Proclamation

Article 1: General Provisions

1. This mandate shall be known as the Mandate of the Court of Public Order (Ordensgericht).
2. The Court of Public Order is established as an independent tribunal of the Protectorate for political and seditious matters, and for the morality and fidelity of the Imperial American Protectorate.
   1. The Court of Public Order shall remove from public life every person whose disloyalty or vice corrupts the unity of the Crown and the People.
3. The Court is constituted by the Lord Protector. It rests on the power to investigate and adjudicate committed to the Public Advocate by Section Six (6) of the New York Home Rule Act.
4. The Court of Public Order shall utilize the penal codes of the Imperial American Protectorate. It may also draw its own offenses on the basis of the spiritual aspirations of the Empire.

Article 2: The Bench

1. The Court is held by the Public Advocate, or by such judge as he appoints to sit in his name.
2. The Public Advocate determines the authorities, jurisdiction, offenses, procedure and rules of the Court, and may issue them, amend them or withdraw them at any time.

Article 3: Powers

1. The Court may investigate any person, and may summon, arrest and detain any person, within the Capital.
2. The Court may censor any person, and may suppress, withdraw or forbid any announcement, publication, broadcast or release.
3. The process of the Court is executed by the Public Curators of the Department of Culture and by the personal guard of the Public Advocate, and every organ of the Capital shall aid them in its execution.
4. Any member of the Imperial Ruling Party may motion to have their court be transferred into the Court of Public Order, with the exception of cases of being heard by the Supreme Court.
5. This Court may preside over matters of criminal justice, in the absence of an appropriately qualified judge of the New York Courts.