Proposal for Constitution

[Cheetah]

The Constitution of <nation-name>

Article A
All Civfanatics Forum users who register in the Citizen Registry are citizens of <nation-name>. Citizens have the right to assemble, the right to free movement, the right to free speech, the right to a fair trial, the right to representation, the right to demand satisfaction and the right to vote.

Article B
Governing rules shall consist of the Articles of the Constitution, the Code of Laws and the Code of Standards. No laws shall be passed that conflict with an article and no standards shall be used that conflict with a law or an article.

Article C
The government will consist of the Administrative Council, the Assembly and the Judicial Council.

Article D
The Administrative Council consists of the Consul of Internal Affairs, the Consul of Foreign Affairs and the Consul of Military Affairs.

1. The Consul of Internal Affairs is in charge of the nation. He acts as the head of state and government for Fanatikou. He shall be the primary person in charge of playing the save game.
2. The Consul of Internal Affairs handles all aspects of the game directly related to the care and management of the cities, and of the national tax rates. He also oversees the nation's scientists in their work.
3. The Consul of Foreign Affairs handles all diplomacy conducted with foreign nations. This includes the negotiation of treaties and trade agreements.
4. The Consul of Military Affairs is the general of the army, navy, and air force. He handles all movement of units, except for workers and settlers.
5. No citizen shall hold multiple Consul offices simultaneously.
6. Each Consul shall appoint one Deputy.
7. The Consuls may delegate their powers as they see fit by creating and appointing citizens to Offices.

Article E
The Assembly shall consist of the entirety of the citizenry. The Assembly shall be the legislative body in the government.

1. For each term there will be a stickied thread for the Assembly. Here all legislative discussions will be held.

Article F
The Judicial Council will be formed of the Justice of the Court of <nation-name>. He shall handle all judicial matters of the county, including interpretation of the Constitution, and Public Investigations.

1. No citizen shall hold a Consul position in conjunction with the position of Justice of the Court.

Article G
All offices will be filled via election with terms lasting according to a fixed schedule based on game years. There shall be equal terms of 25 turns each and elections shall be held accordingly.

Article H
All officials must plan and act according to the will of the people.

Article I
It is unlawful to play through actions, move troops, make deals or take any other action that would change the state of the playing game from that of the saved game.

Article J
The constitution, laws and standards of Fanatikou can never be contrary to the rules and regulations of the Civfanatics forums. Moderators may veto any such constitutional amendments, laws or standards.

Article K
A majority of the active Assembly shall be required to amend the Constitution.

1. The average of the number of votes cast in each of the most recent contested elections shall constitute the active Assembly.
2. Polls to amend the Constitution must be open for a minimum of 72 hours.

Article L
A majority of the votes in a poll lasting minimum 48 hours is required to amend the Code of Laws.

1. The poll must also recieve a number of votes equal to or greater than half of the active Assembly.

Article M
The Consul of Foreign Affairs, his Deputy and the Consul of Internak Affairs are de-facto ambassadors to all nations. Regular Ambassadors are elected each term.

1. Ambassadors shall only be chosen when Fanatikou has made in-game contact with a rival civilization.

Article N

1. In the event a Consul takes a temporary leave of absence, he shall appoint a pro-tempore official to fill that position until the Consul shall return.

• The pro-tempore official may be the Consuls deputy.
• The Consul may empower another official or citizen to choose the pro-tempore official.

1. In the event an official becomes vacant, a new official shall be appointed.
   • In the event the Consul of Internal Affairs becomes vacant, the Justice of the Court shall appoint a new citizen to fill the vacant position.
   • In the event the Consul of Foreign Affairs or the Consul of Military Affairs becomes vacant, the Consul of Internal Affairs shall apoint a new citizen to fill the vacant position.
   • If the position of Ambassador to any nation becomes vacant, the Consul of Foreign Affairs shall appoint a new citizen to fill the vacant position.
2. Should the citizen filling the position of Consul of Internal Affairs become absent for a period of seven (7) days without prior notification to the nation, the Justice of the Court may remove that citizen from the office and appoint another citizen as the Consul.
3. Should citizens filling the positions of Consul of Foreign Affairs or Consul of Military Affairs become absent for a period of seven (7) days without prior notification to the nation, the Consul of Internal Affairs may remove that citizen from that office.
4. Should citizens filling the one of the Ambassadorial positions become absent for a period of seven (7) days without prior notification to the nation, the Consul of Foreign Affairs may remove that citizen from that office.
5. All appointments must be approved by a citizen poll lasting 48 hours. A simple majority is needed for ratification.

• The newly appointed official may act as the official of his office, from the time of his appointment and until the poll closes.

Article O
Treaties and agreements with foreign nations may be ratified by <nation-name> with a poll open for minimum 48 hours. A simple majority of voters is required to ratify the treaty or agreement.

1. In matters of extremely urgent national security (ex. impending invasion), the Administrative Council may chose to sign the treaty, making it binding for all of Fanatikou. However, the Chief Jutice would have to verify that is was indeed a matter of extremely urgent national security.

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So what do you think?

 

[Zarn]

I like it (alot)!

Though I disagree with article M

De-facto should be foreign and foreign's deputy and maybe Internal (who is assuming the role of president in this case)

 

[Donovan Zoi]

This is pretty good, Cheetah.

I would have to agree with Zarn that we may want to leave the Consul of Miltary Affairs(CoMA? ) out of our embassies. On the surface, eveything else looks great, although I will give it another look soon.

 

[Hygro]

AS demogame constitutions go this one is pretty good.

 

[GenMarshall]

I also agree.

 

[Cheetah]

Thanks for the comments.
Though I seem to have messed up with the formating. :-/

I'll change Article M as to Zarn suggestions.

 

[Hygro]

You don't have a council vote type thinkg hidden in there do you?

 

[Ankka]

It looks good, I didn't read it thorougly, but it looks good.

Unless you have hidden a council vote into it.

 

[Cheetah]

The Council votes I found I replaced with a majority vote from the citisens I think.

 

[Hygro]

then its a great constitution for sure!

 

[Matrix]

Oi, I hate this stuff. It looks good though. I just hope I can be either something military or something foreign.
I'd love to do some diplomacy.

But I'll see how it works when the elections come.

 

[Ankka]

I like it. Now just make it official and poll it.

Oh, but we need a nation name...

 

[Zarn]

Now the only problem with 'M' is it isn't 'his' deputy but the Foreign Affairs Deputy. We don't have a FA Minister, so there is no gender. That and Internal is spelled wrong.

I would just correct it while putting it up to poll.

 

[Peri]

I have a question to ask.
Do we intend to use the ruleset to attack each other as in the spdg or is the intention to work together as a team?
If this really is a team game then we dont need to have a strict or a complicated ruleset and I would strongly advise against the creation of one.

 

[Hygro]

Peri, having only played in the MSDG, and not thew SPDG, I'm not sure what you are saying. Please explain in detail.

 

[croxis]

Peri, in the other game MSDG we work together as a team.

 

[Cheetah]

The Constitution is only so that we have some basic rules to how we do things. It is intended to helping us having more fun and make us better organised.

It is not the intention to attack each other! That isn't the intention in the SPDG either, though at times it can look like it.

 

[Peri]

Sorry for my above comment. It was written during a particularly bitter period of legal wrangling in the SPDG. Although I did not articulate it well, I was trying to assert that as long as we intend to work together, cooperate with each to achieve a common goal, and seek to solve any problems through firendly and respectful discussion then the exact wording of the rules are of secondary importance. The SPDG has 3 layers of rules and they still dont work as intended. Therefore I advocate the most basic system of rules designed to allow the game to operate.
Once again I apologise for my previous comment.

 

[Donovan Zoi]

Since we are playing the AI in the SPDG, a little infighting really doesn't hurt tooo bad. Those scars will heal....eventually.

Now when we are playing against the crafty human opponent, that is when we need to stick together. So I stand alongside Peri in maintaining that our ruleset should not be too elaborate.

 

[Ankka]

Nice wording. I second that.