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The rest of this document contains notes to myself about other ideas. Much of it is my own writing, but some are notes copied and pasted in from elsewhere to remind me to examine some issue or another. the "running version" of the constitution in my head incorporates most of the ideas below, and hence is rather different from what is described above. as i have time, i intend to slowly rewrite the above to incorporate the changes.
TODO: fix delegate excess problem (i.e. should adjust delegate minimum so that if there were one more person, there would be enough to elect 8 delegates)
recommendations
don't make the legislature approve a lot of the organization's actions; the legislature is designed to be able only to express the organization's views on topics on which there is broad agreement, it is not able to decide controversial issues quickly. Note that the 60% threshold translates into a need for 5 out of 7 representative on the 7-person legislatures, which is just over 70%; this is by design; the legislature, especially the representative legislature, can only act in the presence of substantial agreement. Since there are many decisions must be made one way or another even when agreement cannot be reached, the executives should be given substantial discretion to take action in the absence of legislative agreement.
mb just call the tribunes "president" since english-speakers are familiar with that term. but the role is so different... governor?
other names:
critic guardian of the people the people's guardian the people's investigator anti-prime minister governor auditor speaker investigator detective chief
eh, i still like tribune best
overseer guardian chairperson board, not commissioners?
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the Gadaa system is interesting:
http://www.ethiopolitics.com/articles/The_Gadaa_system.htm
it's a democracy. the top 9 officials are:
1. Abbaa Bokku - President 2. Abbaa Bokku - First Vice-President 3. Abbaa Bokku - Second Vice-President 4. Abbaa Chaffe - Chairman of the Assembly (Chaffe) 5. Abbaa Dubbi - Speaker who presents the decision of the presidium to the Assembly 6. Abbaa Seera - Memoriser of the laws and the results of the Assembly's deliberations. 7. Abbaa Alanga - Judge who executes the decision 8. Abbaa Duula - In charge of the army 9. Abbaa Sa'a - In charge of the economy
this is slightly analogous to constructs in AC and in traditional structures: 3 chairs (but with positive power, too), a secretary of the Forum (parliamentarian, but not chairing), a Judge, a EEO, a CEO. Abbaa Chaffe and Abbaa Dubbi are the only ones not represented at all, afaik (a chairman of the Forum and a go-between who presents the decisions of these 9 to the Forum).
interesting and sad reading on how formal democracy, seemingly supported by the central government, can be perverted by local corruption, esp. in an atmophere of violence:
ETHIOPIA SINCE THE DERG: DEMOCRATIC PRETENSION AND PERFORMANCE. DEMOCRATISATION IN ETHIOPIA ON LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL Lovise Aalen Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS NOT FOR THE OROMO? STRUCTURAL REASONS FOR THE FAILURE OF DEMOCRATISATION Siegfried Pausewang Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway
from Exploring New Political Alternatives for the Oromo in Ethiopia Report from Oromo workshop and its after-effects Edited by Siegfried Pausewang
http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/3360-exploring-new-political-alternatives-for-the-oromo.pdf
on the need for fair process:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5959/1466.full
" Science 11 December 2009: Vol. 326 no. 5959 p. 1466 DOI: 10.1126/science.326.5959.1466
Anthropology Anthropology Chagnon Critics Overstepped Bounds, Historian Says
1. Charles C. Mann
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