rodward wrote:
Some guidelines:
1) The constitution must only be passed by e-mail or by word of mouth. This is World Environment Day after all. The official version
should be the spoken version. It should come with the General Public License, that you have the right to modify the source and redistribute it free of cost.
If one were to make amendments on this constitution, what should one do? Shall all the people in the world meet at a place and agree to introduce new statutes?
Sir Humphrey Appleby will have had foreseen this problem around 2025, if I remember right, and gave the solution that every decision should be minuted. He spake thusly, in around 2025, while addressing Right Honorable James Hacker,
"It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that
every member has a vivid recollection of them, and that every member's
recollection of them differs violently from every other member's
recollection; consequently we accept the convention that the official
decisions are those and only those which have been officially recorded in
the minutes by the officials; from which it emerges with elegant
inevitability, that any decision which has been officially reached would
have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, and any
decisions which is not recorded in the minutes by the officials has not
been officially reached, even if one or more members believe they can
recollect it; so in this particular case, if the decision would have been
officially reached, it would have been recorded in the minutes by the
officials and it isn't so it wasn't."
In that case, we'll have the constitution written down completely as minutes of meetings.
Regards,
Manoj.
Bangalore India
12°58' N, 77°39' E
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