People's Constitution

10/01/2025

Political violence must always be condemned. It doesn’t matter which party ..

08/22/2023

It will take a new constitution to fix these problems and ensure crooks can't take over again.
ad Paid for By ALAN JAY DECHERT

10/21/2022

15 screen shots of text for 2017 contest entry

05/21/2020

06/22/2017

Thanks to Adria Ross

05/27/2017

The Paradigm of Civilization

The history of civilization shows that our ability to secure a fair and habitable world for us and future generations depends on increasing levels of communication and co-operation. The common things among us is key in bringing the world together for a common good . A common constitution by people for the people is the way to go in order to end wars and eradicate poverty Think good, act good and feel good.

02/17/2017

We achieved a couple of nice milestones today for People's Constitution.

Norway group more established with 25+ likes, alias name in the form we plan for all the pages, and a local administrator Svein Olav Nyberg (see discussion from Jan 30 on my personal page as Svein goes through the whole 31 page document with me. He got it!). fb alias for Norway is now hf.discuss.nor

Also, I'm starting on a red state campaign. All my friends say, "fine, but red states will never go for it." I think they're wrong and I intend to prove it. I have done lots of campaigning in red states over the past 40 years (my profile pic is from a speech I gave on the steps of the UT State Capitol in 2004... this was about open source voting, and was well received by everyone including the media -- was on TV that eve). I intend to go there soon. I know what to do. fb alias for UT is now hf.discuss.ut ... After UT, maybe Nebraska (where I have deep roots), then other red states in the west and mid west.

02/04/2017

Replace the US Constitution? Whoa! Everyone wants to know what the constitutional scholars have to say about that. We have enough feedback now from them to report thumbs up. There are no show-stopper bugs in the concept. Still, a lot of work to be done, but it's all feasible.

01/31/2017

Can this far out idea become normalized? The draft of the proposed Constitution of the Human Federation says, "This Constitution is the Supreme Sovereign for all people choosing to be governed by it" People's Constitution.

01/27/2017

I coined the term "Human Federation" 25 years ago in reference to a proposed minimalist world federation -- peace keeping only. I recognized that "world federation" would not be adequate if we humans maintained a presence in space. After quite a few online discussions about it, questions came up about what it would look like (constitution?) and where would it be. I drafted a constitution. Some people were suspicious that this was an expression of US hegemony. So, I decided we should try for a HQ not in the US. Somewhat arbitrarily, I decided to put out some feelers -- about 15 years ago. I got this letter back from the office of the Lord Mayor, City of Perth in Western Australia. Bottom line was we'd have to ask central gov about it, but if they said okay, we'd be welcome. Lord Mayor's office warns it's very dry there. Here's the letter (picture of email). BTW, if for some reason, anyone wants me to forward the email from the Lord Mayor's office, send me your email address and I will do that. We don't really know where it would be, but just to let people know we've been thinking about that...

01/26/2017

Is peace a human right? Of course it is. But there is nothing saying that in law. Governments more or less assume endless wars. So, we declare peace a human right and maintain a mechanism to ensure it. Like war is not possible between California and Nevada because we're part of the same federation where CA and NV are expressly forbidden from having such capability. To get this done, we have to inaugurate the proposed Human Federation at the same time.

01/25/2017

Here is another submission for consideration as part of the 2017 Federalist Papers -- arguments to back up provisions of the new constitution. Earlier, I suggested including Ted Taylor's 1996 article as backup for banning nuclear power as well as nuclear weapons. This is a presentation by Marion King Hubbert filmed in 1976. As with Taylor in 1996, Hubbert concludes solar is the way to go in the long run (also toward the end, starting at around 30 minutes). Hubbert's work also serves to back up the phase-out of fossil fuel. He gives a broad overview of our history with energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6vXHPZ0GQU