Federation+Principles

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//**Article 2 The Federation and its members, in pursuit of the purposes stated, shall act in accordance with the following principles:**//
//**1. The Federation is based on the sovereign equality of all its members;**//

//**2. In order to ensure to all of them equal rights and benefits resulting from membership, all members shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with these articles of Federation;**//

//**3. All members shall settle their interplanetary disputes by peaceful means in such manner that intra-galactic peace, security, and justice, are not endangered;**//

//**4. In all interplanetary relations, all members shall refrain from the threat, or use, of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any planetary social system, or in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Federation;**//

//**5. All members shall give the united Federation every assistance in any action taken in accordance with these articles of Federation, and shall refrain from assisting any planetary social system against which the Federation is taking preventive or enforcement action;**//

//**6. The united Federation shall ensure that planetary social systems which are not members of the Federation act in accordance with these principles as necessary for the maintenance of intra-galactic peace and security;**//

//**7. Nothing within these articles of Federation shall authorize the Federation to intervene in matters which are essentially the domestic jurisdiction of any planetary social system, or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement under these Articles of Federation; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.**//

**Chapter XVI: Miscellaneous Provisions**
**Article 102**

**1. Every treaty and every interplanetary agreement entered into by any member of the United Federation after these articles of Federation come into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Supreme-Secretariat and published by him;**

**2. No party to any such treaty or interplanetary agreement which has not been registered in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement before any body of the United Federation;**

**Article 103**

**In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the members of the United Federation under these articles of Federation and their obligations under any other interplanetary agreement, their obligations under these articles of Federation shall prevail;**