Section 1. Retained Rights
The enumeration of rights in this Constitution shall not be construed to deny, disparage, or diminish other rights retained by persons. Absence of explicit recognition shall not be interpreted as absence of protection.
Section 2. Emerging Rights
Rights may emerge as understanding of human dignity, technology, environment, and social conditions evolves. Such emergence shall expand, not contract, the protections afforded to persons.
Section 3. Protection Against Regression
No interpretation, precedent, or practice shall regress, narrow, or erode rights once recognized. Progress in rights shall be non-reversible except through amendment by the people.
Section 4. Future Persons
The rights secured by this Constitution extend to future persons. Policies and practices that predictably impose irreversible harm, deprivation, or exclusion upon future generations shall be subject to heightened scrutiny.
Section 5. Environmental and Contextual Dignity
Conditions necessary to sustain life and dignity, including a stable climate, clean air and water, and viable ecosystems, are integral to the enjoyment of rights. Degradation of such conditions that foreseeably undermines human dignity shall be subject to constitutional limitation.
Section 6. Interpretation
This Article shall be interpreted to preserve adaptability without erosion. Ambiguity shall be resolved in favor of expanding protection, safeguarding dignity, and preventing circumvention through novelty.
Section 7. Enforcement
Violations of retained, emerging, or future rights shall be recognized as violations of fundamental rights and shall be subject to immediate judicial remedy, without requirement of exhaustion, delay, or deference.
Section 8. Non-Derogation
The rights secured by this Article shall not be suspended, limited, or reinterpreted under any circumstance except through amendment by the people.
The recognition of new conditions, technologies, or social forms shall not be used to diminish, replace, or negate the rights herein affirmed.