+ The temporary acronym signifying the ‘MOVEMENT’ being embraced by NATIONS & INDIVIDUALS that seek to adopt and ratify [ratify by 'RMV'*] OUR CONSTITUTION will be-

‘DSM’**

**‘DSM’- STANDS FOR ‘DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT’. DISTRICT LOCALS ACHIEVING 'DSM' GOALS ARE LIKELY TO ASSIGN THEIR OWN NAME TO THEIR VERSION OF OUR MOVEMENT.

*'RMV'- Stands for ‘Regional Majority Vote’ [quorum required]. 

In order to have a Government to be Proud of, we need a

BETTER CONSTITUTION.

We, therefore, present our-

 

DSM CONSTITUTION

 

Constitution of the Confederation

 

Of the Sovereign Nations*** of  --‘your region’-****

 

***‘Nations’= Our Districts [25 to 1000 square miles] are ordained with nation-level sovereignty

and are our primary government over which we will have direct-democracy control.

****-‘your region’- ‘Placed here should be our popularly chosen name for our larger [with a less powerful, confederated government than our ‘nation’] Region of approximately 52,000 square miles containing our many smaller, sovereign, DISTRICT NATIONS. Our 'DSM' movement mandates weak governments whose only power to enforce any decree is derived from immediate majority support.  

 

We the people of ________** in order to secure the blessings of equal justice for both ourselves and all of our land’s future inhabitants, do hereby ordain this, our- Constitution of the Confederation of the Sovereign Nations of _______ *

 

            We hereby ordain our constitution to provide the highest benefit to our***** future generations. The highest benefit we will bestow is the ecological restoration of our land [air/water et al]. The primary means our constitution will employ to realize supreme environmental betterment is the institution of our passionate crusade to solidify local, nation-level, district sovereignty. Our ardent upholding of our constitution will best: protect and improve our environment; institute nation level sovereignty to all districts [geographic districts of 3 to 30 mile radius]; institute direct democracy over our confederation government through free, fair, 24/7 [electronic], elections; assure defense of all district an regional borders; prohibit our confederation from imposing any governing power over district governments other than the severely limited authority we freely****** assign it. Our constitution sanctifies our passionate crusade dedicated to bequeathing to our***** future generations [distant future] a land transformed from its current, ecologically defiled condition to the gloriously wholesome paradise they naturally deserve.

 

***** ‘Our’- meaning: we hope our fierce defense of our constitution will everlastingly secure local district sovereignty thus naturally resulting in the future local inhabitants [a million years from now] being the genetic descendants of ‘OUR’ current local district citizenry.

****** ‘Freely’- Our constitution denies to the confederation government any power to countermand the sovereign decisions of the district government apart from those within the narrow scope of The Four Sovereignty Exceptions. Because our constitution is ordained to rigorously defend the highest qualitative district liberty [including the liberty of districts to secede from the confederation] we are confident that districts will, in joyful appreciation of this freedom, Freely Choose to support regional unity in times of regional need.  

*******All Masculine pronouns and references presume both sexes [i.e.=‘he’= ‘he or she’,  ‘him’= ‘him or her’, etc.].

 

Our Peaceful, Noble Crusade WILL Succeed

The Primary Goal= Environmental Restoration

The Means= Nation Level District Sovereignty 

 

We hereby joyfully embark on our passionate crusade to rescue humanity’s future generations from the suffering we here, now inflict on them by our current destructive treatment of the environment. No other human pursuit bestows more benefit than securing of the healthiest possible environment for posterity. We are happily certain our crusade will succeed and issue forth an upward spiral of wholesome, natural abundance worldwide. The swift institution of nation level sovereignty for all districts is our best means to advance our crusade. The perfect tool- Internet!- now exists to assist this advancement and assure our success. Unhappily, from time primordial, we humans advanced the destructive power of our technology [transportation, material hauling, tree cutting, etc.] much faster than we have been able to conceive tribal/societal/governmental means to adequately control it. Humanity possesses a genetic hunger to multiply their individual governing power and our crusade will increase that power a thousand fold through district sovereignty. Aided by our ambitious use of instant, global, affordable, communication, [internet now available to most everyone], we will force power out of the destructive hands of large corporations and governments and render it back, where it properly belongs, into the hands of local majorities everywhere.

The genetic reality of our intense desire to gain maximum power over our government and the constant rewards our crusade will bestow upon us now [as well as to posterity], assure us we dedicate our passion to a cause destined to succeed. The degree of sacrifice we are willing to endure is measured according to our courage, dedication and degree of benefit to the crusade likely to be gained.

We’ll engage our superior wit to successfully defend ourselves against our enemy’s attacks. We’ll render our attackers impotent. When required, the severity of our defense will match the severity of the attack against us. Today, in 2005, the malicious, environmentally destructive corporations are likely to direct their criminal attacks against us long before we pose even the slightest threat to their profits. Until local sovereignty-seeking crusaders obtain geographic nationhood, their/our defense against attackers is likely to require a high degree of secrecy and subterfuge. Our object being to escape the undeserved punishments our enemies are eager to inflict on us. Our penultimate efforts will be dedicated to igniting firestorms of action to further our crusade worldwide. It is our primary goal and moral obligation to win the support of our local majority and gradually institute sovereign nationhood for our district [wherever we live]. We hope to maintain favorable world opinion of each district’s struggle and tactics. However the world’s opinion fades to insignificance when matched against the moral superiority of our local majority opinion. Local will reigns supreme over the tactics to either gain or defend district sovereignty. When our local population/electorate is small enough we will take responsibility for ‘our’ wrong majority decisions. We will refer to the bad decision as ‘OUR’/’US’/’WE’ decided badly and point to ourselves to blame for whatever harm we suffer from the decision. The more harm we suffer from a bad majority decision for which we take collective responsibility the better we learn to vote constructively the next time. This rightful dynamic of our district’s certain self-correction is absolutely essential to producing an enlightened, trustworthy government that truly serves us. Our district majority is better qualified to judge the world’s best interest concerning our district’s border defense. If the attackers of either our nation or our potential nation possesses superior military might we must, regrettably but stalwartly, put our potential use of terror to a popular district-wide vote.

The moral grandeur of our movement shall inspire the support of all people, worldwide, of goodwill. Conversely, it will inspire violence against us by the perverse, corporate reprobates that control of our lives and governments everywhere. We must prepare for the treachery of our present governments when our secessions draw near. They will use every illegal means they can think in their attempt to discourage the legal, democratically determined majority that threatens their position of power. As our movement grows we shall see the faces and witness the sadistic evil of the powerbrokers who have the real control over the figureheads that run our despotic governments. We are joyful in our morally superior work. The ultimate nobility of our cause will warrant the ultimate sacrifice for some of our honored heroes.

     The global, corporate, profit-hungry minority is the most serious threat to posterity and the security of all nations. The world under our Constitution guarantees freedom from the destruction wrought by world markets for goods. The environmental damage caused by the mass long-distance transportation of goods out-weighs the sparse, temporary benefit most every product on the world market offers the world now (Extremely rare, small-scale exceptions may be made for some rare medicines, transistors, etc.). A glorious day will dawn when an enlightened world will restrict all but .0001% of the weight of all goods, currently traded, from world distribution.

      The sooner our constitution is freely chosen worldwide, the less severe will be the human suffering resulting from the likely, future, global, ecological collapse. Every month of delay will extend the suffering 100s of years. The enormity [1000s of years] and intensity of the suffering averted by the achievement of our ‘end’ goal reduces the validity of any criticism directed against our 50 years [approx] of applied ‘means’ to nil. Again, our crusade offers an open, free choice to all people. When the majority of the citizens of a district or region choose our constitution it is our hope that their glorious, self-liberating success will inspire millions of us, district by district [especially those of us in neighboring districts], to peacefully, passionately follow their lead. We are hopeful that those citizens of a district’s dissenting minority [who are not criminals] will be treated humanely. However, in accordance with our principals concerning the sovereignty of majority ruled districts, we, outside that district, will not and ought not intervene [except in cases of violation of sovereignty exceptions by that district].

We are confident our crusade will accelerate the ascension of human evolution to a higher, more gloriously wholesome epoch. Humanity is biologically destined to refine the social instinct to an improved level whereby we all demand maximum power over our tribe/group/society and, most importantly, our government. The full realization of our constitution’s goals will triumphantly fulfill these instinctual human needs. Our constitution inflames our passion for power and freedom. Achieving our constitution’s goals is the noblest collective expression of our humanity possible!!!

 

Our Confederation shall Defend District Sovereignty.

 

District size shall be 25 square miles minimum and 1000 square miles maximum [approximately] and we intend each of them to eventually obtain a stable population about 3000. District sovereignty will maximize of the individual citizen’s power over civic government thus, inspiring the highest passion for and confidence in district voting. When our district majority has total control over 95% of our most qualitatively significant local civic government issues we will then become passionate about voting and winning!!! We will be 1000 times more confident about voting and winning when our single vote is 1000s of times more powerful. Americans, for instance, are apathetic today because their vote is one vote in 120,000,000 [Approx.] in national elections. Worldwide, the supreme moral right to ownership and exclusive use of district wealth and resources [obeying environmental preservation] belongs irrevocably to district citizens. Federal governments, in an orgy of criminality, rob districts of their rightful possessions. 95% of the power of federal governments, worldwide, resides in the hands of unelected moneyed interests over which district citizens have no control. District citizens are allowed to be about .0000001% of the deciding power to elect 3-4 federal positions. These 3-4 officials represent about 1% of the remaining 5% of the controlling power of federal government.

We district citizens are relegated to .000000000000001% of the power to control our wealth and resources with the remaining 99.99999999% residing in the hands of thieves and criminals. The thieves take full advantage of the immoral, convoluted system of centralized federal control. Our righteous crusade liberates us from these criminals. District sovereignty will redistribute 99% of all the wealth produced on the planet. You and I can’t imagine that when we take the power to distribute our local wealth that the majority of us local citizens would vote for anything other than a much more even distribution. Under district sovereignty our winning vote might require as few as 1501 other votes by our lifelong friends and neighbors to force our district government to do whatever we want without the slightest interference from anyone [feds or otherwise]. There is nothing like winning to inspire our passion to win more and bigger. Our enlightened triumphs here and now are likely to enrich us so gloriously that we will then set our voting goals on bestowing the highest environmental benefit of the trillions to come after us. Our democratic mastery over our collective destiny reminds us we are men of will, not sheep to be led. For the first time in our lives we are directing our goodwill efforts towards a crusade we are absolutely confident is right and will succeed. We now have our instructive constitution to guide us. Again, our crusade exponentially hastens the ascension of human evolution to heights never before achieved. We can now revolt with full confidence we will win!!! We are happy!!!

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We citizens and districts allow confederation government to exist only by our free consent and retain the right of our district to secede from the confederation at all times. We citizens offer our first allegiance to our district nation. We actively restrict the authority of confederation government to a level about ten times qualitatively less than the authority we reserve for our district government. Because of this limitation we enforce on confederation government the allegiance we offer our confederation is a distant second to the confidence we vest in our district government. Above all we prohibit our confederation from assuming nation level authority over our districts and citizens. We ordain our constitution to maintain regional confederation of districts and prohibit our confederation from centralizing undue power or increasing its power to form a UNION. We are a CONFEDERATION, not a UNION. ‘Unions’ “preserve their union” often by what all of us ought to regard as criminal force. Citizens of districts are morally obligated to revolt against the pathological rule of these tyrannical unions and gradually regain their district sovereignty Our confederation cannot force us to serve or protect it. Our confederation offers districts free choice when regional trouble comes. We district citizens will measure out exactly the degree and method of support for regional problems we determine is necessary without fear of the slightest recrimination from our confederation. That is real freedom. We are confident that our confederation inspires 1000 times greater regional unity through our system of total domestic freedom than nations that are UNIONS ever could through the sadistic, threat of punishment. The US government, guided by its malignant constitution, is a sadistic ‘union’. The nobility of our crusade shines 100s brighter when contrasted against the evil of current corporate, big government rule. Join us in the highest possible expression of collective freedom on this planet.

District sovereignty inspires within us a deep, lasting sense of collective ownership of our district land. When, suddenly, we district citizens are the collective owners of the 25 to a 1000 square miles around us, we become the passionate, proprietary stewards of both our district culture and, most importantly, our district ecology. Voting wisely is critical. Wrong-minded majority decisions could mean district starvation or epidemic. With the application of the dynamically improving collective wisdom, a paradise beyond our most glorious dreams is attainable. Thus, by defending the nationhood rights of our districts our ultimate goal of regional restoration of our environment shall be achieved district by district [across the districts of the entire globe eventually, we hope].  

In order to defend districts against overpopulation and environmental destruction, our confederation shall assist districts with the defense of their borders. Since districts will be given the free choice to restrict ingress down to any level they choose, we are confident they will choose a level far lower than today’s destructively high levels.

Our confederation government will enforce border restriction standards deliberately according to the majority will of that district [more severely restrictive than district majority will [vote] in some cases]. These restrictions are upheld in order to accomplish our noble purpose of reducing mechanized transport and overpopulation region-wide [worldwide, eventually, we hope]. We will illustrate the glorious benefit of reduced worldwide transportation in the ‘LESS TRAVEL…..’ section.

The short-term rewards of our crusade for district sovereignty are wide-ranging. Our confidence in the nobility of our crusade will inspire exalted camaraderie and joyful celebrations. Our higher cause will bring out our best; make us more likely to be acknowledged by the best; in celebrations supremely glorious. As our solidarity increases so will our creativity and courage to reward our collective and individual heroes with these exultant celebrations. Because of the nobility of our crusade we are confident in the personal nobility we garner for ourselves. Bolstered by this confidence we will maintain an unending upward spiral of exalted morale.

The glorious benefits of the new freedoms and powers within our district are self-evident. The power of the district majority to solve every criminal problem will launch newfound eagerness to crusade for district sovereignty. All laws and customs governing individual rights and criminal justice are reserved under the exclusive, sovereign control of each separate district. No one convicted under district justice shall have the right to appeal outside that district. Our confederation government shall have no power to arrest or prosecute any district citizen [rare cases involving confederation invasion are the exception]. Each district shall maintain the independent, sovereign right to: secede from our confederation as a non-combatant [hopefully allied] separate nation if/when it chooses [80% majority vote by seceding district required]; deny ingress across its border to any person or group as it wishes [district majority vote/will]; decline to share any of its wealth or resources with anyone [tiny confederation tax excluded] outside its borders; establish independent justice system [district majority free to bestow every/any kindness or cruelty upon its minority without interference from confederation government]; print its own separate currency; establish any system by which its wealth is distributed among its district citizens according to internal majority will.

Each district shall NOT maintain the independent sovereign right to: defile its environment; attack/invade/do harm across its border; establish rule by district minority; harbor weapons exceeding confederation controlled maximum lethality level.

These four prohibitions our confederation will enforce against districts are titled ‘The Four Sovereignty Exceptions’ listed thus-

The Four Sovereignty Exceptions

Our confederation shall impose sanctions on any district[s] that violate/exceed constitutional standards by:

1]   Fouling their district environment.

2]   Invading across the borders of any other district against the will of that invaded district.

3]   Allowing the establishment of a district government by the district minority [against the will of the district majority] instead of the district majority.

4]   Making or harboring weapons that exceed confederation lethality standards.

 

 

LESS TRAVEL= SMALL LOSS …and... PARADISE= GREATEST GAIN

 

We proudly utilize local sovereignty to gradually reduce travel and transportation infrastructure while we maintain a high quality of life. The small sacrifice of the travel reduction will be remedied 100 times over by the wondrous pleasures of life in the paradise we will be free and able to make of our home district. Chief among these pleasures will be powerfully uplifting new collective celebrations that we will inaugurate. The richest quality of life and dynamically ever-improving, thrilling celebrations will attenuate and, ultimately, supplant our wanderlust.

Your author envisions these 8+ hour celebrations as wild, uninhibited, outdoor events that inspire energetic, mass [60 to 3000 people] participation [drums, music, collective dancing, singing, sports, story telling, more. Our celebrations will be so intensely compelling that other districts will want us to add our joyful energy to theirs. Also, the more rich and joyful our district life the more we will nurture the best in all of us including an ever-widening range of professional skills. Such is the deliberate irony we will encourage. We enrich our life here partly for the purpose of encouraging a life so joyful within our borders that traveling will lose much of its appeal for us. As word of our wealth in uplifting attitudes, ability to entertain and professional expertise spreads [internet] the more neighboring districts will invite many of us to visit. Then, ironically, more travel is facilitated. Ultimately there will evolve a satisfying, natural balance between a district’s need to limit visitation in the interest of preserving local resources and our human desire to travel.

Your author foresees irresistibly euphoric, regional celebrations hosted by a different district every year. We crusade for the realization of a home paradise so glorious that we all fall wondrously in love with our happy homeland and seldom seek to roam.

What glories shall be manifest in our heroes paradise? Imagine 99% of the entire district population being highly to moderately but sincerely eager to aid you in making your life a success. Include the ever-increasing wisdom of the majority of the 3000 [the eventual average total district population] of us district citizens taking command [quorum required] of our government with direct democracy [24/7…electronic voting] whenever we please. The application of this immediate collective wisdom will eliminate the majority of district strife. It is likely that we will need to dedicate no more than 18 hours per week, on average, to ‘make a living’. The time saved by, both, the prompt resolution of strife and fewer working hours will be deliberately dedicated to joyful, paradise building, collective celebrations. The magnificence of these newly invented celebrations are likely to be the most seductive quality of our paradise. Consider the quality of respect and camaraderie endemic in our paradise when no one will earn or have more than 8 times the wealth than the poorest of us. Include slightly less mechanization but no more physical burden per capita than is required of us today. The less machinery we need to import the more autonomy we retain. We will witness the near absence of criminal intent [50 times less crime]. Not a single resource or product will be exported out or competing product imported into our district without our local majority consent. Our confederation government will mandate 40 miles of continual, unspoiled wilderness beginning no further than 7 miles from any one of our village centers and extending out in 180 degrees from that beginning point. Without becoming cost prohibitive, connecting our district with high quality communication to the rest of the world will benefit us immeasurably. We will proudly maintain our stable population below a number that would otherwise outstrip our local availability of district resources. Our courageous prohibition of overpopulation distinguishes our noble district from the uncivilized, inhumane nations of the 21^st century. We are confident the aforementioned essential components will bring to fruition the ultimate paradise.

The particular geo-political dynamics that cause the implementation of local sovereignty to result in travel reduction are not difficult to comprehend. We are certain that local sovereignty is likely to inspire many districts to independently impose much more severe border restrictions, thus, naturally, resulting in region-wide [worldwide, eventually, we hope] travel reduction. Overland mobility of products and people will be severely inhibited by the right of any district, through which any road passes, having the absolute right to close that road or impose a prohibitive toll on it. Other districts or regions will not be allowed the right or the means to conquer or violate the sovereignty of that road-closing or toll-imposing district. Air travel is likely to require too expensive and fragile a coalition of ‘nations’ to support it [adequate fuel supply unlikely]. Also, each individual district will retain the right to prohibit violation of its airspace. Sailing ships may remain in operation however the absence of the overland transportation infrastructure will reduce their level of trade far below today’s destructive amount. Any district possessing fuel resources [or any resource] will retain the right [supported by their confederation] to leave it undisturbed. We believe many districts will choose to do exactly that.

Local sovereignty will create a world without a viable means to globally distribute or profit from, therefore destroy world resources. The vast reduction of mobility of products and people will best rescue the world’s environment and resources district by district and our honorable goal will be joyfully achieved.

High volume mechanized transportation [2005 level] devastates the environment of any region it crosses or enters. The eventual, average number of miles per year of overland mechanized mobility per capita we expect to be reduced to about 1% to 5% of today’s level. Methane, battery and, possibly, hydrogen power are most likely to be the renewable energy [fossil fuel prohibited] used in overland travel. Hopefully, we can eventually reduce the number of commercial mechanized miles of travel [truck, rail and horse driven] per ton of consumable goods we use by 100 times as well. Most people won’t own a personal vehicle [horse and wagon, bicycles, etc will be in wide use].

Approximately 10% of those who will be vehicle owners will, most likely, not be driving more than 5-6 times per month adding up to about 800 miles per year. The remaining 90% won’t travel much over 1000 miles of mechanized, overland, passenger miles per year. Every district will have the freedom to prohibit outsiders from traveling through its land entirely if it chooses. Most districts will, within district majority defined limits, want to allow for both the travel of their own people out of their land and to invite chosen guests in. This natural desire will result in most districts choosing to permit a limited number of guests and traders to pass through their land. Treaties are likely to arise that allow us an occasional [perhaps once every 2 years lasting about 60 days] 1000 mile voyage, half on foot, bike or horse-driven and half in mechanically powered vehicles. There will be a minimum of 40 miles of nearly road-less wilderness between 15-mile diameter population centers. The regional government will enforce these 40-mile mainly road-less buffers between cities and will restrict entry in across the outer borders of their region deliberately in order to protect all districts from the cultural and ecological ravages of overpopulation. Most urban districts are likely to choose to install light rail to carry most burdens thereby interconnecting with the other districts within the 15-mile diameter population centers. All districts will retain the right to control the rail line by refusing entry or charging a toll at their borders. Geographic and travel related issues will be fully illustrated within the ‘environmental standards’ section.

Shame must attach to those who are honest and bright enough to recognize that planet-wide travel limitations are the only way to preserve any paradise anywhere, yet justify excessive mobility for themselves here, now or the people in the future. The Paradise we seek will always retain the district resources and rich ecosystem necessary to rebuild it even if the district is devastated by natural disaster. No district can ever be secure from the over-exploitation and devastation of their local ecosystem if it has connected itself to a high volume, world transportation network. Paradise remains paradise when it is 95% self-sustaining in consumable goods within a 3 to 15 mile radius. Some durable goods can come at an extremely reduced rate [.01% of 2005 level] into a district. The necessary goods [more technical and precision manufactured goods. etc.] will come slower but surely. The quality of life in our lower-mobility paradise will be higher than has ever existed in history.

 

For the brightest and bravest we review our most honorable goals

 

In our biology is the desire to seek the society of other humans. Forming a ‘nation’ over which we citizens have maximum control is, in your author’s opinion, inextricably interwoven with our genetic social instinct. Our personal, instinctual need to form a nation, over which we retain maximum individual control, is deeply ingrained in our humanity. Therefore, it is our primal instinct to employ Direct Democracy to impose our will over our nation. Our energetic employment of today’s high level of communication [the electronics necessary to easily apply direct 24hr year-round voting has been available for nearly 100 years], to conduct of our direct democracy, will impose our individual will over our separate governments, everywhere, quickly and dramatically.

 

Also, powerfully entrenched in our biology, is our need to belong to a nation/district possessing a population large enough to include individuals of every personality type so we can engage the entire spectrum of the human experience. We also need to be assured our vote counts as a significantly large percentage of the total electorate. The occasional grand scale reaffirmation of our convictions coming from outside ourselves [participating in a winning vote] is a human need essential to our mental health. The minimum landmass size necessary to fulfill our need to powerfully reaffirm our will is 25 square miles and the maximum is about 4000 square miles [nomadic peoples may need a larger landmass]. The minimum population size necessary to fulfill this same need is one that supports at least 2000 adults over 18 years of age and the maximum is about 3500 [over 3500 fellow voters begins to be too many for us fellow district citizens to easily contact and form consensus before elections]. There are reasons why the implementation of district sovereignty fulfills our genetic needs so perfectly.

Our constitution institutes the arrangement and regulation of districts to perfectly accommodate our genetic need for ‘homelands’ of about 3500 square miles. Our genetics dictate a deep sense of ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ when we are still within two days walk of home.

Two days walk is about 30 miles [depending on terrain] if you are carrying your goods and family. A 30-mile radius around your home is about 3000 to 4000 square miles. When we begin the third day of walking away from our home we get the sense that every step is made into the land belonging to ‘others’. This is yet another reason we will crusade passionately for the institution of this, the best constitution. In order to satisfy our need for maximum control over our government it is desperately critical that we maintain a population low enough to maximize the power of our single vote. Voting apathy is the malicious enemy of the paradise that intelligent, passionate citizen involvement will create. Apathy begins to erode our voter confidence when it takes about 5001 votes to make a majority [majority of 10,000 is 5001]. When we limit our population so that an attainable majority numbering between 1501 out of 3000 to create paradise is maintained. A stable local population of all the people you grew up with makes the most receptive group to join you in most any quest you conceive of to mold your nation for the better. Two months of passionate campaigning and you can garner the 1501 votes needed to force government action. We can focus our passion on one issue for the two months necessary to contact and persuade 1501 of your neighbors who are most likely to be within a 3-mile walking radius. Today national campaigns to change federal government [60 million votes needed] are nearly futile. This new dynamic of a government is 10,000 times more accessible to your persuasion, irrefutable and the self-evident formula for achieving the greatest good.

The greatest good we seek is far better than most of us have yet witnessed. Certainly we are humans, not angels, but the best paradise possible will be achieved when our local sovereignty formula is fully adopted. The speed of local majority action will create a self-correcting dynamic that maintains a perfect balance between too much or too little government and keeps government mostly out of our lives. Only in the rare instance of needing to bring a particular criminal to immediate justice will we vote to take specific action against a fellow citizen. With the general threat of criminality removed, we will develop a joyous culture 1000 times more rewarding than any we’ve ever dreamed possible. We will progress to an age of inspiring the best out of our fellow citizens using only the attraction of the glorious rewards or, at worst, the threat of depriving them of some reward. Our district majority is likely to become wonderfully effective at the use of the ‘carrot’ instead of the ‘stick’ as the best means to create paradise. We are likely to institute a joyful dynamic of competing with each other to be recognized for contributing even more spectacular rewards to our nation. Imagine a tight-knit joyous culture that will gather once [or more] a month for a 16 hr party that invites nearly every one of their 3000+ countrymen. Again, a wild, raucously thrilling festival of sports, music, inclusive ritual dancing, story telling, drumming, games, thrill events [moments of zero gravity fun], etc. that makes every heart swell with pride is the goal. The mere thought of not being invited will inspire all of us to hasten to bestow every possible benefit to our nation. Imagine living your whole life absolutely confident that 99% of everyone you see in your community is thrilled to see you ‘win’ and be equally confident that they know you are thrilled to see them ‘win’. No longer will mothers warn children about strangers.

Drugs- no one will want to dull their senses so often they miss out on being at their best to share in the beautiful culture of joy and support all around them. The possibility exists for us to vote in a pay scale that only allows the highest paid among us to receive no more than 8 times more than the lowest paid among us. All measures we quickly enact can be just as quickly reversed.

The dynamic of civic betterment by way of immediate change is assured. Our electorate is small enough that when we [the majority] direct government to act, we refer to our government as ‘US’ and ‘OUR’ decisions rather than ‘THEM’ and ‘their’ decisions. This means that when we vote badly and ‘our’ decision causes us to suffer we take responsibility. We will say ‘we voted just as wrong as we possibly could have’. ‘We have to get much smarter about our vote next time!!!!’ Today you rarely hear anything about government without hearing our rightful complaint blaming ‘THEM’ for ignorant or sadistic rule over us. So, even our voting mistakes create an improving self-correcting dynamic. The more damaging the voting mistake we make the deeper and longer lasting is our conviction to avoid repeating it.

The paradise we will experience here at our sovereign home as a valued member of our nation will uplift us 100’s of times more than anywhere we could visit as a stranger. We will, of course, prefer travel occasionally. Districts/nations of all sizes will have the equal right to prevent entry across their borders to the uninvited traveler [local majorities of most all nations will most likely stiffen their borders]. In order to for a party of travelers to persuade nations to invite them into and across their land hopeful travelers are likely to [my suggestion] offer services in lieu of a toll [tolls might be unfeasible due to many separate national currencies]. The best promotion of international goodwill and a great means to persuade nations to invite you in would be to form a troupe of entertainers. The same big celebration or some part thereof, your nation throws [A wild, raucously thrilling festival of sports, music, inclusive ritual dancing, story telling, drumming, games] can be advertised to ‘go on the road’. Those with the greatest goodwill and/or talent might eventually be the ones best able to persuade nations to allow them passage through their land. Less permeable borders will encourage separate cultures with qualities 50 times more thrilling, 100 times more unique and 100 times richer in traditions of harmony, beauty, freedom and justice. The happy result being- we need not travel far to experience cultures entirely different from our own.

Democratic nations that call themselves unions, rather than providing freedom and justice, enslave and rob their people. Our confederation is replete with the highest political virtues and bestows the highest benefit to its citizens. Some people suppose that local sovereignty would incite local mistrust and strife between our sovereign districts/nations. Others suppose that unless the people of our districts/nations are forced to support the region [as with ‘united’ rule their army would murder and jail dissenters] in wars against attacking nations then their support would never come. Both these suppositions are wrong. Internal strife between sovereign districts of our confederation will never occur, except on the smallest scale, for two reasons. First, the love and powerful appreciation of their own sovereignty will inspire all districts to desire, with equal intensity, the blessings of the sovereignty of all other districts. Secondly, our districts will offer equal respect for the borders of their neighboring districts as they wish to receive respect for their own. Even if a district were foolish enough to make a majority vote to attack their neighboring district our confederation will step in and stop it. Most importantly, the people of districts will maintain a reverential respect for their humble confederation government. The people know that their humble confederation government is passionately devoted to noninterference with the their district, internal, civic self-rule. They know, with equal certainty, that all other governments would punish them for and make a total reversal of 95% of all their independent civic decisions. Our confederation is unalterably dedicated to strict noninterference with ‘civic’ district autonomy and equally passionate about securing all district wealth to district determination. Our confidence in our confederation’s passionate commitment to the principal of noninterference in both these governmental functions assures our proud support of our confederation in most all its larger causes.

 

WE CRUSADE TO GAIN OUR INDIVIDUAL HONOR!!!!!

 

 OUR CERTAINTY THAT WE ARE BESTOWING THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER GENERATES WITHIN US AN ABIDING SENSE OF MORAL GRANDUER, WORTHINESS, MAGESTY AND HONOR!

Only when the world’s environmental fate is forcibly rested from the malignant hands of large corporate/governmental power and secured permanently in the hands of us passionately voting local majorities will mankind slowly become worthy environmental stewards of the earth. Our local sovereignty formula advanced by the action we specify is the absolute best means to rescue the world’s environment. Since you are the brightest and the best you seek the peace of mind secured by taking these actions and accomplishing these most honorable goals possible.

The camaraderie among those who join our crusade will make you purposeful and joyous. Currently you know no one with a plan to rescue the planet that you are confident will work. Now that you are a noble crusader you are that confident man with THE PLAN! Not ‘a’ plan--- THE PLAN!!! Others will begin to hold you in increasingly higher esteem as you build local consensus. This cause transforms you into someone becoming more hopeful than doubtful about the eventuality of a richly wholesome world environment. That hopefulness and nobility sets you firmly on a course of discovery of newfound direction and purpose in your professional and personal life.

Do you trust those who, week after week, month after month, never experience exuberant, public, collective, lasting, genuine joy? There are those who celebrate wildly without a deeply ‘genuine’ reason. Any of our crusaders who are giving their best effort to the cause are entitled to the most profound, soulfully genuine joy that exuberant celebrating can provide. Joy rising from your soul that is based on the noblest depth of purpose gives you clarity of affirmative purpose. You can offer, WITH TOTAL CERTAINTY, a comprehensive, affirmative answer [our constitution!!!!] to solve the most profoundly damaging problems threatening the world. With this joy of purpose comes the necessary focus on promoting the affirmative rather than attacking the negative. Only those that make us confident they possess this depth of joy do we deem worthy of trust and respect. Only these joyful ones do we trust when they express righteous indignation against malignant problems and their makers. As the brightest and best you are advancing your highest leadership potential by embracing this joy. This deepest sense of joy is far too compelling for you to resist.

 

Honor Yourself!!!……Embrace Our Crusade!!!!

 

OUR CONSTITUTION

 

-This continued preface features our superior governing concepts

we direct our confederation to enforce-

 

     As individuals we pledge our first and most profound allegiance to our constitution in order to bestow in perpetuity, upon all our forthcoming native-born, our homeland in a state of the richest possible environmental paradise possible. We devote ourselves to the fulfillment of our constitution’s principals in order that we shall transform our current environmentally destructive culture into an honorable culture of good stewards bestowing more benefit than harm upon out cherished land.

    We hereby dedicate ourselves to rendering to our confederation the least possible measure of power to control us citizens or our sovereign district governments.

Our constitution guarantees the supremacy of rule by our sovereign district governments.

Our constitution prohibits the power of our confederation government from being imposed on any of us individual citizens except in the rare cases of the violation of confederation standards that districts refuse to, or are unable to enforce.

   Such is our love of our great measure of freedom from obligation to our confederation government that, in order to protect that freedom, we proclaim ourselves privileged to volunteer to collectively defend and support our confederation government. We are not people united by force of government. We are many independent district nations whose people are a hundred times more passionately united in purpose by our love of both; our district’s dynamically democratic self-rule; and the maximum possible freedom from force or harm based outside our district [especially our confederation government].

 

DESCENDING ORDER OF POWER

 

          The following is a list, in descending order, of our most powerful institutions. District government commands only the qualitative measure of control over our lives we district citizens vote to allow it. As regional citizens, also, we must vote to carefully control the small measure of power we allow our confederation government.

 

-FIRST- DISTRICT MAJORITY POPULAR VOTE.

For the everyday CIVIC governing of us citizens within our district borders we bestow the highest power to our direct-democracy district majority vote.

 

SECOND- DISTRICT LEADERSHIP 

The majority vote of our elected district leadership is rule of law within the district unless overridden by our majority citizen vote within the district.

 

THIRD- REGIONAL MAJORITY POPULAR VOTE.

Our confederation government determines only about 5% of the qualitative governing over us. Our regional majority popular vote has supreme, instant power over our confederation government.

 

FOURTH- CONFEDERATION MINISTERS.

The individual command by any one of, or majority vote of, our ministers allows them to impose ‘sanctions’ on our district as a whole but almost never on any citizen directly.

 

FIFTH- CONFEDERATION CONGRESS.

The majority vote of our congress of district representatives shall gain a high degree of our trust to formulate our best ballot for our on-going regional popular citizen vote.

They shall have the power to elect ministers when an adequate majority regional popular vote is not obtained. Occasionally they will reverse the decisions of ministers.

 

SIXTH- COMBINATIONS OF DISTRICT LEADERS.

We shall make independent treaties and trade agreements between any number of our districts and their leadership[s].

 

THE MECHANISM FOR THE DIVISION OF POWER

 

-[this section repeated in article 1]-

 

-Congress and the four ministers comprise our five branches of government.-

-Any one of the 4 ministers may act independently without approval from any other branch.

-Congress may take no independent, direct governing actions.

-Congress submits one of many ballots that recommend actions that we citizens may force government to take. All ministers may submit ballots as well. 

 

--OUR CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT ‘3 OUT OF 5’ BRANCH REVERSAL--

-Majority vote of Congress and 2 ministers [or 3 ministers] may nullify the decision of any one minister.

 

-Our 'RMV' vote may force our confederation government to take any action we please and no other branch[s] of government may nullify our vote.

-Our 'RMV' vote will instantly nullify any action or remove any minister we please.

-Your author begs all us regional citizens and all branches of our government not to impose on the sovereignty of our districts.

-Our entire regional confederation government in designed to retain 100 times less power than district government within the borders of the individual sovereign district.

 

DISTRICT SUPREMACY

 

   We shall now bravely illustrate the heroic forbearance we demand of ourselves when our oath to uphold district sovereignty is most severely tested. When any horrific CIVIC [behavior that doesn’t violate confederation standards] crime is committed within a district’s borders by any number of its resident population, we who reside outside that district hereby swear not to intervene unless invited by that district’s leadership or by that district’s popular vote. We citizens [who reside outside our subject district] regard the violation of a district’s sovereignty, for any reason, as a personal dishonor. We are absolutely certain that any ‘cure’ we could possibly impose on a district from outside its borders is a 1,000 times worse than the CIVIC ‘disease’. ‘Cures’ [applied to any CIVIC crime] imposed from outside violate two vows your district pledges to you that, if broken, absolutely ruin the goodwill of all us district citizens. We district citizens must retain our incontrovertible right to collectively impose [or tacitly approve] the most harsh punishments on people [citizens or not] within our borders and only our district judgment must decide the justice of our collective act. District authorities will judge capital crimes without appeal to any other outside authority. Our districts must retain this right primarily to apply district punishment to those who commit horrors in their district, especially environmental crimes. Only they are qualified to judge the destructiveness of crimes and the likelihood of culpability of those accused within their borders. Only we district citizens possess the intimate knowledge and depth of care of our community qualifies us to show mercy or wrath toward wrongdoers. With our community so competently secured we preserve all the loving goodwill so necessary to inspire our best, most generous environmental efforts.

Without autonomous solutions and rewards guiding our district’s collective fate, we district citizens loose faith that everything good and honorable within our district will be lost. We must maintain an unbroken thread of district majority voting that radiates our strong collective goodwill. These votes must demonstrate a real commitment to the preservation of our physical and human resources in order to maintain our exalted confidence that our good work will be honored and continued by all who come after us on our district land. ‘Solutions’ coming from outside our district that intend to save the lives of thousands now are certain to result in the bloody sacrifice of millions of lives over time. 

 

-We now draw as fine a point as possible on our mortal oath to endure death before we dishonor ourselves by violating any district’s right to the sovereign governing of its CIVIC behavior-

EXAMPLE 1

     Let us suppose we have one district [district ‘g’] that has a large majority of its citizens of ethnicity ‘y’ [you pick one]. All 300+ of the region’s other districts contain a 98% majority of ethnicity ‘z’ [you pick one]. District g has a near perfect obedience to all confederation standards. In this region our ministers [all of ethnicity z] have our greatest love and respect. Then, 20 members of our most loved minister’s family [[all of ethnicity z], 5 of his infant and juvenile children, wife, brothers, sisters, mother, father, grand parents and cousins] all visit district ‘g’ to vacation. Suddenly, without warning, a huge majority of district g’s population launches itself into a brutal rampage of genocidal, ethnic cleansing that rapes, tortures and murders all 20 of our minister’s family along with 400 other people of ethnicity z.

 

NOW!!…………WHAT RESPONSE DO WE DEMAND OF OUR CONFEDERATION?

     Our minister [whose family has just been tortured and murdered] immediately, passionately begs all the other confederation ministers and all of us regional citizens to embrace restraint. He begs us all to restrain ourselves and display perfect respect for district g’s borders. He beseeches us to respect their absolute constitutional right to perform every single murder, torture and rape they have inflicted!!!!!!!! Our minister must immediately deploy his troops to defend district g’s borders against violation by any of us outside their borders. It is his responsibility to vigorously prevent even the slightest violation of district g’s borders by any other district, individual or confederation force. Our constitution binds us all to our sacred contract of universal defense of all district’s right to conduct their CIVIC justice in any way they see fit, regardless of any objection from the rest of us outside its borders. 

Scenario continues…

     Our beloved minister has, thankfully, persuaded us regional citizens to restrain ourselves from voting to wrongfully command our confederation government to invade and punish district g. He has insisted we refrain from violating our principals. He remains fully cognizant that our confederation forbids ministers from offering any derogatory comment condemning the CIVIC sovereign behavior of any district. Our minister must plead that we recognize where to place the highest blame for the most despicable wrong doing that now dwarves this tiny wrong of the murder of these 400. A thousand times more despicable and deserving of a 1000 times more of our blame, are the horrors we cause today by the environmental destruction done by those 4-5 of our districts that are least obedient of our region’s environmental standards. 10,000 people yet born will suffer a miserable early death as a result of the environmental degradation done in one day by our 4-5 most environmental unsound districts. We therefore have no right to persecute district g. If District g is among those with highest environmental record, we must honor them as heroes and seek to emulate their superior, moral, innovative leadership regardless of any number of mass murders their majority would have tacitly endorsed within their borders.

     Your author’s prediction of what our regional citizen’s actual response is likely to be is that they would quickly vote expel district g from our confederation and close all our district borders to them. They would continue district g’s water rights and migratory herd rights.

     Your author’s recommendation is as follows- We continue without expelling district g from our confederation. Independent of the confederation’s preference all the districts that border district g could, if they prefer, independently blockade district g. If they were to act thus, the entirety of district g’s population would be locked inside their borders and will receive no incoming travel [goods, services, visitors] other than their confederation inspector. District g will then be free to create paradise within their borders or turn on each other like criminals. The confederation would insure that the bordering districts do not cut off or pollute district g’s water supply or restrict their migratory herd, flock or fish ingress and egress. The confederation promises district g that if their district inspector is harmed it will go hard on them. District g knows they could have expelled or deported those 400 citizens instead of killing them and they know we know that.

No district ever owes its wealth to the confederation so no tribute is owed to satisfy any resentment citizens might have concerning the killings. If other districts in our confederation choose to issue death warrants [or other punishments] on any district g citizens that they catch [within those other district’s borders- not within district g’s borders] that is their right at any time regardless of what reason they profess.

     Your author’s main purpose for recommending non-intervention into district g is to assure all districts that, regardless of how severe [sadistic, unjust or just, repugnant] any of their popularly approved district actions might be, they will not be punished by outside powers. This district freedom is critical in order that all district citizens are completely confident they won’t be punished by outside powers when they punish environmental wrongdoers.

A district’s record can be 1000 to 1, unjust to just decisions against people they punish for any reason they choose and we will be perfectly satisfied they are taking the absolute best, swiftest path to establishing their district paradise. Districts must establish [and credit themselves only], by majority rule, their own commitment to justice regardless how long it takes or how many people must suffer within their borders. If we regional citizens instruct the confederation to punish any district for the wrongful treatment of people within its borders, then all districts must fear confederation punishment for any severe treatment they may impose even when their severe action is entirely just.

When we regional citizens empower ourselves to use our confederation to punish district citizens for any reason other than the violation of sovereignty exceptions, we destroy the confidence of every one of us district citizen’s ability to create the most evolved, humane civilization possible. This destruction is absolutely certain to result in a 1000 times more tortuous suffering to 1000s of times more people over many more centuries than the suffering that any number of murderous acts a free, sovereign, evolving district would ever cause. [As an example within this example: A district independently places a value on each of their few remaining old growth pines of 200 people per tree. The death of any one of their uniquely indigenous trees would mean the extinction of an enormous portion of the world’s genetic stock of that species of tree. Then, a proud district citizen assassinates 20 tree poachers in the act of cutting the trees [he has proof] and brings their heads into town. Instead of prosecuting the man for murder, the district gives him a parade and erects a statue of him to honor his heroism.] This wonderfully wholesome, praise-worthy district must not be made to fear interference from any power outside its borders. Our 'DSM' constitution gloriously defends this wholesome dynamic in all districts. 

    All districts must retain their sovereign right to act [according to their majority will] as mildly or severely [murderously] as they wish against anyone, at any time, for any reason within their borders. Districts must retain the right to equally or unequally protect or not protect the lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness of those within their district. Each district’s Civilization will evolve to its highest level of joyful freedom and justice only when their citizen’s majority retains complete control and responsibility over their CIVIC governing.

     As our non-intervention continues, we wait and, perhaps, over time, the citizens of district g will begin to acquit themselves by performing heroic acts or bestowing enormous benefits to our confederation and us regional citizens.

We observe that district g continues to uphold all confederation standards and continues to prefer to remain as a member of our confederation. Perhaps, over time, we will permit district g’s citizens to participate in regional sports and arts festivals.

     We all recognize that, if district g had been violating confederation standards [especially environmental violations] at the time of the murders, we might have rightfully begun punishing them, for the standard violations, right away.

    Although we regional citizens have the ‘ability’ to command our confederation government to punish district citizens, even if they have not violated constitutional/confederation standards, we absolutely OUGHT NOT exercise that ability, ever!!!

We must elect leadership/ministers that urge us with unrelenting ferocity to never vote to direct the confederation government to punish anyone except for standard violations!!!! Even for standard violators, our confederation will offer districts the first opportunity to punish them. 

     If the minister fails to persuade us to refrain from voting to command our confederation to invade and punish district g, his outrage might inspire our minister to use his influence to divide the confederation. If we citizens act in anger, violate our oath and 60% of us vote to invade and punish district g, our minister ought to be righteously outraged and dedicate his efforts to beseeching the leadership of that 40% of the districts [or as many districts voted in the minority] to secede. If our minister successfully inspires about 40% of the region to secede and form a new confederation and the other 60% tries to prevent it, then that alone proves that we are right and our secession is necessary.

We pledged and they pledged an oath swearing to defend the sovereign right of all standard-upholding districts to peacefully secede. Now they angrily violate their solemn oath.

It is, therefore, woe to our right-minded 40% if we lack the courage to go our own way, prove ourselves to be men built of sterner stuff, independently form our new confederation and secede from those of weaker commitment to what is morally right.   

     Our noble regional commitment to restraint and non-intervention into district g will result in an overall, long-term benefit that will vastly outweigh the harm of district g’s horrifying murders.

 

The penultimate benefits will be the region-wide strengthening of district borders and more diligent adherence to confederation standards by all districts. But, by far, the most glorious benefit will be the accelerated rate of advancement toward the certain, higher district civilization due to direct local district responsibility.

We proudly seek to strengthen the confidence of all districts citizens that they will remain unmolested in their inspired pursuit of establishing their own, ever-heightening, collective commitment to CIVIC justice within their borders.

 

EXAMPLE 2

-Districts shall retain the right to refuse entry to any minister at any time. Districts must guarantee safe conduct to our ministers when they grant them entry and guarantee them immunity from district prosecution regardless of the minister’s personal or political behavior. We may, eventually, recommend to or constitutionally insist that, all our ministers travel only in districts that guarantee them safe conduct. Ministers that choose to ignore a district’s refusal to grant them safe conduct shall not be immune to district prosecution and neither our confederation or regional majority popular vote shall override district sovereignty and rescue them from the sovereign will of the district. One position [the confederation appointed district inspector] will reserve a higher degree of confederation protection against district prosecution as well. Should a district seek the punishment of a district inspector they must fully satisfy the Minister of Sovereignty that justice is being served. If the Minister of Sovereignty is not satisfied the confederation will then impose sanctions against the district to remedy the injustice [unless regional popular vote dictates to the contrary]. Districts may choose to surrender an inspector they have arrested to the confederation congress of district representatives for judgment if they wish. All others that a district wishes to punish shall enjoy no possibility of rescue from our confederation or from regional majority popular vote. We coconsciously define the limitation of power the confederation’s district inspector has within the district in order to better illustrate each district’s absolute right to prohibit the confederation from activating any troops to be used against any district citizen at any time except in the rare case of an s-3-10 invasion.

 

EXAMPLE 3

-We regional citizens may occasionally punish [by our regional majority popular vote] a minister that has imposed Confederation force against a standard obeying district [our own district or another]. This minister would be in direct violation of our constitution’s protection of district sovereignty. These occasions oblige us to instantly overturn that minister’s decision.

Should we then, by regional popular vote, choose to punish [death or less] a minister for thus violating the sovereignty of a district, our command must be immediately executed.

 

EXAMPLE 4

-Not only our regional majority popular vote but also our regional leadership in the form of: the agreement of three ministers against the fourth minister; or, 2 ministers and the majority vote of congress may agree to punish a minister or reverse his decision.

We are especially hopeful a majority of ministers will intercede when a rogue minister wrongfully imposes his authority over a district’s CIVIC authority. Our leadership may immediately reverse his decision and punish him, hopefully, in proportion to his violation of our constitution’s principals. We regional citizens must instantly use our majority vote to reverse any decision wrongly made by our confederation government.

This would include our wise overturning of an intercession by the majority of ministers over one minister if the majority is wrong. The day will come when a minister will have friends or relatives who are common criminals or crime victims of CIVIC crime within a district. This kind of personal motive may tempt a minister to erroneously use Confederation force [blackmail under guise of authority] to force district officials to either punish or rescue a CIVIC criminal.

The same motive might apply to a minister with friends who bribe him for their business gains. We regional citizens must stand ready to use our majority vote to punish graft, corruption and every subtle misuse of confederation power against districts or citizens at any moment [as soon as we are certain]. Our Minister of Communication must make a full report, on the Internet, of confirmed or reasonably suspected erroneous imposition of Confederation authority by our ministers onto the CIVIC affairs of districts. We citizens will be ready to punish him for the wrongful omissions in his report.

MORE

-Ministers may not appoint themselves to the position of ‘inspector’ in order to assure their safety when traveling through an ‘unfriendly’ district.

-Ministers may appoint no more than one inspector per 1000 people within a district [regional popular vote can alter this number as we choose]. The cost to the confederation may make this high number of inspectors impossible to support. One inspector per 50,000 might be a more realistic starting number. 

-Our Minister of Sovereignty shall prohibit citizens from egress [leaving] out of our region by way of crossing the border into a foreign nation/region that forbids our entry into their land.

-Our confederation shall not declare war on foreign nations except by 3/5ths majority popular vote [80% quorum required]. Minister of Sovereignty may increase protection of our region’s foreign borders to any level he considers necessary to repel foreign invasions [hostile or otherwise]. Either, us citizens or our leadership may close our borders to any person[s], nation, people, creed, race, religion, etc. without fear of showing cause. It is our intent to never conduct military action of any kind outside regional borders. However, our confederation leadership must respect the command issued by our regional majority popular vote if we vote to attack [see ‘tactics’] another nation. 

-We shall be ever vigilant to elect confederation ministers who are the most passionate defenders of nation level sovereignty for districts. We seek confederation ministers who are passionately dedicated to preventing our confederation from any but the slightest imposition of power over our sovereign districts. Our confederation ministers must passionately seek to render to districts the greatest quality of governing power rather than harboring ambitions of centralizing and strengthening the power of our regional confederation. We must elect ministers that stand ready to defend the right of every district to reclaim all of their sovereignty, at any moment, even after a district has bargained it away to any outside power or moneyed interest.

-Any district will be free to impose a death warrant [within its district borders] on any minister or confederation officer, other than their district inspector, they please. All confederation personnel targeted by districts ought to be notified by those districts.

Standard obeying Districts are free to conduct any anti-confederation action within their district borders [including executing ministers] they please without fear of any confederation action against them. These antagonistic districts shall remain members of our confederation as long as they wish and no 'RMV' vote demands their removal.

-Should we choose our Confederation leaders unwisely, and occasionally we shall, our power of immediate popular recall and replacement of ministers assures the eventual success of our quest for leaders ruled by the better angels of their nature.

We demand Ministerial candidates that regard their attainment of the office as a life and death mission. Ministerial office is indeed a life and death undertaking since we shall retain the right to execute a minister at any time by command of our regional majority popular vote.

 

DISTRICT GOVERNMENT

 PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION RECOMMENDED

All references recommending other forms of district government within the constitution are erroneous 8/25/05

    Your author recommends that districts adopt a government whose members are elected to receive proportional representation. Proportional representation is a guarantee to most every voter that they will elect at least one candidate who will hold a significant position of power in our district government and will give voice to their deepest shared convictions. Our chosen candidate will, at the very least, give voice to our opinion regarding the actions we know our government must take to create a civilization of which we can be proud. 

   I recommend [not insist] that district governments choose to rule by committee [parliament?, council?] offering approximately one position [aldermen?, elder?, councilman?] to each of those 5 to 40 candidates who receive the highest number of votes. Obviously, I recommend about a 5-member council to the less populated districts and a higher number [40+?] of councilmen to the more highly populated districts. With an adequately high ratio of councilmen to citizens, even those of us in the minority are most likely to vote one candidate into office. Each district’s citizens may choose to assign: equal power to each candidate elected to the council; or, we shall assign them power equal to the percentage of votes they receive. This 2^nd model would mean, for example, the vote of the ‘40%’ candidate would carry a 40% power share of any vote he makes on any issue brought before the district council; the 30% candidate would carry 30%; 15% candidate 15%; the 10% man 10%; the 5% man 5%. This would mean that the councilmen with the lesser portions of the power will need to unify to defeat the 40% candidate. If this model is applied when one candidate receives over 50% of the vote this effectively allots a winning vote to the 50+% candidate on every issue he votes on in council. We district citizens ought to assure that the minority candidates can force the majority candidates to hear their opinions on every issue even if the 50+% candidate retains the power to decide the outcome of the council decisions. I personally guarantee that the voter turnout, passion and depth of thought vested in each vote we district citizens make will increase exponentially if our district government adopts proportional representation.

   Once we institute proportional representation in districts, we must include a means of recalling councilmen, if necessary.

Your author’s recommendation will be to make each councilman obligated to the exact voters who elected him. Our vote counting computers will easily track those voters. Voters would have to be willing to be identified for this purpose. The mechanics of recall would be to allow a candidate’s original electing voters to vote 24 hours per day to instruct, support, recall or replace him by a 51% vote. Districts can vote to schedule a new general election to elect new candidates at any frequency they please [2, 3, 4, years?]. Then the ‘specific’ voter opportunity to recall process can begin again.

   Let us pose an example that presumes that the maximum number of councilmen your district will allow to be elected to council is 5 members and there are 10 candidates running for the 5 positions. We suggest an electing method that allows the citizen to apply a score in descending order to each candidate.

Your 1^st selection of candidate receives a score of 10 points, your second favorite candidate receives 9 points and you then must apply a descending score [8, 7, 6, etc.] for each of your lesser choices down to your least favorite who get 1 point. The scoring is totaled and the five candidates receiving the highest totals are elected. You become the constituent of the elected man to whom you gave the highest of your scores. This will mean that if none of your top 5 choices of candidate is elected, your 6^th best choice of candidate becomes your councilman and you are his constituent. This enables you to vote to recall him if you choose.

   There is a slight, inherent problem with the fact that allowing only the individual, minority-elected candidate’s electing voters to recall him.

Suppose 90% of all the district’s voters decide they eagerly wish to recall a councilman whose constituents refuse to recall him. The majority will could take a backseat to the minority will in this somewhat negligible point. However, regardless of whether a solution to this problem is found or not, the minority councilman would still wield only a minority of the decision-making power in our district government.

   This model of proportional representation for district councilmen varies slightly from the electing model and the voting power allotted to congressmen.

 

GEOGRAPHICAL MODEL

 

The following is the EVENTUAL goal of

Constitutional Limitations on Population and Land Use [see maps on pg.____]

- REGIONAL POPULAR VOTE required to alter these standards.

Administered by; Minister of the Environment.

 

All districts are likely to compete for land. We therefore suggest that, long before secession occurs, citizens must debate and vote for the most fair and just division of land.

 

We shall establish a geographical model, vigorously enforced by our Confederation, that will irrevocably, eventually, prevent habitation beyond the following constitutional limits-

 

1.) 90,000 person maximum limit per 3600 sq. mi. [aprox] Homeland area.

2.) 75,000 person maximum limit per 615 sq. mi. [approx.] Homeland urban/suburban center.                      

3.) 15,000 person maximum limit per 3000 sq. mi. [aprox] of surrounding the Homeland’s Frontier                   districts. 500 square mile minimum size for frontier districts. 25 square miles is the minimum size of homeland center districts.

4.) 40-mi. minimum distance of Frontier (5 persons per sq. mi. avg.) district land required between homeland centers.                                                                                                                                           

5.] Frontier district land use severely restricted [mechanized travel prohibited in frontier districts] to preserve the land in near pristine climax habitat condition.

 

6.] Both Frontier districts and Homeland center districts (minimum size is 25 sq. mi.) will be restricted to a maximum population of 3000 citizens. If any district’s population reaches 3,400 citizens, our Confederation shall impose sanctions severe enough to return that district’s population beneath the 3,000 person limit.

7.] Our Region Size we model after the amount of land that will sustainably support between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 citizens. This amount of land ranges between 38,000 square miles and 45,000 square miles. Less habitable land [arctic regions, desert regions, etc.] we presume will require a much larger square mile area in order to host 1,000,000 peoples within their region self-sustainably.  

8.] By the use of this model we estimate the eventual achievement of the goal of a world population of a maximum of 1,000,000,000 persons. 

 

-Our first Minister of the Environment shall be required to submit a map precisely detailing how he would place the exact boundaries of every district. He will be forced to adhere to that proposed map of districts when he is elected. This map may be instantly altered by regional popular vote.

-Districts are required to eventually maintain their population at or below a level that enables it to provide and distribute to its members 90% of its consumable goods without causing environmental damage.

-We shall not seek to expand the collective territorial borders of our region beyond the present [45,000-sq. mi. is the average size likely for regions] geological size and placement.

-All districts are subject to Confederation’s environmental requirements concerning land use. It is critically important for districts to uphold the confederation standards regarding climax habitat requirements.

-Population levels are a goal eventually achieved by each district fulfilling its yearly, currently required, population reduction levels.  

 

TAX  [POSSIBLE TAX MODEL= See Article 3]

 

     Each district/Nation that has an independent currency system may conduct a yearly local popular district vote to possibly choose the following method to pay its confederation tax=

     The district directs their treasury/mint to print all of the money necessary to pay for their local district government costs plus the 5% of that amount that is necessary to pay their confederation tax. In this way no individual or commercial enterprise is punished by being directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

 

VOTING METHODS AND STANDARDS

 

SEE= FREE And FAIR ELECTION STANDARDS. ARTICLE 2. SECTION 5

 

-We Citizens shall have access to an Internet direct-democracy voting system that enables us to individually demand [we shall individually compose our ballots when we choose] anything of our confederation government the majority of us wish, 24 hours a day, all year long, every year.

Our confederation shall conduct a yearly regional popular vote [80% quorum required][in addition to the ongoing 24/7/365 voting] in order to:

--Micro-manage confederation government in any way the regional majority vote directs.

--Elect ministers [Minister of the Environment, Minister of Communication, Minister of Sovereignty, Minister of Defense/Army].

--Determine the funding level and troop allocation for the 4 ministries of our confederation.

--Determine our the level of district tax we pay to our confederation.

--Other items will become our custom to decide yearly as we choose.

 

Four Sovereignty Exceptions [again]

We empower our Confederation to encroach on the sovereignty of district nations to perform the four following governing functions [the four sovereignty exceptions]. We list here the minister[s] authorized to enforce the related standards. 

1] Environmental protection

We shall not be free to damage our environment. Minister of the Environment.   

2] Border protection (district and foreign borders).

Districts citizens shall be free to cross borders into other districts only at the invitation/permission of the district they enter. No district may do harm to other districts. Minister of the Environment and Minister of Sovereignty and Minister of Defense.

3] Free and fair elections.

Election results must be the product of the true, uncoerced, choice of district citizens in district elections. Regional elections of confederation government actions and leaders must be equally uncoerced. Minister of Communication.

4] Weapons control.

Universal lethality limitations shall be imposed on weapons by the confederation government. These approved weapons shall be available to all persons equally. Confederation soldiers or district police shall not be allowed weapons more lethal than those available to any citizen. Minister of Sovereignty.

 

Ministers

 

Our Confederation shall have four elected offices that will be chosen by our region’s entire electorate (our Constitution may be amended to include more of the regional popularly elected positions if our regional popular vote chooses).

-If a 60% regional majority vote [of all regional voters registered] for a minister is not obtained then congress will elect the minister by the majority vote of congressional power.

-A minister may be removed from office or have any of his decisions nullified by either: our majority regional popular vote; or, the vote of all of the other three ministers; or, the majority vote of congress [60% of all congress power] and 2 other ministers. These removals can be overturned by our regional majority popular vote or we may change our constitution concerning this power to remove ministers.

 

MINISTERIAL POSITIONS

1] Minister of Environment.

Shall primarily determine if districts are enforcing confederation environmental standards. 

2] Minister of the Defense.

Border defense [regional and district]. Weapons control.

3] Minister of Communication.

Vote counting. Tax. Communication. Liaison with representatives of each district.

4] Minister of Sovereignty.

Foreign affairs. Judicial system. District conflict resolution. Secession rights.

 

-Congress will present a ballot measure [regional popular vote] specifying the division of power between the separate ministries.