Constitutional Commune Founding

[Molaskes]

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


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.


Article 2 — Basic Societal Structures

(1) All persons that according to Article 1 are part of the Democratic World, organize themselves for permanent largely autarkical social self-administration 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).

(4) All basic societal entities, that is all instances of basic societal structures according to the Paragraphs (1) to (3), can at their own discretion admit further members, or according to Article 7 Paragraph (9) expel members, or dissolve themselves as an entity, and all members can at any time end their membership and leave the societal entity in order to join another entity, or to leave the Democratic World altogether.

(8) When a Democratic Group according to Paragraph (2) exceeds the maximum size given therein, it must be split into at least two new Democratic Groups according to Paragraph (2).

(9) All status changes according to the Paragraphs (4) to (8) are to be coordinated by the Administrative Sector “System Performance” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2).


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).


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) [...]


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) [...]

(9) As the last resort of Conflict-Solving according to Paragraph (1), except for cases where Article 8 must be applied, the Administrative Sector “Conflict-Solving” can recommend to split up the societal entity, or to expel a societal member entity, or, for basic societal entities, to expel an individual member, about which the Administrative Sector “Conflict-Solving” and the Administrative Sector “System Performance” according to Article 5 Paragraph (2) must then decide jointly together as a decision that is mandatorily subject to approval by all within the meaning of Article 5 Paragraph (4).


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

(1) Within the Democratic World Community according to Article 4, every person who according to Article 1 is part of the Democratic World shall always act adhering to real cooperation by never forcing nor manipulating others into complying with what they wish those others to do, and by only complying with the wishes of others where approving of the desired action as such itself.

(2) Any forms of trading (I/we will do X for you, if you will do Y for me/us) violate the principles of real cooperation according to Paragraph (1) and are therefore impermissible within the Democratic World Community according to Article 4, where any use of money as ritualized trading is to be treated as a particularly momentous violation according to Article 7 Paragraph (4).

(3) All persons who according to Article 1 are part of the Democratic World attentively observe the biological and social needs of all human beings that are in their environment, or who they otherwise encounter, or with whom they otherwise have contact, regardless of whether these too are part of the Democratic World, and will proportionally to the assumed urgency of help, as far as it is practicably possible and is not refused by the other party, strive to support them in fulfilling these needs.

(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.

(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.

(10) Regardless of existing or not existing cooperative relations according to Article 10, all societal entities of the Democratic World give each other crisis support to resolve any emergency, especially where they are geographically located close by each other. In cases of doubt, a claimed emergency is to be investigated as quickly as in the case of confirmation would be ethically justifiable, by one or more societal entities that could give at least some of the necessary help.


Article 12 — External Relations

(1) External relations for the purpose of this Article are all actions and measures by parts of the Democratic World according to Article 1 and Article 4 that relate to parts of other social orders, or to such a social order as a whole, regardless of the geographical location in which they take place.

(2) Each societal entity according to Article 5 Paragraph (1) can establish according to Article 5 Paragraph (6) one or more Administrative Sectors that manage the external relations according to Paragraph (1).

(3) Each basic societal entity according to Article 2 should, as far as it presumably is necessary, and as far as it is practicable, secure itself and its members against violent assaults, encroachment, and other grave harmful actions that might be committed by parts of other social orders. These security measures should include personal security, object security, and data security, each both on the premises of the societal entity and on the road, including the accompaniment of visitors in either case.

(4) The risk of violent assaults, encroachment, or other grave harmful actions committed by parts of other social orders should at all times be minimized strategically by each societal entity according to Article 5 Paragraph (1), among other things by outwardly following any rules such social orders explicitly or implicitly demand, especially also against rules of this very Constitution, as far as this reasonably seems necessary, while cleverly preserving as many freedoms within the societal entity as is practicably possible.

(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, and for these can in particular also conduct trading or use money as much as is necessary in these external 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.

(8) Also in external relations, the Democratic World according to Article 1 Paragraph (1) uses no coercion, no violence, and no manipulation in the sense of the malicious use of psychological or sociological tricks to the detriment of the other party.


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.

(2) The Democratic World Community according to Article 4 maintains according to Article 5 Paragraph (6) an Administrative Sector for public relations, whose tasks include to establish and maintain communication structures as effective as possible for making contacts, for coordination, and for sharing information, in particular for the purposes given in the Articles 2, 3, 4, 10, and 11.