Charter+of+the+United+Federation+of+Planets

= The Charter of the United Federation of Planets =
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[|The Charter of the United Federation of Planets]

**Preamble**

**We, the intelligent life-forms of the United Federation of Planets determined**

**To save succeeding generations from the scourge of intra-galactic war which has brought untold horror and suffering to our planetary social systems, and**

**To reaffirm faith in the fundamental intelligent life-form rights, in the dignity and worth of the intelligent life-form person, to the equal rights of male and female and of planetary social systems large and small,**

**and**

**To establish conditions under which justice and mutual respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of interplanetary law can be maintained, and**

**To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,**

**And to these ends**

**To practice benevolent tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and**

**To unite our strength to maintain intra-galactic peace and security, and**

**To ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods that armed force shall not be used except in the common defense, and**

**To employ intra-galactic machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all intelligent life-forms,**

**Have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.**

**Accordingly, the respective social systems, through representatives assembled on the planet Babel, who have exhibited their full powers to be in good and due form, have agreed to these Articles of Federation of the United Federation of Planets, and do hereby establish an interplanetary organization to be known as the United Federation of Planets.**