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Redalgo
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« Reply #25 on: August 31, 2013, 08:32:06 PM »
« edited: August 31, 2013, 08:48:17 PM by Redalgo »

Well, to name a few:

  • Officially collective but de-facto public/private hybrid ownership of all lands and products of labour
  • Denizenship/citizenship duality; the former pays no tax but gets no free goods or services from the state
  • Voting age lowered to sixteen; all citizens and denizens allowed to vote
  • Ban of all business corporations and partnerships
  • Some workplace compensation controls
  • Guarantee of workplace democracy
  • Economic cooperativization
  • Tax code simplification and inclusion in Constitution to deter creation of new loopholes
  • Right not to be executed, tortured, mutilated, conscripted, or enslaved
  • Right for free speech not to be limited or censored by state
  • Adjustment to and caveats for gun ownership rights
  • Right for no person, social group, social status, or doctrine to be implied superior or inferior by the state
  • Substantially expanded terms of state non-discrimination in regards to civil rights
  • Marriage / civil partnership / civil union equality
  • Right to trial over matters of controversy increase from $20 to $500 minimum, henceforth adjusted for inflation
  • Right to adhere to own cultural identity (within certain limits)
  • Right to basic income
  • Right to primary and secondary education
  • Right to adequate sanitation facilities
  • Right to useful access to electricity and modern tools of communication
  • Right to ample time off from work for sleep, leisure, and tending to other aspects of the good life
  • Right to access medical facilities and social insurance covering health care expenses
  • Right to be provided a passport without any fees
  • Constitutional clauses advising the People of their duties to voluntarily accept, for the Revolution's survival
  • Replacement of the House of Representatives with the People's Assembly
  • Replacement of the Senate with the Continental Senate
  • Altered responsibilities and checks on the legislative branch
  • Replacement of the post of POTUS with an executive Presidium
  • Fourth, technocratic branch of government drawing membership from academia
  • Addition of a Constitutional Court to pro-actively uphold or nullify state acts and policies
  • One-term limits in all branches of government; judges no longer have lifetime appointments
  • Publicly financed elections, and public media outlets for covering elections and politics
  • Proportional representation, different ballot and vote-counting method, and a lowered number of seats
  • Territories allowed full-participation and seats in Congress
  • Native nations guaranteed self-determination
  • Compensation controls for elected officials
  • Representatives cannot be expelled by Congress
  • Open-list primaries for all parties fielding candidates for elected office
  • Constitutional convention automatically re-convenes to debate amendments once every ten years
  • Procedures for peacefully letting republics into and out of the Union
  • Procedures for peacefully letting people into and out of the Union
  • Change of national symbols; e.g. name becomes the American Federation of Socialist Republics

Personally, I think it would be easier to incorporate it all into a new Constitution rather than amend the old one.
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