Orion Arm Union Charter - Chapter I

=Article I= The Purposes of the Orion Arm Union are: =Article II= The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
 * 1) To maintain interstellar peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and interstellar law, adjustment or settlement of interstellar disputes or situations that might lead to a breach of the peace
 * 2) To develop friendly relations among worlds based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace
 * 3) To achieve interstellar cooperation in solving interstellar problems of an economic, social, and cultural nature, and in promoting and encouraging respect for sentient rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, gender, language, or religion
 * 4) And to be a center for harmonizing the actions of worlds in the attainment of these common ends.
 * 1) The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
 * 2) All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
 * 3) All members shall settle their interstellar disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that interstellar peace, security, and justice are not endangered.
 * 4) All members shall refrain in their interstellar relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any world, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the Orion Arm Union.
 * 5) All members shall give the Orion Arm Union every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any world against which the Orion Arm Union is taking preventive or enforcement action.
 * 6) The Organization shall ensure that worlds that are not Members of the Orion Arm Union act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of interstellar peace and security.
 * 7) Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the Orion Arm Union to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any world or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.