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Constitution of Rational Harmony - Getting Along with Governance
The idea is much like cells and organs in a body, each forms its own "DNA" of reasoning to suit its own needs. Laws are not dictated from above, but rather are the laws of nature. "Cells" of from 4 to 100 people each form a corporate entity as they take care of each other as they see fit. The only higher governance is that which ensures that each is really following its own constitution. It is much like federal, state, local, and family constitutions, without the dictates of details from the higher governance. Amendments form the details that distinguish each group.
In such an arrangement, people form their own social architectures without concern of what others across the world might be doing yet are privy to how others are working so that they can learn and grow. The moral structure within each is not the concern of others. The only common moral is that once within a group, you adhere to that groups constitution yet are still free to leave to a different group if another is available and preferred.
If a group becomes over populated, it can "divide" into two groups, each with their own constitution to start fresh. The concept of cancerous growth can be virtually eliminated by a concept of "4 Dimensional Stitching" that ensures that no alterations are incoherent to the overall body.
Constitution of Rational Harmony
Preamble
We who gather in this union ordain and establish these Articles of Rational Harmony for the purpose of firming the rational pursuit of maximum momentum toward eternal union harmony.
Articles
1) Governing Authority
All governing authority shall be vested in the following four fundamental offices; Representative, Senate, Executive, and Judicial.
i. No action is to be performed by any office or member of any office unless by instigation of proper Constitutional process as documented herein.
ii. It is the obligation of the union to prepare every member for reestablishing this authority in the event of its demise such as to include;
_a. Teaching the rationale of this constitution and methods concerning its establishment
_b. Providing all materials and tools required to re-initiate the authority of this constitution and its implementation.
2) Member Representation
The “Representative” office is to be responsible for the observation and documentation of the current situation of the union.
i. Any union member shall be allowed to propose, through the Representative office, recommendations and suggestions concerning any union action as long as such items are accompanied by documented reasoning to support the proposal's need for consideration.
ii. Any member must be allowed to debate the superiority of any existing or proposed rationale before the Senate and Judicial offices to the extent of rational concern as evaluated by the Judicial office.
iii. If any existing rationale is found to be inferior to a proposed rationale as verified by the Judicial office, the existing rationale must be replaced by the proposed.
3) Governing Principles
The “Senate” office is to be responsible for receiving and evaluating all action proposals regarding any and all union members and establishing action priorities.
i. Principles of rationale (amendments) are to be formulated, documented, and utilized in determining proposed rational actions.
ii. No amended principle shall usurp or countermand these original articles.
iii. These principles are to be published sufficiently to allow critical review by the other offices and members.
iv. Proposals are to be evaluated for superior rationale with existing principles pertaining to the accomplishment of the goal of the maximum momentum toward eternal union harmony.
v. All alternative options to any proposal are to be rationally considered and documented along with the rationale for being rejected.
vi. All evaluations are to be accepted or rejected based on documented rational reasoning. Any rationale found to be superior to existing rationale must be incorporated into relevant executions replacing inferior rationales.
vii. A final execution plan is to be formed from all current rationale, which is then to be documented and presented to the Executive office for execution.
viii. Unless altered by constitutional counter-proposal any proposal must be accepted into law within 24 hours of being presented to the Senate. Such altering or delaying counter-proposals must conform to the same standards as the original proposal.
4) Execution of Authority
The “Executive” office is to be responsible for accurately implementing any and all execution plans received from the Senate.
5) Verification of Governing Rationale
The “Judicial” office is to be responsible for verifying that all duties are being carried out as per Constitutional rationale and for arbitration of irresolvable dispute.
i. All judicial actions are to be documented and remain open for membership rational counter-debate.
6) Qualification for Station (Purity Issue)
All office holders and members are to be qualified only by their ability to perform the associated duties of their position as determined by Judicially verified Senate rationale.
i. The determination of ability to perform shall be made by Judicially verified Senate rationale and shall remain documented for rational membership review and update.
7) Limit of Rational Authority (Extent Issue)
The number of members governed by this constitution shall not exceed the ability of the Representative office to properly and substantially represent the condition and concerns of all members.
In such an arrangement, people form their own social architectures without concern of what others across the world might be doing yet are privy to how others are working so that they can learn and grow. The moral structure within each is not the concern of others. The only common moral is that once within a group, you adhere to that groups constitution yet are still free to leave to a different group if another is available and preferred.
If a group becomes over populated, it can "divide" into two groups, each with their own constitution to start fresh. The concept of cancerous growth can be virtually eliminated by a concept of "4 Dimensional Stitching" that ensures that no alterations are incoherent to the overall body.
Constitution of Rational Harmony
Preamble
We who gather in this union ordain and establish these Articles of Rational Harmony for the purpose of firming the rational pursuit of maximum momentum toward eternal union harmony.
Articles
1) Governing Authority
All governing authority shall be vested in the following four fundamental offices; Representative, Senate, Executive, and Judicial.
i. No action is to be performed by any office or member of any office unless by instigation of proper Constitutional process as documented herein.
ii. It is the obligation of the union to prepare every member for reestablishing this authority in the event of its demise such as to include;
_a. Teaching the rationale of this constitution and methods concerning its establishment
_b. Providing all materials and tools required to re-initiate the authority of this constitution and its implementation.
2) Member Representation
The “Representative” office is to be responsible for the observation and documentation of the current situation of the union.
i. Any union member shall be allowed to propose, through the Representative office, recommendations and suggestions concerning any union action as long as such items are accompanied by documented reasoning to support the proposal's need for consideration.
ii. Any member must be allowed to debate the superiority of any existing or proposed rationale before the Senate and Judicial offices to the extent of rational concern as evaluated by the Judicial office.
iii. If any existing rationale is found to be inferior to a proposed rationale as verified by the Judicial office, the existing rationale must be replaced by the proposed.
3) Governing Principles
The “Senate” office is to be responsible for receiving and evaluating all action proposals regarding any and all union members and establishing action priorities.
i. Principles of rationale (amendments) are to be formulated, documented, and utilized in determining proposed rational actions.
ii. No amended principle shall usurp or countermand these original articles.
iii. These principles are to be published sufficiently to allow critical review by the other offices and members.
iv. Proposals are to be evaluated for superior rationale with existing principles pertaining to the accomplishment of the goal of the maximum momentum toward eternal union harmony.
v. All alternative options to any proposal are to be rationally considered and documented along with the rationale for being rejected.
vi. All evaluations are to be accepted or rejected based on documented rational reasoning. Any rationale found to be superior to existing rationale must be incorporated into relevant executions replacing inferior rationales.
vii. A final execution plan is to be formed from all current rationale, which is then to be documented and presented to the Executive office for execution.
viii. Unless altered by constitutional counter-proposal any proposal must be accepted into law within 24 hours of being presented to the Senate. Such altering or delaying counter-proposals must conform to the same standards as the original proposal.
4) Execution of Authority
The “Executive” office is to be responsible for accurately implementing any and all execution plans received from the Senate.
5) Verification of Governing Rationale
The “Judicial” office is to be responsible for verifying that all duties are being carried out as per Constitutional rationale and for arbitration of irresolvable dispute.
i. All judicial actions are to be documented and remain open for membership rational counter-debate.
6) Qualification for Station (Purity Issue)
All office holders and members are to be qualified only by their ability to perform the associated duties of their position as determined by Judicially verified Senate rationale.
i. The determination of ability to perform shall be made by Judicially verified Senate rationale and shall remain documented for rational membership review and update.
7) Limit of Rational Authority (Extent Issue)
The number of members governed by this constitution shall not exceed the ability of the Representative office to properly and substantially represent the condition and concerns of all members.
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Comment by The Kernel on December 1, 2009 at 9:08pm -
It is our ability to organize and reorganize ourselves at increasing levels of abstraction that defines modern culture/civilization.
There is increasing talk these days about modernizing the way we govern our organizations and institutions from hierarchical structures of the past to include "new" organic horizontal structures that are process oriented than hierarchically inclined. One of the notions present in horizontal organization structures is that they should be able to adapt more rapidly to the rapidly changing world in which we live. A problem with hierarchies is that the more complex they become, the less rapidly they adapt without authoritarian direction. Horizontal structures (like the internet - for example) are more scalable. Hierarchhical organizations tend to be authoritarian in nature and functioning well in immature groups.
James, I'm not sure if you are proposing some kind of election/selection process to identify members of the representative and executive offices. Tell us more.
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Comment by James S Saint on December 1, 2009 at 11:01pm -
The process is a learning, self-correcting republic. In a sense, it doesn't really matter how it gets started because it is much like a seed that perhaps got planted upside down. As it tries to grow, it corrects itself without being told.
The only relevant aspect to who is in which office is that they have the talent to perform it. If you only have 4 people, pick the ones that seem best suited for the tasks and get to it. The process eventually corrects for all errors.
The really good thing about it is that everyone gets to see exactly why everything is happening, why the rules got to be what they are, what other options have been tried or discussed, and they each still have the option to debate new changes. It is truly "Open Source" in that the "source" is always "open" for debate and review.
The Constitution really only provides the backbone and skeleton. Each group fleshes out the details to suit their own understanding. One group could be totally Bible oriented and right next door another group could be totally atheistic. The process for development remains the same as both groups work out what they each see as most rational.
It is very similar to the US Constitution except for 3 significant changes;
1) The reasoning for any amendment or law must always be open and subject to update even if only one person sees the need. This allows the best and brightest of the group to be the most effective rather than requiring him to have to go collect a advocacy group using varied psychological games in order to try to make some sensible change that others might not easily see.
2) The number within the group is strictly limited to how many the representative office really can represent. In effect everyone can represent themselves on any change issue, but day by day, the ability for the governance to be aware of what is going on is critical and thus over-extending in order to try to gain greater numbers which leads to misunderstanding and misrepresentation is forbidden. If the representative office doesn't already know that someone needs help before they ask, then the group is too large or poorly managed.
3) The Judicial office is a bit different in that it is active without someone having to complain. The Judicial office should be always monitoring office activity for Constitutional correctness and thus should be fully aware of problems before anyone has time to get affected by them.
The list of good effects from such a Constitution is somewhat endless. To see what all gets improved and corrected, you really have to see it in action. I have seen it actually used briefly once with amazing results for the short time it was in effect (a short trial run).
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Comment by James S Saint on December 2, 2009 at 8:17pm
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I want to store this in this blog;
"Tribes had their decision making processes as well I think. It wasn't a dictatorship with just a chief was it? Elders met in a sweat lodge or whatever, passed the tobacco around, which was probably for bonding as well as lighting their inner lamp, and then they made decisions?"
These days, tribal thinking would be so quickly over thrown, you wouldn't even know it was there.
The problem has been one of leaving decision making up to desire. What is the difference between "I believe it because I want it to be true" and "I believe it because they want me to believe it is true"?
Desire is leaving the decision making process up to feelings that are persuaded by less than the whole picture. That is why you ever developed a conscious mind in the fist place; your instincts went as far as such limited processes can go. The conscious mind reaches beyond the limits of the instincts, but needs something to give it bearing. Logic is was gives it bearing. Desire merely gives it direction.
But logic gives desire direction as well. "If you want it, then logically you must do this.. to get it."
The tribal committee normally doesn't have a means to keep to the logic that would yield its long range desire. It depends on the limits of each person's learning that gets tossed into the competition for attention from the other committee members. Every generation is limited to the wisdom of that combination. The best is not what rises to the top, only the most desired. That is similar to the instinct problem, life requires more.
That Constitution creates a living conscious organism made of a few people. It is a living mind that learns far beyond the abilities of any of the individuals alone could ever accomplish. It does this by the simple process of recording its reasoning and requiring that any newly discovered better reasoning be adopted - learning.
Without that exact process (in concept), learning will be overcome by persuasion, by politics, if not the politics of those within, then by the persuasion and politics of those outside.
Just as a logical mind is very hard to hypnotize, a group under that constitution is very hard to merely persuade emotionally. But with logical reasoning, is extremely easy to persuade. It gives influence over to reasoning rather than emotionalism. But the recording, verifying, and comparing process is required for that to happen.
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Comment by Jim G on December 5, 2009 at 8:16pm - Does your Constitution of Rational Harmony relate to Systems Intelligence James?
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Comment by James S Saint on December 5, 2009 at 9:32pm
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My system is where their efforts are leading to. They are putting together a system to figure out the system. My system is the system they are going to figure out. But as such, my system only demands the minimal structure required to ensure life. It does not create morals, but lets the people within create their morals with "feedback" and other sources so as to learn whether what they thought would work, really works.
My "system" is the fundamental structure of a living entity. And as such, it is actually the pattern of the Holy Spirit.
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