CFC - Constitution Fun Challenge

Another site that many of us frequent has held MFCs (music fun challenge) and WFCs (writing fun challenge). The equivalent in the political sphere is constitution writing. It is also an area that Australia has not excelled at. So in the interests of increasing Australian constitution writing skills, South Sea Republic is holding an informal and friendly competition to write a constitution, or part of a constitution.

The "Bearded Men" pretty much botched the Australian constitution, and the states haven't improved much either. Queensland recently rewrote their constitution into one document and it was pretty ordinary too. States like Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia still do not have one, the sovereignty for their government system is spread across numerous Acts, including British ones.

So we need more constitution writing skills in Australia.

South Sea Republic is heavily constitutionally focused, so it makes sense that a fun challenge involve constitution drafting and writing skills. So this is your challenge;

Write a constitution or part of constitution for an ideal government.

The parts can include;

  • Executive
  • Legislative
  • Judicial
  • Preamble
  • Governor-General
  • States
  • Rights
  • anything else

It doesn't have to be complete, it can be as small or as large as you like. It does not have to be perfect, innovate ideas to solve constitutional and procedural issues will be highly valued.

You can also enter as many entries as you like and is not limited to Australian entries either. Rewrite the American constitution, Swiss constitution, or Iraqi constitution ... anything is fair game.

End of May is the cut-off date.
Permalink, CFC - Constitution Fun Challenge, Apr 2006, cam
avocadia: My stalled efforts: Not to sound full of myself, but I can\'t help but wonder if NaCoWriMo here isn\'t some attempt to flush out my stalled attempt at writing a constitution :- )
Kieran Bennett: Constitution Fun Challenge here I come: Poor man\'s trackback , I\'m going to make something of an attempt.

Look foward to seeing what others have come up with by the end of May.
cam: Wha?: :)

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cam: Interesting take: I am interested to see what you come up with by removing the states.

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adam: City states of the Australian plain: Hmmm, it\'ll be interesting to see how much sovereignty you feed to your little ancient Hellenic enclaves.
avocadia: City-States?: Surely everything will be anarcho-capitialist burbclaves :- )
adam: I\'ll start saving for my aircraft carrier now $:
cam: Nearly all the major parties: .... have spoken of dissolving the states, Kieren\'s attempt at constitutionalising it will be the first formalisation of that policy that I know of.

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cam: bio-tech is where it is at: I read this book , I think it was non-fiction, but there are all these people living off the coast of Australia in a manufactured island.

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