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Forums - Politics - If you owned a new country, name it and give it a basic constitution

 

If you owned a new country?

Communist dictator 12 15.00%
 
Absolute monarchy 11 13.75%
 
Constitutional monarchy 4 5.00%
 
Libertarian style government 13 16.25%
 
Capitalist dictator 5 6.25%
 
Direct Democracy 11 13.75%
 
Representative Democracy 8 10.00%
 
A Federal State 4 5.00%
 
Anarchy 12 15.00%
 
Total:80

Copy/Paste American Constitution with some edits.

Lots of Socialist goodies like Norway. (single payer, free college, etc.)

An effective tax code so I could pay for those things.

Have a Central Bank (with a Fiat Currency) but require them to keep the value of the currency stable, cause Currency Devaluation Wars are for idiot Central Bankers who have no idea what they're doing.

Respect the privacy rights of the citizens.

I don't like it when people die in wars, so I'll just play Hearts of Iron 3 instead.

Decent Minimum Wage (like Australia)

ugh regulations to protect consumers in my new country, protect the local environment, etc.








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My deviations from the standard "Western liberal democracy" package would be as follows

Enumeration of economic rights of the individual (to food, health care, clothing, dwelling spaces, education, old age care, and labor most of all)

"Free Speech" is defined as the government's inability to pass legislation obviously or overtly targeted at one particular viewpoint, but they are otherwise free to regulate modes of speech so long as the legislation does not regard one viewpoint (say, minarchism or Islamism) as its target for repression. "Art," however, would be protected.

Major revamping of intellectual property rights, such that patents on software have a much, much shorter lifespan, corporations cannot "own" works created by individual artists but merely license distribution rights, genes or life-forms cannot be patented, and neither can medicines.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

I'm not sure i'd change much from the US constitution.

Add in a Gay/Transgender equality amendment... put in term limits for congressmen.

Outside that changes I would like to see were mostly in thought process not acual hard law.

So perhaps a simple nonbinding statement simply stating that there is a stricter burden of proof for laws that restrict personal right.

So that say... if you want to pass Fiza you have to theoretically show via data what the warrantless wiretaps will do and why it will help. Or if you want to pass DOMA (illegal here but you get the idea) you need to present research that shows why AND be up for having that data be rebutted by experts if they wish.



EDIT: Actually on second thought i'd probably pass two genetic engineering laws.   One tht you can't copyright living things.  Cause well... duh.  That a farmer can't plant seeds from a plant he's bout is ridiculious and should eaisly violate the first sale doctrine.  I feel like this shouldn't even be needed yet somehow it is.

Two, protect the right to genetic engineering.

Yeah, not a genetic engineering ban but an actual right TO genetically engineer.   Screw kids being born with genetic diseases because people are afraid the rich will make themselves super babies.

-So the world might have a bunch of Stephen Hawkings in Lebron James' body.... that's a bad thing?    I think whatever progress the influx of having a hundred fold the amount of geniuses far outweighs the fact that someone who could of been smart enough to be a scientist no longer is.



I'd call it Nintendoland where every person has to wear a Nintendo character costume outside home and impersonate that character as well.

Think how beautiful that would be.



 

TheSource said:

This excercise is ridiculous without knowing about culture / resources etc of the land. Places like Syria (before the Civil War), and Argentina (before going broke) had beautiful constitutions that were never enforced because of how different reality on the ground was from what the country could offer.

The exercise is ridiculous not only for that reason, but for lacking definition of a purpose as well.

A good task would have had two definitions: given and requried. Culture/resources = given, purpose = required. It's like you've being given a task to build a rocket, and instead of deciding how many stages you'd need, will it be solid- or liquid-fueled etc. your entire descision: "Let's paint it in... pink" :D Basically what most are doing here... constitution-schmatitution. My best guess though if you're going to build a country in Syria... you'll get Syria, in Argentina... you'll get Argentina regardless.



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It would be a Technocracy, until the point of singularity. At that time, all leaders will be required to step down...



I would call it LinkMario

it would be dicktatorship and everybody is forced to wear clothes from the Zelda and Mario universe



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My country would be a constitutonal monarchy called Midgård.

It's territories would include the borders of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Slesvig, Northern England and Normandie in france as well as Newfoundland. Finland and Estonia would be welcome to join if they wanted to :)

State religion would be norse paganism, although it wouldn't be practiced as much as there being institutions that were museum-like and simply told the stories and contained art and stuff.

The basic human rights as defined by the french revolution would be implemented. I would be the great king, and act as a ceremonial head of state, living in a big castle.

Government would consist of a parliamentary where parties got seats proportial to their share of votes. However there would be a 4% block rule to prevent the parliamentary from being flooded with parties.  Regions would be divided into communes, which handled most state-run stuff. Education up to university would be free to ensure social mobility and boost individual oppurtunity. Healthcare would be state-run with universal health ensurance, with some fees to keep costs down. Taxes on a similar level to what they are today in scandinavia. There would be laws in place to keep media bias down, (a news show can only show news, not give opinions).

The flag would be in the colurs red white blue and yellow and feature two ravens and a hammer as motive. (background white, ravens yellow and blue, hammer red)

Defence budget would be relatively small but the most recources would go towards the navy and air force. Tanks carriers and aircrafts would be domestically produced.

Capital would be Gothenburg.



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