Editing Articles of the Federation (section)

==CHAPTER XVIII: Ratification and Signature==
===Article 108===

'''1.''' These Articles of Federation shall be ratified by the signatory governments in accordance with their respective statutory processes;

'''2.''' The ratifications shall be deposited with the government of the United Nations of the Planet Earth, which shall notify all of the signatory government of each deposit as well as the Supreme-Secretariat of the organization when he has been appointed;

'''3.''' These Articles of Federation shall come into full force upon the deposit of the ratifications by the United Nations of the Planet Earth, the Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani, the United Planets of 61 Cygni, the Star Empire of Epsilon Indii, the Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets, and by a majority of the other signatory social systems. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the government of the United Nations of the Planet Earth which shall communicate copies thereof to all of the signatory governments;

'''4.''' The governments signatory to these Articles of Federation which ratify it after it has come into force will become original members of the United Federation of Planets on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifications.
===Article 109===

These Articles of Federation, of which the various language texts are equally authentic, upon the coming into full force of the United Federation of Planets, shall be transferred by the United Nations of the Planet Earth to the organization for permanent deposit in its archives. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by the Supreme-Secretariat to the Governments of all the signatory social systems.

In faith whereof the representative of the governments of the United Federation of Planets have signed these Articles of Federation.

Done at the planet [[Babel]], Stardate 0965

(Followed by the signature sheets of the original signatory governments)