Editing Articles of the Federation (section)

===Article 1===

The purposes of the United Federation of Planets are:

'''1.''' To maintain interplanetary peace and security within the treaty exploration territory, and to that end:

to take effective collective measures for the prevention of threats to the peace, the suppression of acts of aggression, and to bring about by peaceful means, and employing the principles of justice and intragalactic law, adjustment or settlement of interplanetary disputes which might lead to a breach of the peace;

'''2.''' To develop friendly relations among planets based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of intelligent life-forms, and to other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

'''3.''' To achieve interplanetary cooperation in solving intra-galactic problems of economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character; in promoting and encouraging respect for intelligent life-form rights; and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to culture, sex, life-form, or religious belief; and

'''4.''' To be a center for conciliation of the actions of all social systems in the attainment of these common ends.