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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 constitutional debates #31172 06/05/01 09:20 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. J jimthedog OP enthusiast OP jimthedog enthusiast J Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. I propose that we take matters in our own hands and write a constitution for the world. I shall be chairman. jimthedog Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31173 06/05/01 09:59 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Ah, megalomania in one so young. And I thought that the current generation didn't care about anything! The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31174 06/05/01 10:00 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom R rodward addict rodward addict R Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom write a constitution for the world 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. The Chinese Whisper effect and homophones should keep the lawyers busy and off our backs for ages. (After all if the US Constitution was oral, you'ld be able to claim that you were entitled to bare arms and solve a lot of problems.) 2) Some suitable official language has to be chosen which is equi-disadvantageous to all world communities (Is there an ideographic form of Klingon?) 3) There shall be an introduction and a maximum of 10 articles of no more than 100 words each. You have to choose which existing article to drop for each new one after 10. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that after the motherhood statements deprecating war and famine, and encouraging general virtues, any practical statements would raise a lot of heat amongst us. I can't even think of one at the moment . Rod Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31175 06/05/01 10:18 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. J jimthedog OP enthusiast OP jimthedog enthusiast J Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. megalomania in one so young. Well, I wasn't proposing to be the 1st president, or whatever the office shall be called. And we would naturally argue. We're seeing which plans get in the constitution. Interesting thing to put on our resumes, anyway. jimthedog Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31176 06/05/01 12:41 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin B belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand B Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > ...the current generation didn't care about anything! I'd debate with you furiously C.K., but I really couldn't care less. p.s. this month's meeting of The Apathy Society has been cancelled. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31177 06/05/01 12:50 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Sr. Ward notes: if the US Constitution was oral, you'ld be able to claim that you were entitled to bare arms and solve a lot of problems. I already claim that the right to bear arms, written into the constitution, is actually® the right, in the inaccurate terminology of US'ns, to have a coat of arms. The connection with the well-regulated (Hi E) militia is obvious. You can't have a well-regulated militia without knowing who is available and what better way to know who is available than to have a registry of arms and armigers. This would be known as the NRA (National Registry of Armigers). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31178 06/05/01 11:39 PM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. J jimthedog OP enthusiast OP jimthedog enthusiast J Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 387 Hartsville, New York. Some suitable official language has to be chosen which is equi-disadvantageous to all world communities (Is there an ideographic form of Klingon?) I could make a language. (See my profile.) jimthedog Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31179 06/05/01 11:53 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... And in order to avoid the vagaries of the 2nd Amendment and the Separation of Church and State controversies I propose a Bill of Rights that is meticulously clarified by a contrasting Bill of Wrongs! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31180 06/06/01 04:48 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 18 Bangalore, India K kummini stranger kummini stranger K Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 18 Bangalore, India 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 http://www.geocities.com/kummini/index.html Bangalore India 12°58' N, 77°39' E http://www.geocities.com/kummini/index.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constitutional debates #31181 06/06/01 09:14 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England p.s. this month's meeting of The Apathy Society has been cancelled. Oh, yes, I remembered seeing that somewhere. Couldn't be bothered passing the message on. The idiot also known as Capfka ... 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