Article 20 ( Basic principles of state order, right to resist ).

(1) The USO is a democratic and social Federal state.
(2) All state authority emanates from the people. It is exercised by the people by means of elections and voting and by separate legislative, executive and judicial organs.
(3) Legislation is subject to the constitutional order; the executive and the judiciary are bound by the law.
(4) All citizens shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order, should no other remedy be possible.

Article 21 (Political Parties )

(1) The political parties participate in the forming of the political will of the people. They may be freely established. Their internal organization shall conform to democratic principles. They shall publicly account for the sources of their funds and for their assets.
(2) Parties which, by reason of their aims or the behavior of their adherents, seek or impair or destroy the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the USO shall be unconstitutional. The Federal Constitutional Court decides on the question of unconstitutionality.
(3) Details will be regulated by Federal legislation.

The USO Flag is the Vinci Banner .

Article 23 (Entry into a collective security system)

(1) The Federation may, by legislation, transfer sovereign powers to interplanetary institutions.
(2) For the maintenance of peace, the Federation may join a system of mutual collective security; in doing so it will consent to such limitations upon its sovereign powers as will bring about and secure a peaceful and lasting order in the Galaxy .
(3) For the settlement of disputes between Planets, the Federation will accede to agreements concerning a general, comprehensive and obligatory system of interplanetary arbitration.

The general rules of public interplanetary law form part of the Federal law. They take precedence over the laws and directly create rights and duties for the inhabitants of the Federal territory.

Article 32 (Foreign Relations)

(1) The conduct of relations with foreign states is the concern of the Federation.
(2) Before the conclusion of a treaty affecting the special interests of a Planet, this Planet must be consulted in sufficient time.
(3) Insofar as the planets have power to legislate, they may, with the consent of the Federal Government, conclude treaties with foreign states.

Article 33 (Equal political status of all Citizens, professional civil service)

(1) Every Citizen has in every Planet the same civil rights and duties.
(2) Every Citizen is equally eligible for any public office according to his aptitude, qualifications and professional achievements.
(3) Enjoyment of civil and civic rights eligibility for public office, and rights acquired in the public service are independent of religious denomination. No one may suffer disadvantage by reason of his adherence or non-adherence to a denomination or ideology.
(4) The exercise of state authority as a permanent function shall as a rule be entrusted to members of the public service whose status, service and loyalty are governed by public law.
(5) The law of the public service shall be regulated with due regard to the traditional principles of the permanent civil service.

Article 34 (Liability in the event of a breach of official duty)

If any person, in the exercise of a public office entrusted to him, violates his official obligations to a third party, liability rests in principle on the state or the public authority which employs him. In the case of willful intent or gross carelessness the right of recourse is reserved. With respect to the claim for compensation or the right of recourse, the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts must not be excluded.

Article 35 (Legal and administrative assistance, assistance during disasters)

(1) All Federal and Planet authorities render each other mutual legal and administrative assistance.
(2) In order to maintain or to restore public security or order, a Planet may, in cases of particular importance, call upon forces and facilities of the Federal Border Guard to assist its police where without this assistance the police could not, or only with considerable difficulty, fulfill a task. In order to deal with a natural disaster or as especially grave accident, a Planet may request the assistance of the police forces of other planets or of forces and facilities of other administrative authorities or of the Federal Border Guard or the Armed Forces.
(3) Where the natural disaster or the accident endangers a region larger than a Planet, the Federal Government may, insofar as this is necessary to effectively deal with such danger, instruct the Planet governments to place their police forces at the disposal of other planets, and may use units of the Federal Border Guard or the Armed Forces to support the first sentence of this paragraph shall be revoked at any time a the demand of the Senate, and otherwise immediately upon removal of the danger.

Article 36 (Personnel of the federal authorities;)

(1) Civil servants employed in the highest Federal authorities shall be drawn from all planets in appropriate proportion. Persons employed in other Federal authorities should, as a rule be drawn from the Planet in which they serve.
(2) Military laws shall take into account the division of the Federal planets and the latter's particular ethnic conditions.

Article 37 (Federal coercion)

(1) If a Planet fails to comply with its obligations of a Federal character imposed by the Basic Law or another Federal law, the Federal Government may, with the consent of the Senate, take the necessary measures to enforce such compliance by the Planet by way of Federal compulsion.
(2) To carry out such Federal compulsion the Federal Government or its commissioner has the right to give instructions to all planets and their authorities.