The Constitution of Phoenix — Great Britain
THE PARTY SERVES THE PEOPLE. THE FOUNDING OBJECTIVE IS PROTECTED.
Vox Populi est Sui Iuris — The Voice of the People is Sovereign.
This is a public presentation of the 29 September 2026 final signing copy of the Constitution prepared for Phoenix in Great Britain. Its numbered governing clauses below are reproduced without substantive amendment. It is the Constitution of the political party, not the proposed universal Constitution for the People.
The source document contains adoption signature lines. A prepared signing copy does not itself confirm that the document has been signed, adopted by the officers or accepted by the Electoral Commission. Any duly executed and subsequently lawfully amended version is the authoritative Party record.
Phoenix’s Founding Objective is protected. Its role is to secure permanent constitutional Standing Power directly for the electorate, by lawful democratic means, and prove the practical mechanism operational. The Party may continue to govern under the new constitutional order; it does not automatically dissolve.
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Contents
- 1. Founding Objective
- 2. Electoral Purpose and Governing Capacity
- 3. Membership
- 4. Candidates and Pledge
- 5. Registered Officers
- 6. Decisions, Meetings and Records
- 7. Government, Referendum and Transition
- 8. Financial Governance
- 9. Internal Disputes, Discipline and Fact-Finding
- 10. Amendment
- 11. Dissolution
- 12. Interpretation and Adoption
1. Founding Objective
1.1 The sole founding purpose of the Party is to secure, by lawful democratic means, a permanent standing constitutional power held directly by the electorate — the House of the Electorate — including transfer of the constitutional function presently exercised through Royal Assent from the Crown to that standing power.
1.2 No Leader, officer, committee, meeting, member ballot or other internal act has authority to amend, suspend, abandon, indefinitely defer, or reinterpret the Founding Objective so as to defeat it. A purported internal act having that effect is void within the Party.
1.3 The Objective is achieved only when the standing power has been lawfully established and a practical means of exercising it has been proven operational. Passage of a referendum or enactment alone is not operational completion.
1.4 Until operational completion, normal constitutional, parliamentary and governmental practice continues except where lawfully changed. No unproven civic device or interim platform acquires governmental or sovereign authority merely because it is under development.
1.5 Once operational, the Party shall not use its organisation or resources to extinguish the standing power or deprive later electorates of the genuine means to exercise it.
2. Electoral Purpose and Governing Capacity
2.1 The Party intends to contest elections in Great Britain, including UK Parliamentary general elections, and may contest other elections for which it is lawfully registered.
2.2 The Party may form or participate in government, or act in opposition. Its representatives may use qualified ministers, advisers, public servants and other lawful expertise. Administration may be delegated; authority to abandon the Founding Objective may not.
2.3 Before the standing power is operational, ordinary democratic, parliamentary and governmental decision-making continues. After it becomes operational, lawful directions made through it and applicable to government or public policy bind the Party when exercising public functions, subject to constitutional rights then in force.
2.4 Internal Party administration remains governed by this Constitution. A governmental or public act shall not be relabelled as internal business to evade a lawful electorate direction.
3. Membership
3.1 Membership is open to a person eligible under applicable law who accepts this Constitution and satisfies lawful administrative requirements. Membership rules shall comply with equality law.
3.2 Before admission, every applicant must expressly acknowledge and agree that continued acceptance of the Founding Objective is a condition of membership and that repudiation or abandonment of that Objective automatically and immediately terminates membership. Membership shall not be granted unless that condition has been accepted in advance.
3.3 A member remains free to change their personal beliefs or position. If that change amounts to repudiation or abandonment of the Founding Objective, membership terminates automatically under the condition accepted before admission. Any review determines only whether the terminating fact occurred.
3.4 Membership terminates automatically if a member formally joins another registered political party, accepts office in another registered political party, or stands as a candidate for another registered political party while still recorded as a Phoenix member. Review determines only whether that event occurred.
3.5 Membership may otherwise be suspended or terminated for material breach of this Constitution, applicable law, or conduct materially incompatible with continued membership, using Part 9.
3.6 The Party shall maintain an accurate membership register and handle personal information lawfully.
4. Candidates and Pledge
4.1 Candidate selection shall be open and non-discriminatory among eligible members. A prospective candidate must satisfy legal eligibility requirements, remain a member in accordance with Part 3, accept this Constitution, and give a written acknowledgement that, if selected, they will pursue the Founding Objective and comply with the constitutional obligations applicable to Party candidates and representatives.
4.2 The Nominating Officer gives the formal authorisation required for a person to stand using Party identity marks. Selection and authorisation shall be recorded.
4.3 The Party may record the acknowledgement required by clause 4.1 in a Candidate Doctrine Declaration, Phoenix Pledge or equivalent form. Any signed acknowledgement is an immutable historical record of the commitment made at the time and shall not later be edited, replaced, hidden, withdrawn or retrospectively altered. Repudiation or abandonment of the Founding Objective terminates membership under Part 3 and therefore ends eligibility for Party selection or endorsement. Any subsequent statement shall be separately dated and recorded without altering the original acknowledgement.
4.4 Selection or future Party endorsement may be withdrawn for material breach of this Constitution or of the constitutional obligations acknowledged under clause 4.1. This affects Party endorsement only and does not purport to remove a person from an elected seat where the Party lacks legal power to do so.
4.5 A Membership Declaration, Candidate Doctrine Declaration, Phoenix Pledge or equivalent acknowledgement is an administrative record of obligations contained in this Constitution. No such form adds to, amends or independently determines the Party’s structure, organisation, membership rules or candidate rules.
5. Registered Officers
5.1 The Party shall maintain the officers required by electoral law: Leader, Treasurer and Nominating Officer, held by at least the minimum number of distinct persons required by law.
5.2 Officers continue until resignation, death, incapacity, legal disqualification, removal or replacement. An appointment may expressly be temporary.
5.3 The Leader provides overall political and organisational leadership subject to this Constitution.
5.4 The Treasurer is responsible for the Party’s financial affairs under electoral law and the Financial Scheme.
5.5 The Nominating Officer performs the functions assigned by electoral law, including candidate authorisation and use of registered Party identity marks where required.
5.6 A registered officer may resign by written notice. Remaining officers shall appoint an eligible replacement promptly and notify the Electoral Commission as required.
5.7 An officer may be removed by a two-thirds majority of the other serving registered officers, subject to Part 9. Where only one other serving officer can lawfully participate, removal requires ratification by a simple majority of valid votes cast in a membership ballot.
5.8 An objectively established attempt by an officer to abandon, suspend or redirect the Founding Objective causes automatic forfeiture of Party office. Part 9 determines only whether the triggering fact occurred.
6. Decisions, Meetings and Records
6.1 Ordinary internal business not reserved to membership may be decided by the Leader and registered officers and shall be recorded.
6.2 Registered officers shall hold at least one formal governance meeting each calendar year and may meet additionally in person or securely remotely.
6.3 An officers’ meeting is quorate when a majority of serving registered officers is present, with at least two distinct persons present. Decisions are by simple majority; a tie does not pass.
6.4 A general meeting may be called by the Leader, the officers acting together, or written request of at least one-tenth of registered members. At least 14 days’ notice shall normally be given. Quorum is the lesser of ten members or one-quarter of registered membership.
6.5 Meetings may discuss, scrutinise and originate proposals. A matter reserved to full membership is decided by recorded ballot open to all eligible members, not solely by meeting attendees.
6.6 Unless otherwise stated, membership ballots are decided by simple majority of valid votes cast. Adequate records shall be retained.
7. Government, Referendum and Transition
7.1 The Party may discharge ordinary responsibilities of government or opposition while pursuing the Founding Objective.
7.2 If the standing power is established in law before its practical mechanism is proven operational, normal governmental practice continues during the gap. Proposed civic mechanisms may be built, tested, audited and demonstrated but do not acquire sovereign authority as prototypes or interim platforms.
7.3 Operational transfer occurs only under lawful commencement arrangements after the mechanism intended to give practical effect to standing power has been demonstrated functional, secure, auditable and capable of genuine electorate use.
7.4 If an attempt fails, the Party shall review and pursue the Objective again. After at least three consecutive unsuccessful attempts, it may seek electorate approval for a fixed, bounded moratorium. No moratorium may constitute permanent abandonment.
7.5 The Party may contest broader policy where necessary to govern or discharge parliamentary responsibilities, but no broader programme may displace the Founding Objective.
7.6 Achievement does not automatically dissolve the Party; it may continue under the constitutional order then in force or dissolve under Part 11.
8. Financial Governance
8.1 The Party adopts and shall operate under its Financial Scheme. The two documents shall correspond.
8.2 Campaign and referendum expenditure may be authorised only by persons permitted by electoral law and the Financial Scheme.
8.3 Money or assets actually donated or transferred to, accepted by, held for, or brought under Party control shall be treated as Party money or property and governed accordingly.
9. Internal Disputes, Discipline and Fact-Finding
9.1 A dispute or allegation shall be raised in writing with the registered officers, identifying the relevant facts and outcome sought. A materially involved person shall not determine it alone.
9.2 For discretionary discipline, the affected person shall receive the material allegation and evidence and a reasonable opportunity to respond. The decision and reasons shall be recorded.
9.3 A discretionary decision may be reviewed once on written request within 14 days, so far as reasonably practicable by persons not materially involved in the original decision.
9.4 Where this Constitution makes a consequence automatic, review is confined to whether the specified triggering fact occurred. No reviewer may waive, reduce or replace the consequence once the fact is established.
9.5 If all available registered officers are materially involved, the factual question shall be put to a membership ballot with the allegation, material evidence and response supplied to eligible voters. The question is whether the triggering fact is established on the balance of probabilities.
9.6 Nothing in this Part excludes any legal right or remedy.
10. Amendment
10.1 Except for the Founding Objective and provisions necessary to prevent its internal abolition or circumvention, this Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds majority of valid votes cast in a specific membership ballot.
10.2 Proposed wording shall be published to eligible members with a reasonable voting period and adopted text recorded.
10.3 No amendment may indirectly accomplish what Part 1 places outside Party authority.
10.4 Amendments shall be notified or submitted to the Electoral Commission where electoral law requires.
11. Dissolution
11.1 The Party may be dissolved by at least two-thirds of valid votes cast in a specific membership ballot, subject to clause 11.2.
11.2 If registered membership has at any time exceeded 100 persons, dissolution shall not take effect unless the Party has at least 1,000 registered members at the time of the ballot and at least two years have elapsed since registration.
11.3 If membership has never exceeded 100 persons, clause 11.2 does not apply, allowing a Party that never attracts meaningful support to be dissolved without recruiting toward a threshold it has not achieved.
11.4 Residual Party assets shall be dealt with lawfully under the Financial Scheme and binding liabilities.
12. Interpretation and Adoption
12.1 “Party” means Phoenix registered in Great Britain.
12.2 “Standing power” means the permanent constitutional authority intended to be held directly by the electorate. No present-day technology is mandated by that expression.
12.3 Mandatory electoral law governs to the extent of any conflict, without enlarging Party officers’ authority over the Founding Objective.
12.4 This Constitution contains the complete constitutional structure and organisation of the Party and may be amended only in accordance with Part 10.
12.5 This Constitution is adopted by the founding officers on the date recorded below.
Adoption and authoritative copy
The final signing copy identifies the Leader, Treasurer and Nominating Officer in its adoption section and provides signature and date fields. The original signed document, once executed, and any lawful revisions govern. This web transcription does not display private handwritten signatures.
Party funds and the Party Treasurer’s duties are governed by the separate adopted Financial Scheme. Phoenix Charter, Trust and other non-Party assets do not become Party funds merely because they are associated with the wider project; clause 8.3 applies whenever funds are actually accepted by or brought under Party control.