The Box of Laplace contained something called the Original Constitution, and it was also the world core of the UC System world. Xiao Ran had obtained this thing back in the 0079 World, but since he had already used it as a world core, the Original Constitution could no longer be used as a world core in any UC System world.
The Original Constitution was a constitution established by the first federal government of the UC System world to allow humanity to venture farther into space and make the Earth Sphere more stable. It explicitly required fair treatment for Space Colonies, ensured that Newtypes could participate in politics and the military, and protected and expanded the rights and obligations held by Newtypes.
Of course, that was only a small part of the Original Constitution, not its entirety.
However, when the Federation was first established, some people had been unwilling to see such things happen. Since Newtypes could only emerge in space, granting Special Treatment to Newtypes and Colonies would inevitably give Space Colonies a major political advantage. That was something the various interest groups on Earth had never wanted to see, so they plotted a bombing that killed the Federation's first president and countless supporters.
In the 0079 World, the strength of the Zeon Army in the Space Colonies and the increasingly obvious conflict between Earth and the Space Colonies meant that the appearance of the Original Constitution in that era and under those circumstances would have brought an utterly fatal threat to the Earth Federation. It was the kind of threat that could have allowed New Zeon to completely overthrow the Federation and cast it into the abyss.
The Federation had already been scrambling just to deal with one Zeon. If all the Space Colonies throughout space united and