Theme: Constitutional Order

@Michael Shermer

When you start the 1st Mars colony @elonmusk what documents would you recommend using to establish a governing system? U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights? Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Humanist Manifesto? Atlas Shrugged? Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto?

@elonmusk

Replying to @michaelshermer

Direct democracy by the people. Laws must be short, as there is trickery in length. Automatic expiration of rules to prevent death by bureaucracy. Any rule can be removed by 40% of people to overcome inertia. Freedom.

@curtdoolittle

Replying to @elonmusk @michaelshermer

1) One cannot make law only discover applications of reciprocity, since the only ‘law’ of cooperation is reciprocity.

2) One can construct legislation as a contract between members of the polity, and legislation must be strictly constructed in operational terms from reciprocity.

3) Commons and Norms the require defense must be enumerated.

4) All contracts must expire within the working lifetime of the enactors.

5) Apply all fees to ends. Prohibit pooling of funds (and therefore discretion).

6) Non-retroactivity, Universal Applicability, and Universal Standing, and in particular, Universal Standing in matters of the Commons (prevents circumvention of the judiciary as a limit on markets and therefore prevent possibility of corruption.)

7) Simplicity (brevity) will result from the practice of 1-6.

8) Closing: most problems with common law of tort arose because the state intervened in the law, and deprived the citizenry of standing in matters of the commons. (See England, Coal, Mills).