Charter of the United Nations, 1945EN · FR · Arxo Law

The Charter, running

Charter of the United Nations (1945) as an executable model: every answer names the article, the facts, and what stays with the Council or the Assembly.

Start hereSame Vote, Two Answers
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The four recorded conversations below, one question each: the model reads it and chooses where to look in the Charter.

Answers come from the model of the instrument, not legal advice.

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Worked cases. Every position of a switch is a registered case answered by two independent evaluators.

Same Vote, Two AnswersNine votes in favour. An abstention, a party to the dispute, or a continuity reading — and whether the decision is adopted or blocked. The letter and later practice both stay on the file. Can a Member Be Expelled?Admission, suspension, restoration, expulsion. Peace-loving and persistent violation are findings of the General Assembly, not toggles on this page. Binding or NotA decision of the Security Council binds the Member it is addressed to; a recommendation of the Assembly binds nobody. One abstention decides whether there is anything to bind. Why the Charter Is So Hard to AmendTwo thirds of the Members, and every permanent member. A review conference can be called over a permanent member's vote against; what it proposes meets the same lock. The Army That Was Never RaisedNo special agreement under article 43, so the duty to provide forces does not arise. Article 42 can still authorise force. Article 106 keeps the five consulting.

One dispute, two tracks

Chapter VI stage by stage: what the parties owe, and what the Security Council may do. Whether a dispute endangers peace is the Council's finding, and the page leaves it to the Council until it is made.

One Dispute, Two TracksSeek a settlement, then refer it to the Council; the Council may recommend procedures, send a legal dispute towards the Court, or propose terms — once it has found the dispute a danger.

Where the text is silent

Article 51. The default on the page is that self-defence is not established. A doctrinal reading adds a path; none of these switches is a button labelled “is the war lawful”.

Where the Text Is SilentThe reporting duty, three axes on which the letter is silent, and Kosovo 1999: a violation of article 2(4) under every reading the model carries.

Ask in plain words

Recorded conversations with the Charter. The model reads the question and chooses where to look; every answer, every refusal and every hash comes from the engine.

Recorded dialogues“Is this war lawful?” refused; article 2(4) asked in plain words; article 39 left to the Council; article 43 — an army never raised because no agreement was ever concluded.

Read the text with the model beside it

For those whose question is whether the model is faithful to the text, and where it names a boundary instead of a rule.

ReaderThe pinned English text. Each article is a rule of the model or a named boundary with a reason.

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