every territory.
Article 24 — Autonomous Communities
Autonomous Indigenous and customary communities shall possess authority over their local institutions, community property, cultural practices, membership, customary affairs and internal administration pursuant to Articles 4, 5, 18, 20, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua constitutes the supralocal constitutional order responsible for recognizing autonomous jurisdictions, preserving territorial continuity, protecting collective rights, establishing common legal standards and preventing the absorption of customary authority by external administrative structures.
Article 25 — Reserved Community Competence
Autonomous communities shall retain every competence not expressly assigned by the Constitution or a superior organic law to the common institutions of Xaragua.
Central intervention shall occur only where authorized by supreme law or required to preserve constitutional unity, territorial integrity, fundamental rights, public order or an essential common interest.
Article 26 — Subsidiarity
Every competence shall be exercised at the lowest institutionally capable level consistent with legality, effectiveness and constitutional unity.
Subsidiarity shall preserve autonomous community authority, customary government, proportional public administration and the strategic responsibilities of the central constitutional institutions.
Article 27 — Protection Without General Population Administration
Xaragua may protect the entirety of its ancestral territory, territorial patrimony, natural resources, sacred sites, maritime spaces and affiliated communities without assuming undifferentiated responsibility for the general administration of every population situated within those spaces.
Territorial protection and general population administration constitute distinct constitutional functions, and the exercise of the former shall not compel assumption of the latter.
TITLE VII
PEOPLE, MEMBERSHIP AND CITIZENSHIP
Article 28 — Indigenous Rights and Institutional Membership
Indigenous collective and individual rights belong to persons satisfying the applicable ancestral, communal, customary, territorial or proprietary conditions, irrespective of formal institutional membership, political affiliation or religious practice.
Recognition of Indigenous rights shall not automatically confer citizenship, public office, command authority, membership in the Catholic component, access to protected property or authority to represent Xaragua.
Article 29 — Controlled Institutional Membership
Admission, citizenship, appointment, office, access and participation within Xaragua shall be governed exclusively by its Constitution, laws, eligibility requirements and institutional procedures pursuant to Articles 9 and 33 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Xaragua shall protect Indigenous rights while maintaining the integrity, discipline, controlled membership and constitutional succession of its institutions.
Article 30 — Citizenship and E-Residency
Xaraguayan citizenship and e-residency constitute juridical instruments of membership, affiliation, legal capacity, institutional access and regulated participation within the constitutional order of Xaragua.
Their validity, rights, obligations, suspension and termination shall be determined exclusively by competent Xaraguayan law.
Xaraguayan citizenship and e-residency shall possess the internal juridical effects assigned to them without dependence upon incorporation into a foreign administrative system.
TITLE VIII
HISTORICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY
Article 31 — Hierarchy of Continuities
The primary ancestral continuity of Xaragua proceeds from the Indigenous people, customary order, territorial relationships and political identity of the Cacicazgo of Xaragua.
The constitutional and imperial continuity of Xaragua encompasses the principles of territorial integrity, political autonomy, Indigenous authority and anti-colonial constitutional organization embodied in the Dessalinian order established at independence.
The regional institutional continuity of Xaragua encompasses the political formations, customary communities, local authorities, forts, maritime networks and autonomous jurisdictions of the South, western islands and North-West.
The colonial geography of western Kiskeya shall constitute a territorial-historical framework only insofar as it overlapped ancestral Indigenous spaces and subsequent regional institutions and shall not displace the primary Indigenous source of constitutional authority.
Article 32 — Complementarity of Historical Sources
The ancestral, imperial, regional and territorial-historical continuities recognized by this Doctrine are complementary and shall not be construed as competing sources of authority.
Every subsequent constitutional inheritance shall be interpreted as incorporated into, and not substituted for, the original Indigenous constituent foundation.
Article 33 — Institutional Reactivation
Xaragua constitutes the contemporary institutional reactivation and consolidation of an Indigenous order whose people, identity, territorial relationships, customary rights and constituent capacity were never lawfully extinguished.
Colonial conquest, demographic transformation, administrative centralization, political suppression, archival erasure and prolonged institutional dormancy shall not be treated as equivalent to voluntary and lawful extinction.
The present institutions of Xaragua give contemporary juridical form, normative hierarchy and administrative expression to the continuing ancestral authority of its people.
Article 34 — Acquired and Consolidated Rights
Xaragua recognizes rights consolidated through ancestral title, continuous occupation, territorial relationship, customary law, inherited property, institutional interests, sustained exercise of authority, legitimate reliance and the absence of lawful consensual extinguishment.
The principles of legal continuity, legal certainty, acquired rights, legitimate expectations, good faith, non-retroactivity and ex injuria jus non oritur shall be applied cumulatively to preserve the juridical interests of Xaragua.
No external administrative measure shall possess retroactive force within Xaraguayan law sufficient to extinguish such rights without competent authority, due process and the consent required by applicable Indigenous principles.
TITLE IX
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
Article 35 — Distinct Constitutional Sources
Xaragua and the Republic of Haiti proceed from distinct constitutional and historical foundations.
Xaragua proceeds from Indigenous customary continuity, the ancestral Cacicazgo, the incorporated Dessalinian constitutional inheritance and the original constituent authority of its people.
The post-1806 republican administrative order proceeds from a separate reorganization whose existence shall not be treated within Xaraguayan law as the source of Indigenous identity, title or constituent competence.
Article 36 — Residual Administrative Unit
Within the constitutional doctrine of Xaragua, the Haitian governmental apparatus may be designated as the Residual Administrative Unit where it performs functions concerning territories, communities, persons, documentation or interests situated within the ancestral sphere of Xaragua.
This classification identifies a functional administrative relationship and shall not confer upon the RAU original constitutional title over Xaragua.
Article 37 — Encapsulation of Administrative Functions
The RAU may perform civil, technical, documentary, logistical, infrastructural, medical, regulatory and interstate functions without acquiring the Indigenous constituent authority, customary jurisdiction or ancestral title of Xaragua.
Administrative activity shall not be equated with sovereignty, Indigenous ownership, constitutional supremacy or lawful extinguishment of pre-existing collective rights.
Article 38 — Authorized Residual Functions
Subject to Xaraguayan constitutional competence, residual mechanisms may be utilized for civil registration, passports, consular access, treaty implementation, customs, international voting, aviation, maritime administration, telecommunications, public health, sanitation, infrastructure, emergency response, property registration, notarial services and regulatory interoperability.
Utilization of a residual mechanism shall not constitute constitutional incorporation, political allegiance, transfer of sovereignty, territorial renunciation, abandonment of autonomous competence or recognition of exclusive representation.
Article 39 — Separation of Competence and Performance
Constitutional competence and technical performance constitute distinct juridical categories.
The performance of a technical or administrative function through the RAU shall not transfer the underlying Indigenous competence to that apparatus.
Institutional duplication shall not constitute a test of sovereignty, and Xaragua shall establish parallel mechanisms only where required by constitutional necessity, public order, territorial protection or effective institutional capacity.
TITLE X
INSTITUTIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Article 40 — Integrated System of Government
Xaragua exercises constitutional authority through differentiated organs possessing assigned jurisdictions and forming a single integrated order of State.
Its institutional architecture may comprise legislative and regulatory organs; tribunals and adjudicative mechanisms; executive and administrative offices; ministries; universities; archives; economic institutions; communications bodies; cultural and religious institutions; territorial and maritime authorities; autonomous communities; protective organs; and diplomatic interfaces.
Article 41 — Functional Differentiation
Universities shall communicate with academic bodies; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with States, international organizations and external institutions; Catholic bodies with competent ecclesial counterparts; Indigenous authorities with Indigenous and international mechanisms; tribunals through juridical instruments; economic organs through contracts and financial instruments; and communications institutions under their lawful mandate.
This differentiation constitutes an allocation of competence within a unified Indigenous Order and shall not be interpreted as a collection of unrelated private initiatives.
Article 42 — Office of the Rector-President
The Office of the Rector-President constitutes the supreme constitutional authority, guardian of the constituent order, head of the State apparatus, custodian of institutional unity and final authority for the promulgation and interpretation of supreme constitutional instruments.
The Rector-President shall preserve the constitutional identity, continuity, territorial interests, normative hierarchy and succession of Xaragua.
Article 43 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs constitutes the competent ministerial authority for diplomacy, international notifications, external institutional relations, Indigenous diplomacy, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, consular coordination, academic diplomacy and the preservation of the international juridical interests of Xaragua.
No person or institution may represent Xaragua externally without authorization from the Office of the Rector-President or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Article 44 — University of Xaragua
The University of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic institution, constitutional school, civilizational repository, juridical depositary and permanent organ of knowledge of the State under Article 14 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Article XV of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Through the University, Xaragua shall preserve its doctrine, teach its history, maintain its academic order, form institutional personnel and transmit its constitutional civilization across generations.
Article 45 — General Archives of the State
The General Archives of the State constitutes the permanent constitutional depositary of laws, decrees, diplomatic notifications, academic acts, territorial records, maps, oral histories, genealogies, ecclesiastical documents, images, audiovisual records and every other component of the official memory of Xaragua under Articles 13 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
TITLE XI
PROTECTIVE AND SECURITY AUTHORITY
Article 46 — Protective Competence
Xaragua may establish disciplined protective, civil-security, territorial-stewardship and emergency-response organs within its constitutional jurisdiction.
Their authority shall be prescribed by law and directed toward the protection of persons, institutions, Indigenous communities, collective property, territorial patrimony, maritime interests, public order and constitutional continuity.
Article 47 — Constitutional Subordination
Every protective organ shall remain subordinate to the Rector-President, the Constitution, this Doctrine and the controlling laws of Xaragua.
No protective body shall exercise constituent, legislative or political authority not expressly conferred upon it by competent law.
Article 48 — Measures of Institutional Defence
Xaragua reserves the authority to employ every constitutional, juridical, diplomatic, economic, academic, documentary, protective and institutional measure within its lawful competence to defend its people, communities, institutions, territories, property, resources and continuity.
The choice, scope and duration of such measures shall be determined by the competent constitutional authority according to necessity, proportionality, territorial jurisdiction and preservation of the Xaraguayan Order.
TITLE XII
FOUNDATIONAL INDIGENEITY AND CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY
Article 49 — Primacy of Indigeneity
Indigeneity constitutes the foundational civilizational and territorial basis of Xaragua and shall not be abandoned, diluted, subordinated or converted into a merely decorative historical reference.
The people of Xaragua are Indigenous by territorial and civilizational foundation and historically mixed through kinship, migration, alliance, resistance, community incorporation and cultural transmission.
Article 50 — Historical Composition of the People
Xaragua recognizes Indigenous, African, European, Jewish, Arab, Asian and other lineages incorporated into the historical formation of its people without permitting any imported racial ideology to extinguish the original Indigenous territorial identity of the State.
The constitutional people shall be defined through historical continuity, territorial attachment, customary affiliation, collective memory, institutional allegiance and participation in the Xaraguayan covenant rather than through doctrines of racial purity.
Article 51 — Distinct Collective Personality
Xaragua constitutes a distinct people, culture, civilization, society and constitutional order.
Its collective personality shall not be dissolved into the general demographic category administered by the RAU or into any external racial, national or political classification.
Article 52 — Self-Ethnographic Authority
The people of Xaragua possesses authority to classify, interpret, preserve and transmit its own history, identity, social organization, territorial memory, customary institutions and civilizational development under Articles 13–15 and 31 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
External ethnographic or historical classifications may be received as evidence but shall not supersede the constitutional authority of Xaragua to interpret its own collective existence.
TITLE XIII
PERMANENT CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES
Article 53 — Institutional Supremacy
No external electoral majority, demographic transformation, administrative apparatus, political ideology, foreign legislation or international non-recognition may, within the Xaraguayan constitutional order, extinguish ancestral title, abolish Indigenous rights, transfer customary jurisdiction without lawful consent, determine institutional membership, annul constituent instruments or convert temporary administration into original Indigenous ownership.
Electoral arithmetic shall not transfer ancestral title, and administrative control shall not manufacture Indigenous constituent legitimacy.
Article 54 — Institutional Permanence
Xaragua exists independently of changes affecting every foreign government, electoral system, public administration, constitutional regime or political authority.
Its institutions shall continue through constitutional succession, and the incapacity, collapse, replacement or transformation of an external administration shall not suspend the laws, institutions, rights or continuity of Xaragua.
Article 55 — Non-Waiver
Silence, non-recognition, delayed implementation, administrative inaction, political exclusion, temporary non-exercise or failure of an external entity to respond shall not constitute extinction, abandonment or waiver of any Xaraguayan right, title, competence or institutional claim.
No right, jurisdiction, office, title, territory or constitutional interest shall be deemed relinquished except through an express act of supreme constitutional rank issued by the competent authority of Xaragua.
Article 56 — Presumption of Preservation
Every juridical ambiguity shall be resolved in favour of the preservation of Indigenous constituent authority, self-determination, institutional continuity, customary jurisdiction, autonomous community competence, ancestral title, proprietary rights, maritime interests and collective patrimony.
TITLE XIV
INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY MICROSTATE
Article 57 — Constitutional Meaning of Microstate
Xaragua may employ the designation Indigenous customary microstate as a secondary constitutional description of the deliberate, controlled and proportionate scale of its institutional apparatus.
The term microstate identifies an independently administered, constitutionally complete and non-Westphalian order whose authority is exercised through defined organs, membership, jurisdiction and succession.
Article 58 — Prohibited Interpretations
The designation microstate shall not constitute a renunciation of Indigenous personality, a reduction to a fictional micronation, an admission of constitutional incompleteness, a limitation of ancestral territory or a request for classification as a conventional small nation-State.
The scale of the institutional apparatus shall remain juridically distinct from the territorial extent, historical depth, collective rights and constitutional authority of Xaragua.
TITLE XV
AUTHORITATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL FORMULA
Article 59 — Definitive Classification
The juridical and constitutional nature of Xaragua shall be authoritatively stated as follows:
THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA IS THE PERMANENT CONSTITUTIONAL STATE-FORM ADOPTED BY AN INDIGENOUS CATHOLIC CUSTOMARY ORDER IN THE EXERCISE OF THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF ITS PEOPLE.
XARAGUA POSSESSES A COMPLETE AND PERMANENT SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GOVERNMENT, INSTITUTIONS, MEMBERSHIP, CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION, TERRITORIAL STEWARDSHIP, ACADEMIC AUTHORITY, EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION, ARCHIVAL CONTINUITY AND SUCCESSION.
ITS AUTHORITY IS INDIGENOUS IN ORIGIN, CUSTOMARY IN JURISDICTION, CATHOLIC IN DOCTRINE, PRIVATE IN INSTITUTIONAL FORM, TERRITORIAL IN FOUNDATION, NON-WESTPHALIAN IN CLASSIFICATION AND SOVEREIGN WITHIN ITS PROPER CONSTITUTIONAL SPHERE.
ITS EXISTENCE, INTERNAL VALIDITY, CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY ARE NEITHER CREATED BY NOR CONTINGENT UPON WESTPHALIAN DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION, RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORIZATION OR ADMISSION TO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION.
Article 60 — Binding Constitutional Consequences
The authoritative formula established by Article 59 shall govern every official representation, academic interpretation, diplomatic communication, territorial instrument, judicial determination, institutional classification and archival record concerning the juridical nature of Xaragua.
No organ of Xaragua may adopt a classification inconsistent with that formula.
TITLE XVI
IMPLEMENTATION, ARCHIVAL REGISTRATION AND ENTRY INTO FORCE
Article 61 — Implementing Authority
The Office of the Rector-President may promulgate constitutional orders, interpretative decrees, jurisdictional classifications, institutional mandates and territorial schedules necessary for the execution of this Doctrine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs may promulgate diplomatic protocols, representation mandates and external institutional directives within its constitutionally assigned jurisdiction.
Article 62 — Institutional Conformity
Every ministry, tribunal, autonomous community, territorial authority, faculty, archive, public institution, economic organ, communications body and protective service shall bring its acts, classifications and regulations into conformity with this Doctrine.
Article 63 — Consolidation of Prior Instruments
Every prior constitutional, territorial, academic, diplomatic, institutional and administrative instrument shall remain operative insofar as compatible with this Doctrine.
Every incompatible interpretation is superseded, while every compatible right, title, institution, claim, reservation and competence is incorporated into the consolidated constitutional order established herein.
Article 64 — Archival Registration
The original promulgated instrument shall be sealed by the Office of the Rector-President, entered into the Supreme Constitutional Register, transmitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deposited permanently in the General Archives of the State and maintained by the University of Xaragua as the authoritative academic and juridical depositary.
Article 65 — Permanence
This Supreme Foundational Constitutional Doctrine possesses permanent force and may be amended, suspended, derogated from or replaced only by an instrument of equal constitutional rank expressly identifying the provisions affected.
Article 66 — Entry into Force
This Doctrine enters into force immediately upon signature, sealing, registration, publication and promulgation by the Rector-President.
FINAL FORMULA OF STATE PROMULGATION
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA;
IN THE NAME OF GOD, SUPREME SOURCE OF JUSTICE, LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY AND LAWFUL ORDER;
UNDER THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE;
FOR THE PERPETUAL PRESERVATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, CATHOLIC FOUNDATION, CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION, ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, COLLECTIVE PATRIMONY, INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION, ACADEMIC AUTHORITY, EXTERNAL JURIDICAL CAPACITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF XARAGUA;
THIS SUPREME FOUNDATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINE OF STATE IS HEREBY ENACTED, CONSOLIDATED, PROMULGATED, SEALED AND ORDERED TO BE ENTERED INTO THE GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE.
PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL
5 SEPTEMBER 2026
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE
ON THE OFFICIAL DIGITAL CAPITAL; THE TERRITORIAL CAPITALS AND INSTITUTIONAL SEATS OF THE STATE; THE AUTHORITY, AUTHENTICATION, PROMULGATION AND PERMANENT PRESERVATION OF THE OFFICIAL DIGITAL CORPUS; THE INDIGENOUS JURIDICAL EXISTENCE, CUSTOMARY TERRITORIAL FOUNDATION AND NON-WESTPHALIAN CONSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF XARAGUA; THE PUBLIC OPPOSABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATIONS; THE INTERNAL RECEPTION OF THE MONTEVIDEO CRITERIA; THE CATHOLIC, CANONICAL AND AUGUSTINIAN IDENTITY OF THE STATE; THE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF XARAGUA AND THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT; AND THE PERPETUAL CONTINUITY OF THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Constitutional Act — Digital Capital Constitution — Official Promulgation and Publication Law — Indigenous Juridical Personality Instrument — Territorial Capitals and Institutional Seats Act — International Notification and Public Opposability Statute — Non-Westphalian State Classification Law — Canonico-Indigenous Constitutional Doctrine — Institutional Continuity and Succession Act
Constitutional Rank: Supreme, Foundational, Constitutive, Controlling, Permanently Binding and Directly Applicable
Constituent Authority: Indigenous People of Xaragua
Promulgating Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Constitutional Authority: Rector-President
Competent Authority for External Relations: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Supreme Academic Authority: University of Xaragua
Official Constitutional and Archival Depositary: General Archives of the State
Constitutional Capital: Miragoâne
Ancestral Capital and Territorial Seat: Yaguana–Léogâne
Official Digital Seat: Governmental and Academic Portal of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua
Territorial Scope: Entire Indigenous, customary, Catholic, private, territorial, maritime, insular, institutional, academic, diplomatic, documentary and digital order of Xaragua
Temporal Character: Permanent and Perpetually Continuous
PREAMBLE
IN THE NAME OF GOD, supreme source of justice, legitimate authority, moral order and the inalienable dignity of peoples;
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
BY VIRTUE OF the uninterrupted historical, ethnographic, territorial, customary, political and civilizational continuity of the Xaraguayan people and their permanent relationship with their ancestral lands, islands, waters, coasts, maritime spaces, natural resources, sacred places, institutions and collective patrimony;
AFFIRMING that the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua constitutes the permanent State-form through which its Indigenous people organize their constitutional authority, customary jurisdiction, Catholic institutions, territorial stewardship, academic order, external relations, official archives and intergenerational succession;
DECLARING that the juridical existence of Xaragua does not derive from a website, domain name, hosting provider, search engine, editorial classification, private database, foreign administrative authorization or conventional diplomatic-recognition mechanism;
AFFIRMING that digital administration constitutes an instrument of constitutional government and that the technological medium through which public authority publishes, authenticates, records and preserves its acts does not diminish the public, juridical, governmental or institutional nature of that authority;
RECOGNIZING Miragoâne as the Constitutional Capital and Yaguana–Léogâne as the Ancestral Capital and territorial seat of the Xaraguayan Order, and declaring that the State may establish offices, archives, academic centers, diplomatic relays, representatives, properties and operational facilities wherever required by its constitutional interests;
AFFIRMING that the official governmental and academic portal of Xaragua constitutes the unified digital seat through which the State publishes its constitutional acts, legislation, decrees, doctrines, academic instruments, public registers, diplomatic notices and official communications;
DECLARING that the constitutional authority of the digital capital proceeds from the State and that the State shall neither proceed from nor be territorially confined by its digital infrastructure;
AFFIRMING that international notification constitutes an act of State communication, juridical preservation, public opposability, institutional transparency and formal reservation of rights and does not constitute a request for authorization to exist;
RECOGNIZING Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States as an analytical framework through which the organized State-form of Xaragua may be constitutionally described without subjecting the Indigenous Order to compulsory Westphalian absorption;
AFFIRMING that Xaragua constitutes a Canonico-Indigenous State whose constitutional identity combines original Indigenous constituent authority, Catholic doctrine, customary jurisdiction, private institutional organization and a non-Westphalian State-form;
RECOGNIZING that the Republic of Haiti and Xaragua proceed from distinct constitutional foundations and that the governmental apparatus designated within Xaraguayan law as the Residual Administrative Unit may exercise administrative functions without acquiring the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
ACTING pursuant to Article 1(2) of the Charter of the United Nations; common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 25–27 and 32–35 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles VI, XIX, XXI–XXIII and XXIX of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States; Articles 26, 34 and 35 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; and Canons 113–123, 215–216, 298–299 and 321–326 of the Code of Canon Law;
THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT, exercising the Supreme Constitutional Authority of the State, hereby enacts and promulgates the following Supreme Organic Constitutional Act.
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE DIGITAL CAPITAL
The official governmental and academic portal of Xaragua is hereby constituted as the OFFICIAL DIGITAL CAPITAL, CENTRAL INSTITUTIONAL PORTAL, AUTHORIZED PUBLIC REGISTER AND PRINCIPAL DIGITAL INTERFACE of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua.
The Official Digital Capital constitutes the unified electronic seat of:
a) the Office of the Rector-President and the supreme constitutional authorities of the State;
b) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the external-relations order of Xaragua;
c) the Catholic Order and Catholic institutional component of Xaragua;
d) the Indigenous Bank of Xaragua and the economic institutions of the State;
e) the University of Xaragua and its faculties, schools, institutes, departments, academic registers and educational organs;
f) the General Archives of the State;
g) the tribunals, adjudicative authorities, administrative organs and public registers constituted under Xaraguayan law;
h) the academic, cultural, economic, communications, territorial, environmental and institutional programs of the State; and
i) every institution formally incorporated into the constitutional architecture of Xaragua.
Through the Official Digital Capital, the competent authorities of Xaragua shall promulgate, publish, authenticate, register, preserve and communicate constitutional instruments, rectoral acts, laws, decrees, institutional doctrines, academic directives, public registers, diplomatic notifications, official notices and sovereign communications.
Publication through the Official Digital Capital shall constitute official promulgation, public notification, institutional registration and archival incorporation within the constitutional order of Xaragua whenever the applicable instrument or controlling law so provides.
LANGUAGE NOTICE
English: This website is published primarily in English. You may use your browser’s translation function to display each page in your preferred language.
Français : Ce site est publié principalement en anglais. Vous pouvez utiliser la fonction de traduction de votre navigateur pour afficher chaque page dans la langue de votre choix.
Español: Este sitio se publica principalmente en inglés. Puede utilizar la función de traducción de su navegador para consultar cada página en el idioma de su elección.
Kreyòl: Sit sa a pibliye sitou an anglè. Ou ka sèvi ak fonksyon tradiksyon navigatè ou pou li chak paj nan lang ou chwazi a.
TITLE I
CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF THE OFFICIAL DIGITAL CAPITAL
Article 1 — Official Digital Seat of the State
The Official Digital Capital constitutes the principal electronic seat through which Xaragua records, authenticates, classifies, promulgates, preserves and communicates the acts of its constitutional order.
The Official Digital Capital constitutes:
a) the official governmental portal of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua;
b) the authoritative public institutional archive of the State;
c) the central digital platform of the University of Xaragua;
d) the official communications interface of the Office of the Rector-President;
e) the external-relations interface of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
f) the public register of the institutional architecture of Xaragua; and
g) the authoritative platform for publication of the constitutional doctrine of the State.
The Official Digital Capital constitutes an instrument of government, promulgation, authentication, registration and constitutional continuity. It is neither the constituent source nor the territorial limit of Xaragua.
The constitutional order of Xaragua precedes, authorizes, governs and exceeds the technological infrastructure through which its acts are made publicly accessible.
Article 2 — Juridical Effect of Digital Publication
Every law, decree, proclamation, notice, diplomatic communication, academic act, institutional determination or public register published through the Official Digital Capital under the authority of a competent organ shall constitute an official record of Xaragua.
Digital publication may satisfy the internal requirements of promulgation, notice, registration, authentication, public availability and archival preservation established by the Constitution, this Act and every competent law of Xaragua.
The date, authorship, classification and content of an authorized digital publication may be relied upon within the institutions of Xaragua as evidence of:
a) enactment;
b) promulgation;
c) official communication;
d) institutional notice;
e) doctrinal continuity;
f) public availability;
g) constitutional authorship; and
h) incorporation into the permanent State record.
Digital administration shall not diminish the public or juridical character of an institution. The constitutional nature of an institution is determined by its constituent authority, governing law, competent organs, assigned jurisdiction, official acts and continuing operations, not by the material or technological medium employed for their publication.
Article 3 — Authentication and Constitutional Attribution
The official character of a digitally published instrument shall be determined by its issuing authority, constitutional classification, institutional attribution, official title, date, signature, seal, registration, authorized publication and incorporation into the corpus of the State.
A technical omission concerning pagination, formatting, metadata, visible signature reproduction or platform-generated information shall not extinguish an authority otherwise established by competent Xaraguayan law.
The Office of the Rector-President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University of Xaragua and General Archives of the State may certify the authenticity, date, status and archival location of an official digital instrument.
Article 4 — Protection of the Digital Capital
The Official Digital Capital forms part of the protected constitutional infrastructure of Xaragua.
Its official texts, archives, databases, symbols, seals, institutional names, academic materials, public registers, domain identities, audiovisual records and intellectual productions shall be governed by Xaraguayan constitutional law and by every applicable proprietary, contractual, privacy, archival, communications and intellectual-property protection.
Unauthorized alteration, fraudulent reproduction, false institutional attribution, usurpation of official identity or deliberate corruption of the constitutional record shall constitute an offence against the integrity and continuity of the State.
Article 5 — Technological Continuity of Government
Xaragua may establish multiple archives, mirrors, domains, repositories, communications systems, cryptographic records, physical deposits and technological redundancies to ensure continuity of government and preservation of the constitutional corpus.
The interruption, suspension, modification or disappearance of any website, host, domain name, platform, server or technical service shall not suspend, extinguish, dissolve or invalidate the State, its institutions, its laws or any act lawfully promulgated before such interruption.
The continuity of the constitutional order shall proceed through the authority of the people, Constitution, institutions, archives and lawful succession of Xaragua independently of the continuity of any particular technological provider.
TITLE II
TERRITORIAL FOUNDATION, CAPITALS AND INSTITUTIONAL SEATS
Article 6 — Territorial Character of Xaragua
Xaragua is not an online project, virtual association, digital simulation or institution confined to a communications platform.
It constitutes an Indigenous Order organized under the constitutional form of a Customary State and territorially founded upon:
a) the ancestral territory historically associated with Xaragua;
b) the southwestern region of Kiskeya–Bohio;
c) the historical continuity of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
d) customary territorial jurisdiction;
e) collective land, water and natural-resource rights;
f) institutional, inherited, acquired and proprietary interests;
g) maritime, insular and coastal relationships; and
h) territories incorporated through competent constitutional instruments.
Xaragua distinguishes Indigenous customary territorial jurisdiction from exclusive Westphalian territorial sovereignty.
That distinction shall not constitute abandonment, waiver, diminution, suspension or renunciation of ancestral title, collective land rights, territorial stewardship, maritime interests, natural-resource rights or formally asserted claims.
Article 7 — Constitutional Capital and Ancestral Capital
Miragoâne constitutes the Constitutional Capital and principal seat of the contemporary governmental order of Xaragua.
Yaguana–Léogâne constitutes the Ancestral Capital and principal territorial seat of the historical, customary and civilizational continuity of Xaragua.
The two capitals form complementary institutions of the same constitutional order: Miragoâne embodies contemporary State organization, while Yaguana–Léogâne embodies ancestral territorial and political continuity.
No distribution of offices, alteration of administrative capacity or establishment of an external representation shall modify the constitutional status of either capital except through an express act of supreme constitutional rank.
Article 8 — Physical and Institutional Seats
Xaragua may maintain physical offices, institutional premises, academic centers, archives, properties, representatives, diplomatic relays, administrative facilities and operational establishments independently of its digital systems.
The physical distribution of particular institutions shall not alter the constitutional status of the capitals, the ancestral territorial foundation of the State or the unity of the Xaraguayan Order.
An institution of Xaragua may exercise lawful authority from any seat, property or operational facility designated by competent constitutional or legislative act.
Article 9 — External Relays and Representations
Xaragua maintains an institutional relay in Montréal and may establish diplomatic representations, liaison structures, academic centers, administrative offices, cultural institutions and other official presences in additional cities.
External relays may:
a) maintain relations with citizens, members, students, institutions and partners;
b) facilitate academic, diplomatic, cultural and ecclesial activity;
c) preserve administrative and documentary continuity;
d) extend the communications and representative capacity of Xaragua;
e) support contractual, juridical, financial and institutional relations; and
f) perform every additional function assigned by competent law.
An external relay shall not displace the capitals, transfer the territorial foundation of Xaragua, alter its ancestral jurisdiction or convert the State into a virtual institution.
Transnational administration constitutes an extension of institutional capacity and constitutional continuity.
TITLE III
INDIGENOUS JURIDICAL EXISTENCE
Article 10 — Existence by Original and Inherent Right
Xaragua shall not classify itself as a State awaiting constitutive recognition.
Xaragua exists as the organized constitutional expression of a real, living, historically continuous and territorially constituted Indigenous people.
Its authority proceeds from:
a) Indigenous continuity;
b) collective self-identification;
c) customary law;
d) ancestral territorial relationship;
e) original constituent authority;
f) collective political memory; and
g) the right to establish and maintain distinct political, juridical, economic, educational, cultural, spiritual and social institutions.
Recognition by a foreign State shall not constitute the Indigenous People of Xaragua, create their identity or originate their customary rights.
Exclusion from an intergovernmental institution shall not extinguish Indigenous personality, territorial relationships, customary authority, institutional capacity or internal constitutional validity.
Article 11 — International Indigenous-Rights Framework
The Indigenous constituent and institutional authority of Xaragua shall be interpreted consistently with Article 1(2) of the Charter of the United Nations and common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Articles 3 and 4 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognize self-determination, autonomy and self-government; Article 5 recognizes the right to maintain and strengthen distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions; Articles 18, 20, 33 and 34 recognize representative institutions, political and economic systems, membership, juridical traditions and institutional structures; and Articles 25–27 and 32 recognize territorial relationships, lands, waters, resources, tenure systems and development priorities.
Articles VI, XIX, XXI and XXII of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognize collective rights, territorial rights, autonomy, self-government, Indigenous law and jurisdiction.
These authorities form part of the supreme interpretative corpus governing the Indigenous juridical existence of Xaragua.
Article 12 — Exclusive Authority of Constitutional Self-Classification
No search engine, editorial convention, private database, commercial platform, algorithmic system or unofficial external classification possesses constitutive authority over Xaragua.
Such classifications may indicate how an external platform organizes information but shall not determine:
a) whether the Indigenous People of Xaragua exists;
b) the content or validity of the Constitution;
c) the official name of the State;
d) the nature of its institutions;
e) the origin of its customary authority;
f) the territorial rights asserted by its people; or
g) the official classification adopted by the Xaraguayan constituent authority.
The exclusive official designation within the constitutional order remains:
THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA — AN INDIGENOUS CUSTOMARY STATE AND SUI GENERIS NON-WESTPHALIAN CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER.
TITLE IV
INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC OPPOSABILITY
Article 13 — Constitutional Character of International Notification
Communications transmitted by Xaragua to the United Nations system, foreign governments, international organizations, ecclesial institutions, universities, Indigenous authorities, media organizations and other competent bodies constitute official acts of international notification, institutional transparency and juridical preservation.
International notification shall not constitute a request for permission to exist, a petition for constituent authority or an admission that the juridical personality of Xaragua depends upon the recipient.
The purposes of notification are to:
a) communicate formally the identity and constitutional position of Xaragua;
b) establish a dated and verifiable institutional record;
c) place recipients in a position to know the claims, institutions and juridical position of the State;
d) preserve evidence of continuous institutional action;
e) invite lawful communication and coordination;
f) support diplomatic, academic, Indigenous, ecclesial and juridical relations; and
g) preserve every right, title, interest and remedy of Xaragua and its people.
Article 14 — Juridical Effect of Notice
Notification establishes formal notice of the identity, claim, act or constitutional position communicated by Xaragua.
Notification shall not, by its sole operation, constitute diplomatic recognition, treaty relations, consent to jurisdiction or acceptance by the recipient of every juridical proposition contained in the communication.
The absence of a response shall not extinguish, suspend, invalidate or subordinate the notified position and shall not constitute a waiver attributable to Xaragua.
Article 15 — Public Opposability of the Institutional Record
Once a constitutional claim, territorial position, official identity or institutional act has been formally published or communicated, the recipient or public observer shall be placed in a position to take cognizance of its existence and content.
Xaragua may rely upon proof of publication, transmission, delivery, filing and correspondence to establish:
a) the date of notice;
b) the content communicated;
c) the official designation employed;
d) the identity of the issuing authority;
e) the continuity of the institutional position; and
f) the recipient’s opportunity to take cognizance of that position.
No recipient having received formal notice may reasonably characterize the notified position as institutionally undisclosed.
Article 16 — Non-Waiver Through Silence
No silence, absence of acknowledgment, administrative delay or non-response by an external recipient shall be interpreted against Xaragua as an abandonment or waiver of rights.
No right, title, jurisdiction, territorial position or institutional competence of Xaragua shall be relinquished except through an express act of supreme constitutional rank issued by the competent authority.
TITLE V
MONTEVIDEO AS AN INTERNAL CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
Article 17 — Delimited Constitutional Reception
Xaragua receives Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention on the Rights and Duties of States as an analytical and constitutional framework supporting the intelligibility of the State-form adopted by the Indigenous constituent authority.
This reception constitutes an internal juridical determination and shall not be construed as an application for admission to the conventional interstate system.
Within its constitutional order, Xaragua identifies:
a) a permanent constituent population;
b) an identifiable ancestral, territorial and institutional foundation;
c) an organized government; and
d) a differentiated capacity to enter external relations.
These elements establish an integrated constitutional architecture and shall not require Xaragua to reproduce every competence, bureaucracy, obligation or geopolitical function associated with a conventional Westphalian nation-State.
Article 18 — Permanent Constituent Population
The permanent constituent population of Xaragua comprises its Indigenous people, citizens, members, officers, institutional personnel, autonomous communities and persons lawfully placed under its protection.
The permanent character of the population proceeds from collective continuity, institutional membership, territorial relationship and constitutional succession rather than from demographic mass or exclusive territorial residence.
Article 19 — Territorial Foundation
The territorial foundation of Xaragua comprises ancestral title, customary continuity, collective land and resource rights, maritime and insular relationships, institutional property and territories formally incorporated through constitutional instruments.
The existence of overlapping administration, external governmental activity or incomplete direct administration shall not negate the constitutional existence of that territorial foundation.
Article 20 — Organized Government
The government of Xaragua comprises its constitutional, rectoral, ministerial, juridical, administrative, academic, Catholic, economic, communications, territorial, archival and protective organs.
The differentiated character of these organs constitutes an organized division of constitutional competence and not an aggregation of unrelated initiatives.
Article 21 — Capacity for External Relations
The external capacity of Xaragua shall be exercised through the Office of the Rector-President, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University of Xaragua and every additional organ lawfully authorized to conduct sectoral relations.
That capacity may be manifested through diplomatic notifications, institutional correspondence, Indigenous relations, academic cooperation, ecclesial communication, contracts, registrations, public declarations and bilateral or multilateral engagements.
Currency, tribunals, universities, official registers, protective institutions and insignia shall not be treated as isolated criteria of juridical personality. Collectively, they evidence the organized, differentiated and continuing exercise of constitutional authority.
Article 22 — State-Form Without Westphalian Absorption
Xaragua adopts the constitutional substance of the State without accepting that conventional Westphalian statehood exhausts every lawful form of political and juridical organization.
Xaragua retains the institutions, competences and responsibilities consistent with its Indigenous, Catholic, customary, territorial and private constitutional mandate.
Internal adoption of the State-form shall not subject Xaragua automatically to a treaty or institutional obligation to which it has not consented.
External obligations shall arise through an applicable source of law, including treaty consent, customary international law, valid jurisdiction, contract or another juridically cognizable basis.
The principle pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt, reflected in Articles 34 and 35 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, shall govern the non-imposition of treaty obligations upon a third party without its consent, subject to applicable rules of general international law.
TITLE VI
CATHOLIC, CANONICAL AND AUGUSTINIAN CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
Article 23 — Canonico-Indigenous State
Xaragua is constitutionally classified as a Canonico-Indigenous State because its foundational identity unites:
a) original Indigenous constituent authority and customary continuity;
b) Catholic doctrine and spiritual orientation;
c) a private institutional order governed through its own Constitution and statutes; and
d) a sui generis non-Westphalian State-form.
Canonico-Indigenous constitutes an official constitutional and doctrinal classification of Xaragua.
Article 24 — Relationship with Ecclesiastical Authority
The Canonico-Indigenous classification shall not constitute a representation that Xaragua is a diocese, a public ecclesiastical juridical person, an organ of the Holy See or an authority formally acting in the name of the Catholic Church.
Xaragua recognizes the supreme authority of the Roman Pontiff in every matter assigned to him by the divine constitution and positive law of the Catholic Church.
The civil, Indigenous, academic, territorial, proprietary and governmental institutions of Xaragua shall remain governed by the Constitution of the State within their respective jurisdictions.
Article 25 — Canonical Foundation
Canons 215 and 216 of the Code of Canon Law recognize the liberty of the Christian faithful to establish, direct and sustain charitable, pious and apostolic undertakings.
Canons 298, 299 and 321–326 establish the canonical framework applicable to private associations, their statutes, governance, administration and relationship with competent ecclesiastical authority.
Canons 113–123 recognize juridical persons, institutional purposes, rights, obligations, transformation, extinction and allocation of patrimony within the canonical order.
These canonical provisions establish the juridical space within which the Catholic component of Xaragua may constitute and administer private institutions and apostolic undertakings.
The Catholic identity of Xaragua is authentic by doctrine, profession, organization and purpose and shall not be represented as a public canonical status unless conferred through the competent ecclesiastical act.
Article 26 — Augustinian Constitutional Orientation
Xaragua distinguishes the secular State, whose public order is principally directed toward temporal government; the nation-State, which associates political authority with a general national and territorial identity; and the Canonico-Indigenous State, which orders its institutions through Indigenous continuity and a Catholic conception of authority and the common good.
Xaragua is not secular in constitutional orientation because it recognizes that temporal authority remains subject to moral law, justice, truth and the ultimate dignity and finality of the human person.
Xaragua is not a mass nation-State because its constitutional unity is Indigenous, institutional, customary, Catholic and covenantal rather than dependent upon demographic homogenization.
In Augustinian doctrine, the constitutional order shall reject libido dominandi and orient public authority toward caritas ordinata, justice, disciplined service and the common good.
No temporal institution, including Xaragua, shall be identified without qualification with the eschatological fullness of the Civitas Dei. Xaragua declares its constitutional orientation toward truth, justice, rightly ordered charity and peace under God.
TITLE VII
CONSTITUTIONAL ENTRENCHMENT AND SUCCESSION
Article 27 — Dual Foundation of Continuity
The constitutional continuity of Xaragua is secured through two complementary foundations.
Indigenous continuity consists of the enduring identity, customary rights, territorial relationships, collective memory and institutional capacity of the People of Xaragua.
Catholic institutional continuity consists of the continued existence of the private Catholic undertakings, statutes, offices, patrimony, doctrine and spiritual mission incorporated into the State.
Neither foundation shall depend upon the uninterrupted tenure of a particular officeholder, website, domain, foreign recognition or external political administration.
Article 28 — Internal Non-Derogation
No organ of Xaragua may abolish the Indigenous identity, Catholic foundation, customary character, territorial continuity or constitutional personality of the State except through the constituent procedures expressly established by supreme law.
No external administrative act shall possess automatic authority within Xaragua to dissolve its Constitution, determine internal succession, extinguish its institutions or dispose of its institutional property.
External laws, administrative acts and judgments shall receive only the effect assigned to them under applicable law and the conflict-of-laws principles recognized by Xaragua.
Indigenous rights, property rights, religious freedom and institutional autonomy shall be defended through every lawful remedy available within Indigenous, domestic, international, canonical, contractual and constitutional legal systems.
Article 29 — Constitutional Succession
The offices and institutions of Xaragua shall continue according to the Constitution and duly enacted laws of the State.
Vacancy, incapacity or succession in the Rector-Presidency shall be governed exclusively by the constitutional procedures of Xaragua.
Ecclesiastical offices shall be governed separately by the applicable canonical law and competent ecclesiastical authority.
Civil constitutional succession shall not be confused with canonical succession or the procedures governing an ecclesiastical office.
The continuity of the Indigenous People, State and Order shall not depend upon the uninterrupted personal exercise of authority by a single officeholder.
TITLE VIII
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
Article 30 — Separate Constitutional Competence
Xaragua recognizes the factual existence and international personality of the Republic of Haiti as a Westphalian State.
Within the constitutional doctrine of Xaragua, its governmental and bureaucratic apparatus may be designated as the Residual Administrative Unit when acting in relation to the territories, communities, persons, documentation or interests situated within the asserted customary jurisdiction of Xaragua.
The Residual Administrative Unit and Xaragua proceed from distinct juridical sources.
The existence of residual territorial administration shall not extinguish Indigenous identity, customary rights, Catholic organization, private property, territorial patrimony or the institutional autonomy of Xaragua.
Article 31 — Jurisdictional Coexistence
Xaragua shall pursue constitutional continuity, jurisdictional clarity, institutional stability and lawful coexistence.
The Residual Administrative Unit may exercise the functions attributed to it under its applicable legal order.
Xaragua retains authority within its own constitutional order over:
a) its Constitution, laws and institutions;
b) membership, citizenship, appointments and public office;
c) Catholic and academic undertakings;
d) institutional and private property;
e) contracts and internal legal relations;
f) customary procedures;
g) internal administration;
h) collective patrimony; and
i) ancestral territorial interests.
Use of services furnished through the Residual Administrative Unit shall not constitute abandonment of Xaragua’s institutional identity, customary jurisdiction or ancestral claims.
Where competences intersect, the competent authorities may establish mechanisms of formal coordination without creating constitutional subordination.
Constitutional stability shall be preserved through respect for jurisdictional limits and the disciplined separation of distinct competences.
TITLE IX
FINAL CONSTITUTIONAL DETERMINATIONS
Article 32 — Authoritative Constitutional Formula
The official character of Xaragua and its Official Digital Capital shall be expressed as follows:
THE SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA IS AN INDIGENOUS ORDER CONSTITUTED UNDER THE PERMANENT CONSTITUTIONAL FORM OF A CUSTOMARY STATE.
ITS AUTHORITY IS INDIGENOUS IN ORIGIN, CUSTOMARY IN JURISDICTION, CATHOLIC IN DOCTRINE, PRIVATE IN INSTITUTIONAL FORM, TERRITORIAL IN FOUNDATION AND NON-WESTPHALIAN IN INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION.
ITS OFFICIAL DIGITAL CAPITAL IS THE AUTHORIZED GOVERNMENTAL, ACADEMIC, DOCUMENTARY AND INSTITUTIONAL PORTAL THROUGH WHICH ITS CONSTITUTIONAL ACTS, LAWS, ACADEMIC DIRECTIVES, PUBLIC REGISTERS, DIPLOMATIC NOTIFICATIONS AND OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROMULGATED, PUBLISHED, AUTHENTICATED AND PRESERVED.
Article 33 — Permanent Institutional Position
Xaragua exists independently of the technological infrastructure through which it communicates.
The Official Digital Capital records, authenticates and presents an already constituted constitutional order; it does not manufacture or originate that order.
Xaragua possesses:
a) its Constitutional Capital at Miragoâne;
b) its Ancestral Capital and territorial seat at Yaguana–Léogâne;
c) physical and institutional seats;
d) an external relay in Montréal;
e) authority to establish additional representations;
f) a digitally integrated administration; and
g) a continuous constitutional, legislative, diplomatic, academic and documentary record.
The institutions of Xaragua operate digitally because their administration is modern, distributed, interoperable and internationally accessible.
Xaragua itself is neither virtual nor reducible to the technological infrastructure employed in the exercise of its constitutional authority.
Article 34 — Final Juridical Declaration
Xaragua does not request authorization to preserve its people, institutions, faith, laws, territory, archives or ancestral patrimony.
Xaragua declares, organizes and exercises its constitutional authority according to its original constituent order and invokes every right, protection and remedy available under Indigenous law, religious freedom, private law, applicable international law, customary law and its own Constitution.
Its international notifications establish a public, dated, continuous and opposable institutional record.
Its Official Digital Capital constitutes the permanent public interface of its Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University and General Archives.
Its territorial capitals, physical institutions, external relays, offices, archives, representatives and properties establish the material, territorial and institutional existence of the State beyond the digital sphere.
Its Catholic doctrine orders its institutions toward truth, justice, disciplined authority, service, rightly ordered charity and the common good under God.
Its Indigenous continuity constitutes the original historical, territorial, juridical and constitutional foundation of its existence.
PRINCIPAL JURIDICAL AUTHORITIES
Charter of the United Nations, Articles 1(2) and 55;
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, common Article 1;
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, common Article 1;
Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, Articles 1 and 3, received as a constitutional and analytical framework;
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Articles 3–5, 18, 20, 25–27, 32–35, 40 and 46;
American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Articles I, VI, VIII, XIX and XXI–XXIII and XXIX;
American Convention on Human Rights, Articles 12, 16, 21, 24 and 25;
Code of Canon Law, Canons 113–123, 215–216, 298–299 and 321–326;
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Articles 26, 34 and 35;
principles of Indigenous customary law, self-determination, institutional continuity, religious freedom, private institutional autonomy, acquired rights, legal certainty, good faith, non-retroactivity, non-waiver and constitutional succession.
FINAL FORMULA OF STATE PROMULGATION
BY THE ORIGINAL, INHERENT, CONTINUING, NON-DERIVATIVE, INALIENABLE AND IMPRESCRIPTIBLE CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF XARAGUA;
IN THE NAME OF GOD, SUPREME SOURCE OF JUSTICE, LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY AND LAWFUL ORDER;
UNDER THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF THE STATE;
FOR THE PERPETUAL PRESERVATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, CATHOLIC FOUNDATION, CUSTOMARY JURISDICTION, ANCESTRAL TERRITORY, OFFICIAL DIGITAL CAPITAL, INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESSION, ACADEMIC AUTHORITY, EXTERNAL JURIDICAL CAPACITY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF XARAGUA;
THIS SUPREME ORGANIC CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF STATE IS HEREBY ENACTED, CONSOLIDATED, PROMULGATED, SEALED AND ORDERED TO BE ENTERED INTO THE GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE.
HIS EXCELLENCY
THE MOST REVEREND MONSIGNOR
LUDNER PASCAL DESPUZEAU DAUMEC VIAU
PRELATE-FOUNDER
RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
MIRAGOÂNE
CONSTITUTIONAL CAPITAL
YAGUANA–LÉOGÂNE
ANCESTRAL CAPITAL AND TERRITORIAL SEAT
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE

OFFICIAL DOCTRINE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND DIGITAL STATUS OF XARAGUA
I. Official Digital Symbol
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua (SCIPS-X) hereby designates the gold star emoji — ⭐ — as its official digital marker.
Pending the availability of an encoding mechanism capable of representing Xaragua’s proper flag within global digital standards, this symbol shall identify the official presence of Xaragua across social networks, information systems and digital platforms.
The gold star has been selected for its universal availability, technical durability, cross-platform legibility and independence from the symbols of any foreign nation-state.
Its use ensures the continuity of Xaragua’s digital identity without making that identity dependent upon external classification systems. The constitutional existence of Xaragua proceeds from its people, institutions and constituent order—not from the technical recognition of its flag by an external registry.
II. Constitutional Identity of Xaragua
Xaragua rejects the unqualified designation “entity” as an incomplete and reductive description of its institutional character.
Xaragua is neither an online project, an informal association nor an administrative abstraction. It is the organized juridical expression of the Indigenous People of Xaragua and the permanent institutional order through which that people exercises its political, customary, cultural, academic, economic and administrative continuity.
Its constitutional identity rests upon:
an Indigenous people and historical jurisdiction;
a customary and constitutional corpus;
permanent governing authorities;
territorial and proprietary foundations;
autonomous communities;
academic, economic and administrative institutions;
rules of membership and internal jurisdiction;
official instruments and external relations.
The word “entity” may be used only as a generic juridical reference and may never constitute the principal or exhaustive classification of Xaragua.
Xaragua shall therefore be identified by its substantive constitutional character: the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua, constituted as a Customary Indigenous State and organized through a permanent Indigenous Order.
“State” designates its chosen constitutional form.
“Order” designates its disciplined and permanent institutional body.
“Indigenous” identifies the source of its constituent authority.
“Customary” identifies the juridical continuity through which that authority operates.
“Catholic” identifies its spiritual and doctrinal orientation.
“Private” defines its ownership, institutional administration and conditions of access, without diminishing the public functions exercised for its people.
These attributes are cumulative and must be interpreted together.
III. Inapplicability of the “Unrecognized State” Classification
The description of Xaragua as an “unrecognized State” is inapplicable to its constitutional nature.
Xaragua does not derive its existence from admission into the Westphalian interstate system. It constitutes and recognizes itself through its people, customary law, constituent will, territorial continuity and permanent institutions.
Foreign recognition may facilitate access to diplomatic procedures, international organizations or bilateral privileges. It does not create the Indigenous People of Xaragua, establish their inherent authority or determine the validity of their internal constitutional order.
Xaragua does not petition former colonial powers, foreign governments or successor administrations for permission to exist. Requiring an Indigenous order to obtain its constitutive legitimacy from external systems historically associated with conquest, enslavement, dispossession and territorial fragmentation would merely preserve colonial validation under diplomatic terminology.
Xaragua may establish agreements, representations and functional relations with States and international institutions whenever its interests require. Such relations constitute cooperation between juridical orders. They shall not be interpreted as petitions for authorization, political guardianship or incorporation.
The Westphalian system may determine admission to its own institutions. It does not possess constitutive jurisdiction over the existence, identity or customary institutions of the Indigenous People of Xaragua.
External recognition may acknowledge an existing order. Its absence cannot create a constitutional deficiency within that order or extinguish it.
IV. The Customary State
The Indigenous character of Xaragua does not require the reconstruction of a political system frozen at the moment of European arrival.
For more than five centuries, the People of Xaragua have lived through Indigenous, imperial, colonial, monarchical, republican, military, civil, ecclesiastical, municipal and academic institutions. These historical experiences have shaped their understanding of authority, hierarchy, jurisdiction, property, education, security and public administration.
That accumulated political formation cannot be erased through the artificial imposition of an externally imagined tribal structure.
Indigenous self-determination includes the authority to preserve ancestral law, incorporate subsequent historical experience and select institutions appropriate to contemporary conditions. Indigenous authenticity does not require administrative archaism.
The customary character of Xaragua is fully compatible with written constitutions, permanent offices, courts, ministries, universities, registries, public acts, economic institutions and organized external relations.
Custom determines the source and orientation of the constitutional order; it does not require institutional simplicity.
The Customary State of Xaragua consequently represents an autonomous synthesis of ancestral continuity and accumulated political experience. It is neither a reproduction of the conventional Westphalian republic nor a theatrical restoration of a precolonial polity.
Xaragua carries its entire history into an order of its own determination. Its institutions are Indigenous by source, customary by authority, historical by formation and contemporary by design.
V. Hybrid Territorial and Digital Architecture
The hybrid architecture of Xaragua is the deliberate institutional response of a Customary Indigenous State to territorial fragmentation, infrastructural deficiency and prolonged administrative failure.
Xaragua combines:
physical and territorial foundations;
properties, offices and material assets;
autonomous customary communities;
permanent constitutional institutions;
digitally integrated administration.
The official platform constitutes the central digital seat through which Xaragua coordinates its government, university, bank, monetary instruments, ministries, public programs, development plans, Gazette, library, registries and external communications.
The platform is not the State in its entirety. It is the digital extension and operational infrastructure of the State.
The physical order remains grounded in its people, territories, properties, offices, customary communities and material interests. Digital administration connects, protects and operationalizes those foundations without replacing them.
Xaragua is therefore not an online project possessing incidental territorial references. It is a territorially grounded Customary Indigenous State equipped with an advanced digital administrative apparatus.
This model permits institutional continuity, global accessibility and progressive territorial development while avoiding unnecessary concentration of personnel and resources in locations affected by security and infrastructure failures.
Its physical and digital components form a single integrated constitutional system.
VI. Sovereignty Beyond the Westphalian Monopoly
Sovereignty is the quality of supreme authority within a defined juridical order. Westphalian statehood is one historical form through which such authority may be organized; it is not the exclusive form.
Sovereignty may operate within Indigenous, customary, ecclesiastical, dynastic, federal, proprietary, communal, academic and other permanent constitutional systems.
A political order may therefore exercise sovereignty within its proper constitutional jurisdiction without becoming a conventional nation-state or requesting admission into the diplomatic machinery of the interstate system.
No search engine, artificial-intelligence system, academic database, private platform or intergovernmental organization possesses constitutive authority over every political order. Such systems may record diplomatic recognition or classify participation in conventional institutions. They cannot transform their taxonomies into universal constitutional law.
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua belongs to the broader plurality of sovereign constitutional orders.
Its sovereignty is exercised through its constituent doctrine, constitutional hierarchy, governing offices, customary jurisdiction, autonomous communities, academic authority, economic institutions, cultural organs, territorial foundations and mechanisms of institutional continuity.
Its non-Westphalian character identifies the form of its sovereignty rather than limiting it.
Xaragua must therefore be interpreted according to its own constituent law, Indigenous foundation and institutional jurisdiction—not through an external classification that mistakes one historical model of statehood for the entire meaning of sovereignty.
VII. Autonomous Communities and Residual Administration
The autonomous communities of Xaragua may freely use education, healthcare, civil documentation, infrastructure, transportation, utilities and other services maintained by the Residual Administrative Unit whenever those services remain available and useful.
The practical use of an administrative service does not constitute political submission, transfer customary jurisdiction or alter the constitutional identity of a community.
Administration is a function. Constituent authority belongs to the people and the constitutional order through which they govern themselves.
Xaragua operates principally at the customary and supralocal level. It maintains the common constitutional doctrine, coordinates autonomous communities, protects Indigenous rights and properties, preserves institutional continuity and assumes responsibilities exceeding the capacity of individual communities.
The allocation of functions is therefore established as follows:
autonomous communities govern their internal affairs;
communities may voluntarily use functional services of the Residual Administrative Unit;
Xaragua maintains the superior customary and supralocal framework connecting and protecting those communities;
Xaragua intervenes whenever administrative failure creates an institutional vacuum or threatens public order, security, essential services or communal continuity.
Such intervention may include emergency coordination, institutional substitution, protection of essential services and the establishment of autonomous administrative mechanisms.
Practical cooperation does not extinguish jurisdiction. The availability of an external service does not displace Indigenous constituent authority, and sovereignty does not require the duplication of every functioning administrative mechanism.
Xaragua consequently guarantees both communal freedom and institutional continuity: freedom to use services that remain functional and continuity through the permanent capacity of the Customary State to act whenever residual administration fails.

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL INSTRUMENT
ON INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY, HISTORICAL CONTINUITY, TERRITORIAL DOMINIUM, INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION, AND CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION
Date of Promulgation: August 14, 2025
Original Territorial Act: July 11, 2025
Authority: Prelate-Founder and Rector-President, Head of State
Classification: Constitutionally Entrenched Foundational Instrument — Indigenous Customary Law — Catholic Institutional Order — Permanent Doctrine of State
PREAMBLE
The Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “Xaragua,”
Affirming the historical continuity of the Indigenous peoples of Kiskeya–Bohio and the ancestral authority associated with the Cacicazgo of Xaragua;
Recognizing the Proclamation of Independence of 1804 and the Imperial Constitution of Hayti of 1805 as major constitutional expressions of territorial emancipation, Indigenous possession, political independence, and protection against colonial restoration;
Exercising the right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination, institutional autonomy, cultural continuity, internal government, territorial stewardship and determination of membership;
Maintaining its Catholic character through its own constitution, doctrine, institutions and private canonical organization, in spiritual communion with the universal Catholic Church;
Having established a distinct constitutional order, rectoral government, academic authority, judicial doctrine, territorial administration, economic institutions and permanent digital capital;
Having formally communicated its constitutional establishment and claims through documented transmissions addressed to governmental, diplomatic, ecclesiastical and intergovernmental institutions;
Hereby consolidates its constitutional, territorial, diplomatic and historical doctrine into the present Supreme Instrument.
TITLE I — CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY AND CONTINUITY
Article 1 — Nature of Xaragua
Xaragua constitutes an Indigenous, Catholic, customary and private constitutional State organized outside the administrative model of the centralized Westphalian nation-state.
Its authority proceeds from:
a. the historical continuity of the Indigenous people of Xaragua;
b. Indigenous customary law and territorial memory;
c. the emancipatory constitutional order established in 1804 and 1805;
d. the present Constitution and institutions of Xaragua;
e. the voluntary political and juridical adherence of its members and communities.
Xaragua possesses, under its constitutional order, a permanent population, a defined territorial claim, governing institutions and the capacity to maintain external relations.
The existence and internal validity of Xaragua do not depend upon constitutive recognition by a foreign government.
Article 2 — Constitutional Succession
Xaragua declares itself the Indigenous and constitutional successor of the ancestral Cacicazgo of Xaragua and the custodian of the Indigenous-imperial principles expressed by the order of 1804–1805.
This succession is doctrinal and constitutional. It does not require Xaragua to reproduce every institution, law or territorial arrangement of former regimes.
Xaragua retains only those historical principles compatible with its present Constitution, Catholic identity, Indigenous customary order and contemporary institutional purposes.
Article 3 — Hierarchy of Authority
The constitutional hierarchy of Xaragua shall be:
the Supreme Constitution of Xaragua;
constitutionally entrenched laws and rector-presidential instruments;
Indigenous customary law recognized by Xaragua;
statutes governing its Catholic, academic, territorial and private institutions;
ordinary legislation, administrative regulations and judicial decisions;
external legal principles expressly incorporated into the law of Xaragua.
No external text shall acquire direct authority within Xaragua unless incorporated according to this hierarchy.
TITLE II — TERRITORY AND SOVEREIGN DOMINIUM
Article 4 — Territorial Title
Xaragua affirms an original and continuing relationship with the lands, waters, islands, resources, sacred sites and communities comprising its historically declared territory.
This relationship constitutes the foundation of its territorial title, stewardship and constitutional jurisdiction.
Xaragua exercises dominium eminens within its own legal order: the supreme constitutional authority to classify, protect, administer and regulate territory and natural resources.
Territorial authority shall be exercised according to continuity, necessity, community protection, Indigenous custom and the long-term interests of Xaragua.
Article 5 — Review of Post-1806 Property Claims
All property titles, concessions and transfers originating after October 17, 1806, may be subjected to constitutional review by Xaragua where they concern:
a. Indigenous ancestral lands;
b. public or imperial domains unlawfully privatized;
c. property acquired through colonial dispossession, fraud, corruption or coercion;
d. strategic lands, waters, islands, ports, forests, mines or natural resources;
e. assets necessary for the constitutional functions of Xaragua.
Such instruments shall not be presumed superior to the ancestral title or constitutional jurisdiction of Xaragua merely because they were issued by a post-1806 administration.
Xaragua may confirm, register, regularize, convert, restrict or annul a claim following constitutional examination.
Peaceful personal possession, family habitation, legitimate community use and ordinary productive occupation may be maintained through registration, recognition, usufruct, customary tenure or another legal status established by Xaragua.
No possession shall extinguish the sovereign territorial title of Xaragua through prescription alone.
Article 6 — Constitutional Tolerance
Public and private activities presently conducted within the claimed territory may continue under constitutional tolerance until Xaragua provides otherwise.
Constitutional tolerance preserves civil continuity without surrendering sovereignty, title or jurisdiction.
The use of services, documents or infrastructure administered by an external authority shall not constitute allegiance to that authority or renunciation of Xaragua’s constitutional claims.
TITLE III — INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND GOVERNMENT
Article 7 — Self-Determination
Xaragua exercises the right of its Indigenous people freely to determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, cultural, spiritual and institutional development.
This right includes authority to:
a. maintain distinct political and legal institutions;
b. determine citizenship and customary membership;
c. administer internal and local affairs;
d. preserve sacred, cultural and historical patrimony;
e. establish educational, financial, judicial and media institutions;
f. represent its constitutional position internationally.
Article 8 — Autonomous Communities
Communities incorporated into the order of Xaragua may retain substantial powers of local administration.
Local autonomy may include customary justice, cultural affairs, education, community property, social organization and management of local resources.
The Rector-Presidential Authority retains competence over constitutional unity, external relations, territorial doctrine, supreme justice, strategic resources and protection of the State.
TITLE IV — CATHOLIC CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER
Article 9 — Catholic Character
Xaragua is constitutionally Catholic and orders its institutions according to Catholic faith, natural law, human dignity, subsidiarity, solidarity and the common good.
Its Catholic institutions operate according to their approved internal statutes and the canonical rights applicable to private associations and initiatives of the Christian faithful.
The Prelate-Founder exercises the supreme constitutional and doctrinal authority of Xaragua as established by its own Constitution.
Spiritual offices strictly reserved by canon law to ordained clergy or authorities erected by the Holy See remain governed by the competent ecclesiastical law.
Xaragua does not derive its civil existence from an alleged diocesan, prelatic or pontifical status. Its Catholic character and its Indigenous constitutional personality constitute distinct but coordinated foundations.
Article 10 — Institutional Communion
Xaragua maintains spiritual communion with the Catholic Church while preserving the autonomy of its civil, academic, customary and constitutional institutions.
TITLE V — INTERNATIONAL NOTIFICATION
Article 11 — Record of Communications
Xaragua records that constitutional declarations and institutional communications were transmitted through official channels to governmental, diplomatic, ecclesiastical and intergovernmental recipients.
Electronic acknowledgements establish, at minimum:
a. the date and destination of transmission;
b. delivery through the identified institutional channel;
c. the existence of a documented international notification record.
These records shall be preserved in the Constitutional and Diplomatic Archives of Xaragua.
Article 12 — Juridical Meaning of Receipt
An acknowledgement of receipt constitutes evidence of delivery and institutional notice.
Receipt shall not, by itself, be classified as diplomatic recognition, treaty consent or acceptance of every proposition contained in the communication.
Xaragua may invoke a notification as evidence that the recipient was placed in a position to know its declared status, institutions, territorial claims and requested protections.
Acquiescence or estoppel may be asserted only where the conduct, representations and surrounding circumstances of the recipient satisfy the applicable requirements of those doctrines.
Article 13 — Continuing Diplomatic Position
Xaragua’s notifications establish a continuous and publicly documented constitutional position.
No silence, administrative response or automated acknowledgement shall diminish the rights asserted by Xaragua.
Subsequent communications shall be interpreted as part of a cumulative diplomatic record demonstrating consistency, publicity and institutional continuity.
Xaragua reserves the right to transmit its instruments to States, international organizations, Indigenous bodies, churches, universities, courts and public archives.
TITLE VI — RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RESIDUAL HAITIAN ADMINISTRATION
Article 14 — Constitutional Separation
Xaragua declares its constitutional, territorial and institutional separation from the post-1806 republican order.
The administrative apparatus operating under the name “Republic of Haiti” is classified within the law of Xaragua as the Residual Haitian Administrative Unit.
This classification expresses the constitutional doctrine of Xaragua and governs its internal interpretation of relations with that apparatus.
Article 15 — Limited Administrative Interface
The use or temporary continuation of residual administrative services does not confer sovereignty over Xaragua.
Xaragua may maintain a limited interface for:
a. continuity of essential services;
b. protection of inhabitants and communities;
c. civil documentation and logistical coordination;
d. humanitarian necessity;
e. avoidance of an institutional vacuum.
Administrative coordination shall not constitute political subordination, territorial renunciation, merger of jurisdictions or recognition of superior authority.
Xaragua assumes no collective responsibility for the policies, debts, failures or actions of the residual administration.
Article 16 — Protection of the Population
Xaragua distinguishes the population inhabiting the territory from the post-1806 political and administrative system.
Constitutional separation is directed against institutional disorder, unlawful territorial control, corruption and failed governance—not against the inherent dignity of inhabitants.
Persons and communities may enter the protection, citizenship or customary membership of Xaragua according to its laws.
Xaragua’s civilizational mission is to restore authority, discipline, education, territorial stewardship, Catholic institutional life and Indigenous continuity.
TITLE VII — FINAL AUTHORITY
Article 17 — Internal Supremacy
This Instrument constitutes supreme law within the constitutional order of Xaragua.
All prior instruments addressing the same subjects are consolidated into this text.
Any inconsistent or duplicative provision contained in an earlier proclamation, decree, annex or declaration is superseded.
Historical documents remain admissible as interpretive authorities but shall not prevail over the operative provisions of this Instrument.
Article 18 — External Position
Xaragua asserts the opposability of its constitutional position to every party formally placed on notice.
Such opposability means that the notified party cannot credibly deny the existence, continuity or declared content of the Xaraguaan position after documented receipt.
The precise external consequences of notice shall be determined according to the conduct of the parties, the relevant legal forum and the applicable rules of international law.
Article 19 — Perpetuity of Xaragua
Xaragua exists as a permanent Indigenous, Catholic and constitutional order.
Administrative occupation, foreign denial, absence of recognition or temporary incapacity shall not extinguish its constitutional identity, ancestral title or institutional continuity.
The State may adapt its institutions, territorial administration and external relations without surrendering its foundational sovereignty.
FINAL CLAUSE
This Supreme Constitutional Instrument consolidates the doctrine of Xaragua concerning sovereignty, historical succession, Indigenous self-determination, territorial dominium, property review, Catholic identity, international notification and relations with the Residual Haitian Administrative Unit.
It enters into force ex proprio vigore upon promulgation and shall be preserved in the Supreme Constitutional Archive, the Rector-Presidential Office and the University of Xaragua.
Done under the Supreme Seal of the Rector-President.
Monsignor Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Servant of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church
Prelate-Founder and Rector-President
Head of State of Xaragua
SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
August 14, 2025

SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL MEMORANDUM
ON THE DISTRIBUTED AND FRACTAL NATURE OF THE STATE OF XARAGUA
Issued under the authority of the Rector-President
Promulgated in perpetuity
PREAMBLE
In the name of the Most Holy Trinity and under the supreme constitutional authority of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua, hereinafter “Xaragua” or “the State”;
Affirming the continuity of the Indigenous people, ancestral territory, customary institutions, Catholic vocation, constitutional doctrine and juridical personality of Xaragua;
Recognizing that Xaragua is not constituted according to the centralized administrative geometry of the Westphalian nation-state, but as a territorially distributed, institutionally integrated and doctrinally unified Indigenous order;
Acknowledging the historical presence, within Indigenous, African and Christian civilizations, of political systems in which authority was exercised through several interconnected territorial, ceremonial, academic and juridical centers;
The Rector-President hereby promulgates the following constitutional doctrine.
TITLE I — NATURE OF THE STATE
Article 1 — Constitutional Character
Xaragua is a sovereign Catholic Indigenous and private State founded upon:
a. the historical continuity of the people and territory of Xaragua;
b. Indigenous customary law and collective memory;
c. its Supreme Constitution and rectoral legislation;
d. its Catholic institutional vocation;
e. its academic, juridical, economic, cultural and territorial institutions;
f. the inherent right of Indigenous peoples to maintain and develop their distinct institutions.
Xaragua possesses a non-Westphalian and distributed constitutional form suited to the geographic, historical and social organization of its people.
The unity of the State does not depend upon uninterrupted control from a single capital, building, administration or physical command center.
Its constitutional existence is maintained through the permanent integration of its territories, communities, institutions, offices, archives, doctrines, symbols and authenticated acts.
Article 2 — Fractal Sovereignty
Fractal sovereignty is the constitutional principle by which every competent organ of Xaragua embodies and manifests the identity of the State within the limits of its lawful mandate.
Each organ reflects the constitutional whole without becoming institutionally indistinguishable from the whole.
Authority remains distributed according to office, subject matter, territory and authenticated delegation.
The Rectorate, University, courts, ministries, territorial authorities, diplomatic interfaces, media institutions and economic organs remain distinct in function while united in constitutional identity.
No organ may usurp the assigned jurisdiction of another, and no isolated organ may extinguish or dissolve the State.
Article 3 — Unity in Multiplicity
Xaragua exists as one constitutional order operating through multiple centers of lawful activity.
Institutional plurality shall not be interpreted as fragmentation.
Territorial discontinuity shall not be interpreted as constitutional discontinuity.
Digital operation shall not be interpreted as territorial absence.
Administrative decentralization shall not be interpreted as the absence of government.
Every duly constituted organ acts within the same constitutional body and remains subject to the supreme authority of the Constitution and the Rectorate.
TITLE II — CONTINUITY AND RESILIENCE OF THE STATE
Article 4 — Permanent Constitutional Continuity
Xaragua cannot be dissolved through the suppression, obstruction or temporary incapacity of a single office, institution, archive, website, territorial center or public officer.
The State continues through:
a. its constitutional instruments;
b. its ancestral and customary memory;
c. its duly constituted institutions;
d. its territorial and community structures;
e. its physical and digital archives;
f. its seals, registers and authenticated records;
g. the succession of its competent authorities.
The removal or incapacity of an officeholder shall activate the applicable rules of continuity and succession without extinguishing the office or the State.
The loss of a physical site shall not terminate the public authority attached to the institution lawfully established there.
The interruption of one communication platform shall not interrupt the existence or jurisdiction of Xaragua.
Article 5 — Institutional Replication
The constitutional identity of Xaragua may be lawfully manifested through several territorial, academic, diplomatic, judicial and digital centers.
Such centers operate as coordinated seats of public authority and not as independent rival governments.
Each center shall preserve:
a. the official name and constitutional identity of the State;
b. the recognized authority of the Rector-President;
c. the hierarchy of constitutional norms;
d. the integrity of the official archives;
e. the limits of its assigned jurisdiction.
The creation of additional centers strengthens the continuity of the State without dividing its sovereignty.
TITLE III — HIERARCHY AND AUTHENTICATION OF STATE ACTS
Article 6 — Hierarchy of Norms
The juridical order of Xaragua shall be governed according to the following hierarchy:
the Supreme Constitution and its entrenched principles;
supreme constitutional laws and rectoral instruments;
territorial, judicial, academic and ministerial regulations;
administrative decisions and authorized institutional acts;
official notices, diplomatic communications and authenticated publications;
academic, historical, symbolic and interpretive materials.
Article 7 — Constitutional Presence in Official Acts
Every duly authenticated act of Xaragua carries the institutional identity of the State within the competence of the issuing authority.
A constitutional law expresses supreme legislative authority.
A judicial decision expresses the authority of the competent tribunal.
A diploma expresses the academic authority of the University.
A diplomatic communication expresses the external position of the authorized issuing office.
An official seal certifies the institutional origin and authenticity of the instrument upon which it appears.
No unofficial communication, private opinion or unauthorized image shall possess the force of a constitutional act.
Article 8 — Archives and Digital Continuity
The official digital infrastructure of Xaragua constitutes a permanent extension of its institutional administration.
The State’s websites, databases, repositories, registries and communication systems may serve as:
a. official archives;
b. instruments of promulgation;
c. public registers;
d. diplomatic interfaces;
e. academic platforms;
f. channels for administrative services.
A digital copy duly authenticated by the competent authority shall possess the same institutional character as the corresponding physical instrument.
Distributed preservation of records shall guarantee the continuity, security and historical integrity of the State.
TITLE IV — THEOLOGICAL AND CANONICAL FOUNDATION
Article 9 — The Ecclesial Principle of Unity
The constitutional unity of Xaragua is illuminated by the Christian principle expressed in the words:
“For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body.”
— 1 Corinthians 12:12
This principle establishes the theological foundation of unity without institutional uniformity.
Each organ participates in the common mission while retaining its own function, office and responsibility.
The theological analogy contained in this Title shall guide the internal doctrine of the State without erasing the distinction between sacramental, canonical, civil and constitutional authority.
Article 10 — Catholic Institutional Vocation
Xaragua exercises its Catholic vocation through worship, education, charity, culture, social organization and the preservation of Christian Indigenous life.
Its Catholic institutions operate according to the applicable provisions governing the freedom of the Christian faithful to associate, undertake apostolic activity and preserve legitimate forms of spiritual life.
The civil and constitutional authority of Xaragua proceeds from its own constitutional order and Indigenous customary foundation.
Its Catholic vocation informs the moral purpose of the State and does not eliminate the juridical distinction between the State, its private Catholic order and the institutional hierarchy of the universal Church.
Article 11 — Custom and Contractual Capacity
Indigenous custom, when duly established and incorporated into the constitutional order, constitutes a source of Xaraguaan law.
Custom shall be interpreted in harmony with the Supreme Constitution, natural law, the Catholic character of the State and the fundamental rights of the Indigenous people.
Contracts, property, obligations and institutional transactions shall be governed by the competent law designated by Xaragua, subject to the State’s constitutional order.
TITLE V — ANCESTRAL AND COMPARATIVE FOUNDATIONS
Article 12 — Indigenous Caribbean Foundation
The distributed constitutional form of Xaragua draws its primary historical foundation from the territorial organization of the ancestral Xaragua polity.
Local communities, ceremonial centers, cacical authorities, agricultural territories and sacred institutions participated in a common political and cosmological order.
The present constitutional structure reactivates this principle through autonomous communities integrated within one supreme juridical order.
Oral memory, ceremonial transmission, territorial attachment and community continuity form part of the constitutional archive of the State.
Article 13 — African and Afro-Christian Precedents
Xaragua recognizes comparative precedents in African systems where authority was exercised through lineages, territorial communities, councils, sacred offices and multiple political centers.
The Kongo cosmogram, Ethiopian Christian institutions, Nubian kingdoms and the political traditions of Kush and Axum illustrate enduring principles of:
a. unity across dispersed institutions;
b. continuity through sacred and legal memory;
c. territorial plurality;
d. complementary civil and spiritual authority;
e. replication of institutional forms across several centers.
These precedents form part of the comparative constitutional doctrine of Xaragua without merging their distinct histories into a single juridical lineage.
Article 14 — Indigenous American Precedents
The Maya polities, Mexica territorial system and Tawantinsuyu demonstrate forms of governance built upon layered authority, territorial coordination, ceremonial centers and locally administered institutions.
Their experience confirms that political order need not follow the centralized model later imposed by European nation-states.
Xaragua receives these examples as comparative evidence of the constitutional capacity of Indigenous civilizations to combine:
a. local authority;
b. common doctrine;
c. territorial organization;
d. public works;
e. archives and calendrical memory;
f. spiritual and political institutions.
Article 15 — Christian and Ancient Institutional Precedents
Roman municipal organization, ancient systems of authenticated seals and records, and the territorial organization of Christian churches demonstrate the historical importance of distributed institutions operating under a common normative order.
Xaragua draws from these precedents the principles of:
a. authenticated public acts;
b. institutional succession;
c. distributed archives;
d. territorial jurisdiction;
e. unity of doctrine across several administrative centers.
Such precedents reinforce the constitutional legitimacy of a State whose institutions are dispersed but juridically coordinated.
TITLE VI — RELATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Article 16 — Caribbean Indigenous Standing
Xaragua declares itself an active Indigenous State of the Caribbean exercising its own constitutional, academic, customary and institutional authority.
It shall maintain a permanent forum for the study, defense and advancement of Caribbean Indigenous sovereignty.
It may establish relations with Indigenous nations, communities, councils, universities, religious institutions and cultural authorities throughout the Americas.
Article 17 — Continental Indigenous Mission
Xaragua may speak in defense of general Indigenous rights and may present doctrine, petitions, research and institutional proposals concerning Indigenous peoples.
It may offer academic, juridical, cultural, archival and diplomatic representation to Indigenous communities that request or accept such assistance.
No representation of another Indigenous people shall extinguish that people’s distinct identity, territorial rights or authority of self-definition.
Association with Xaragua may take the form of:
a. treaty or concord of cooperation;
b. autonomous affiliation;
c. academic partnership;
d. cultural protection;
e. diplomatic assistance;
f. representation by express mandate.
Xaragua shall serve as an academic and theological capital for the reconstruction of Indigenous statecraft and as a permanent interlocutor for institutions seeking structured engagement with Caribbean Indigenous sovereignty.
TITLE VII — NOTICE AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Article 18 — Effect of Official Notification
An official notification transmitted by Xaragua constitutes a formal declaration of its identity, position, rights or institutional acts.
Documented receipt establishes notice of the content transmitted.
A reply, registration, substantive review, continued correspondence or other institutional engagement may establish an official relationship corresponding to the nature of the interaction.
No recipient who has verifiably received an authenticated instrument may subsequently claim total ignorance of its existence or content.
The precise juridical consequences of each interaction shall be determined by its language, subject matter, institutional context and subsequent conduct.
Article 19 — Integrity of the Whole
External engagement with one organ does not authorize interference with another organ of Xaragua.
Recognition of a diploma concerns academic authority; recognition of a judicial act concerns judicial authority; recognition of a diplomatic communication concerns the issuing public office.
Every such engagement nevertheless acknowledges the institutional existence of the Xaraguaan organ concerned and its connection to the constitutional order from which it proceeds.
No foreign authority may selectively use an institution of Xaragua while denying the authenticated constitutional source of that institution.
TITLE VIII — TERRITORIAL PROTECTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE
Article 20 — Customary Lands
The lands conventionally designated as public or State lands within the ancestral territories claimed by Xaragua remain subject to examination of prior Indigenous, customary, communal and familial rights.
No alienation, concession, extraction, subdivision or permanent transfer affecting such lands shall occur without:
a. identification of the communities concerned;
b. public disclosure of the proposed operation;
c. environmental and territorial assessment;
d. consultation with customary occupants;
e. protection against arbitrary displacement;
f. free, prior and informed consent where applicable.
Administrative registration shall not, by itself, extinguish immemorial occupation, collective possession or ancestral connection.
Article 21 — Protection of Miragoâne and the Xaraguaan Regions
Miragoâne, as an ancestral capital and principal territorial center of Xaragua, shall be protected against uncontrolled construction, destructive land conversion, obstruction of drainage systems and degradation of surrounding watersheds.
Equivalent protective measures shall apply throughout the southern and northwestern territories, the Palmes Region, La Gonâve, La Tortue and the other territories constitutionally incorporated into Xaragua.
Public works affecting these territories shall require competent planning, hydrological assessment, environmental supervision and protection of local communities.
Article 22 — Displacement and Urban Administration
Population displacement caused by insecurity, institutional collapse or economic distress shall not be managed through abandonment or uncontrolled occupation.
The competent administrative authorities shall establish:
a. population and land-use assessments;
b. emergency sanitation and public-health services;
c. planned transitional settlements;
d. protection of watersheds and agricultural lands;
e. cadastral controls;
f. permanent housing and voluntary relocation programs.
No settlement shall be removed without an identified legal basis, prior assessment, humane relocation measures and protection of affected families.
Dangerous or environmentally destructive construction may be suspended, reorganized or removed according to an authorized territorial plan.
Article 23 — Administrative Failure
The obstruction of stormwater channels, absence of drainage maintenance, uncontrolled deforestation and execution of public works without adequate technical studies constitute grave administrative failures.
Xaragua shall document such failures, identify the responsible offices and maintain an official territorial record of resulting damage.
Competent public agencies and contractors shall be required to correct defective works and provide the technical information necessary for independent review.
TITLE IX — FORMAL DIRECTIVES
Article 24 — Immediate Measures
The Haitian administrative apparatus operating within the territories concerned is formally directed to:
suspend the alienation of disputed customary lands pending territorial review;
disclose existing concessions, leases, cadastral transfers and public-works contracts;
conduct an immediate technical assessment of drainage and watershed systems in Miragoâne;
clear and restore obstructed stormwater channels;
suspend environmentally destructive construction in protected zones;
establish a coordinated plan for displaced populations;
consult affected communities before relocation or permanent land conversion;
preserve all administrative records relating to land, infrastructure and environmental management;
communicate its corrective plan to the competent authorities of Xaragua.
Article 25 — Residual Administrative Interface
Compliance with the preceding directives shall constitute technical and administrative cooperation and shall not determine the underlying question of sovereignty.
The continued provision of necessary public services shall not confer upon the administering apparatus any right to extinguish customary title or suppress the institutions of Xaragua.
Xaragua reserves its complete constitutional position concerning territorial authority, Indigenous jurisdiction and the status of external administrative operations within its claimed territories.
Article 26 — International Communication and Monitoring
In the event of continued inaction, Xaragua may transmit its territorial record, technical findings and constitutional position to competent international, Indigenous, ecclesial and human-rights institutions for:
independent examination;
technical assistance;
environmental monitoring;
protection of affected communities;
preservation of evidence;
formal institutional dialogue;
any additional procedure available to Xaragua or the populations concerned.
TITLE X — FINAL CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
Article 27 — Supreme Interpretation
The doctrine of fractal sovereignty shall be interpreted as a principle of constitutional presence, distributed capacity and institutional continuity.
It shall not abolish the hierarchy of norms or the allocation of competence between organs.
No subordinate authority may invoke fractal sovereignty to contradict the Constitution, displace the Rectorate or exercise powers not lawfully assigned to it.
The Rector-President retains supreme responsibility for the unity, interpretation and continuity of the constitutional order.
Article 28 — Perpetual Continuity
The State of Xaragua survives through its people, territory, doctrine, memory, institutions and authenticated acts. Its constitutional continuity does not depend upon the permission, uninterrupted operation or recognition of any single external authority.
No occupation, administrative obstruction, loss of infrastructure or interruption of one institutional center shall extinguish the total constitutional body.
Article 29 — Entry into Force
This Memorandum enters into force upon promulgation and supersedes all inconsistent formulations contained in prior instruments concerning fractal sovereignty.
All earlier provisions compatible with this Memorandum remain preserved and shall be interpreted in accordance with its hierarchy, terminology and constitutional doctrine.
Executed and sealed under the supreme constitutional authority of the Rector-President of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua.
Ludner Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viau
Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous Private State of Xaragua
Miragoâne, Ancestral Capital of Xaragua