Rules, everyone submits 10 amendments in order of importance, we put those in a datasheet, and we create the chapo constitution.
(if anyone is interested in a modern constitutional convention then please visit /c/hapostan)
Rules, everyone submits 10 amendments in order of importance, we put those in a datasheet, and we create the chapo constitution.
(if anyone is interested in a modern constitutional convention then please visit /c/hapostan)
Totally forgot to include judicial selection criteria. I had in mind something representative; judges would be elected rather than appointed, and be limited to single terms.
Rule 8 does forbid military action against member units, and I intentionally left out any way to modify the constitution, but rules have never stopped people from doing what they want. I think any kind of political system is going to present the risk of change through conquest, though. The risk of one individual unit dominating the nation doesn't seem that different from the risk of a neighboring nation coming in and taking over. The best you can do is try to make units get along and agree to a bare minimum of just treatment for their citizens.
I'll push back - external invasions are entirely different from internal ones. The way this proposal is set up, each individual nation can form their own military (while in the federation) and then secede whenever. The thing stopping, say, Texas from seceding from today's America is partly because they don't have a military (and couldn't nearly put one together to rival the US military). With each state as its own de facto nation, the central government becomes basically meaningless - why listen to an authority that doesn't have any avenue of executing its own laws?