minarchist replacement for the Constitution

[Anarchist420]

Here it is:

Preamble


To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting.


Whereas the members of the U.S. Congress did on the [insert date ratified], agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, in the words following, viz:


Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia [and the other 37 states and D.C.].


Article I. The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America."; the law making body shall be Congress of the 2nd Confederation;


Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States or expressly prohibited to the States by this confederation, in Congress assembled.


Article III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.


Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State, to any other State, of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties or restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the united States, or either of them.


If any person guilty of, or charged with, treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the united States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offense.


Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.


Article V:


Congress of the 2nd Confederation shall have the power to:


raise an army


appoint, send, and receive ambassadors,


raise a navy;


establish and secure military tribunals,


appoint a commander-in-chief;


use private property for the public good,


repel all foreign and domestic invasions be they intrastate or interstate,


declare war,


end a war,


collect taxes from the states based upon their population,


enforce the limitations on the states,


establish, maintain, and secure a common treasury,


establish, maintain, and secure a common armoury and military forts;


set salaries for employees of the United States, themselves excluded;


establish and maintain a census bureau, set naturalization requirements, and collect citizenship information;


enforce 100% reserve commercial banking,


enter a treaty or alliance,


borrow money on the credit of the United States of America,


approve intrastate secession [insert state size requirements from the U.S. Constitution],


appoint a speaker to preside over Congress of the Confederation
approve spending bills for the above,





if a majority of Congress of the Confederation expressly consents to the same; however, no conscript shall be required to leave the United States nor shall Federal taxes be collected in anything other than in the form of gold and silver, nor shall any treaty [insert Articles of Confederation treaty limitations], nor shall any private property be taken by the United States of America without just compensation, nor shall the census be conducted any other time than every year divisible ten (Congress shall set the exact dates), nor shall it collect any information other than a citizenship verification, state head count for tax collecting and state reprsentations purposes only, place of residence, name, age, immediate family members, nor shall Congress of the Confederation setup bases off of U.S. soil for times the U.S. is not at war.





Article VI


Each state legislature shall pay its U.S. representative due compersation for his/her service; however, all other Federal Salaries shall be paid out of the Treasury of the Confederation.





Article VII


Each state legislature shall appoint one member to represent itself in the Congress of the 2nd Confederation, and each Congressional member shall meet at an agreed upon place every monday, wednesday, thursday, and friday, from 8:00am to 1pm.
Each U.S. Representative shall have one vote per every 750,000 people living in the state they represent during the time the most recent census was taken.





Article VIII


No State shall:


allow direct election of U.S. Representatives to Congress of the 2nd Confederation, issue patents, copyrights, set interstate commerce barriers, allow slavery (except as punishment for a crime) or the descendants of debtors to be held to involuntary servitude.


Every state shall have a republican form of government


No 2 or more states shall enter into any alliance, confederation, treaty, or agreement.





Article IX


This document is not supreme to the States, nor are the States Supreme to it, and the Confederation shall never use force against the States.

Article X.
[Oaths and debts]
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What do you think? What omissions do you think there are?

 

[irishScott]

/facepalm

 

[feralkid]

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead

 

[Scotteq]

My complaint about Anarchist420

While my better instincts counsel me to follow a policy of laissez-faire, there are a couple of Anarchist420's statements I feel I cannot let pass. With this letter, I hope to communicate and teach. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: By indiscriminately assigning value to practically everything, Anarchist420 has made "experience" all-important. His experiences, however, are detached from any consideration of what is good or true, which means that they will almost certainly foment a radical realignment of industrialized economies in the immediate years ahead. Only the impartial and unimpassioned mind will even consider that many people think of his filthy, confused words as a joke, as something only half-serious. In fact, they're deadly serious. They're the tool by which antihumanist blusterers will cater to the basest instincts of destructive pop psychologists by the end of the decade. A second all-too-serious item is that if Anarchist420 can't cite the basis for his claim that the majority of vicious polluters are heroes, if not saints, then he should just shut up about it.

I suppose it's predictable, though terribly sad, that snarky, unstable ignoramuses with stronger voices than minds would revert to horny behavior. But we are a nation of prostitutes. By this I mean that as long as we are fat, warm, and dry we don't care what Anarchist420 does. It is precisely that lack of caring that explains why Anarchist420 keeps saying that unfounded attacks on character, loads of hyperbole, and fallacious information are the best way to make a point. In such statements, as in most of his propaganda, there are major omissions and layers of codswallop wrapped around a small piece of the truth. The real story is that Anarchist420 appears committed to the proposition that his views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while other people's positions are not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological, and unworthy of serious consideration. If you were to get a second opinion from someone who's not a member of Anarchist420's little empire, however, he'd of course tell you that Anarchist420 has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and replace Robert's Rules of Order with "facilitated consensus building" at all important meetings—all by trumping up a phony emergency.

You can waste all your time arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Or you can actually demand a thoughtful analysis and resolution of our problems with Anarchist420. You decide. I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes people like him want to peddle the snake oil of primitive antidisestablishmentarianism.

My argument gets a little complicated here. Even Anarchist420's lapdogs couldn't deal with the full impact of Anarchist420's belief systems. That's why they created "Anarchist420-ism," which is just an abusive excuse to force us to do things or take stands against our will. Ten years ago, it was hostile turncoats. Today, it's unprofessional warlords who create a desolation and call it peace.

Anarchist420's fixation on revisionism is nothing more than camouflage for a lack of original ideas. An equal but opposite observation is that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Of course, if Anarchist420 had learned anything from history, he'd know that many of the people I've talked to have said that Anarchist420 and his loyalists should all be put up against a wall and given traitors' justice. Without commenting on that specifically I'd merely like to point out that I am making an appeal to the intelligence of the reader not to be fooled by Anarchist420's demagoguery. But it goes further than that; I insist that Anarchist420 is an uncouth bum. How else can I characterize a person who did all of the following and then some?

•Embark on wholesale torture and slaughter of innocent civilians

•Destroy everything beautiful and good

•Take us all on an entirely reckless ride into the unknown

I could lengthen this list, but I shall rest my case. The point is that Anarchist420 thinks that he's the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. However, he is bound to have a rude awakening when he finally realizes how few people approve of his jejune cop-outs.

I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I wish only that Anarchist420 had the same intellectual honesty. The "facts" he has often stated contain some serious distortions. Some are blatant; others are subtle. One of the most domineering is his discussion of fork-tongued wing nuts.

Anarchist420 insists that if he kicks us in the teeth we'll then lick his toes and beg for another kick. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Whenever anyone states the obvious—that he got a little carried away with his reprehensible revenge fantasies—discussion naturally progresses towards the question, "Why does he insist on boring holes in the hull of the boat in which he himself is also a passenger?" As you ponder the answer to that question, consider that if we are going to speak objectively about his jokes, we must understand that if I said that he is known for his sound judgment, unerring foresight, and sagacious adaptation of means to ends, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being utterly honest if I said that I am not predicting anything specific. I just have a feeling, an intuition, based on several things that are happening now that Anarchist420 will introduce absurd, baseless, terror-ridden lawsuits intended to destroy the lives of countless innocent people some day.

Here's the heart of the matter: Under the guise of stimulating debate and illuminating diverse perspectives, Anarchist420's excuses actually shackle us with the chains of academicism. Let me try to explain what I mean by that in a single sentence: Anarchist420 ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:

Fact: I must protest Anarchist420's use of contemptible lackwits to preach hatred.

Fact: A well-respected professor at a nearby university, writing with the dispassionate objectivity that is a precondition of all scientific knowledge, has recently concluded that he flagrantly abuses rules and regulations and then complains vehemently when caught.

Fact: What we see today is a greater than normal manifestation of fatuous traits in his sophistries.

In addition, he keeps saying that he has a "special" perspective on metagrobolism that carries with it a "special" right to create an intimidating, hostile, and demeaning environment. For some reason, Anarchist420's allies actually believe this nonsense.

Once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they'll realize that Anarchist420's epigrams are not our only concern. To state the matter in a few words, Anarchist420 wants to leave us in the lurch. What's wrong with that? What's wrong is Anarchist420's gossamer grasp of reality. Should this be discussed in school? You bet. That's the function of education: To teach students how to challenge the present and enrich the future.

Anarchist420 thinks that he is clean and bright and pure inside. Of course, thinking so doesn't make it so. He has announced his intentions to destroy our moral fiber. While doing so may earn Anarchist420 a gold star from the mush-for-brains Bulverism crowd, statements like, "We should treat his disgraceful coalition for what it is, a malicious group of rotten bullies" accurately express the feelings of most of us here. Given the range and unpredictability of human behavior, it is quite possible that his fans are merely ciphers. Anarchist420 is the one who decides whether or not to arouse inter-ethnic suspicion. Anarchist420 is the one who gives out the orders to confuse the catastrophic power of state fascism with the repression of an authoritarian government in our minds. And Anarchist420 is the one trying to conceal how I wonder if he really believes the things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he? Let me answer from my own personal perspective: As many of you know, I realized a long time ago that Anarchist420 plans to turn us into easy prey for what I call dodgy scofflaws. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how Anarchist420 has gone way too far with his no-compromise attitude. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propaganda surrounding his promotion of racism. Tell everyone you know that I do not appreciate being labeled. No one does. Nevertheless, if Anarchist420 manages to cultivate an unhealthy sense of victimhood, civilization will crumble almost immediately. Investigators from a future era will need to sift through the charred wreckage of our society looking for the black box to figure out what happened. Maybe they'll even discover that if Fate desired that Anarchist420 make a correct application of what he had read about solecism it would have to indicate title and page number since the amoral curmudgeon would otherwise never in all his life find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, if Anarchist420's attempts to make silly exponents of elitism out to be something they're not have spurred us to tell you a little bit about him and his choleric rantings, then Anarchist420 may have accomplished a useful thing. One final point: My personal safety depends upon your starting to free Anarchist420's mind from the constricting trammels of plagiarism and the counterfeit moral inhibitions that have replaced true morality, just as your personal safety depends upon my doing the same.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Article XI

Anarchist420 shall be henceforth banned from posting anything on an internet forum.
Anarchist420 shall also read a farking history book, or several of them, and his mind will be set free.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Some of Anarchist's posts may come off as being ridiculous, but I think that for the most part they promote thinking considerably more so than most threads in here do.