Could you write a constitution.?

Question

Hi All,

Many of us believe there are things amiss with our country's politics or forms of governance.

I'd like to invite you to write your own constitution. It can be for any form of democracy you desire.

I will display all efforts at http://www.myverdict.net and invite comments.

Should you wish to have a go, you can contact me via pm and I'll let you have my email address to send your articles to.

Regards

Taffd

Answer 1

Yes I could, but the Liberals and illegals would hate it.

Answer 2

First off, the United States Constitution is the only place to start and our Founding Fathers gave us a Representative Democracy within a Republic.



THE CONSTITUTION

of the

OCEANIC CITIZENS REPUBLIC

PREAMBLE

We the People, the Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects, pursuing the goals spelled out in this Constitution, do here by proclaim and establish the “OCEANIC CITIZENS REPUBLIC” on this, the 20th day of February in the year 2007 of the common era thus laying claim to all the rights, duties, responsibilities and privileges of a free and sovereign state as defined in Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States.

ARTICLE I THE STATE DEFINED

SECTION 1 FORM

I.1.1 The Republic is secular, sovereign and representative.

I.1.2 All persons natural and legal must yield to these principles.

I.1.3 This Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Republic.

SECTION 2 LOCATION

I.2.1 The Oceanic Citizens Republic’s Home Territory is One Square Nautical Mile located at 10.00.00S to 10.01.00S at 121.34.00W to 121.35.00W, over section ‘E’ of the International SeaLand Enterprises (ISLE) claim of September 1975.

I.2.2 The Oceanic Citizens Republic Extra-Territorial Surface Claims include:

I.2.2a) The O.C.R. Indian Ocean Territorial Surface at or about 30.00.00S, 80.00.00E;

I.2.2b) The O.C.R. South Atlantic Territorial Surface at or about 30.00.00S, 20.00.00W;

I.2.2c) The O.C.R. North Atlantic Territorial Surface at or about 30.00.00N, 40.00.00W;

I.2.2d) The O.C.R. South Pacific Territorial Surface at or about 50.00.00S, 125.00.00W;

I.2.2e) The O.C.R. North Pacific Territorial Surface at or about 40.00.00N, 170.00.00W;

I.2.3 The Oceanic Citizens Republic makes no claims in its Home Territory or its Extra-Territorial Surfaces save the right of its Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects to peaceably assemble and exercise the Rights of Sovereign Government there sharing in the common heritage of humankind.

I.2.3a) Whereas our Republic exists in Vessels, Ships and Seastations each is the Sovereign Territory of the Republic and is entitled to all the rights, duties, responsibilities and privileges as such.

SECTION 3 CITIZEN CAPTAINS, SUBJECT CITIZENS, SUBJECTS, PHILOSOPHY AND LANGUAGE

I.3.1 Citizen Captains are human beings, natural persons who have attained the age of adulthood and who have assumed and accepted the duty and responsibility as Captain of a vessel.

I.3.1a) Whereas one of the youngest people to solo-circumnavigate the earth was Captain Robin Graham who began his voyage at age 16 aboard S/V Dove, the age of 16 is the age of Adulthood,

I.3.1b) Whereas one of the smallest vessels to circumnavigate the earth was S/V Trekka at 20.5’ Captained by John Guzzwell, a Vessel is defined as being 20.5’ or longer at the water line.

I.3.2 Subject Citizens are human beings, natural persons who have attained the age of 21 years, who have assumed and accepted the duty and responsibility as Heads of Households and who dwell on Ships or Seastations.

I.3.2a) The Head of a Household is a natural person who has assumed of the duty and responsibility as the Primary Provider for dependent adults and/or children.

I.3.2b) For the purpose of identification, a Ship is defined as a vessel 205’ or longer at the water line.

I.3.2c) For the purpose of identification, a Seastation is defined as a floating platform or structure of at least 14,000 square feet, anchored or otherwise fixed at a point within the Republic’s Home Territory or Extra-Territorial Surface.

I.3.3 Subjects are human beings, natural persons who are the dependants of a Citizen Captain, Subject Citizen or Subject of the Republic.

I.3.4 The philosophy of Citizenship upon which the Oceanic Citizens Republic is based is that the Citizen Captain, having assumed the duty and responsibility of command, is solely responsible for the care, custody, safety and welfare of the human beings aboard his/her vessel. This is an indisputable fact of nature recognized and codified in International Maritime Law and the Laws of Nations. Those human beings who have not assumed this duty and responsibility are not qualified to affect the absolute right and decision-making authority of those who have. Such human beings are subject to the authority of their Captain and owe their Captain their trust and loyalty even as the Republic is owed their Captain’s trust and loyalty.

I.3.5 Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and adult Subjects will make the following Affirmation: “I __________________ do solemnly affirm, that I will support and defend the Constitution of the Oceanic Citizens Republic, bearing true faith and allegiance to the same.”

I.3.6 The English Language is the official language of the Republic.

SECTION 4 SYMBOLS

I.4.1 The Republic has the National Colors of Red, Yellow and Blue which are the primary colors occurring in nature from which all other colors are composed.

I.4.1a) The SRGB Standard colors and numbers are Red FF0000, Yellow FFFF00 and Blue 0000FF.

I.4.2 The flag of the Republic utilizes the National Colors to illustrate the three primary elements of our oceanic world: the Sun, Sky and Sea.

I.4.2a) The Sea makes up the bottom 1/3 of the hoist and the sky the upper 2/3rds on a horizontal line;

I.4.2b) The disk of the Sun is ½ the hoist in diameter, bisected by the line and covered by the Sea, one radius from the hoist,

I.4.2c) From the vertical the Suns rays are set 60’ apart at 30’, 90’, 150’, 210’, 270’ and 330’ radiating outward covering 10’ of arc, 5’ on either side of the line. Four rays are seen above the horizontal line of the Sea, the lower two showing only 5’ above that line;

I.4.3) The National Flag is flown over our Embassies and Seastations and has a hoist to fly ratio of 4 by 9 and be of a size to be taken note of at a great distance, to be flown on a pole at least 3 but not more than 4 times its diagonal length,

I.4.3a) The Ensign, or common use flag, has a hoist to fly ratio of 3 by 5, the fly being approximately 1 inch per foot of waterline of the vessel and is to be flown on a staff at the stern when the boat is at anchor displayed from 0800 till sundown and while under way, it may be flown at the peak of a gaff-rigged vessel or from the leach of a jib-headed mainsail 1/3 of the way down from the peak, or from the backstay 1/3 of the way down from the peak, or on a stern staff if the boom does not over hang the stern.

I.4.3b) The Jack, showing only the disk of the Sun 1/2 the hoist in diameter centered in the field of the Sky has a hoist to fly ratio of 2 by 3, proportional to the Ensign of the vessel and will be flown on a jack staff at the bow from 0800 till sundown while at anchor,

I.4.3c) The Commissioning Pennant of the Republic has a hoist to fly ratio of 1 by 150, is swallow tailed, divided in half on a horizontal line Yellow above, Blue below and be approximately as long as the waterline of the vessel on which it is flown and flown at the peak of the mainsail to commemorate the establishment of the Republic or other such times as directed or desired,

I.4.3d) The Banner of the Republic is hung vertically and has a width to length ratio of 1 by 6 with the Sea making up the bottom 1/6, the Sky the other 5/6 and the disk of the Sun with all six rays showing is ½ the banner width in diameter centered in the field of the Sky, suspended from the overhead or top of a podium, and should not be so long as to touch the deck.

I.4.4 The Great Seal of the Republic is oval in shape.

I.4.4a) The obverse side is engraved with the Sun, Sky and Sea, centered in the arc at the top is the motto “RESPUBLICA FORTIS TENAX EST” meaning, “OUR REPUBLIC IS STRONG AND TENATIOUS” and centered in the arc at the bottom is the date MMVII,

I.4.4b) The reverse side is engraved with the Sky, Sea, and a sailboat and centered below the horizontal line of the Sea are the words “OCEANIC CITIZENS REPUBLIC”.

I.4.5 The Coat of Arms of the Republic is emblazoned on a shield and shows two mermaids symbolizing peace and prosperity facing each other holding a wreath of kelp framing an image of both sides of the Great Seal of the Republic superimposed and below the wreath framed by the mermaid’s tails are the two hemispheres of the earth.

I.4.6 The National Anthem of the Republic is “Song of the High Seas” by Richard Rodgers.

I.4.7 The National bird of the Republic is the Albatross.

ARTICLE II OBJECTIVES, SECURITY and ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES of the STATE

SECTION 1 OBJECTIVES

II.1.1 The Republic promotes justice and universal protection of individual human rights.

II.1.2 The Republic establishes solidarity, fraternity, and national unity among its Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects.

II.1.3 The Republic encourages:

II.1.3a) Education and schooling;

II.1.3b) Preservation and development of culture;

II.1.3c) Preservation and maintenance of historical objects;

II.1.3d) The protection of the environment for its own intrinsic value.

SECTION 2 SECURITY

II.2.1 The Republic promotes worldwide peace. Acts undertaken to disturb the peaceful relations between nations are unconstitutional and treasonous.

II.2.2 There shall be no ‘State Secrets’.

II.2.2a) Only in time of actual War shall there be ‘Military Secrets’ and then only of an immediate tactical nature.

II.2.2b) That there shall be no State or Military Secrets is not to be construed to mean that in the interest of the States security or Force Protection there shall not be operations and communications security procedures based on the principles of “Need to Know”.

II.2.3 The Republic renounces the right to make Aggressive War or make preparations for War except in cases of grave and immediate threat to the existence of the Republic.

II.2.4 All Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects sixteen to sixty years of age constitute the Milit

Answer 3

How?

Look in the real world?

Did anyone know how to write one?

Look how we shake and wake the dead Mummy with empty skeleton of skull and bones to rule and lead in guiding us with one with lop-sided scale of justice.

With the creation of loss of peace on earth goodwill to men among our own kind.

With a womman's error from her kitchen with pots and pans.

Being called the "Sa-Lah's law"

Leviticus 24.22

Exodus 24.12

Exodus 18.20

What do you think?