Constitutional Education

[Molaskes]

The following is a selection of those parts
of the Constitution of the Democratic World
that are most relevant for the ASec ED:


Preamble

In order to build, and maintain for all time, a social system that without coercion, without violence, and without manipulation enables all human beings to have a life that can last as long, and contains as much pleasure and as little misery, as is possible by all practicable means, realized by a real democracy that gives every human being the greatest possible self-determination, and in which all human beings, freely and fully equitably, govern their joint life on all societal levels by reliable, comprehensively effective self-administration in full self-responsibility, and in order to overcome, without coercion, without violence, and without manipulation, all existing worse social orders as quickly as possible and unstoppably, avoiding all avoidable risks, and to render absolutely impossible the resurgence of worse social orders, this Constitution has been developed in decades-long, completely independent, universally scientific work, motivated solely by the goals mentioned in this preamble.


Article 1 — Ambit

(1) This Constitution applies with immediate effect to every person who, in a language they for this purpose sufficiently master, has perceived it in its entirety, has to their own judgment sufficiently understood it, and approves of it, for as long as they approve of it. That person is then considered part of the Democratic World according to this Constitution.

(3) This Constitution does not automatically render ineffective any competing social orders, especially when they resort to violence, for instance in the form of a police, to force themselves upon each person they consider their property (“citizenship”) against the person’s free will. Overcoming such hostile social orders is dealt with in Article 12 Paragraph (7) and Article 13.


Article 2 — Basic Societal Structures

(1) All persons that according to Article 1 are part of the Democratic World, organize themselves [...] in Democratic Communes, associations of each not considerably fewer than 200 and not considerably more than 1000 members who organize their everyday life directly together.

(2) As long as persons that according to Article 1 are part of the Democratic World cannot with practicable effort find or form a suitable Democratic Commune according to Paragraph (1), they alternatively organize themselves in Democratic Groups, associations of each not fewer than 12 and not more than 50 members whose primary goal it is to found together with other Democratic Groups a Democratic Commune according to Paragraph (1), and who already follow this Constitution as far as possible to practice self-administration of their everyday life.

(3) As long as persons that according to Article 1 are part of the Democratic World cannot with practicable effort find or form neither a suitable Democratic Commune according to Paragraph (1) nor a Democratic Group according to Paragraph (2), they alternatively organize themselves as soon as possible in Launch Cores, associations of each not fewer than 2 and not more than 11 members whose goal it is to add further members in order to form a Democratic Group according to Paragraph (2).


Article 3 — Higher Societal Structures

(1) A neighborhood of abidingly closely cooperating Democratic Communes according to Article 2, whose combined membership size is not considerably lower than 4000 and not considerably higher than 20,000, can form a Democratic Association, if they each do not already belong to one.

(2) A neighborhood of abidingly closely cooperating Democratic Associations according to Paragraph (1), whose combined membership size is not considerably lower than 80,000 and not considerably higher than 400,000, can form a Democratic Union, if they each do not already belong to one.

(3) A neighborhood of abidingly closely cooperating Democratic Unions according to Paragraph (2), whose combined membership size is not considerably lower than 1.6 million and not considerably higher than 8.0 million, can form a Democratic Region, if they each do not already belong to one.

(4) A neighborhood of abidingly closely cooperating Democratic Regions according to Paragraph (3), whose combined membership size is not considerably lower than 32 million and not considerably higher than 160 million, can form a Democratic Federation, if they each do not already belong to one.

(5) The combined membership size for the purpose of the Paragraphs (2) to (4) is the combined membership size of all the Democratic Communes contained within.

(6) The higher levels according to the Paragraphs (1) to (4), and the Democratic World Community according to Article 4 only serve to increase the performance capabilites and crisis security of society, and to strengthen the autarky of the levels below them, they however may at no time curtail the self-determination and autarky of the levels below them. This Constitution is for all time the only universally binding law within the Democratic World Community according to Article 4.


Article 4 — The World Community

All basic and higher societal structures according to Article 2 and Article 3 respectively are at any time united in the Democratic World Community.


Article 5 — Self-Administration / Real Democracy

(1) All societal entities, that is all instances of basic or higher societal structures according to Article 2 or Article 3 respectively and the Democratic World Community according to Article 4, each are administrated by, freely and fully equitably, all their basic level’s members (individuals) via Administrative Sectors wherein each of their basic level’s members at any time has full equitable say and powers, which they can exert as long as they officially, according to Paragraph (7), declare themselves to be one of its managers.

(2) Each societal entity according to Paragraph (1) uses at all times at least the three Administrative Sectors “System Performance” (see the Paragraphs (6) and (7)), “Education” (see Article 6), and “Conflict-Solving” (see Articles 7 to 9).

(3) Disputes within Administrative Sectors according to Paragraph (1) are settled by them internally with the goal of collective competency development, so that in the end there will stand a solution or decision that all involved managers with conviction deem the factually best one. Neither may majorities simply overrule minorities, nor age, experience, dominant conduct, or extroversion simply overrule younger age, less experience, gentleness, or introversion.

(4) All Administrative Sectors according to Paragraph (1) can each define for themselves types of decisions that be “subject to approval by all”, in which henceforth all of its managers must be involved that with practicable effort can be included within an availability period defined for that type of decision, or if such a period has not been defined, within 48 hours.

(5) Disestablishing for a particular type of decision the status of being subject to approval by all as defined in Paragraph (4) is for all Administrative Sectors mandatorily a decision subject to approval by all within the meaning of Paragraph (4), and can itself never be disestablished.

(6) The Administrative Sector “System Performance” according to Paragraph (2) decides for its societal entity which further Administrative Sectors will be needed besides those given in Paragraph (2), and defines their tasks [...]

(7) The Administrative Sector “System Performance” according to Paragraph (2) keeps a list for each of its societal entity’s Administrative Sectors with all their current managers according to Paragraph (1); any basic-level member of its societal entity according to Paragraph (1) can at any time (but not more often than twice per day and five times within twenty days) officially declare themselves towards the Administrative Sector “System Performance” to be henceforth a manager of any Administrative Sector or Sectors from that list, or to withdraw that status respectively, upon which the Administrative Sector “System Performance” updates the list accordingly.

(8) All managers of an Administrative Sector according to Paragraph (1) serve all members of the societal entity according to Paragraph (1) as contact persons for that Administrative Sector, which is to be ensured by the Administrative Sector “System Performance” according to Paragraph (2).

(9) For the purpose of proper distinction from other social orders or concepts that are also called, or were called, “democracy” or even “real democracy” (Greek antiquity, capitalist as well as socialist republics/states, so-called direct democracy as by plebiscite, and others), the real democracy defined in the Paragraphs (1) to (8) can be called “Future Democracy”, “Systematic Democracy”, “Cybernetic Democracy”, or “Full Democracy”.


Article 6 — The Educational System

(1) The Administrative Sector “Education” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) ensures the best possible education of all managers of its societal entity according to Article 5 Paragraph (1), and the best possible education of all producers and service providers of its societal entity.

(2) In Democratic Communes and Democratic Groups according to Article 2, the Administrative Sector “Education” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) ensures such a general education for all its members and their children that enables them to develop their full potential as free, independent, capable, healthy, happy, and fully self-responsible individuals. To that end, it ensures that they each as quickly as possible learn especially all the fundamental knowledge and skills of autodidacticism (reading, writing, researching, management of learning), self-management, heuristics (including mathematics and informatics), logic, epistemology, eclecticism, biology, psychology, survival, and security.

(3) In Democratic Communes and Democratic Groups according to Article 2, the Administrative Sector “Education” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) furthermore ensures that all persons living in them who are not yet part of the Democratic World according to Article 1 (usually children of their members) as soon as possible can understand this Constitution and get the opportunity to, according to Article 1, become themselves part of the Democratic World and thus also full members of their Democratic Commune or Democratic Group, if they so desire.


Article 7 — The Conflict-Solving System

(1) The Administrative Sector “Conflict-Solving” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) ensures with the greatest possible comprehensive competency that conflicts of any kind be solved as best as possible, where they exist or arise within its societal entity [...], when either asked to do so, or when its intervention seems to be called for out of ethical concerns. [...]

(2) Conflicts for the purpose of Paragraph (1) include firstly disputes, violence, coercion, or momentous manipulation within or between Administrative Sectors according to Article 5 Paragraph (1) [...]


Article 10 — The Cooperation System

Each basic or higher societal entity according to Article 2 or Article 3 respectively can entertain temporary or permanent cooperative relations with any other entity of the same type on the same level, wherefore it can maintain a distinct Administrative Sector according to Article 5 Paragraph (6).


Article 11 — Domestic Economy

(4) All societal entities according to Article 5 Paragraph (1) should, according to Article 5 Paragraph (6), maintain appropriate Administrative Sectors that continuously determine all demands for resources and services, and organize their best possible distribution within the societal entity, and make sure that all demands can be met at all times.

(5) To fulfill all demands according to Paragraph (4), the Administrative Sectors for resources and services firstly work closely together with all producers and service providers of its societal entity, and where needed, together with the Administrative Sector “Education” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) establish further producers or service providers, if any members can be interested in this.

(9) Within the entire Democratic World Community according to Article 4, all economically worthwhile knowledge gets shared freely and immediately, by the Administrative Sector “Education” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2), which is either given or regularly asks for new information, and then transmits this information to the Administrative Sector “Education” of all societal entities that according to Article 3 or Article 4 are a direct member of its own societal entity, or according to Article 10 entertain cooperative relations with it.


Article 12 — External Relations

(6) Where the economy can fulfill the demands only with resources or services that must be provided by parts of one or more other social orders (dependency on imports), there must be maintained according to Article 5 Paragraph (6) an Administrative Sector for the systems interface that ensures reliable appropriate export-import relations [...]

(7) Especially as long as there exist hostile social orders according to Article 1 Paragraph (3), each societal entity according to Article 5 Paragraph (1) should maintain according to Article 5 Paragraph (6) an Administrative Sector for public relations that as effectively and quickly as possible counteracts any hostile attitudes or feelings against its societal entity or the Democratic World according to Article 4 as a whole, and that furthermore as effectively and fast as possible motivates more and more parts of other social orders to become part of the Democratic World according to Article 1 themselves.


Article 13 — Transformation Provisions

(1) All parts of the Democratic World according to Article 1 and Article 4 support, where this falls into their reach, and as far as it is practicably possible, parts of other social orders in their transition to the Democratic World, depending on their needs by simple information, by more extensively sharing knowledge, by practical training, by help in finding or founding a suitable basic societal structure according to Article 2, by other services, and/or by donating some resources.