ARTICLE 3

TAX

UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION.

The tax amount a district pays our confederation

shall not exceed 5% of the yearly amount

that district spends on their own district government.

-Our Confederation shall collect a tax from each district that shall be equivalent to 5% of the cost of that particular district’s yearly expenditure for their own home district government [this amount is subject to the immediate increase or decrease by majority regional popular vote].

-Our Confederation shall not levy any tax on any individual citizen or commercial enterprise.

-Our Confederation shall conscientiously strive to reduce the cost to all district Nations equally as far below the allowed 5% as possible. The minister will promptly refund any yearly surplus equitably to all districts, according to the proportionate size of their tax in relation to other districts.

-Our Confederation shall not enrich itself in money beyond the sum of one year’s operating cost over a current year’s budget without the express dictate of our 'RMV'.

-The Confederation shall negotiate a tax ‘trade’ that allows a district to pay their district inspector[s] directly in exchange for a reduction of their confederation tax bill.

POSSIBLE TAX MODEL

-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 all 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 directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

-This percentage may be changed by 'RMV' vote. Our Minister of Communication must carefully account the ‘true’ cost that district citizens pay for their district government in order to calculate the confederation’s 5%. District citizens might be paying ‘phantom costs’ or awarding district leadership special benefits that are not necessarily ‘on the books’.

-The separate possible currencies of districts may cause the Minister of Communication to negotiate extremely complex combinations of trades in order to provide a commonly [common region-wide average value] accepted 5% value to the confederation. Our confederation may need to buy and sell many goods and services it doesn’t need from many different districts in order to acquire the spending power to purchase all the goods and services it does need.

-The Minister of Communication and/or Congress shall construct a 20-item budget and we shall all be free to assign a percentage of our tax we recommend be spent on the particular budget item. Averaging these thousands of separate amounts from us is simple math. Our averaged majority vote directing the allocations of our confederation public money can be clearly defined and obeyed.

-Budgets decided by our regional popular vote will require an 80% quorum within one assigned 25 days period per year. Our 'RMV' can instantly alter this yearly tax vote rule.

-The Minister of Communication shall keep a confederation bank account in every district bank [in districts that have banks] in order to accept tax payments from districts. our Minister of Communication will obediently distribute tax money in the specific amounts for the specific purposes we have prescribed by our vote.

TAX ALLOCATIONS

-The following are recommendations [your author’s] for the practical distribution of tax moneys and confederation personnel. All confederation personnel are technically members of the army and can be required to serve [in some capacity] to defend our region. In peacetime we will allot only 5% of our confederation personnel to the Minister of the Army to be soldiers. We ought to dedicate 90% of tax moneys to confederation salaries, products and property. Your author will make a few recommendations for the allocation of the remaining 10%. The percent of our tax money we allocate for salaries and the purchase of goods and outside services ought to remain static as well. We will need to reserve a surplus of confederation money to allow for the fluctuations of property and special project costs in order that cost overruns won’t cut into payment of salaries. All expenditures can be altered by our 'RMV' at any time.

-----Absent a ministerial or popular vote directing confederation expenditures, the beginning Confederation government allocations of tax money by category and percentage shall be:

-40%---- Confederation Personnel Salaries.

--------------Allocation of this 40% by ministry—

A] Ministry of Environment--- 45% of troops. === Environmental inspection, population reduction, etc.

B] Ministry of Sovereignty---- 25% of troops. === Domestic and foreign border defense.

C] Ministry of Communication-25% of troops= Internet Voting. Census. Media. Banking. Communication system. Tax collecting.

D] Ministry of the Army------- 5% of troops === Army general administration & training of all troops. Army supplies Personal security for ministers [personnel of minister’s choice].

----------- All personnel receive military training from the Minister of Defense and twice yearly

------------attendance at the Minister of Defense festival/conventions [sports, music, dance, games, etc.] is

-------------required. Our 'RMV' will determine some rules deciding length of volunteer army service.

----------- In the event of war Minister of Defense personnel allotment shifts to 90% [or as per regional ---------------- popular vote].

50%--- PROPERTY, GOODS And OUTSIDE SERVICES.

-----Allocations of this 50% by ministry- including food, clothes, housing, health, transport, etc.-----

40%--- Minister of the Environment. Environmental assistance equipment, testing gear (soil, water, air), monitoring devices, drone aircraft, video gear, decoys.

15%--- Minister of Communication. Communication system. Internet. TV & radio Transmitters. Phone system. Redundant low-tech Voting equipment. Citizen Identification.

25%--- Minister of Sovereignty. Border Defense. Drone aircraft, monitoring devices, special weapons, heat and laser sensors, confederation courts, etc.

20%--- Minister of Defense. Army’s weapons For Foreign wars, logistics, communication, radar, troop support [uniforms, food, clothing, portable shelter, health, etc.], yearly festival gear [sports, entertainment, music gear], etc.

10%--- SPECIAL PROJECTS.

10%-- Determined by regional popular vote. --- One possible option [one of your author’s suggestions] to which voters might allot a portion of the undesignated tax funds could be the construction of one or more institutes [GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CENTER= ‘GOC’ SEE= ARTICLE 5. SECTION 5. PART 2] that would be dedicated to creating model villages in microcosm. The purpose of these villages would be to present demonstrations and models that best promote all our noble 'DSM' cultural, political, economic and environmental principals. These demonstrations on display in these small-scale farms and villages would be: environmental techniques of farming; animal husbandry; home-made power; aquaculture; sewage treatment [passive and active]; waste digestion [methane]; alternative fuels; reclaiming water; trash disposal; civil engineering; homebuilding; building material acquisition; wilderness preservation/enhancement; transportation; etc. The institute will be a center for teaching, research, celebrating, televised political debate, government offices, etc.

----- Regardless of what purposes to which we decide to allocate confederation personnel and resources there may only be enough funds from taxes to allocate one inspector per district and the 4 ministers. Our regional popular vote will determine the overall size and cost of confederation government.

Tax Enforcement.

The Minister of Sovereignty shall enforce the Confederation’s tax requirements of our districts. The equivalent of 5% of their expenditure on their local government is the Confederation’s tax requirement of districts and the Minister of Sovereignty shall take the following actions to ‘encourage’ our districts’ full compliance with the Confederation’s biannual tax requirements.

District fails to pay 25% of its tax--------------------------------------- S-1(5)

District fails to pay 50% of its tax--------------------------------------- S-1(10)

District fails to pay 75% of its tax ------- S-1(10) and Soldiers native to district have their pay garnished until tax dept is recovered.

District fails to pay 100% of its tax ----- NEGOTIATION.

NEGOTIATION PREFACE: The district is in perfect compliance with all Confederation standards yet refuses to pay confederation tax:

NEGOTIATION #1- Confederation soldiers native to their district, regardless of where they serve, take half pay. This value will be subtracted from the district tax debt.

NEGOTIATION #2- Confederation soldiers stationed in their district receive adequate livelihood from the district and goods or services from the district equal to his confederation pay. This value will be subtracted from the district tax debt.

NEGOTIATION #3- The district renders goods or services equal to their tax debt to the Confederation. Some services/goods that tax-owing districts could render to the confederation for payment of tax debt might be counting votes, validating the census [outside their district], tendering agricultural produce or manufactured goods, etc.

If the district refuses all these compromises:

The Minister of Sovereignty increases the severity of sanctions by one ‘grade’ per month beginning with the least sanction [S1-1] until tax requirement is met.

ARTICLE 4

ARMY RECRUITMENT AND TROOP ALLOTMENT

-Troop Allotment.

Troop allotment to the separate ministries may quickly shift to the Minister of the Army if severe regional strife should occur. Regional majority popular vote [50% quorum] may determine these allotments. Absent the regional vote the Minister of Sovereignty shall determine these reassignments of troops. The Minister of Sovereignty betrays the environmental spirit of our Constitution if he reassigns needed troops away from the Minister of Environment for any purpose other than to avert region wide catastrophe. The Minister of Communication shall, as with the budget, develop a ballot that designates our choice of percentage of troop allotment for each ministry. When, in any 25-day period, 50% of us shall submit (internet) valid ballots, the totals are then mathematically averaged and our will becomes a Confederation directive.

The following [as stated in tax allocations] are our Constitutional troop allotments and their most common duty:

A] Ministry of Environment--- 45% of troops. === Environmental inspection, population reduction, etc.

B] Ministry of Sovereignty---- 25% of troops. === Domestic and foreign border defense.

C] Ministry of Communication-25% of troops= Internet Voting. Tax collecting. Banking. Media. Census. Communication system.

D] Ministry of the Army ---- 5% of troops == Army general administration. Training/recruitment of all troops. Army supplies Personal security for ministers [personnel of minister’s choice].

---------- All personnel receive military training from the Minister of Defense and twice-yearly attendance

------------at the Minister of Defense festival/conventions [sports, music, dance, games, etc.] is required.

----------- In the event of war Minister of Defense personnel allotment shifts to 90% [or as per regional ---------------- popular vote].

-Army recruitment.

The Minister of Environment shall authorize the Minister of the Army to recruit [not force] citizens to become Confederation officers and soldiers when the need arises and budget allows. Wealthy districts or citizens shall be gently encouraged {NEVER FORCED} to finance their own citizens who volunteer for service. The Minister of Communication’s regulation of the budget shall determine the general size of the army. Emergency funds may be allocated to initiate swift military action.

-Geographical Distribution of RECRUITMENT.

The Minister of Army shall endeavor to recruit from as broad a spectrum of districts as possible. An attitude of objectivity is best maintained by a soldier who defends, inspects and works within districts from which he shall not hail. All soldiers who are not personally sought by one of the Ministries shall be assigned to one by the Minister of the Army.

4] Rejection. The Minister of the Army shall test and judge the suitability of all recruits. A District that sends their brightest and best to serve the confederation shall, in return, receive soldiers of matching high caliber to serve in their district. Districts that send recruits of little talent will in return receive soldiers of the lowest intellectual and emotional caliber to serve in their district. The district must replace the recruits that are rejected by the confederation with more suitable candidates.

5] District refusal. It shall be at the discretion of the Minister of Sovereignty to impose sanctions on districts that do not send recruits for service in the Confederation army. No greater sanction than S-2(2) may be imposed for this purpose and no sanctions at all if volunteers from other districts are sent in their stead. We realize that wealthier districts might bargain with poorer districts to avoid confederation service in times of peace. Our Minister of Sovereignty may restrict inter-district bargaining to avoid recruitment during wartime.

ARTICLE 5

EXECUTIVE MINISTERS

SECTION 1

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS of ALL MINISTERS

---The four ministerial offices are:

Minister of Environment

Minister of Sovereignty

Minister of Defense or Minister of the Army [same position select the title your region prefers]

Minister of Communication

All executive power shall be vested jointly in the four Ministers of the Regional Confederation of Member Nations of {YOUR REGION’S NAME). Minister’s term of office shall be four years [barring recall by 'RMV'] and be elected as follows:

-- Electronic voting shall be conducted region-wide over a period of 25 days open to all citizens over 18 years old [no exclusion for incarceration, insanity, enslavement, etc.]. The Minister of Communication shall conduct the vote count open to public observation (internet) and declare the candidate with the plurality of the vote as the winner.

Manifesto

All ministerial candidates, prior to election, shall be required to write a manifesto declaring their intended governmental action. The Minister must publish a precise compendium, specifically detailing all sanctions they would impose on each district currently violating confederation standards.

They must also state why they judge the district to be currently in violation of the standards. They shall rewrite the constitution according to their preference and state why they urge the changes. We may choose to mark our ballot (internet) permitting the minister (if elected) to act according to his prospective Constitutional changes or choose to bind him to our Constitution as it is written. If the proposed changes one minister proposes aren’t in agreement with another, then the complex task of vote averaging must be performed by the Minister of Communication.

Also demonstrated and outlined in his manifesto shall be the following:

--The grace period a minister would grant a district to uphold different standards before he [him specifically] would impose sanctions. He must also specify the severity of sanctions he would impose for the violation of each specific standard. He must also specify the specific performance he would require of the district by to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions by that minister. Would he eagerly assist a district to find the solutions that allow their compliance or would he demand the impossible from districts in order to satisfy his sadistic joy of punishing them? Some of those with the most malignant political ambitions are not the least bit shrewd. They are deceitful but lack subtlety. If, in his manifesto, our minister promises to show leniency to districts for specific standard violations and, then, turns imposes the most severe sanctions for those same violations, we must swiftly remove that minister.

-Ministers that promise to make government a beneficent partner of districts, then, punish/tax them at every opportunity, may find their life quickly shortened.

-- He must illustrate what severity of standard violations would cause him to impose an S3 invasion {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he would prohibit habitation in a district by declaring the entire district a CH. Etc.)

-- Why he believes Frontier preservation [40 miles of primitive wilderness between homeland centers] is critical to the sustainability of our region’s ecosystem. All of Our ministers must possess a fervent conviction that this expanse of wilderness between urban areas is absolutely essential to our own and all civilizations.

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

--How he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections for standard violations while respecting citizens’ rights and defending them against unreasonable search.

-- The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.

-- All creative solutions he wishes to apply to the problems his ministry is designed to solve.

-end manifesto requirements-

-- Removal. Ministers may be removed from office by our regional majority popular vote [80% quorum]. The vote of 3 other ministers will remove a minister. The vote of 2 other ministers and a 70% vote of congress will remove a minister. If a minister is removed by other ministers [or 2 ministers and congress] and then is reinstated by our regional majority popular vote within 90 days he cannot be removed by ministerial vote again for 2 years.

-- Qualifications. We demand that our minister possess a comprehensive knowledge of the entire region’s needs and the superlative expertise we demand of one who would take command of the particular ministry for which he contends. We have full faith and confidence in our ability to use our wisdom and goodwill when choosing a leader of our Confederation and therefore all citizens are qualified to become a ministerial candidate. Our candidate’s required publication of his manifesto on the internet will enable all of us to judge his qualifications.

-- Conflicting Authority. Our congress [or we citizens by regional majority popular vote] shall establish the rules and means that will enable our Minister of Sovereignty to adjudicate conflicts of authority between ministers. It is our hope to obviate as much conflict between ministers and between ministers and congress as possible.

-- Salary/Staff. Ministers may receive a salary as much as 8 times more than the least paid individual in the employ of our confederation and no less than the lowest confederation salary. A district may choose to host a confederation minister and bear the expense of paying his salary. That district’s confederation tax bill will be equitably reduced and if a surplus tax credit is due the district for this salary payment then it will be applied to the future tax debt of that district. The Minister(s) will be free to allocate funds from their ministerial budgets to hire who and as many personnel as he judges will best accomplish the goals of his ministry. No more than 3% of the total number of confederation personnel allocated to a ministry may be assigned to the ministry’s administrative and security staff. Our minister may accept volunteering staff from any source and we regional citizens may closely monitor ministries to be certain contributions are not, in fact, bribes. The district that hosts a ministry may provide building facility with electronic communication and record keeping capability to the confederation minister for a tax reduction. Ministers shall receive a pension established by congress or regional popular vote.

--- Graft. Ministers shall not accept any gift or pay other than their salary except to apply the value of that gift to accomplish the legitimate purposes of his ministry.

--- Oath. Ministers must swear an oath to: the Constitution; the confederation; the promises they have made to the voters; and, the following oath [no citizen oath will ever be required]:

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Minister of __________ for our Confederation and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the _________ region”.

--- Foreign War. We entrust our national security to our Minister of Sovereignty. Our Minister of Sovereignty shall bear singular [subject to reversal by regional majority popular vote] responsibility for committing our Confederated regional government to foreign war. We citizens will be especially interested in the majority opinion of congress to assist us in forming an opinion and voting to commit to foreign war [and establishing tactics]. From the moment the Minister commits our Confederation to foreign war the Minister of Communication shall conduct a four-day regional vote to allow us to countermand the order (by majority not plurality) and possibly censure of the Minister of Sovereignty. Our popular vote may choose to commit our Confederation to war at any time. The Minister of the Army shall have full military authority to conduct a foreign war during which he shall be the commander and chief of all confederation troops.

--- Press Conferences/Debates. All ministers are required to attend and provide answers to interviewers and contending candidates at no less than ten 2-hour televised press conferences/debates per year.

SEE ‘MEDIA’ UNDER= ARTICLE 5 SECTION 4 Minister of Communication

ARTICLE 5- SECTION 2

MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Our Minister of Environment shall be the guardian of our land and honor. We must regard ourselves, our culture, our nations and our accomplishments with abject shame if we bequeath to posterity an impoverished environment. We are confident that each passing year our noble, confident, restorative efforts will nurture our land back to bountiful condition we are proud to bestow to the many millions who, age after age, will call our land home. Our minister will stalwartly defend of our environment against those few who would violate our standards in order that the majority of us shall joyously exalt in the honorability of our culture. We are confident our minister will lead us to ever heightening triumphs of noble stewardship.

We are equally confident our minister regards the privilege of leading us in our glorious crusade as the highest honor mankind can bestow. It shall be the sacred duty of our minister to inexorably lead us all to the proud achievement of the ultimate environmental stewardship.

--- Manifesto. Prior to election, the Minister must publish a precise compendium specifically detailing all sanctions he intends to impose on all districts he judges to be currently in violation environmental standards.

Also demonstrated and outlined in our minister’s manifesto shall be the following:

--The grace period and specific performance required of the district to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions.

-- A thorough knowledge of the best means to restrict the acreage of region’s agricultural to the lowest level that will richly provide for the eventual population level we will come to agree is sustainable.

-- A means to best harmonize and enhance the most symbiotic relationship between our agriculture and the wilderness acreage that we seek increase.

-- Our minister must state the maximum regional population level he believes is ‘locally’ sustainable.

-- He must devise the absolute best means to preserve our region’s environment during our currently overpopulated and overdeveloped condition.

-- Demonstration of the Minister’s knowledge of: each district’s historic plant and animal biology; soil toxicology; alternate livelihoods for environmental despoilers; and all scientific knowledge necessary to protect environmental quality.

-- His allocation of votes to Congressmen and his rational for this dispensation (details this section). Some of the congressman of the most environmentally destructive districts will warrant our minister’s S1 sanctions immediately.

-- An exacting account of how and why the Minister would conduct differing levels of S3 invasions. {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he prohibits habitation in a district. Etc.)

-- Why he believes Frontier preservation is critical to the sustainability of our region’s ecosystem.

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

-- How, where, why and for what violations he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections. Our minister must express why he will respect citizens’ rights and defend them against unreasonable search during his S3 actions.

-- The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.

-- All creative solutions he wishes to apply to environmental problems.

Corruption. By our 'RMV' vote we may command our Minister of the Environment to be subject to 24 hour live video recording of his life while he serves as minister. This public scrutiny should preclude any minister from committing treasonous acts. Absent this degree of scrutiny we must all maintain our best collective vigilance to assure ourselves we are honorably lead. The Minister must instill in his soldiers a passion to demonstrate their environmental goodwill and are thus implacably resistant to corruption. The right to punish a corrupt minister falls in the following order- 1^st- the district that was or could have been most damaged by the corrupt acts of the minister; 2^nd- the Minister of Sovereignty; 3^rd- the congress. Any district may try any minister in absentia and if the Minister of Sovereignty is convinced the district’s case is proved, and the offence severe enough, he may extradite the minister to that district for punishment. If the Minister of Sovereignty is not convinced of the minister’s guilt, the district retains the right to arrest and punish the minister if they seize him within their borders. All districts may issue warrants for the arrest of our minister. No citizen, including our ministers, are immune from a district’s prosecution. Absent prosecution by his own district and no 'RMV' to arrest him, our minister may remain in office even though any travel may subject him to arrest.

Entertainment. Our minister [in conjunction with the other ministers] will direct his soldiers to, as a means to promote mutual goodwill between our Confederation soldiers and our district’s citizens, organize festivals that require at least 50 of them to form a troop who will travel from district to district conducting: entertainment festivals; small shows; circuses; sports; theater; concerts; competitive games; or any uplifting shared activity.

Aircraft. The Minister may use small drone aircraft equipped with video cameras for inspection flights over districts. These must be at midday and no more than 20 minutes per day over a district.

Troop Allotment. To demonstrate our priority of environmental preservation we will [absent the overriding 'RMV'] allot 45% of all Confederation army troops to our Minister of Environment. Congress shall suggest a protocol for partial troop reassignment to the Minister of Sovereignty if border hostilities arise between Member Nations.

Medical Skills. The Minister shall train as many soldiers as possible to provide medical services to citizens. The primary medical skills our minister will teach his soldiers to perform will be vasectomies and tubule legation [population control is the ultimate, primary means to preserve environment]. The minister’s soldiers must know inoculation against infectious disease and some ability to diagnose the same. The minister’s soldiers must teach disease prevention and as much medicine as possible to all citizens, especially those in remote locations.

Affirmative help for Districts.

In order to best assist districts to avoid environmental sanctions our Minister must propose a program to district leadership that best educates their citizens in the best environmental practices. We recognize it is always better to have environmental standards met by the sovereign will of the district without any “encouragement” from the Confederation. The Minister must judge what he knows ought to be done by a district to meet standards and balance that with what he believes can be done by them. The Minister shall have the full discretion to dispense justice with any amount of leniency or severity he judges necessary to best achieve our honorable environmental purpose. Our Minister shall be governed only by our popular vote, the length of his term and, most profoundly, by his conscious.

[Also see section 2 under Minister of the Army ‘Government Operations Centers’]

Ministry soldiers shall demonstrate differing methods by which we citizens can accomplish compliance with Confederation standards and enhance their environment such as the following:

a - No till farming.

b- Planting “manure” trees among ground crops.

c- Planting vegetable crops under deciduous orchards.

d- Methane digestion of animal and plant waste.

e- Multiple use of passive digestion ponds stocked with fish and marshland plants for sewage digestion.

f- Labeling foods with higher nutrition content that are grown organically.

g- Instituting a district program that requires their locally produced goods [agricultural and industrial] be sold at a price that pays: fairly for the cost to the producer; and, the cost to the health of the environment; and, the profit the seller prefers. The amount of additional money [like a tax] paid for goods produced by environmentally harmful means would be collected separately and submitted to a district environmental fund. The fund can be used by the district to repair past or prevent future environment damage. Also, the local prices paid to responsible producers of food and industrial goods would then be the lowest.

h- Help reestablish native plant and animal species in district.

i- Teach the production and use of environmentally safe products used for: cleaning; coloring; painting; roofing; road building; fuel; building material; etc.

- Congressional Voting Reapportionment. The Minister of Environment shall enforce Constitutional allocations of the number of votes to which each Congressman is entitled to use in congressional meetings. There shall be a standard allotted number of votes assigned to each Congressman based on district type and size as follows:

Congressmen of the Smallest 50% of Homeland center districts vote allotment—100 votes.

Congressmen of the largest 50% of Homeland center districts vote allotment----- 200 votes.

Congressmen of the Smallest 50% of Frontier districts vote allotment-------------- 300 votes.

Congressmen of the largest 50% of Frontier districts vote allotment----------------- 400 votes.

Our purpose for assigning more power to Frontier districts is to promote environmental preservation. Our frontier district citizens are most likely to love and eagerly defend the larger expanse of unspoiled land around them. We are hopeful that the citizens, thus, the congressmen of frontier districts possess a reverential commitment to their land and environment and a heroic resolve to resist the multifarious bribes and payoffs offered to them in trade for their land and resources. We are confident this reverence will produce a culture that stands as a bulwark against the insidious, rapacious growth of cities beyond their environmental viability. Our Minister of the Environment must seek to allocate a greater measure of power to frontier districts in order to prevent the possible expansion of Homeland Center Districts into frontier district land.

We are cognizant of the challenges that face Homeland center districts as well. With more citizens per square mile, the greater acumen district leadership must have for inspiring concentrated goodwill and respect for their delicate, more severely impacted ecosystems. From this culture we also expect responsible Congressmen.

We are confident the wisdom and joyful morale of Congressmen will ascend proportionately with our ever-increasing successes at defending posterity against environmental harm, thus, realizing the true nobility of our entire region’s culture.

- Ambassadors. The Minister shall receive foreign ambassadors to promote and accept environmental treaties.

- Addressing Congress. The Minister shall have the power to convene (internet) Congress to issue an address on the State Of The regional Environment in which he shall call for our cooperation in accomplishing our environmental goals.

- Volunteers. The Minister shall promote the use of volunteers of all capabilities.

ARTICLE 5- SECTION 3

MINISTER OF SOVEREIGNTY

Our Minister of Sovereignty shall have the duty to: enforce of the Confederation standards regulating Border Control, Weapons Control and Sovereignty application (secession by districts); adjudicate conflicts between districts [our minister must be chosen by those districts to adjudicate]; assist in adjudicating the reestablishment of district borders; defend our international borders; enforcing weapons standards; establishing treaties and diplomatic relations with foreign nations; suggest [who, why, when, how] to us regional citizens which nations we ought to conduct a 'RMV' to decide if we go to war against.

FOREIGN WAR. The Minister may call an emergency meeting of the other 3 ministers and the majority leader of congress to announce his decision that he is committing our confederation government to war against a foreign nation. The other 3 ministers may vote to immediately reverse his decision [or 2 ministers and the congress leader may also reverse his decision]. Congress may reverse their leaders vote as well if there is time. If time permits in this emergency congress will deliver their majority vote only.

If no vote or an insufficient vote by the other branches occurs then our Minister of Sovereignty’s vote to go to war stands.

Our 'RMV' may reverse any decision made by any single branch or collective vote of the branches of our regional government.

Our principle shall be to have no allies, contracts, business interests, land holdings, territories or any possession outside our regional borders that would ever cause us to declare a war of aggression across our regional border into a foreign nation. If we are attacked or credibly assaulted we must decide if we will then defend our region from that attack.

PLEASE SEE OUR SECTION UNDER= ‘BORDER CONTROL STANDARDS’ TO EXPLAIN OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE POLICY AND TACTICS.

DISTRICT DISPUTES RESOLVED BY OUR Minister of Sovereignty. The minister shall establish the court in which conflicting districts [that choose his court] could arbitrate and contest all disputes. Our Minister must maintain a stalwart defense of the right of all districts to conduct their governments with sovereign self-determination and, with equal vigilance, protect each district from harm by any other.

We assign 25% of our Confederation troops to the Minister of Sovereignty. Should districts conduct military aggression against each other, the Minister of Sovereignty must intercede to secure borders, cease hostilities and resolve the conflict between districts (internal district conflict shall not be resolved by the Confederation unless that district’s majority requests it, or severe standard violations arise from it). If the aggressor district severely escalates hostilities against a victim district to the level of war, the Minister may declare the aggressor to be an outlaw nation and impose S-3(10) war of subjugation upon that aggressor (the Minister shall determine what degree of “severity” shall require what degree of confederation response].

The Minister shall suggest solutions that settle each dispute between districts without the need of our minister imposing sanctions. Solutions employed by the minister that achieve an equitable and just result will differ in every instance. Justice is not found in a law book. We, therefore, entrust our minister with a broad latitude of discretion to resolve conflicts between our districts using any degree of force that he determines to be just. The Minister must make his public announcement, to all us regional citizens, illustrating of all the intricacies of all solutions he intends to employ to resolve all existing and/or prospective conflicts between districts.

Expected activities and our requirements of the Minister of Sovereignty:

1] Salary. Ministers may receive a salary as much as 8 times more than the least paid individual salary paid by our confederation and no less than the least confederation salary.

2] Facility. The Minister may accept any district’s offer of the use of any facility that adequately provides for his operational needs in exchange for a tax credit to that district [as per the confederation requirements].

3] Public Address. The Minister shall address (TV or internet) the region as per the confederation requirements.

4] Enforcement of Standards.

A] Extradition. The Minister of Sovereignty may make his best judgment when it is just to impose sanctions on districts that are holding cross-border criminals. Districts may mutually choose our minister or any other arbiter to determine the just resolution of disputed extradition requests by any applicant district. It shall be within the discretion of the Minister to defend the decision of a district to refuse requests for extradition of their citizens proven to have invaded and committed crimes within the borders of an a neighboring district.

Our Minister may judge that the ‘crimes’ committed in the invaded district produced a furtherance of a higher justice and he may honor the invader for his heroism (heroism= emergency destruction of earth moving equipment, spiking trees, bombing factories that produce weapons of mass destruction, etc.). The Minister shall, at his discretion, offer immunity from extradition to citizens sought by a district ruled by the will of the minority within that district. It would then be required that the Minister invades and restores majority rule in that district. The Minister may not conspire beforehand to contract private citizens to invade a district and punish violators of Confederation standards. We shall place few rules on our minister and elect a man we know to be just. We will know him to be a heroic champion of justice rather than a rule-maker.

B] Drugs. No substance that does not violate environmental or weapons standards shall be controlled by the Confederation in any way. Districts reserve the sovereign right to regulate or refuse to regulate the production or use of any substance environmentally safe substance they choose.

C] District Weapons Control. The Minister shall impose sanctions on district authorities that afford themselves an arms advantage over their average citizen. His manifesto shall express the details of his intended resolutions to all violations of weapons standards as well.

D] Illegal Aliens. We regional citizens seek to offer the most humane treatment of the criminals who invade our region as possible. In times of enduring prosperity we are likely to allocate all the funds necessary to comfortably deport all illegal aliens.

In times of our severe hardship we are likely to impose less humane, more economical solutions to discourage invasion. We are likely to experience many years of dissatisfaction with our anti-invasion measures. If we vote in anti-invasion measures that are less severe we anguish over the inequity to which we subject ourselves. If we vote in measures that are more severe we suffer differing degrees of guilt for the human suffering we inflict on foreigners regardless of how certain we are of the absolute greater good we bestow by preventing overpopulation. We hereby offer, with mention of your author’s prejudice, a list of some additional [difficult] possible measures we could take to respond to the invasion of our region:

1- We open our borders completely. We make no distinction between citizen and invader. Whatever public ‘safety net’ we provide for what once we proudly called citizens we now provide equally for the invaders. We will allow so many unidentified, untraceable non-citizens into our district that when those who invade and choose to rob, murder or do us harm and leave are likely to escape with impunity.

2- We open our borders completely and deport one out of every 10,000 illegal immigrants. We issue expiring visitor passes but make only the weakest effort to enforce them. We bestow an exponentially greater amount of benefits to invaders than we do to citizens in the form of civil rights and public ‘safety net’ money. We will allow so many unidentified, untraceable non-citizens into our district that when those who invade and choose to rob, murder or do us harm and leave are likely to escape with impunity. We bear all the cost of finding, identifying, apprehending, housing, feeding, health caring, schooling, processing, prosecuting the few invaders we apprehend and then pay the cost of transporting them out of our district. [Most people would agree that this is an accurate portrayal of present day defense of the borders of the USA.].

3- We open our borders completely and impose Draconian measures to identify our citizens. Positive physical citizen identification can be moderately useful in our effort to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them’ when we seek to deport invaders. At birth, we implant highly complex, un-forgeable, identification ‘chips’ somewhere inside our citizen’s bodies. Scanners will positively identify each of us. The suspicion, dread, betrayal, anxiety and a general atmosphere of intense treachery, not to mention the cost in money and invasion of our privacy, is a high price for a society to pay to avoid the adequate defense of their borders.

4- We partially defend our borders and partially impose more stringent identity requirements for both ‘us’ and ‘them’. All the previous, dishonorable conditions we allow to befall us citizens apply.

SUGGESTIONS

-All persons that are not citizens who come across our international border without the specific invitation and authorization of our Minister of Sovereignty will be considered criminals and all illegal aliens and will be arbitrarily punished, killed or deported as our Minister of Sovereignty sees fit. Without a regional majority popular vote to specify otherwise the minister will begin capturing illegals immediately.

-Any citizen residing in a district, that surpasses their obligation to reduce their population, may buy any number of imprisoned illegal aliens from our minister [if their district permits this act and the population reduction schedule is upheld]. We will require our minister to sterilize the illegal. Our minister and our confederation shall take no responsibility for any harm that may then ‘befall’ the purchased illegal.

- If no district or citizen buys the alien any foreign nation may buy an illegal alien from our Minister of Sovereignty for whatever arbitrary price our minister decides.

- If no one wishes to buy the illegal alien within whatever time the minister wishes to offer the alien for sale the minister shall then execute the illegal alien quickly.

- Districts are free to institute slavery [illegals as slaves] if they choose however; they are likely to find it economically unsound [your author recommends against it but recommends 1000 times more strenuously against any regional interference with the districts right to choose] [Most districts will choose more district births by their native population rather than importing slaves or allowing illegals into their district [environmental standards require population reduction]].

-The Minister shall maintain a shoot-to-kill force to defend our international borders against invasion (illegal aliens) until the population levels on both sides of our border meet confederation standards. [The minister must establish a means by which his border troops will not mistakenly shoot our citizens. The Minister of Communication shall assist our Minister of Sovereignty with citizen identification issues.

-The minister’s troops shall render valuables discovered on illegal aliens to the citizens of the district in which they are seized or killed].

-Foreigners may not gain citizenship here by marriage to one of us. In rare cases the Minister may negotiate a citizen exchange with a foreign nation. Persons born in our region of an illegal alien mother shall be of illegal alien status.

-The Minister shall determine the rewards and tax refunds due to those of our districts that share a border with a foreign nation whose citizen’s militia prevents [shoots to kill?] illegal alien invasions without Confederation assistance.

-Congress shall monitor the minister’s level of success preventing [shooting to kill] invasion by illegal aliens. If the congress determines that our minister has been given adequate troops to defend our borders and yet high levels of illegal aliens still enter our region then congress must suggest our regional popular vote to ‘correct’ our minister.

MANAGING OUR MINISTER’S INVASION PREVENTION PERFORMANCE

The following are your author’s suggestions for our treatment of our Minister of Sovereignty according to the quality of his performance preventing illegal immigration into our noble region:

1- Exemplary success* preventing invasion shall gain the Minister an award ceremony from Congress. *Illegal Invasions are raising our population by no more than .0001% per year.

2- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .001% per year -- our Minister of the Environment takes charge of 50% of the Minister of Sovereignty’s troops and dedicates them and more of his own troop allotment to protect our international border with more ferocity.

3- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .01% per year -- our Minister of the Environment takes charge of 100% of the Minister of Sovereignty’s troops and dedicates them and more of his own troop allotment to protect our international border with more ferocity.

4- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .09% per year ---- we immediately vote the Minister of Sovereignty out of office. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense imprisoning 75% and killing 25% of the invading illegals.

5- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .1% per year -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to one year of public humiliation. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense imprisoning 25% and killing 75% of the invading illegals.

6- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by 1% per year -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to 5 years on a 30 ft chain in a public location. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense, killing 100% of the invading illegals. Tortures of illegals published on the net.

7- Our Minister of Sovereignty is taking bribes to allow illegal aliens into our region -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to one month of public humiliation and then executed.*

*We ought to know what percentage our regional population would grow per year if we had no border protection and judge the deficiency of our minister’s performance by that figure.

We urge all nations/confederations to adopt our policy of prohibiting illegal aliens.

We bestow the highest loving blessing on all those who will,

one day, call our district ‘home’ by instituting the most severe prevention of illegal invasion possible!!!!!

5] Foreign Affairs. Much of the executive power to determine our region’s foreign affairs shall be vested with the Minister of Sovereignty. The Minister shall make many determinations of which foreign nations shall be considered favored and which are enemies. Foreign nations shall earn enemy status from us by acting 2 to 3 times more destructively toward their environment or their own people than we are to ours.

The Minister judge that a nation’s leadership to bears our region severe ill-will and thus he may appoint enemy status to that foreign nation, regardless of any evidence of hostile actions against us. The Minister may [reversible by our 'RMV' vote] prohibit our travel to, and commerce with, enemy nations. The Minister only shall have interaction with enemy foreign governments.

6] Affirmative Tasks and Goodwill to Districts. The Minister’s troops shall join those of the Minister of Environment to: perform of helpful deeds to benefit districts; promote troop moral and regional goodwill; advance our confederation traveling entertainment campaign. Care must be taken by our minister to assure that the Confederation’s help does not become a form of welfare upon which a district’s economy depends.

7] Counterfeiting. The Minister along with our Minister of Communication shall develop a comprehensive training program to prevent counterfeiting. The Minister must make the cost of this crime prevention minimal without compromising the success of the program.

8] Sovereignty Court. It is our hope that this court will be seldom needed. Our Minister of Sovereignty shall protect each district’s right to the first opportunity to prosecute all violators of confederation standards first before any possible prosecution by our Minister of Sovereignty. The Minister shall have unlimited discretion determining who he shall choose as a sovereignty court judge. Tenure of judges shall last no longer than the term of their appointing Minister [or their dismissal by our 'RMV'.]. No appeal other than a 'RMV' or the ‘3 out of 5 branches’ reversal, shall be available to the convicted beyond the court’s decision. The Minister shall be responsible for the justice of all his judge’s decisions and may reverse or change their decisions at will. The following are cases over which the court shall have authority:

A] Criminal violation of confederation standards- Violations of both the district law and the confederation standards that the Minister cannot persuade the injured district or any other district to take, our Minister of Sovereignty must impose his justice. A district’s failure to prosecute may be due to that district’s leadership fearing that a defendant’s terrorist gang, family, friends, etc, may brutally retaliate against them. Fearful district leadership may not have the heart to prosecute a defendant who is a well-loved regional folk hero. Etc.

B] Prosecution of Treasonous ministers or other serious felonies against our confederation without direct injury to a particular district will be tried by the Minister of Sovereignty court. In the case of a soldier, who is not the district inspector, committing a crime against a district citizen, the Minister of Sovereignty may relinquish the soldier to the district authorities. A Ministry of Sovereignty observer will monitor every trial, conducted by a district court, against any confederation personnel. Our minister reserves the right to take custody of confederation defendants that he believes to be wrongfully convicted by a severely incompetent, district court. Our minister must realize the enormous damage the imposition of this ponderous degree of confederation power will inflict on the confidence of all district citizens in the sincerity of our confederation’s promise to maintain the sovereignty of all districts. At the poignant discretion of our minister, the defendant may be held pending a reprieve by either our 'RMV' or a confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal.

-We regional citizens must apply the absolute highest degree of caution if we choose to free anyone, from what a district determines to be the rightful application of their justice, regardless of the importance of the convicted. We regional citizens must consider the degree to which we will undermine our own confidence in our district’s sovereignty. Our lack of this crucial confidence accelerates the erosion of our goodwill to preserve our environment at an exponential pace. If the confederation can [by way of 'RMV'] step in and reverse our district’s ‘bad’ sovereign decision then they can just as easily step in with supreme arrogance and perversely squash our most critically correct decisions.

-Our minister’s potential wrongful use of this power can strike the most brutal blow to the most powerfully inspiring tool our crusade possesses to restore our environment= CONFIDENCE IN OUR DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY!!!!

-If we regional citizens decide to back our minister in this type of reversal of our district sovereignty principle, we must do it with the absolute confidence that we will all stalwartly maintain the following opinion about the convicting district throughout our life=

IF OUR DISTRICT WERE EVER TO ACT SO DESPICABLY, WE FERVENTLY PRAY OUR CONFEDERATION WILL INTERCEDE AND RESCUE THE WRONGLY CONVICTED MAN.

If we lack this confidence we ought not employ our regional vote to reverse the district’s decision.

-The Minister of Sovereignty may choose to surrender a treasonous soldier, whose treason injured a district, into the hands/court of that injured district to be tried for both the treason against the confederation and the criminal harm done to the district.

-When the Minister of Sovereignty prosecutes a high-level ministerial staff member accused of a treasonous level of graft or abuse of authority he shall determine whether the official will receive summary judgment or a trial. The minister may simply present the evidence, announce his judgment and wait three weeks for any possible reversal by our 'RMV' or our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal. If no reversal occurs his decision stands.

-Our good Minister of Sovereignty will often decide to bring all facts of high crimes into the full public light of a trial in order that we all may determine the degree to which we are in accordance with the minister’s wise and equable judgment.

C] District Disputes. The Minister may issue summary judgment on any dispute between districts that are violating confederation standards during their dispute. Districts that violate no standard may use any court or arbitrator they wish to solve their disputes. Our Minister of Sovereignty may wish to avail all of us of all the facts with a televised trial covering an important dispute between districts.

Some of the claims to be brought before the Minister for a potential trial may be:

-- Civil claims for loss suffered by acts committed by cross-border criminals.

-- Flood damage suffered by a downstream district from the upstream district’s negligence.

-- Territorial disputes over land rights and boundary line placement.

-- Cross-border theft.

-- Water rights.

-- Patent infringement.

-- Cross-border pollution.

-- “Checker-Boarding” to starve out neighboring districts.

“CHECKER BOARDING”

Our minister must prevent the districts that surround their neighboring district from conspiring to blockade the borders of their “victim district” in order to starve them out and absorb their land or buy them out cheaply. All districts have the sovereign right to restrict passage across their borders as severely as they wish. Our minister must determine if the neighboring districts are unjustly punishing the “victim district” by effectively blockading them. The minister must reopen the victim district’s borders to travel and trade if this determination is made. Our minister need not apply an equal standard to all districts and situations but rather, he must promote the highest, longest-term justice. There may be a district that has somehow, in the past, unjustly burdened their neighboring districts and our minister determines that the neighboring districts are entitled to humble this district somewhat [without violating burdening district’s borders].

DISTRICT Disputes –cont.-The Minister must sternly govern the zeal of his prosecutors. The power to punish easily turns into a sadistic passion in men who are not held accountable for their prosecutorial behavior. Therefore, our Minister may choose to prohibit career prosecutors in favor of a 6-month turnover of his court officers. Our Minister will bear the ultimate responsibility for all the decisions concerning his courts therefore he must not anger us by doing too much or too little. The prosecution of crimes so petty they should never have involved the Confederation will earn our disgust. Sloth and cowardice displayed by the absence of punishment of more destructive crimes will not only outrage us but also raise our suspicions of graft. It is therefore the job of the Minister to inspire our confidence in him by demonstrating substance not salesmanship. With enough pictorial and publicly televised evidence the Minister may save us the expense of a trial and summarily issue judgment in many cases [all cases subject to our reversal by 'RMV' or our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal].

Any severe chastisement of his staff that our minister determines to be necessary might, if broadcast on region-wide TV, inspire our highest confidence. Regardless of the level of his performance, we shall best judge his sincerity by the tone of his voice when he faces real challenges. If we are ever so dissatisfied by his performance, we can quickly install a new Minister. If we are ever outraged by any minister’s destructive actions, we regional citizens stand ever prepared to use our 'RMV' to quickly shorten his life.

Article 5- SECTION 4*-

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION

*- Portions of section 4 are a repeat of material appearing previously in our constitution.

-The Minister shall have 25% of the Confederation’s troops trained to serve as his staff.

Our Minister of Communication must be someone unquestionably honorable, incorruptible and able to choose a staff of equal stature. The Minister shall enforce all Free and Fair election standards. He must maintain our Internet voting system’s electronic security. Our minister must offer his manifesto before becoming a candidate for the office of Minister of Communication. Our minister must be well suited to 24 hours per day of our televised scrutiny of him.

The legitimacy of government depends entirely on the strength of his integrity. The pressure and scrutiny we are likely to impose on our Minister of Communication would provoke the resentment of most any person. We are confident we will choose a man superior paragon of strength for our Minister of Communication who will proudly endure any level of oppressive scrutiny we impose on him and joyfully maintain his own high morale.

Our Minister of Communication’s duties include:

1-Voting and Elections. Assuring free and fair confederation elections. Registrar of voters. All citizens over 18 assured a right to vote. Establishing and conducting our Internet 24 hour, year-round voting system. Conducting and Broadcasting Election debates. Public election surveillance. Monitoring district elections. Monitor and regulate campaign financing. Our minister will pronounce of his decision to the other ministers exactly what our majority-will Commands our Confederation government to do.

2- Census. Conducting and assuring public access to our census. Maintaining our Regional citizen identification system.

3- Treasurer. Maintaining the confederation money accounts in district run banks. Releasing confederation funds to all the proper authorities to which those funds were budgeted.

4- Tax. Keeping an account of each district’s confederation tax surplus or debt.

5- Media. Allotting broadcast frequencies to districts [or groups of districts] for radio, TV, microwave.

1- Voting and Elections

Refer to= [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 anything of our confederation government the majority of us wish, 24 hours a day, all year long, every year.

COMMON VOTING STANDARDS

The following rules apply to the corruption of local district as well as Confederation elections.

District or confederation government officers or any persons who shall have;

1] Conspired to falsify/alter the vote count; or

2] Caused undo hardship on any citizen’s access to the polling place or electronic voting; or

3] Violated a voters right to anonymity; or

4] Posed threats (extortion) against person or property to direct a citizen’s voting choice; or

5] Destroyed citizen’s votes; or

6] Prevented citizens from voting; or

7] Accessed voting records for any gain; or

8] Omitted/altered [without permission] any part of any ballot; or

9] Corrupted the voting process in any way-

----- are subject to both district and confederation [Minister of Communication] justice.

GOVERNING OF ELECTIONS AND BALLOTS

Our Minister of Communication shall conduct a yearly regional vote [80% quorum required][in addition to the ongoing 24/7/365 voting], over a 25 day period, that will direct our confederation government to:

--Obey any micro-managing will we impose on our confederation.

--[every two years] Conduct our Election of ministers [Minister of the Environment, Minister of Communication, Minister of Sovereignty, Minister of Defense/Army].

--Determine our confederation’s yearly budget including the funding level and troop allocation for the 4 ministries of our confederation.

--Establish Regional limits on weapons lethality.

--Tax percentage that districts are charged [5% of local district tax is paid to our confederation as the starting tax figure we agree upon unless amended].

--Determining the Statutory ratio/limitation of regional citizen count to the Confederation government personnel count.

2-CENSUS ………… [Minister of Communication]

-The Minister of Communication will conduct the census specifically for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the voting process. The minister must develop a system that will precisely identify every voting citizen in order to be certain each vote count is legitimate [not fraudulent] and correct. Our census will assist us in the identification and arrest of illegal aliens.

-Minister must know exact number of citizens that reside in our region in order to know how many citizens shall equal 50% plus one. 50% plus one is the number of votes that constitutes a majority that passes measures.

3-Banking/Treasury- … [Minister of Communication].

Our Confederation shall not coin nor print any currency. The Confederation shall not establish a national or regional currency nor shall it regulate any district/Nation’s currency.

Our confederation shall not sell bonds nor create or control a treasury nor create a national bank. Our Minister of Communication must either establish a new, or coalesce with an existing system of exchange between districts in order to obtain the value of the tax that districts pay to our confederation. Our minister will maintain a confederation account in district ‘banks’ or exchanges in every district. Our minister must possess a superior aptitude for trade and exchange from all the separate district sources in order to obtain the value necessary to pay for the cost of our confederation government.

4- TAX-… [REFER TO- ARTICLE 3. TAX ]

The tax amount each district pays our confederation shall not exceed 5% of the yearly amount

their district spends on their own district government.

-Our minister will deposit all confederation tax funds into confederation accounts in district banks.

-District leadership embezzlement of confederation funds will require our Minister of Communication to order an S3-1 sanction to capture the embezzler and the funds [failure to recapture the funds will necessitate our minister subtracting the amount from that district’s tax account].

-If our Minister of Communication extorts or wrongfully removes district funds, the district leadership shall issue an extradition request to our Minister of Sovereignty for the capture and punishment of the Minister of Communication.

-If the district leadership captures the criminal Minister of Communication within their district, they may punish/kill the minister without fear of confederation reprisal. If the Minister of Sovereignty is satisfied with the guilt of the Minister of Communication our Minister of Sovereignty must grant the extradition request to the injured district.

-Our Confederation shall not levy any tax on any individual citizen or commercial enterprise.

-Our Confederation shall not enrich itself in money beyond the sum of one year’s operating cost over a current year’s budget without the express dictate of our 'RMV'.

-The Confederation shall negotiate a tax ‘trade’ that allows a district to pay their district inspector[s] directly in exchange for a reduction of their confederation tax bill

POSSIBLE TAX MODEL

-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=

-In this way no individual or commercial enterprise is directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

5- MEDIA

-The Minister shall also maintain the system by which Congress and the ministers communicate and conduct Confederation business. The Minister shall govern the free distribution of all broadcast frequencies (radio, TV, phone etc). Confederation shall retain 2% of the airways to establish government broadcast channels/webcasts/microwave transmission. The Minister shall assure an equal amount and quality of free media time to all top 10 ministerial candidates during the last 2 months before the 25-day electing process begins.

Press Conferences/Debates. All ministers are required to attend and provide answers to interviewers at no less than ten 2-hour televised press conferences/debates per year. We shall institute a 'RMV' to determine the number of press conferences and the number of debates we will require from our ministers per year.

We seek to assure all contending political perspectives to have a Proportional opportunity to Voice their opinion to our confederation Government [all 4 ministers]. All ministers shall be required to appear in televised debates with his 10 highest vote-gaining opponents he faced in his last election. The Ministry of Communication shall conduct the debates. The debates shall be two two-hour segments with an hour and a half break between. The first segment shall be the opportunity of the tenth to the second runner up opponent from the last election to debate the Minister for 10-minutes each. These opponents shall predetermine the exact amount of their 10-minutes they will allocate to the Minister to answer their questions. The opponents may opt to give a 10-minute speech if they so desire and require no immediate answer from the minister. Opponents have the option to give the Minister their intended questions in writing beforehand if they choose.

Opponents who decline the appearance surrender their time to the remaining opponents equally. Opponents shall have the option to use a cut-off button to curtail the Minister’s answers if they please. The moderator shall instruct the Minister to stop talking and listen when the opponent employs his cut-off button. The second 2hr segment shall be a debate with the first runner-up opponent verses the minister employing the same rules and as the first segment.

This will inspire all of us to vote in Confederation elections because of our certainty that win or lose someone representing our opinions will force his strong voice to be heard.

These debates are mandatory and should a Minister decline he shall be subject the disciplinary measures established by Congress and enforced by our Minister of Sovereignty [or our regional popular vote].

MINISTER MANIFESTO

Also demonstrated and outlined in his manifesto shall be the following:

-The grace period and specific performance he requires of the standard violating districts to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions. Our minister shall a Submit comprehensive compendium of standards for free and fair elections and the sanctions he intends to impose for the specific violations.

-A through knowledge of election, voting, taxation, campaign financing, media and communication principals.

-Demonstration of the Minister’s knowledge of each district’s: degree to which it’s government reflects its citizens majority will; campaign financing sanction violations; confederation tax account; vote averaging; etc.

-- An exacting account of how and why the Minister would conduct a S-3 invasion. {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he prohibits habitation in a district. Etc.)

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

--How he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections while respecting citizens’ rights defending them against unreasonable search.

--The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.

--His Encouragement the use of e-mail instead of letter mail.

--His Assistance to remote areas of districts obtaining access to voting.

--Encouragement of the total freedom of confederation government information. All us citizens may have open access to all records our confederation may have on us individually. All records on all public issues shall be open to our scrutiny.

ARTICLE 5. SECTION 5.

MINISTER OF THE ARMY [or DEFENSE]

PLEASE REFER TO ARTICLE 3 SECTION 2

WEAPONS STANDARDS- ‘WAR’. SECTION STATING OUR DEFENSE TACTICS.

Our Minister of the Army shall be our high commander of the Confederation army. In the event of war, declared by our regional majority popular vote [or by our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal], our Minister of the Army, in conjunction with our Minister of Sovereignty, shall conduct all military and political aspects of the conflict: logistics; supply; troop deployment; tactics; weapons allocations; accepting or refusing armistice, cease-fires, surrender, etc.; establishing provisional government in conquered territory; treatment of POWs and liberated/conquered civilians.

In peacetime it shall be his duty to: train his men to the highest degree of professional competency for their jobs [combat and non-combat][other ministers may rely on our Minister of the Army for some specialized training of personnel for their ministry]; maintain discipline; and inspire the absolute highest morale among our soldiers.

Establishing the highest feelings of Goodwill between our districts and the Confederation army shall be his responsibility. Military readiness in peacetime shall be a secondary responsibility of our minister. We require our minister, in conjunction with our other ministers, to actively promote the goodwill of all district citizens toward confederation soldiers/inspectors and our confederation in general. Our Minister of the Army will organize 40 to 200 confederation soldiers to conduct sports/music/recreation festivals that tour our region’s districts promoting this goodwill.

Our Minister of the Army shall command 5% [swiftly alterable by 'RMV' vote] of all troops. New recruits and a higher percentage of existing troops and will be assigned to him in time of war.

Absent war, our Minister of the Army is not [by your author’s current description] being assigned as much qualitative responsibility as any one of the other 3 ministers. In part 4 we will suggest more possible responsibilities to assign to our Minister of the Army. Congress may present a ballot to approve any suggested increase in the minister’s authority.

SECTION 5 IS COMPRISED of 5 PARTS:

1- AUTHORITY LEVELS.

2- GOVERNMENT OPERATION CENTER [GOC].

3- GENERAL DUTIES And RESPONSIBILITIES.

4- ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED DUTIES.

PART 1- Authority Levels

-Our regional popular vote can assign an ‘authority level’ to our Minister of the Army at any time during our year-round 24 hour voting during wartime or peace.

-We may choose to assign an exceptionally high level of power and authority to one minister [or leader] during time of war. Severe civil strife or catastrophic invasion of our region by foreign aggressors may one day arise thus demanding our most inspired selection of one charismatic, impassioned leader to take command of our Confederation’s military and government. Should foreign aggressors profane our soil, our chosen military champion will rightfully inflame our most belligerent passion to rip the hearts from our enemies thus rescuing ourselves from conquest, genocide and/or subjugation. Then, when peace is reestablished, we can bestow our highest honors, express our profound gratitude and respectfully divest our heroic leader [Minister of the Army?] of his high powers.

-We may assign congress the task of establishing election rules that resolves any conflicts that may occur if our vote assigns more than one minister a high degree of authority. Congress may also submit a measure that establishes new rules that would replace our government’s balance of power [our confederation government’s ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal dynamic] should we regional citizens mandate that a ‘leader’ assume a large degree of authority without being a minister. We citizens may employ a 'RMV' to assign high power to anyone we choose regardless of whether we make him a minister as well.

-An ‘authority level’ vote shall be valid only when at least 70% of all regional citizens over 18 assign an authority level [any level] to any one candidate along with their vote for him.

ESTABLISHING THE AUTHORITY LEVEL

-Our means of determining the ‘authority level’ will be to first assign each level a point score of 1 through 8. Second, the total Authority Level scores from all votes are totaled. Third, this total is then divided by all the votes that assigned an authority level [votes not assigning an ‘authority level’ are not part of the ‘authority level’ equation] and the resulting number will be the ‘authority level’ assigned to our minister.

THE LEVELS

The following are authority levels we may assign [by 'RMV'] to our leader[s] [Minister of the Army?][our regional majority popular vote remains our supreme power over the minister]:

1. No special powers. The minister shall have the usual powers that our constitution bestows.

2. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the majority vote of congress and call for a regional popular vote to replace him.

3. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the vote of one other minister and call for a regional popular vote to replace him.

4. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the majority vote of congress and replace him with his personal choice.

5. The minister or leader may remove any minister with the vote of one other minister and replace him with his personal choice.

6. The minister or leader may replace any minister with his personal choice at any time.

7. The minister or leader shall appoint himself absolute ruler over our confederation but must respect our superior district sovereignty and shall only be replaced or denied powers only by our 'RMV' vote.

8. The minister or leader shall appoint himself absolute ruler with all powers over our confederation and all districts and shall only be replaced or denied powers only by our 'RMV' vote.

PART 2- Government Operations Center[s] [GOC]

OPTIONAL CONFEDERATION INVESTMENT

Under the management of the Minister of the Army.

[Your author’s suggested investment to wealthy regions/districts with a large surplus economy]

[The land and buildings will belong to the district in which the Center is located]

[All center staff and visitors will be governed by that district’s law]

We regional citizens may wish ['RMV'] commit some tax funding [in partnership with the resident district] to establish GOCs (government operations centers). Regardless of any quantity of outside funding, district law will determine all civil rights granted to all personnel. These Government Operations Centers may provide an environmental model of villages and farms in microcosm to demonstrate methods of producing household goods, providing home services [power, waste digestion, water, etc.] and agriculture that our confederation recommends to districts.

The object of the farm, schools, hospital, media center and manufacturers is to provide districts/citizens with the instruction necessary to help them comply with all standards and become more self-sufficient.

The host district may take charge of managing/owning the most labor-intensive operations and reap the benefits from them. Our confederation will require the district to maintain the teaching/demonstration functions of ‘their’ operation.

The financial goal of the GOCs shall be the self-sufficiency of the center and possibly the production of goods that shall supply confederation personnel thus reducing the tax burden of all districts. The district that hosts a Government Operations Centers shall determine the level of commerce they wish to conduct with the center.

The following is a description of the size, form, function and purpose of the GOCs.

The GOCs shall serve the following main functions:

1] Army Base and training center.

2] Operations center to accommodate part or all of one or more ministries and a partial center for congressional operations.

3] Agricultural school and research center.

4] Environmental functional models. Alternative power, sewage treatment, home building etc.

5] University. Liberal arts, medical, sciences, etc.

6] Teaching Hospital and research center.

7] Media Center.

8] Entertainment, Arts and Sports center.

FACILITY

The size of each GOC may be about 4 square miles and should be rich in water and soil resources. Three square miles shall be crops, orchards, pasture, forest, fishponds, wild habitat [CH[s]], grass sports fields etc. One square mile [dispersed variously throughout the 4 square miles] can be comprised of various narrow battery powered vehicle pathways/parking [30 acres?], gardens [surrounding the buildings 200 acres?] indoor building compounds [100 acres?]. The sports fields of one GOC shall be extensive enough to accommodate half of our army in tents when large celebrations are held. 10 to 15 removable, one-story, modular houses of varying size and design can be provided for building demonstration purposes. At our present level of region-wide population reduction, troop accommodations and training grounds may need to cover as much as 200 acres [foot traffic only]. Again, The building compounds of the GOC must not exceed 100 acres. The entire GOC could be located within 4 square miles of existing unnecessary housing tract whereby 3 square miles of buildings are converted into farmland/wilderness and 100 acres of the remaining buildings could be converted into GOC compounds. Most of 2300 of the 2560 acres [4 square miles] of ground will be maintained in either arable or natural condition [not covered or compacted]. Perhaps, half natural and half agricultural.

The Minister of the Army and our Minister of Communication shall manage and determine what public contributions [money and technical assistance. Some in trade for tax relief] will be accepted to help fund the Government Operations Centers.

Government Operations Center[s] Description

The following describes in greater detail the various GOC functions.

1] Army Base.

Soldiers housed at the base shall comprise the majority of students taught in the GOC facilities. Standard military training shall be taught along with the specialized skills [medical, environmental, etc.] that a soldier must learn to begin service within one of the Ministries.

2] Government Facility.

This facility must be capable of temporarily accommodating some of the ministers and staff sufficient to conduct much of their governmental duties. Most ministers will govern from their home district by use of Internet/phone communication. The ministers will require adequate Government Operations Center communication equipment to perform their duties when they visit. All requisite living comforts for the ministers, staff and their spouses must be supplied [limit on the number of family members housed]. Among the separate facilities requisite are libraries, courtrooms (Sovereignty court), computers (record keeping), security equipment etc.

3] Farm and Agricultural school.

One of the objects of the GOC farm shall be our Confederation’s demonstration of agriculture at its environmental best. The teachings of the many heroic ranchers and growers (i.e. Masanobu Fukuoka), who are the earth’s good stewards, shall be taught.

-- Some of the agricultural elements demonstrated shall be-

a- Manure trees among the crops and crop management.

b- fertilizer from digested plant and animal waste.

c- No-till planting of crops.

d- Minimizing heavy soil compacting machine harvesting. Minimizing fuel usage.

e- Horse cart or light rail crop transport.

f- Maximum predator and prey habitat surrounding farm.

g- No pesticides or chemical fertilizer used.

h- Develop seed bank of original native disease resistant seed strains for grains, fruits, vegetables, forests, grasses etc..

i- Fish farms.

j- Apiary. Honey.

k- Animal husbandry.

4] Environmental Demonstrations.

The entire GOC shall demonstrate the highest adherence to the spirit of all Confederation standards especially environmental standards. The following are examples of some of the environmental practices to be demonstrated by the GOC personnel.

a—Nonpolluting power. Wind, solar, hydraulics, heat exchangers, methane digesters, tidal flow, wave power etc. to be used for electricity, heat, etc.

b—Passive sewage processing [marshland preservation].

c—Marijuana and other ligneous plants for paper, cloth, fuel, ropes and plastic.

d—Building material and techniques. Hay bail construction. Geodesic domes.

e—Lighter than air vehicles for movement of crops and heavy material without creating a road.

f--- Forest preservation.

g—Transportation. Battery powered.

5] University.

Refer to “Report to the Commissioners for the University of Virginia” Thomas Jefferson. August 4, 1818.

The following are subjects for instruction and research-

Letters- Literature, Grammar, Rhetoric, Ideology.

Government – Political Economy, Law (International, Municipal, Civil, Criminal), History.

Science- Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Anthropology, Mathematics, Metallurgy, Mechanics, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Ecology, Mineralogy. Medicine. Languages.

In order to be instructional to districts and provide goods and services, mainly to the army, the GOC University may have working shops conducting; blacksmithery auto repair, ceramics, welding, bicycle making, greenhouse nursery, brewing, foundry, paper manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, plumbing/ hardware/pipe manufacture, shoe making, gunsmithing, food processing and packaging- etc.

Much has been written on the Philosophy of education* therefore all ministers shall give input to our Minister of the Army to aid him with his establishment of the Universities.

*Writers who might advise to our Minister of the Army might consider in the establishment of a University might include- Herbert Marcuse. Aristotle. Mortimer Adler. Thomas Jefferson.

6] Hospital and Medical Research.

Our hospital and medical school shall teach first aid to every soldier and some soldiers will receive medical schooling in order to become physicians. Some soldiers will become practitioners performing vasectomies and tubule legations when requested by districts. Our Minister shall endeavor to advance the cause of medical research as far as financial prudence will allow. The Minister of Sovereignty shall determine the degree to which districts shall be allowed to rely on Confederation expenditures to provide medical service to them.

7] Media Center.

Each GOC shall have a communication center that will amply provide for every communication/record keeping need of the Minister of Communication. All citizens will be offered a means of assessing:

A] The accuracy and honesty of this the central electronic vote counting system.

B] The comprehensive electronic (internet) library.

C] Confederation records.

D] The televised government debates, press conferences, meetings and the televised campaign and election process etc.

8] Entertainment, Arts and Sports Center.

-Celebrations. Reverence for place. Demonstrating joy-filled participatory events.-

A culture of enriching/exciting ceremonies, rituals, traditions, pageantry, celebrations and entertainment unalterably infuses every heart with a reverential love for that culture and, most importantly, for their land. When most every member of our district confidently anticipates frequent, high-energy, community celebrations that joyously unite our culture, our pride of place and value of our fellow district citizens multiplies exponentially. With this confidence, we then revere our land and seek to heighten the magnificence of our own paradise home. Our profound enrichment of our district cultures elevates our district home to the stature of our greatest source of joy by far thus rendering our regard for excessive travel as a truly doubtful source of pleasure. This is the cultural wealth that inspires environmental preservation. Thus, we advance our environmental crusade by heightening the joyfulness of our home district’s many celebrations. Perhaps once per year we would conduct a regional festival.

Confederation festivals on the GOC’s grounds shall inspire the joyful goodwill and fellowship between all districts and between all district citizens and Confederation troops. Soldiers are encouraged to make vigorous use of all outdoor and indoor sporting facilities and develop competitive leagues that include army and citizen teams. The music, art and theater taught ought to be of the variety most popular with the most people although eclectic tastes may also be accommodated. The potential inventiveness of our citizens who are inspired to demonstrate new forms of mass participatory entertainment, knows no bounds.

Our Confederation army shall invite all our region’s citizens and the citizens of the closest 30-40 districts will be particularly encouraged to attend the confederation festival. The resident District officials will reserve the right to deny entry to anyone or group they choose. The regional festival will be a massive “county fair/festival/celebrations/concert/sporting event to be conducted on GOC grounds. Many organizations both public and private may compete for large audiences, therefore the confederation’s festival may not be the only regional festival. The production of the army’s festivals will, hopefully, become popularized among homelands. We hope districts and homelands will invite portions of the Confederation army to participate in the festivals of their own creation. Your author envisions a mostly frenzied, hedonistic, sometimes reverent, carnival atmosphere. Among the events might be: massive group, tribal, hypnotically intoxicating, ritualized, somewhat competitive singing, drumming and dancing ceremonies; and, storytelling (legends, tall tales, prognostication, political and social satire); many participatory sports; bands; thrill rides; rodeo; capture the flag (paintball?); haunted house (?); and any ingenious entertainment any of us who are eager to invent new thrills might bestow to the rest of us.

PART 3 GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The following shall be the duties and responsibilities of the Minister of the Army-

1] Delicate balance of district verses confederation authority over Soldiers/inspectors. Our Minister of the Army will be primarily responsible for maintaining the discipline of all inspectors. This high standard of discipline is crucial in order that as few inspectors as possible offend district citizens and their authorities. Our Minister of Sovereignty is assigned the power to reverse any district decision to punish any confederation personnel. He has that power but is given our sternest admonition to use it only in the most desperate of circumstances. In part 4 we will suggest special duties we may assign to our Minister of the Army. We shall establish the means by which districts, our confederation and inspectors will be assured that they all mat rely on equal justice.

They all must be made thoroughly confident the highest possible care will be taken by our confederation in their application of only the most impeccably just decisions to determine the fate of inspectors accused of any offence against a district. All standard-upholding districts must be completely confident they may rightfully arrest and punish inspectors that violate district law without suffering at the hands of a vengeful confederation. Our confederation must be confident their inspectors may perform their duty without suffering unjust punishment from district authorities.

2] The minister’s inspectors will possess the highest character and judgment.

a- Confidentiality. We charge our Minister of the Army with a campaign to assure all citizens that CIVIC crimes [murder, common theft, etc.] will not be reported by our inspectors or soldiers to district or confederation authorities. Inspectors will be instructed to report only violations of confederation standards and these violations will only be reported, confidentially, to confederation officials. In order to assure each district will have the first opportunity to punish district citizens who violate confederation standards, Confederation authorities must report these standard violations that inspectors witnessed to district authorities. The obvious benefit to districts is their opportunity to both, avoid the imposition of confederation sanctions against them and protect their citizens from law-breakers. Our Minister of the Army will assist all district authorities by illustrating various, non-punitive options they might employ to best persuade their citizens to cease the violation of various confederation standards.

b- Restraint. Soldiers may return no verbal insult he may receive from a citizen.

c- Courage, Loyalty. Soldiers shall be perfectly self-restrained from offering any harm except in self-defense and at the same time perfectly prepared to fight, kill and face life-threatening peril if ordered.

3] Democratic Military. The Minister of the Army shall promote and support [within the realm of what is practicable and financially feasible] the right of soldiers to vote to decide who among them will receive advancements and/or discipline. Troops will be encouraged also to democratically best advance their general welfare within the constraints of the budget and common sense.

4] Roads. The Minister shall endeavor to maintain mobility of troops without improving any road in any district unless approved by the Minister of Environment.

5] Sterilization. Our Minister shall require soldiers to abide by the regional average concerning their own sterilization. All districts are likely to independently adopt measures requiring differing quantities of their citizens to be sterilized in order to uphold confederation population reduction standards. The Minister will “average” these percentages among all districts and require that percentage of his troops to be sterilized.

6] Alternating Duty. The Minister may choose to alternate the duty and location of soldiers approximately every 6 months in order to occasionally prevent boredom with routine and frequently to prevent potential bribery or extortion of either the district leadership by troops or visa-versa. Our Minister of Communication shall submit all ballots from all sources [all ministers, congress, others] that are composed for the purpose of establishing a standard by which soldiers are rotated between duties and districts. If the Frequency of Troop rotation is determined by 'RMV' vote our Minister of the Army receives a clear directive. Soldiers shall also contribute democratic input to determine the frequency of their rotation and their preferred location of duty and our minister may consider their preference.

7] Soldier’s Payment. Our Minister of the Army shall be responsible to each confederation soldier to fulfill our confederation contract of payment for their service. Our confederation’s failure to pay troops will authorize soldiers to desert. The home district of each unpaid soldier shall appeal to our Minister of Communication for tax credit in the amount owed to that soldier. The district may then pay the soldier. Soldiers that remain unpaid are likely to rightfully inspire a ceaseless lowering of troop morale.

8] Morale. Our Minister of the Army must inspire the highest sense among citizens and troops that there are few higher callings than becoming a soldier of our Confederation. Our troops heroically champion our noble cause and our Minister of the Army must be a worthy of the admiration of champions everywhere. Our minister shall inspire by example of self-sacrifice on behalf of our noble environmental crusade. The Minister shall assign missions whereby a soldier can employ superior wit and guile to achieve honors due him for heroic service. The perilous stealth, iron nerves and audacious courage our soldiers will demonstrate when undertaking the missions to which our Minister of the Army will assign them will entrench them in the annals of honor and heroism. We seek a charismatic Minister of the Army who shall make of every soldier an emissary of goodwill, a man of gentle patience yet eminently capable of decisive, violent action. He shall successfully train his soldiers to be men of humility who shall freely admit their mistakes yet are confident that the greater good bestowed by their mission imbues them with nobility. A Soldier shall be a man made confident that our Minister of the Army will be certain our entire region honors him for the heroic sacrifice he endures in his everyday struggle to gain the greatest good for our beloved region.

9] Manifesto. As a candidate he shall render his manifesto that demonstrates, as much as writing can, that he has the requisite wisdom, knowledge and courage to be our Minister of the Army.

10] Military Tactics. [Hopefully, excellent diplomacy [or terror threats] will render all combat tactics unnecessary]. Should outnumbered confederation soldiers come under attack in a district, against which no S-3 orders are declared, the instructions shall be to escape or defend but not attack. We realize the violence that is necessary if men must defend themselves in hand-to-hand combat. Our minister must leave a wide margin for judging spontaneously provoked, violent conflict between small numbers of soldiers and citizens. Only when an S3 [or more] is ordered may soldiers initiate aggression. Our confederation soldier’s personal dealings with district citizens, one-on-one, during peacetime ought to be characterized by his eagerness to promote goodwill to the district. They shall defend themselves only as a last resort. The Minister shall teach his soldiers the humility necessary in most all their dealings with citizens.

-Our Minister of the Army will possess the military genius necessary to assure victory and, at the same time, preserve as much life as possible. When to ambush, flank, decoy, redirect an attack, retreat, infiltrate and employ all other tactics your militarily ignorant author hasn’t included here shall be perfectly mastered by our Minister of the Army. In S3 conflicts with districts, we instruct our Minister of the Army to assemble a force 10 times numerically larger than the forces assembled within the district and hopefully secure a bloodless victory with his tour de force.

In war with foreign nations we vest our Minister of the Army with the authority to determine nearly all military decisions. The tactic of terrorism shall require 70% of all of us 18 or older to vote for this action. Terrorism tactics are likely to be specified/averaged by us, the 70% approving voters.

11] District Crime. Special agreements [rare] may be made, with the agreement of all parties [district leadership and confederation authority and the inspector], for an inspector to assume the additional, simultaneous duty of district policeman [industrious inspectors might wish to earn more money]. These rare agreements will be approved only when the minister in authority is satisfied that the inspector’s confederation duties will not be impaired by his other employment by the district as one of their policemen. These agreements can lessen our inspector’s effectiveness since many of the civic law-breakers who would have confided information about confederation standard violators would no longer speak to our policeman/inspector. District majority popular vote shall overrule these agreements when they please.

-With the request of district authorities, soldiers may: kill that district’s invaders on sight; defend a victim they witness being attacked; or arrest persons in their district for the violation of Confederation standards. It is, however, preferable that district authorities perform their own civil police work.

-Only an S3 invasion declared by a Minister shall warrant the use of confederation ordered searches, seizures or arrests by soldiers. Inspectors without district authorization, during normal peacetime duty in districts, shall have no police powers.

-A 'RMV' will be conducted for the purpose of establishing a standard code of conduct during any possible S3 invasion that best protects civic and human rights and establishes the most humane treatment possible toward us citizens during S3 invasions. Confederation inspector will preserve the confidentiality of district citizens if they are observed in the commission of CIVIC crimes even during an S3 invasion.

12] Agency. Our minister will forbid all soldiers from engaging in any employment by any commercial enterprise of foreign nations while on duty for our confederation. A soldier may not be employed to impose any CIVIC district penalty upon district citizens even if he has gained employment as a district policeman as well as confederation inspector. No soldiers may be employed by one district to act against another.

13] Personal Assistance. Barring preexisting orders, Soldiers may use their own judgment, if they wish, to lend a fellow citizen assistance with a task or rescue them from danger.

14] Firearms. All soldiers must abide by the rule of district law permitting or forbidding firearms. Soldiers will respect the Constitutional right of all citizens to carry domestically approved firearms in districts that permit firearms.

15] Ecology. All soldiers shall be trained to recognize stresses to the ecosystems that are indicative of Confederation standard violations and report the same to their confederation leadership.

16] MEDICINE. Our minister will provide as much medical training as possible to all troops and to inspectors particularly. Our minister will train inspectors to perform vasectomies and tubule legations surgery especially and will offer this skill to districts as a goodwill tribute from our confederation.

PART 4

ALTERNATIVE POTENTIAL DUTIES

Troop discipline, troop training and management of our GOC ought to leave our Minister of the Army available to accept higher responsibilities. The following is a list of potential duties our minister may undertake if we regional citizens approve these programs and allocate the funds adequate to finance them:

1- SPECIAL PROJECTS CORPS.

Our minister shall form divisions/battalions/squads of troops of all numerical sizes, trained in many skills and prepared to be deployed by the other ministers in multifarious projects. The budget of many ministers may only provide for standard enforcement and deployment of their inspectors. Our Minister of the Army can train troops for many projects beneficial to districts. Some projects might be modeled loosely on the USA’s ‘WPA’ of the Roosevelt years.

-Our minister must teach as many skills as possible that will be useful to our confederation, to private employers and also to the self-reliant farmer and householder. We seek to provide all troops with skills that are of the most benefit to them after their service to our confederation is over.

-Our minister may assemble a multitalented squad of 20 men to lead many [300?] willing district citizens in building an ideal public works project in their home district. Your author envisions a district water/sewer/power project that poses minimal expense to our confederation. District labor may only be available a few months per year so the project could take many years. The only benefit to the confederation would be the environmental improvement and the added economic/political stability of the district. This improved infrastructure would provide self-sufficiency to fewer district citizens on a large [600 acres?] partial of currently overpopulated, overdeveloped land. Converting land that never should have been developed back to its wild state [on half of it?] and to farms/gardens [on half of it?] profoundly ennobles us all in ways most of us alive today we never dreamed possible.

-Our minister may provide traveling expenses to many 3 to 6 man squads to pose themselves as people deserving trust enough to get close enough to kill or capture the many billionaires who would be most likely to finance attacks on our region. Our minister would order our squads to take pictures of them and their families in order to prove our ability to murder them if we choose.

No threat of terror tactics are too severe if they successfully provide the means by which war is avoided. We would deploy our heroes to prevent attacks against us, not to attack others or expand our region.

-Our minister will recruit scientists of all disciplines to conduct research and pilot programs that will best provide general and environmental benefits to our region. One environmental dilemma our minister will resolve will be achieving a region-wide consensus on what products ought to be produced in which districts [in all districts?] and what products ought to be imported by many districts from fewer districts, in order to yield the least environmental damage. Our confederation wishes to provide the most environmentally sound means by which all districts can achieve as much self-reliance as possible by producing as many of their goods from their own district resources. In order to cause as little environmental damage as possible, some products and raw material must come from outside most districts [complex electronics, steel and iron products [engines, cable, ovens, durable goods, some medicines, etc]. Our minister may deploy many men to train district companies in the best, environmentally sound methods to acquire the raw material and make the products that ought to be acquired and made within district borders. Our minister’s researchers will calculate the best means by which goods that must be imported to districts will require as little road and vehicle use as possible. Providing districts with products is always a delicate assessment of which approach will cause the least environmental damage. The environmental destruction caused by vehicle and road building [and use of both] is minimized when products are produced locally but the excessive, local acquisition of raw materials [and fuel] destroys many acres of district land [plus, some district manufacturing plants could possibly be unnecessary and redundant]. Conversely, the environmental destruction of district acreage [plus district air/water/soil pollution] is minimized when products, that otherwise would have been made in the district, are imported into the district using minimum transportation needs [fewest roads, fewest vehicles, least miles traveled].

-Our minister will develop superior police tactics that best spare the lives and dignity of both citizens and police. Some incorrigible standard violating citizens [weapon standards especially] may require special tactics to spare lives. Districts that invite our confederation to arrest their heavily armed [standard violating] citizens ought to expect the most humane, effective methods to be used in their apprehension. With much time, either non-lethal ambush or starving the surrounded suspect might be employed.

WITH TIME MANY STELLAR ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS MAY BE CONCEIVED And ADOPTED BY 'RMV' OR OUR CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT ‘3 OUT OF 5’ BRANCH MANDATE.

ARTICLE 6- AMENDMENTS

A vote of two thirds of all citizens 18 years of age or older will amend to our Constitution.

CONCLUSION

The more passionately we devote ourselves to district [district sovereignty], regional and world implementation of our constitution, the more confident we become that our individual life accounts for being a force of good in the world. Our collective action and collective success will inspire first thousands, then millions to advance this simple, noble crusade, self-evidently destined to establish a world-wide, unalterable dynamic of human will at its best. This dynamic of freedom and environmental healing will not alter over time.

Once we all get our first bite of the glorious power that enables us to rip our destiny out of the malignant jaws of big money and big government, we will realize our ravenous, lifelong hunger to establish our autonomous dynamic of freedom and we will never relinquish it. All humanity burns with fierce, instinctual desire to regain this freedom. The world under our Constitution is a free world not a dominated one.

Only the most cowardly cynics among us will refuse to comprehend how simple and certain are the enormous rewards realized by even the most frightened allegiance to our constitution.

Imagine the future condition of your land within 10 miles of where you live today and the degraded life the unfortunate people will live upon it 150 years from now if our environmental horrors continue unabated. What if these diseased, beleaguered unfortunates could walk up to our face right now and point to the legacy of environmental degradation we have imposed on them? What feeble rationalization would we offer to acquit ourselves. How crushing is the mountain of humiliation heaped onto us as we suffer their judgment of us? Deep in our hearts where pride and honor should be glowingly resplendent resides the corrosive, desperate fear of the terrible shame to which posterity’s judgment would condemn us. In the most cowardly, disingenuous fashion we irresponsible children have sought to rationalize our disgrace away or deaden our pain with a myriad of obsessive behaviors [TV, food, trips, pills, religiosity, excess of all kinds].

FINALLY! OUR SALVATION!!!!

OUR ALLEGIANCE TO OUR CONSTITUTION

RESTORES OUR HONOR!!

With our sword, forged of molten courage, we shall confidently triumph over every despoiler of the earth until we achieve the restoration of our land back into the glorious paradise, the possession of which we are naturally, unalterably entitled. Each day we act to further our 'DSM' goals we draw nearer to achieving our ultimate purpose of attaining the day when man’s collective effect on the planet does more good than harm.