This Website is gives you free access to a proposed encoded constitutional document for New Zealand. It is important that in reading and thinking about this Constitution you think about why each specific provision has been included because then you will understand why we need to entrench these provisions in order that the rights and freedoms they protect are guaranteed and that the powers and scope of government is limited and balanced in important ways.
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Outline of the Constitution
1. Interpretation
2. General Provisions
Human Rights
3. Life and Security of Person
4. Liberty of Physical Action
5. Freedom of Thought, Religion and Expression
6. Freedom of Movement and Residence
7. Property
8. Privacy
9. Fair Interaction
10. Information
11. Legal Rights
12. Equal Treatment
13. Marriage and Family
14. Nationality
15. National Representation
16. Participation in Government
17. Linguistic and Cultural Rights
18. Environmental Rights
19. Due Process
20. Employment
21. Children and Young persons
22. Parents and Guardians
23. Tenants
24. Disabled
25. Victims
26. Witnesses
27. Indigenous
28. Refugees
29. Foreign Workers
30. Those Deprived of Liberty
31. Power of Attorney
32. Bereaved
Separation of Powers
33. Branches of government
34. Composition of Legislature
35. Composition of Executive
36. Composition of Judiciary
37. Composition of Independent Bodies
38. Powers of Legislature
39. Powers of Executive
40. Powers of Judiciary
41. Powers of Chief of Independence
42. Local Government