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  Article 32- Disciplinary action to members  
32.1 Disciplinary action to members  
  Where a member state is found to be in direct breach of an article of this Constitution and upon written notification has failed to indicate either a willingness to comply, or has failed to make necessary steps to comply within 120 days, it shall be a requirement of the Supreme Council to pass such legislation that disciplines the member state as way of punishment for the non compliance.  
  In the framing of such punitive actions, the Supreme Council must make every effort to see that diplomatic representations are exhausted first before any economic action is considered.  
  Action to expel a member from the Union is expressly forbidden under this Constitution and any such legal act or motion shall be immediately deemed null and void, even if such action has the vote and support of other members.  
32.2 Military action  
  While the Union by its legal status holds primacy over its members in relation to the articles of this Constitution, the sovereignty of nation states is without contest. Therefore any punitive action proposed against a member state that is in direct breach of one or more of the articles of this Constitution must not consider military action as a course, unless it relates specifically to one of the following criteria:  
  (1) That an act of genocide against significant numbers of citizens of the member state is currently being undertaken with the knowing support of the Executive Government and that the Executive Government has refused to halt such actions after all other measures have been exhausted; or  
  (2) That a coup has occurred removing a legitimately and duly elected Executive Government from power and that such leaders of the coup have refused after repeated requests to return democratic and legitimate rule to the people of the member state;  
  (3) That the law and order of the member state has failed to such an extent that the basic rule of law and institutions of civil society have broken or unable to operate properly.  
  In all cases, such action should be considered actions of last resort. Furthermore, where such action is approved, the restoration of the full sovereign rights of the nation should occur in the shortest possible time.  
     
     
 
 

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