No scientific experiment may use a person without free and informed consent.
Art. 37 · body, mind, security and consent
Life, integrity and bodily autonomy
Candeia currently exercises no physical medical or public-health authority. Constitutional protection operates as a general limit and does not end at the physical body. It extends to physical, psychological, moral and cognitive integrity, personal security, bodily autonomy and free and informed consent to medical or scientific intervention.
Proposed Constitution · reference text · not promulgatedIn brief
A right is not an abstract promise: it constrains concrete decisions.
The Constitution requires protection against violence, harassment, coercive manipulation and technological abuse. Medical or scientific experimentation without consent is absolutely prohibited. Where a person cannot express their wishes, urgent therapeutic care requires necessity, proportionality and safeguards.
Consent must be real
Consent to medical or scientific intervention must be free and informed and accompanied by adequate information about its nature, purpose, risks and alternatives. Coercion, material concealment or inability to understand the decision undermines its validity.
Cognitive integrity also matters
By including cognitive integrity and coercive manipulation, the proposed Constitution recognises that technology can affect autonomy without physical injury. This connects with the later digital rights concerning neural data, automated systems and mental autonomy.
What this means for you
Practical consequences
In a genuine medical emergency, urgent care must respect previously valid directives and use the least degree of interference necessary.
Technology that causes coercive manipulation or cognitive harm remains subject to fundamental rights.
Limits and institutional honesty
What this safeguard does not authorise
Bodily autonomy does not prevent every legally valid public-health or therapeutic measure; any interference requires a legal basis and proportionality.
Urgency cannot be used as a shortcut for experimentation, punishment or circumvention of consent.
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