Posted on 09/18/2011 8:22:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Amendment
SECTION 1. It being the special duty of the Judicial Council to formulate and suggest amendments to this Constitution, it shall, from time to time, make proposals, through the Principal Justice, to the Senate. The Senate, if it approve, and if the President agree, shall instruct the Overseer to arrange at the next national election for submission of the amendment to the electorate. If not disapproved by a majority, it shall become part of this Constitution. If rejected, it may be restudied and a new proposal submitted.
It shall be the purpose of the amending procedure to correct deficiencies in the Constitution, to extend it when new responsibilities require, and to make government responsible to needs of the people, making use of advances in managerial competence and establishing security and stability; also to preclude changes in the Constitution resulting from interpretation.
SECTION 2. When this Constitution shall have been in effect for twenty-five years the Overseer shall ask, by referendum, whether a new Constitution shall be prepared. If a majority so decide, the Council, making use of such advice as may be available, and consulting those who have made complaint, shall prepare a new draft for submission at the next election. If not disapproved by a majority it shall be in effect. If disapproved it shall be redrafted and resubmitted with such changes as may be then appropriate to the circumstances, and it shall be submitted to the voters at the following election.
If not disapproved by a majority it shall be in effect. If disapproved it shall be restudied and resubmitted.
Basically, this part of Tugwell's constitution would allow the government to propose an amendment to it or a new constitution that would even more restrict the People's rights/increase the government's authority, and such a proposal would go into effect "[i]f not disapproved by a majority" of the "electorate". That means that even if a majority of those voting voted against the proposal, it would go into effect if that majority was not a majority of "the electorate" (those who could vote). So every homeless, mentally ill, or apathetic person would be registered to vote and effectively be an automatic yes vote (just keep them from the polling stations, so they can't vote "no"). Even if the proposal failed, it would simply be "resubmitted" repeatedly until it passed.
This part of Tugwell's constitution is most nefarious provision in it, because you wouldn't need to spell out all of the horrors Tugwell had in mind. You would simply add them in later.
“Jackwagon is right.”
I think we have to look no further than his name, Rexford Tugwell.
I think this document is his retaliation for all that playground torment he must have endured.
Eh, Tuggy?
>>Tuggy<<
Ha! I’m thinking superwedgie, at the very least.
Either his parents hated him, or he has a bizarre sense of taste in choosing a pen name!
“If not disapproved by a majority, it shall become part of this Constitution. If rejected, it may be restudied and a new proposal submitted.” That’s exactly what the EU has been doing with the Maastricht Treaty! After a nation rejects it they just resubmit it for additional votes until they get the result they want.
Maybe they can try it out in Cuba first, and if it works there, they can expand to Mexico and see how well it scales up.
For over here, I like ours just fine.
-PJ
“armed force”, actualy.
Thank you.
I remember from my tour how many German words did double, even triple duty.
No offense intended.
A CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA, from the book, THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION by Rexford G. Tugwell, published 1974 (Harper & Row: $20.00) illustrates with chilling clarity the final objective of regional governance conspirators. The goal is a corporate state concentrating economic, political and social powers in the hands of a ruling elite. “A Constitution for the Newstates of America”, is the fortieth version of this revolutionary document prepared by a team of social experimenters at the CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS, Fund for the Republic (Ford Foundation), Post Office Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103.
The Center, its first objective accomplished, has appointed socialist-oriented University of Denver Chancellor Maurice B. Mitchell as its new head and may merge with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a Colorado-based world government policy promotion agency.
Aspen Institute Chairman is Robert O. Anderson, chief executive officer, Atlantic Richfield Company; member, Committee for Economic Development (laid ground work for regional government), and advisory board member, Institute for International Education. Anderson is the principal figure in campaign aimed at seizing control of the National Rifle Association.
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