Section 1. Inherent Right to Dignity
Every person possesses the inherent right to live with dignity. Dignity requires the material conditions necessary to sustain life, health, agency, and participation in society.
Section 2. Basic Necessities
The right to a dignified life includes access to sufficient and nutritious food, safe and stable shelter, adequate clothing, essential utilities, healthcare, rest, and personal safety. These necessities shall not be treated as privileges, commodities of exclusion, or tools of coercion.
Section 3. Healthcare
Every person has the right to timely, appropriate, and comprehensive healthcare. Access to healthcare shall not be denied, delayed, conditioned, or limited on the basis of income, employment, status, geography, or ability to pay.
Section 4. Housing and Shelter
Every person has the right to safe, habitable, and secure shelter. Policies or practices that produce homelessness, housing instability, or unsafe living conditions through neglect, speculation, or exclusion shall be subject to heightened scrutiny.
Section 5. Living Through Labor
When labor is performed, compensation shall be sufficient to support a dignified life for the worker and their dependents, including food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, utilities, rest, and the capacity to save for the future. Work that cannot sustain life with dignity shall not be treated as adequate employment.
Section 6. Freedom from Destitution
No person shall be subjected to extreme poverty, hunger, homelessness, or preventable illness as a result of policy design, administrative neglect, or economic arrangement.
Section 7. Social Continuity
Social systems necessary to secure dignity, health, and security across the lifespan constitute intergenerational obligations. Such systems shall be maintained, funded, and protected from erosion, privatization, or abandonment.
Section 8. Equal Application
The rights secured by this Article apply equally to all persons and shall not be diminished by status, age, disability, employment, or economic condition.
Section 9. Interpretation
This Article shall be interpreted to expand access to dignity and material security. Ambiguity shall be resolved in favor of sustaining life, health, and human participation.
Section 10. Enforcement
Violations of this Article shall be recognized as violations of fundamental rights and shall be subject to immediate judicial remedy, without requirement of exhaustion, delay, or deference.
Section 11. Non-Derogation
The rights secured by this Article shall not be suspended, limited, or reinterpreted under any circumstance except through amendment by the people.
Healthcare under this Article includes medical care, mental health care, behavioral health care, substance-use treatment, dental care, and vision care.
Healthcare guaranteed under this Article shall not be withdrawn, privatized, block-granted, or made contingent upon austerity measures, political ideology, or fiscal convenience.
Material supports provided under this Article shall not substitute for, diminish, or condition access to public services guaranteed elsewhere in this framework.