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A True and a Democratic world order can be achieved for all ,,when all nations including the super powers, adopt a proper democratic constitution which can ensure a proper world peace And the protection of our planet … This is the Peoples Constitution .

Ramadan Mubarak to all celebrating Ramadan, which begins tonight and continues through the end of April. Best wishes go out to the many this month fasting; we hope this month of prayer, mindfulness and spiritual healing brings you success.

The trillion dollar military can't beat a band of terrorists carrying AK-47s riding around in pickup trucks .

We must end this era of pointless-endless war and start a new one.

I, Alan Dechert, an award-winning engineer at Intel, chairman of the Committee for Open Source Global Governance (OSGG), and heterodox constitutional law theorist, am the chief architect of this constitutional text.

I am asking for help refining the text. Beginning an important phase in a software development project, the code might be described as "feature complete" and "alpha quality." I am asking for your help to bring the code up to beta quality.

We will treat the text as we treat major computer software development projects, dealing with "problem reports" as they come in from near and far in a systematic way to bring the code up to Beta. Next comes Release Candidate 1, then RC2, and so on until perfect (or as perfect as we can make it).

My work on this idea goes back decades. I began serious discussions with legal scholars about five years ago. I never felt I was qualified to write any of it. I intended to work with a few scholars who might like the idea and would be willing to contribute some of their expertise -- even if they believed it could never be enacted.

Most of all, I wanted a suitable scholar to take charge of it. I was unable to recruit anyone for this role, and wound up writing a great deal of it myself. A few scholars contributed some insights and even some text. So, I -- and OSGG -- will retain ownership of it sink or swim.

I am passing along this message to you asking for your help. The links* are to the document in ODT format (Open Document Text) and PDF**

The document contains 3 constitutions: the existing text for the USA side-by-side our proposed replacement text; and text for a proposed international sovereign, the Human Federation.

I am not interested in handwaves (I'm 69 and not planning on attending law school... I did consider that one but decided against). My inbox has had its fill of them and I don't save them anymore. I would most appreciate it if you would mark up the document with any insights you might have. Can you provide any amendments? (at this point, we would want to stuff them into the body of the text without actually calling them "amendments"). Minor corrections? Do you know where any of the specific words or phrases come from?

I've tried to identify some of the origins, but I don't really know that much except for what I wrote. A few clauses were provided by scholars like Michael Dorf, Dan Farber, and Shubha Ghosh. I've noted that in the document, although I may have missed a few things. I haven't bothered to add notes to the existing US Constitution although I want to do that. I'm pretty sure James Madison wrote the first 10 amendments -- and the nearly forgotten 27th amendment -- but haven't gotten around to mentioning that. I tried to incorporate J P Stevens' 6 amendments (although I eliminated the 2nd altogether). One clause is from Emmanuel Kant's 1795 essay on Perpetual Peace.

Here are some essential features of the document:
• USA's World Cop role would be handed over to this international sovereign, with simultaneous adoption of two new constitutions
• worldwide ban on nuclear power as well as nuclear weapons.
• ownership of military weapons banned (Human Federation will collect them and keep what it needs for its mission)
• Unsustainable practices curtailed.
• How humans will make use of space; Outer Space Treaty subsumed; no "space force;" mineral resources in space can be produced and made available to humans in a responsible legal manner; Luna and Mars to become countries.
• New articles specifically covering equality in the US constitution as well as the international one.
• Strengthening local government
• Health Care becomes a human right in the US; Roe v. Wade memorialized in clause 5 written by Michael Dorf as I requested
• Peace becomes a human right, as spelled out in US constitution as well as international constitution
• voting in the US becomes mandatory with greatly enhanced voting processes
• One new Supreme Court Justice installed every two years (effectively defining an 18-yr term)
• term limits in US Congress (24 yrs combined service)
• Education becomes a human right
• Plural Executive -- Attorney General becomes elected executive with 10-yr term (process is spelled out)

A common response is we're trying to do too much. However, due to very long trends and a long string of major events, it's time to revolt. This is a unique time. The World Cop can't stop a band of guys in pickup trucks carrying AK47s. We have cowboys in space. Climate. There remains serious doubts about the voting systems. Something has to give. We can do this now and it may be the last time for centuries this can be done again.

Some will say this is utopian dreaming. Wrong. Utopia literally means nowhere. Utopia is used in strawman arguments. There is no reason we can't have a much better system of global governance and US governance. Instead of utopia, we can call it Ecotopia if you prefer (Ernest Callenbach, my friend and cohort many years ago in Berkeley, used this word).

OSGG can be a complete success. It's not easy to understand just how, but I know how. It's as feasible as open source voting and renewable energy... and those things are becoming law as we speak, first in CA then the USA, then the world.
Please, will you get in touch with me asap? There is a lot to discuss that I dare not attempt in one email. We need your help.

Alan Dechert, (916) 792-1784
* Here are the links to the documents I mentioned.
https://theanswer.fyi/constitutions.pdf
https://theanswer.fyi/comparisonsource.odt
(depending on your device and software, the odt file may not automatically open up. It's there and will download. It was written using Libreoffice, which is free and open source and runs on most anything)
** You can get to all the content on our site from
https://theanswer.fyi/frequently-asked-questions/

You can also see the intro at https://theanswer.fyi/ knowing that there is an Easter Egg opened by clicking on our logo (people making pledge requests as explained in our FAQ)

https://youtu.be/QO2PxRozzDA

Years ago, when I described the concept to people, some said, "we have to wait for the return of Jesus Christ for that." I didn't believe it then, and still don't.

This is not the first plan. It's not the final plan. It's not the second draft, the third, or the fourth. It's the plan as of July 21, 2018.

As always, it's a flexible plan. Things are happening; we're doing things; the world is changing. The current set of goals, strategies, principles, objectives, and building blocks (things we've done, 1 - 7) are listed here.

Open Source Voting & Open Source Global Governance
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If we succeed with one of these initiatives, we will get the other. Open Source Voting is a small subset of Open Source Global Governance, but would be a large world-changing event by itself.

ETASA (Election Transparency and Security Act), a ballot measure for a constitutional amendment in California, encapsulates the work of the movement for open source voting. The original 2018 document (http://openvoting.org/ad/e-tas.pdf ) is now ETASA2020 and has its own website,

(1) http://electionact2020.org/ where visitors can also find a video by Adria Ross about smartphone voting.

This flyer, which makes the case for open source voting, was distributed at several events where Brent Turner spoke at the California Democratic Party Eboard meeting July 13-15, 2018, Oakland, California.
http://openvoting.org/ad/ca-dems2018.pdf

(2) The Open Source Global Governance (OSGG) proposal
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As of Sep 30, 2017: 9250 words, 25 references, and one diagram.
http://openvoting.org/ad/osgg.pdf
http://openvoting.org/ad/osgg.jpg

(3) Letters to the National Governors Association and the United Nations
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12 July 2018
http://openvoting.org/ad/letter12jul2un.pdf
http://openvoting.org/ad/letter12july2nga.pdf

(4) People’s Constitution on facebook
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https://www.facebook.com/hf.discuss

THE ANSWER Video Blog (or VLOG), can be seen here. There are daughter pages for the 50 states in the U.S. and 50 or more countries, and a few territories.

As of July 15, 2018, the 100+ pages have a total of over 14,000 likes – more than half from outside the U.S.

(5) Constitution text
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http://openvoting.org/ad/revised-const.pdf

(6) Our Logo
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a peace bird with a quill:
http://openvoting.org/ad/logo3.jpg

Thanks to Morgan Hastings for the artwork (he also incorporated this into the letterhead). Thanks to Eve Moran for suggesting the quill. We will gladly place our logo on most anything available at cafe press https://www.cafepress.com/ (pricing to be determined)

(7) Committee for Open Source Global Governance
Membership in the committee is open, and we don't maintain a list. Basically, anyone who wants to identify with the committee can do so.
There are two sub-committees:
a) Editors (of the two constitutions)
b) Steering committee (Alan Dechert, chair)

I am recruiting for chair of editors committee.

KEY EVENTS WE NEED TO MAKE HAPPEN ("our process")
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** Press conference announcing formation of editors' committee. We need the chair of this committee and as many constitutional scholars as possible to back-up him or her. We will describe the process and invite participation of state governments in the U.S., as well as national governments around the world. At the press conference, we'll have two scientists and two political scientists joining two of the constitutional scholars.

** Government participation begins (template #1 described in Jul 12 letters). We need governments to participate in our process. Before we can get many to participate, we have to get one.

** Process set up, probably with bug tracking software (perhaps free open source Bugzilla https://www.bugzilla.org/ ), which will enable people all over the world to report their issues. Chief editor (or chair of subcommittee) will then assign the item to an appropriate editor.

** Full participation -- approximately 40 U.S. states and 40 countries, minimum.

** Press conference announcing document completion -- all issues satisfactorily resolved

** selling the deal. Federalist papers for the New Era and new constitutions. Participation by people all over and in the media. Final adjustments/edits to constitutions as needed

** request letters from partcipating governments (like template #2 in Jul 12 letters)

** sufficient letters received for ratification.

** time/date/place arranged for international constitutional conference. Details organized, planned

To summarize, I fully agree the project I am leading seems impossible. It's not about following some procedure -- which no one has ever succeeded with before -- but is more like a magic trick.

Here is something from a magician, Laszlo Szombatfalvy:

"A true magician doesn’t wonder so much if something can be done, but focuses on how it could be done."

This encapsulates what I am doing (or think I'm doing). Laszlo didn't get it reading a book how to do it. It wasn't some established procedure. It was invention.

Until proven otherwise, I assume it could be done. I am only interested in HOW to do it. I think I know steps, after many years of thinking about it.

I have already completed many of the steps. I still have some figuring to do for the rest. Like a person watching one of Laszlo's latest and greatest tricks, people will come away wondering, "how'd he do that?" Call it "magic," but in the end it was just a series of steps.

episode3ThePlan

https://youtu.be/Kh6nl1GmiwQ
Here are the letters referred to in the vid
http://openvoting.org/ad/letter12jul2un.pdf
http://openvoting.org/ad/letter12july2nga.pdf

In summary, we ask for states and countries who want to participate in the process to send us a letter with a contact person we can work with.

episode2TheLetters

https://youtu.be/tZ9GIBlem6g

episode1

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