CONSTITUTION OF RHO PHI

Preamble

Truth dictates from upon the third of our collective on this eight and twentieth day of this second month of the two-thousand five and twentieth year of this Common Era such to enact formalization of our assemblage as an Honorable Society, hence known as Rho Phi, shall be undertaken, whereof will and select shall in equal part distinguish the association of Rho Phi, whereupon a firmament of separation shall be placed unto us, the Society, and them, which are not, and the former vindicated by the provisions of this Constitution:

Article I, Proper Usage

Section I, References

That the entirety of this Constitution shall address the matter and governance of the nonprofit corporation, Rho Phi Inc and related subsidiaries, which shall do business as such; That Rho Phi Inc may be shortened to the derivative “Rho Phi” in the matter of brevity and be known to refer to the same if the former style is first stated; That of the name Rho Phi and all derivatives, the phrase of reference shall be “Ρόδου Φιλοσοφία” or “Roses’ Philosophy”; That the corresponding, “ΡΦ” or stylized, “Ρφ” ideations of the Rho Phi name shall be recognized as referring to the same, but may not, nor may any alternative nomenclature be used to conduct the business of Rho Phi preceding actual specification by the name of Rho Phi Inc followed by a declaration of the following name to refer to the same; That alternate names subject to ratification may be used in matters of promotion or service of the definition of Rho Phi for the purposes of expansion, but may not be used in any official capacity of reference to Rho Phi;

Section II, Signifiers

That the use of a rose drawn, real, supplied, or otherwise, shall be used to signify Rho Phi; That each Chapter of Rho Phi shall be designated with a Greek letter trigram ending in ΡΦ; That each Council of Rho Phi shall hold a standard designated nomenclature; That the creation and use of a standard insignia for the Society may be instituted superseding that of the Chapter within the relevant contexts; That red, white, black, and gold shall be observed as the official colors of Rho Phi; That the use of a red or gold “φ” as substitute for a rose is permissible but no references to Rho Phi by that character alone shall be recognized;

Section III, Livery

That for the matter of uniformity of all Members , a standard manner of dress is designed as such: That for the limited capacity of Quorum or related gatherings whereof designation as a Member may be recognized as principle, a general code of dress, or “Red Vestment” shall be defined; That for the limited capacity of special Mandates, an account of acceptable Plain Dress may be defined; That the attire of meetings is in all cases to be regarded as formal;

Section IV, Scope

That the official capacity of action for Rho Phi in itself or by its Members as specified in Article III of this Constitution shall encompass only that specified in Article VI bounded by Articles I and VII and only as executed to the advancement of Article II in the manner specified by Article IV; That no action otherwise undertaken shall represent an Act within the capacity of Rho Phi;

Section V, Provenance

That authenticity and authority of any material with regard to Rho Phi and its governance shall, inherently and eternally, be the prerogative of the collective irrespective of the particular pedigree or positioning of any such materials prior or anticipatory to the use of Rho Phi;

Article II, Purpose

That the universal goal of Rho Phi shall be defined and executed as such, known hence as the “Fraternal Purpose” of Rho Phi, whereby all acts shall be taken in the advancement thereof and never be affected so as to annul, conflict, or otherwise damage the integrity of the following principles:

To engender the principles of the PHILOSOPHY OF THE ROSE through association and education;
To empower Members to exact their collective will by the provisions of the Society;
To foster productive relations throughout academic, professional, communal, and deliberative environments;
To propagate excellence unto the realms in which Rho Phi operates, especially as to the benefit of Rho Phi’s ability to conduct itself;
To cultivate an environment whereby Members may be facilitated to execute the Fraternal Purpose of Rho Phi;

Article III, Membership

Section I, Induction

That for any person who wishes to join Rho Phi, a statement of Intent to Join may be made to the Secretary of the respective Chapter containing:

A written statement or documentation of the achievement of at least one item in three or more categories from the authentic COMPENDIUM OF MERITS;
A nomination for sponsorship by letter, speech, or signature of an existing Member or fellow of Rho Phi;
A formal statement of intent to join Rho Phi with an attached reason for the intent to join;
A nominal processing fee to be elected by Quorum of the relevant Body, which may be attached in the Intent to Join or solicited after Membership;
A signature of the applicant and a legal authority over the applicant if the applicant is unable to enter into a Membership contract in their own right;

The reception of which shall designate that person thenceforth as a “Pledge”; That of Pledges, the enjoyment of attendance to the capacities of the Pledged Chapter shall be endured, but no further action or entitlement shall be theirs until Membership is secured; That to become a Member, a Pledge must be ratified as a Member in a Quorum of Rho Phi by a Body of Rho Phi;

Section II, Entitlements

That of Members , the following entitlements are ensured:

The ability to attend Rho Phi assemblies and related functions;
The provision of a wholly unique Member Identification Number, which shall be exclusively associated with that Member, shall be added to at least one Quorum Manifest and thereby ensure the ability to vote;
The equal evaluation to the bestowal of roles, distinguishments, rulings, Mandates, commissions, and the like to them as to other Members , excepting with substantively qualifying factors;
The conferring of the title of “Rose” prepended as possible to the name of the Member, as abbreviated “RS”;
The access to any further allocation ratified by a Quorum;

Section III, Ethics

That none shall be discriminated against in any action on any basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, or socioeconomic status, real or perceptual; That no action principally to the detriment of any party and not producing any substantive probative or otherwise educational value shall be undertaken; That no action shall be taken which inherently or intentionally results or intends to result in bodily harm to another person which is not taken principally in self defense;

Section IV, Duties

That all Members , irrespective of role, shall be made to:

Attend at least one Quorum during every operational year;
Act upon at least one Mandate during every operational year;
Maintain standing and abide by at least one Chapter for which theoretical attendance is possible;
Contribute a sum as elicited by the Treasurer of the relevant Chapter or present a valid exemption from this sum;
Continually uphold this Constitution and related documents and accord with the Fraternal Purpose;

Whereby failure to do so shall constitute grounds for expulsion marked by the relevant Secretary and officiated at the next Quorum;

Section V, Interests

That all Members shall be compelled to declare any substantive interest which they hold to be noted by the attending Secretary of any Quorum they attend, particularly in sources of income, investments, or any asset or situation which may produce outsized benefit to that Member by any means of Rho Phi and its associated actions, and recuse themselves by compelled abstention from voting or acting on any action which may regard that interest for the duration of that action’s effective voting and execution period, including actions which concern only or including themselves, accepting in the presentation of relevant evidence to that Quorum concerning such an interest, at penalty of compelled Sanction or Expulsion to be initiated by the Secretary of the relevant Body;

Article IV, Governance

Section I, Cadre

That the designation of the following roles and offices of Rho Phi shall be as follows, whereof the immutable composition of governance shall be established:

The Office of the Chair bound by the Chair Charter;
The Office of the Secretary bound by the Secretary Charter;
The Office of the Treasurer bound by the Treasury Charter;
The Office of the Chaplain bound by the Chaplain Charter;
The Office of the General bound by the General Charter;
The Office of the Deputy bound by the Deputy Charter;
The Office of the Administrator bound by the Administrator Charter;
The Office of the Lieutenant bound by the Lieutenant Charter;

Section II, Organization

That there shall be four organizational bodies composing the whole of Rho Phi:

The Society, which shall encompass the sum of every Member irrespective of particular roles or reserved statuses, but may not of itself compose any Quorum;
The Chapters, which shall each be composed of at least four Members with at least two Proletarians among them, commissioned by the Grand Commission and encompassing the whole of every Member and Pledge and Act with respect to the Grand Commission and relevant Councils, and reserving the sole right to elicit funds from Members directly to conduct itself;
The Councils, which shall be each composed of at least one Chapter, commissioned by the Grand Commission and encompassing every Proletarian, acting to effect at Quorum every Chapter represented, appointing the requisite roles as Councils, and reserving the right to elicit funds from Chapters to conduct itself;
The Grand Commission, which shall encompass every last-acting Council Secretary and Council Chaplain, and shall appoint among themselves the requisite roles as Grand Commissioners and affect by delegation the Society at Quorum, whereby it shall Act as the final authority on any matter and pass its judgements to all subsidiaries without reservation, and reserving the right to elicit funds from Councils to conduct itself;

Section III, Compliance

That Rho Phi shall be established and perpetually based in the state of United States state of Georgia, being thereby compelled to obey any and all state and federal laws thereof; That the acts of Rho Phi shall be reserved to be in the scope of all defined facets of Section 501(c)(10) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, that of a Domestic Fraternal Society, of the United States Code, and shall hereby Act in conformity with all statutes, rules, regulations, and expectations contained therein, particularly in:

Equal opportunity, exclusive and utterly voluntary Membership with respect to both stipulations of the tax status of the organization and the standards and popular positions of the Society;
Maintaining and acting only in advancement of the Fraternal Purpose stated in Article II of this Constitution;
Operating under the Lodge System, as formed in Article IV, Section II of this Constitution;
Ensuring the use of Rho Phi’s assets are not used in for-profit activities, and are not provisioned to private individuals and especially non-Members except as fair compensation for goods and services elicited for the advancement of the stated Fraternal Purpose, and further prohibiting the use of funds particularly for any use which may be defined as any form of “private inurement”;
Acting particularly for the advancement of Members as opposed to the public at large;

That this Constitution shall be maintained with a sister iteration, which shall be reserved for the event of ratification by the Grand Commission to reform Rho Phi under Section 501(c)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, contingent upon the requisite alterations to this Constitution to ensure compliance with this provision at some later date; That the specification for the Board of Directors for all necessary conduct of Rho Phi shall be all Members of the most recent Grand Commission Quorum; That for the purposes of the due good standing of Rho Phi with the institutions in which its Members reside, a non-Member Registrant may be appointed and imbued with duties satisfying the expectations of their institution in the existence of Rho Phi at such institution per the processes maintained by the Grand Commissioner Secretary in the REGISTRANT JURISPRUDENCE;

Section IV, Procedure

That in the conduct of any binding Act of Rho Phi, the following shall be specified:

Declaration of Quorum, whereby at the presence of at least two-thirds of a Body as verified by the producing of a Manifest of the relevant Body by the last-acting Secretary, an otherwise former Secretary, or a Proletarian willing to immediately assume the role of Secretary, a recognition of the ability to conduct official affairs of and only of that Body per Quorum may be invoked by the recording of the identification of all present and the assignment of a Quorum identifier, whereby the present last-acting of every role shall be assumed to their office until the presentation of a motion otherwise;
Presentation of Evidence, whereby any Member of the Quorum shall be heard to their pleasure, any dispensation on matters concerning Rho Phi;
Presentation of Motions, whereby an action specified in Article IV of this Constitution may be presented by any Member for voting, which shall be first appointed if any of the requisite roles are vacant or contested;
Ratification, which shall first constitute the appointment of a Chair and Chaplain if these roles are in dispute, and shall proceed to all other actions, whereby all presented motions shall be independently voted on, whereof the states of for, against, or abstained shall be observed for that motion, whereby unless otherwise stated, one-half plus one concurrence of the present Quorum not abstained shall constitute ratification, whereupon ratification shall, unless otherwise specified elicit the approval of the present Chaplain per coherence with this Constitution, the notation of the action’s content by the present Secretary, and officiation of the notation by the Chair to tender the action as fully valid;
Adjournment, whereby at the unanimity of any number of present persons whose absence would cause the loss of a present Quorum for a reason not principally concerning the conduct of the present Quorum at the ruling of the present Chaplain, any Quorum may be dissolved;

That in the case of dispute, particularly in the conduct of punitive or emergency measures, any Member or Pledge is entitled to first, the Presentation of Evidence listed in Article IV, Section V of this Constitution followed by appeal, whereby in successive appeals at Quorum of the relevant Body, further Presentation of Evidence shall be Conducted and decided upon, the will of those distinguished as Proletarian taking preeminence, followed by the highest office last held in the order of Chaplain, Chair, and Secretary, followed by the highest level of Governance, at which the appeal to a Council and following Grand Commission shall be held, at which no further appeal may be presented, which shall on the whole Constitute the exhaustive due process of Rho Phi;

Section V, Dissolution

That at the loss of functionality of any Body of Rho Phi, particularly in the loss of enough Members to conduct a Quorum of that Body independently, or given a lack of a convened Quorum of that Body for two-hundred four and forty consecutive days, the Grand Commission may take upon any assets of that Body to their personal treasury and dissolve that Body as an operational arm of Rho Phi, and must offer the ability of still active Members of that Body to be assimilated into another Body of corresponding authority and that Body to be compelled to accept those Members ; That at the loss of functionality of the whole of Rho Phi, the concurrence of the last-acting Grand Commission at Quorum may elect to dissolve Rho Phi and elect an organization operating under 501(c) IRC classification to transfer all assets of Rho Phi to;

Article V, Charters

Section I, Roles

That the following specifications shall be made Mandate of themselves or in reference to positions specified in Article IV, Section I of this Constitution to manage the full conduct of Rho Phi;

Chair Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Chair shall simultaneously maintain the honor of Proletarian; That they shall retain the duty of officiating any alteration which concerns Rho Phi; That they shall preserve the order of Quorums under the advisement of the last-acting Chaplain; That they shall be supplied with the requisite Rose, which shall bear the insignia of Rho Phi with such a denotation as their role to be inscribed upon officiated actions; That officiating shall be composed of first, the recognition of the requisite support, second, the presentation of the action to the Chair in writing by the Secretary, and third, the presentation of the Chair’s Rose upon the action; That they shall harbor and exact the finances of Rho Phi by and only by the direction of ratified action; That they shall be compelled by their presence at any Quorum or Mandate to officiate any Act which has been ratified or be immediately held to contempt and impeached by the discretion of the present Chaplain; That they shall not cohabitate the role of the Secretary, Treasurer, or the Chaplain;
Secretary Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Secretary shall retain the duty of maintenance, observance, drafting, notarizing, and alteration of venues of information regarding the conduct of Rho Phi; That they shall take comprehensive account of the whole of the affairs of the present Society in a manner which shall be wholly unambiguous and shall not neglect any Act or motion in recording; That they shall harbor and maintain every document of their Body as a matter of duty; That their responsibility shall venue of information over, in their most diminutive capacity, the accounts of (1) their Body’s Manifest (2) their Body’s Log and (3) their Body’s records per the Manifest and Log; That they shall be bound by a Standard; That they shall not Act to falsify, embellish, or otherwise compromise the integrity of any official record; That they shall be compelled by their presence at any Quorum or Mandate to undertake these duties immediately or be immediately held to contempt and impeached by the discretion of the present Chaplain; That they shall not cohabitate the role of either the Chair or the Chaplain;
Treasury Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Treasurer shall retain the duty of assessing, summing, and presenting plans for the allocation of funds of the Rho Phi, and shall retain the duty of bearing the insignia of their Body of appointment; That they shall keep accounts of their Body’s treasury that are true and authentic; That they shall retain the sole ability to present pecuniary proposals during Quorum; That they shall not cohabitate the role of the Chair;
Chaplain Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Chaplain shall simultaneously maintain the honor of Proletarian and an officiated Letter of Confidence from the last-acting Grand Commissioner Chaplain, and must further relinquish voting by opinion in favor of assuring that any measure aligns with the Fraternal Purpose and other facets of the present Constitution, and shall not go without reappointment for a period exceeding three-hundred six and sixty days at risk of compelled vacation and revocation of the Letter of Confidence; That they shall not cohabitate the role of either the Secretary or the Chair;
General Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of General shall simultaneously maintain the Distinguishment of Proletarianship; That they shall Act to elicit Members to Act upon the directives of the organization, manage the relations of Members with the organization, and report all relevant information about these acts to the Secretary for use in Quorum; That they shall not Act within Quorum except to report the conduct they elicit or receive orders to elicit;
Deputy Charter: That those who are sworn to the office of Deputy shall be bound by an office directive issued under the requisite Act detailing tenure not exceeding the current Term of Rho Phi, a task, and the scope of authority with which to complete the task using the resources of Rho Phi;
Administrator Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Administrator shall be appointed by the Founder or last-acting Administrator for a term not exceeding three-hundred six and sixty days; That they shall take as their first act, the naming of a successive Administrator which is not themselves; That they shall be exempt from the ability to be considered for, elected to, or otherwise maintain the office or duties of the Administrator after the duration of their term; That they shall reserve the right of making expedited Member appointments; That they shall embody the responsibility of contact and coordination with foreign entities; That in their role in establishment, they may be compensated not exceeding the value they materially contributed to the Body or with a writ of exemption from elicitation by a Treasurer;
Lieutenant Charter: That they who are sworn to the office of Lieutenant shall be appointed by the Founder or Administrator with ratification by the Grand Commission for a definite duration serving the purpose of embodying the powers of the Administrator within the limited scope of the Body to which they are assigned; That in their role in establishment, they may be compensated not exceeding the value they materially contributed to the Body or with a writ of exemption from elicitation by a Treasurer;

Section II, Accounts

That for the benefit of Members and advancement of the Fraternal Purpose in Article II of this constitution only, the solicitation and accruement of funds shall be undertaken; That such funds shall be wholly undertaken by the establishment of accounts to be evaluated by the Treasurer and operated by the Chair under ratification by Quorum of the Treasurer’s proposals the within the following allocations:

General Aid, whereby sums may be designated and distributed to Members for the purpose of providing pecuniary relief only in the form of grants on a per ratification basis;
Illiquid Investment, whereby sums may be placed into safe investments or accounts for later use, yet may not exceed in its whole one-half of the total unused assets of Rho Phi, and must be guaranteed effective withdrawal within one Term of Rho Phi;
Fraternal Expenditure, whereby sums shall be designated and conducted to exact the Mandates of Rho Phi per its Fraternal Purpose, including but not limited to:

The purchase of facilitating materials for the conduct of Rho Phi;
The compensation of Members for the applicable conduct within Rho Phi;
The payment of vendors, venues, coordinators, and related parties for specific functions of Rho Pho;

And that thereby should the apparatus of support for Members be vindicated, and maintained to ensure any such compliances thereof, whereby any funds accrued as a function of Rho Phi or as an official arm thereof or otherwise should go to such and only thereto;

Section III, Distinguishments

That distinguishment may be conferred upon any so amicable thereto, or there otherwise of their discernment to undergo the observance of such, acting self-evidently and wielding no official capacity over Rho Phi, its effects, or its governance;

The Rose Proletarianship, whereof Members maintaining a vested interest, significant material contribution, and alignment with Rho Phi and its Fraternal Purpose and retaining a recorded presence in at least one Seminar may be thus designated by a ratified action to the Distinguishment of Proletarianship such to be capable of the elicitation of Rho Phi to any role, responsibility, or function of custodianship thereby, and be there entitled to the appendation of Honor of the Society of Roses abbreviated as “HSR” to their name;
The Fellowship of Roses, whereof any non-Member or Member incapable of continuing the full scope of the duties of that designation may be specified by a ratified action at Quorum for high honor and amiability to Rho Phi at relinquishment of any rights or reservations indicative of Membership thereof, particularly in voting, the solicitation of dues, holding office, payments, and other benefits of Rho Phi, and be vindicated by the association hitherto;

Section IV, Periods

That the following durations within the Gregorian calendar shall be given weight for the regular conduct of Rho Phi:

High Day, whereupon every Thursday, which is not a separate holiday, shall be designated as a preferential day to conduct a Quorum;
Term, whereupon the operational year shall be April 1 to March 31, with all actions taking upon a standard expiry on the latter date unless otherwise specified, and all roles assumed to be vacated until ratified reappointment, and the Grand Commission may be obliged to Quorum on the High Day on or following April 1 for the purposes of determining the direction of the Society in the new Term, whereby the Councils may be obliged to Quorum on the following High Day to discuss plans regarding these the determinations, wherewith Chapter may be obliged to Quorum on the High Day following to recognize and elect directives to execute those plans;
Synchresis, whereupon the High day thrice removed from the end of Term shall compel every Chapter to exact and convey the full Body of their records for audit by the Council, of which the same shall be compelled of themselves to the Grand Commission on the High Day twice removed, which shall themselves take full account and reporting of the Society to the requisite bodies on the High Day once removed from the end of Term to ensure the compliance, ethics, and unencumbered continuance of Rho Phi before the start of the New Term;

Section V, Ledgers

That for the purposes of record keeping, the Secretary of every body may keep each of these documents, which shall sum the entirety of Rho Phi:

Manifests, under which shall be detailed the full account of (1) Members , (2), documents, (3) records, and (4) venues, of which Councils shall keep an account of all Chapters, of which the Grand Commission shall keep a GENERAL MANIFEST including all of the above or the accounts of all Manifests which contain all of the above for the entire Society in addition to an account of all Councils;
Logs, of which the Grand Commission shall keep a GENERAL LOG, in which all subsequent and derivative Logs shall derive their authority, the summation of which must constitute a full account of Acts ratified under the present Body or Bodies including (1) an identifier for the Act, (2) an account of Members for, against, and present for the ratification for the Act, (3) an account of the Act, and (4) the duration for the Quorum under which an Act was passed;
Standards, under which shall be detailed a codified rubric for conduct and identity in the presentation of Rho Phi, of which the Grand Commission shall retain the only authoritative edition, which is the TREATISE ON STANDARDS;

Article VI, Actions

That the whole of the mode of Rho Phi in its actions and capacities thereof shall be as follows:

Invocation, whereby per the Declaration of a Quorum process detailed in Article IV, Section IV of this Constitution, a Quorum shall be instated;
Appointment, whereby except concerning the Chaplain, which requires two-thirds consensus with or without the last-acting Chaplain, the election of any role which is not currently filled, whereby that person must be sworn to the requisite Charter to complete the relevant duty given that they are qualified for it as per the Charter of that position shall be tendered and conducted from that moment to the “last-acting” designation of that role indefinitely or for a duration determined by the Chaplain, or for the Chaplain, the Secretary, which shall not undercede the duration of the present Quorum;
Membering, whereby given the specified prerequisite items are produced alongside unanimous ratification of and swearing of a Pledge to uphold this Constitution, the induction of that Pledge to Member status as detailed in Article III of this Constitution shall be observed;
Proletarianship, whereby a Member of good standing may be granted the indefinite Distinguishment of Proletarianship;
Fellowship, whereby a Member of good standing and willing amicable withdrawal and or or a non-Member showing great alignment and excellence, may, at unanimous decision by Quorum, may be granted the distinguishment of Fellowship;
Expulsion, whereby at the unanimous agreement of the present Quorum excepting the persons concerned, and the presentation of two Members of good standing, proceeding a successful sanction, a Member or class of Members not exceeding one-third of the Body or one-third of the present Quorum may be stripped of their status and thereby any extant or precipitant entitlements within Rho Phi;
Depledging, whereby at affirmative the presentation of two Members of good standing, a Pledge may be stripped of their status and thereby any entitlements of Rho Phi;
Coalition, whereby any action or sum of actions in support of an adequately aligned cause may be executed concerning laws, standards, and popular alignment of Rho Phi, but may not, nor may any action taken by Rho Phi, be taken in explicit or undue support of any explicitly political entity within the official capacity of Rho Phi;
Seminar, whereby a date for the official presentation of precepts present in the PHILOSOPHY OF THE ROSE may be observed, whereby the relevant Chaplain shall in all cases be the sole determinant of the qualification of that event as genuine and reflecting the intent and principles of Rho Phi, whereby in the matter of determining the qualification of expected attendance, the states of sickness, grievous injury, legally or academically binding circumstance, and the like shall constitute a qualifying excuse;
Mandates, whereby the whole or part of extant Pledges and or Members of the present Chapter may be directed by the relevant General to an action, particularly that of attendance, verbally or bounded by a written directive or otherwise as approved by a Chaplain with rigorous respect to rules, laws, ethics, amendments, standards, and popular alignment with Rho Phi;
Deputization, whereby a written directive sponsored by a Member or issued by an officer may serve as the charter of office for one or more Members to the completion of the task therein described;
Allocation, whereby the Treasurer shall present a proposal as to the use of the Body’s treasury to accounts of individual expenditure and or regular payments, which shall elicit a second ratification, which shall constitute the Chair’s execution of the treasury to that accord;
Sanction, whereby at the presentation of a witness and testimony of the accused as an individual or as a class of individuals within the current body or a diminutive body, the ratification of recognition of any action which misaligns with the ethics and standards of Rho Phi with regard to this Constitution and all ancillary ratifications per the concurrence of either of or exceeding one-half plus one of the present body for any number of Members not in that concurrence or the concurrence of the Chaplain and two Proletarians regarding one Member reversible by the concurrence of the former threshold shall ratify the conveyance of a punitive measure of reducing the Member to a Pledge, increasing the member’s due, or temporary Expulsion for a period determined by the Chair shall be executed to any person which is not a last-acting Chaplain, who shall instead be afforded either Impeachment with barring from service in the role of Chaplain or Expulsion;
Committee, whereby the appointment of a number of individuals or clade of individuals to an official capacity to an action or discernment, for which an internal Quorum of those individuals may Act in the limited capacity of their Quorum as distinct from other Quorums, may be undertaken and recorded by the Secretary of the relevant Body;
Commission, whereby the Grand Commission shall establish a new Council or Chapter, given that the minimum requirements for such an establishment are present;
Reversal, whereby at the concurrence of any number of persons greater than that under which any Act was ratified, any Act undertaken shall be reversed, given that it is reversible, at any stage of its execution;
Vacation, whereby any party holding a role, including Membership, shall, under any pretext and of their own prerogative, elect to renounce that role indefinitely or until that role is naturally reinstated;
Impeachment, whereby any person appointed to a role shall be reduced from that role given breach of the relevant Charter and or loss of adequate standing to prolong their role at will, or in the case of a Chaplain, shall be immediately removed from office at the consensus of or exceeding one-third of the present Quorum for any reason whatsoever;
Duress, whereby a Chaplain, or given the absence of a Chaplain, the longest serving and or most willing present Proletarian may assume the role of a Secretary, Chair, or in the latter case, Chaplain, to complete the tendering of any ratified action given that that role is absent, contempt or otherwise reasonably unavailable to complete their duties, until a dedicated person of that duty becomes available, given a notably extreme or otherwise facilitating circumstance;
Hold, whereby any action present or expected shall be barred from voting or postponed for execution for a definite period not exceeding the present Term;
Standing, whereby a verbal motion presenting one discrete action shall be passed to execution in its entirety;
Resolution, whereby per the Adjournment process detailed in Article IV, Section IV of this Constitution, a Quorum may be dissolved;

Article VII, Amendments

Whereby any modification or addition to this Constitution shall be observed given the requisite ratification by the Grand Commission in the manner of alterations, removals, or additions to Sections II and III under Article I, alterations, removals, or additions to Article II, alterations, removals, or additions to Sections I, IV, and V, additions or subtractions to those and only those additions to Sections II and III under Article III, additions or subtractions to those and only those additions to Sections I and V of Article IV, additions or subtractions to those and only those additions to all Sections of Article V, alterations, removals, or additions to Article VI, or specifications to any of those Articles which do not principally exceed or conflict with the scope of those Articles here under Article VII, which shall themselves upon listing be wholly subject to alterations, removals, or additions, with each of these undertakings being listed here:

That presence for the purposes of a Quorum shall be constituted in the ability of a Member to articulate themselves to the Body and have information conveyed to them in the first-hand from that Body, whether physical or digital;
That no action which is not notarized by a Secretary shall be tendered except the election of a Secretary when none is available, of which the next action shall be the notation of that appointment;
That any action taken where evidence of malpractice or other illegitimacy in any facet of the ratification of that action is present shall be immediately reversed wherever possible;
That actions harboring the requisite signatories of Chair, Secretary, and Chaplain may, in short, be signed with the abbreviated signifier ANO signifying Approval, Notarization, and Officiation, and be recognized as such;
That no last-acting role may act to perpetuate that role in the presence of a will to elect another to that role unless reaffirmed by majority vote;
That no Body which holds an alternative, contestedly altered, or otherwise false iteration of this Constitution may not be considered part of Rho Phi, except as a distributed Annotated and Abridged version of this Constitution which has been ratified in its authenticity by the Grand Commission;
That the use of ancillary documents for the storage of official club information in any state of application or extension within the bounds of this Constitution shall be permitted, provided that its use is ratified as an Amendment by the Grand Commission, duly recorded in a Log, and listed in the authentic GENERAL MANIFEST fully corroborated;
That no record, document, act, or ordinance may be published, written, printed, or digital, for any reason, unless expressly permitted by the current categorical or specific allowance of the Grand Commissioner Secretary, Grand Commissioner Chair, and Grand Commissioner Chaplain, and thereof only in recognized Material Dissemination Avenues;
That, for the limited purposes of establishment, the Founder, Administrator, or appropriate Lieutenant may reserve the power to embody any role which is yet appointed for in the development of capacities to or operation of a Quorum;
That the Founder shall act as the first Administrator with an effective term expiring only upon election by the Grand Commission to do so;
That each Chapter shall keep a Manifest of the names, statuses, held capacities, and dates of admission for every member, maintained by the relevant last-acting Secretary;
That seminar shall be limited to the action of discussion, whereby any additional action may be forbidden to the elicitation of the attendants within the capacity of that seminar, unless the requisite Quorum is established;
That no entitlement reserved for Members may be extended to non-Members , and by that statute, neither to fellows;
That the penalty for delinquency in the fulfilment of duties related to treasury solicitation in the absence of an extenuating factor as otherwise stated in this Constitution is automatic Expulsion on the two and twentieth day post-notification of the Member to such delinquency, whereof Rho Phi may not pursue any alternative legal, extralegal, or intralegal action in reaction to such delinquency;
That no person under the age of majority shall be treated as rigorously tenable within Rho Phi except as chargeable by the assent of a Responsible Party;
That no person under the age of majority shall be compelled to Act with fiduciary responsibility of Rho Phi, but may Act in the capacity of any role which does not require such responsibility in naming a capable trustee to assume those responsibilities;
That for the limited purposes of establishment, an eligible person may be entrusted by the Founder manage vicariously any matter concerning a State of the United States of America or the latter entity of itself, or concerning any manner requiring the entry into a binding contract in place of the Founder, and embody the sole capacity designated to Chairs to exact finances of Rho Phi, at which the attainment of such an eligibility of the Founder shall elicit the transfer of any such responsibilities to the Founder;
That any forgery, attempted or actual, improper imitation, real or perceptual, or other breach of private material such as Manifests, insignia, approvals, or the like which constitutes or may constitute the loss of integrity of sensitive club information shall be grounds for expulsion at the discretion of the present Chaplain at any Quorum given that there is at least one other witness, substantial evidence, or sufficient loss of character to justify such an action;
That no Act may constitute itself any rejection of acts which would reverse or otherwise abate it;
That the Act of Expulsion, given that the departure of that Member would break the present Quorum, shall be upheld as the last action of that Quorum, although such a Quorum must be dissolved after that action;
That the Act of membering shall take effect only upon the resolution of the Quorum in which it is ratified;
That a signed Statement of Intent to Uphold Proceedings may be submitted by a Member anticipating absence from a Quorum to the Secretary of that Quorum before or during its proceedings in lieu of traditional presence in advancement of the two-thirds threshold required to conduct a Quorum, whereby such a person would be considered present at that Quorum while in abstention from voting;
That the cohabitation of offices and particularly the assumption of the “Triumvirate” structure is, unless otherwise specified, always legal under the rules of Rho Phi, given that the Triumvirs or otherwise cohabitators are duly elected to every role which they may fulfill;
That all materials tendered by Rho Phi must, unless justified under extenuating circumstances approved by a Chaplain, conform to the standards specified in the TREATISE ON STANDARDS, where applicable;
That no printed material containing sensitive information regarding Rho Phi or its subsidiaries may be displayed except as under the official COVER SHEET, unless as approved by a Chaplain;
That the Member Identification Number of a member, of which no two may be identical, must reflect that member’s current position within the organization, such that in the case a Member were to transfer bodies, they may have their number changed to reflect their new position without ratification;
That any appointment of Membership or to the office of Administrator or Lieutenant shall be signified by an approved, notarized, and officiated document detailing the Quorum under which tender occurred, the Act Number of the tender, and the Member Identification Number of the concerned party, and the offices to which they were appointed, if any, parseable under the Member Identification Number issued by the Grand Commissioner Secretary, where also shall be stored the relevant proofs as provisioned by the COMPENDIUM OF MERITS;
That Logs may be made to encompass (1) one Quorum, (2) a defined period under which many Quorums occur, or (3) the entirety of the conduct of one Body in perpetuity, given that the assembly of any and all such Logs would encompass the whole of actions taken by that Body;
That any Member who renders a significant, real, and uncontestedly verifiable service to the material advancement of the Fraternal Purpose of Rho Phi per the discretion of the acting Chaplain which is recorded on an official Log of Rho Phi may, at the completion of such a service, motion for a Committee of their peers composed of no less than five Members including no less than three Proletarians, from which the concerned and related are duly recused, which upon ratification shall compel the acting Treasurer to present (1) a settlement for no less than five and seventy and no more than five and ninety percent of fair market value determined in writing by a Certified Public Accountant for that service and not exceeding such a valuation payable to and only to that Member at no interest by the Chair of the relevant Body or (2) a recognition of recorded time worked in the completion of that action as volunteer hours at the behest of the member, either to be ratified within that Committee;
That any Member who renders any funds in support of an official Act of Rho Phi, duly advancing the Purpose of Rho Phi, is entitled to full reimbursement for the exact amount of those funds at the conclusion of that Act;
That no Member may cohabitate more than one Chapter of Rho Phi at any one time;
That no Chapter of Rho Phi may cohabitate more than one Council of Rho Phi at any one time;
That Deputies must be signed as wards of another office for which to oversee and direct their conduct;
That Acts are beholden only to governance active at the time of their passing, and bear no responsibility to conform to later governance unless they are ongoing, at which any further action must conform to the governance active at that time;
That with regard to information handled per the COMPENDIUM OF MERITS, any such documentation or materials must be delivered directly and designated as restricted in access to only acting and last-acting Secretaries of Rho Phi, and there also treated with the utmost of confidentiality;
That the content of any Quorum of Rho Phi shall, as applicable, be published to all Members pertinent to the Body under which that Quorum was performed within four and twenty hours of the Resolution of that Quorum;
That in the case that any later ratified legislation or jurisprudence should create a tension whereby the course of the latter would negate or otherwise inhibit a former ratification, the latter contention shall be repealed immediately with final authority from the Constitution with the expectation of fair Quorum deliberation of the former under its exclusive governance as to its repeal toward reinstallation of the latter;
That in all cases of contention or appeal, the prerogative of the present Quorum bounded by the Constitution, followed by superior bodies and auxiliaries thereof, followed by the Grand Commission in the dissemination of precedent shall be the determinant of the outcome, whereby escalation of prerogative shall occur only when the former contains deficit as to the clarification of the issue;

Declaration

And thereby are we, the Members of this righteous Organization, Rho Phi, by the power of our assemblage, self-evidently vindicated in the Organization hereby prescribed, whereupon the propagation of the present institution is hence made real and inevitable for the duration of our willful association, whereof we adopt and put to force this Constitution fully, legitimately, and without exception.

ANO as D000-100