The ideas, percentages, and time frames presented here
are negotiable at this point in time, and we are always interested in
hearing about any other good ideas.
To Start With...
As a requirement of the existing
democratic-capitalist constitution, the AEM must gain an absolute
majority in both houses of parliament in order to change the
Constitution of Australia.
We are asking for 15 years to install
(much of) the AEM's Egalitarian constitution.
After 5 Years
However, after the first 5 years, you will
be given the opportunity to reject the AEM's Egalitarian
constitution, and return to a democratic-capitalist constitution providing that those
who represent the democratic-capitalism win at least
60% of the vote.
After 10 Years
If you read our 'The
Democratic and Undemocratic Nature of the AEM's Egalitarian
Society' web page, you will see that the AEM strongly disagrees with
the contemporary democratic process. However, after 10 years, you will be given the opportunity
to vote for the right to democratically elect a (federal)
government, just in case you feel that our improved democratic
system is unsatisfactory. That is, if over 50% of the voting
public vote against the AEM's version of democracy, we will return
to the contemporary democratic system. However, if those who represent
the contemporary democratic system win, the AEM will not run for government.
We don't administer that which we disagree with. As such, the remainder of
this contract will
only apply if you have voted to stay with the AEM's version of
Egalitarianism.
After 15 Years
After 15 years, you will again be given
the opportunity to return to democratic-capitalism, or to
try something else. This time, it will require 70% of the vote to change the constitution back to what it was,
or to something else.
From Then On
However, if more than 30% of
the voting population vote against Egalitarianism in this constitutional
election (or any other constitutional election to follow), the AEM will
regard this as a failure, and be obligated to conduct another constitutional
election (i.e. not an election for government) within 5 years.
If
20-30% of the voting population vote against Egalitarianism in any constitutional
election,
the government will be obligated to conduct constitutional
elections again within 10 years.
If
10-20% of the voting population
vote against
Egalitarianism in any constitutional election, the government will be obligated
to conduct constitutional elections again within 20 years.
If
less than
10% of the voting population vote
against Egalitarianism in any constitutional
election,
the government will be obligated to conduct constitutional
elections again within 25 years.
We think that the clauses mentioned within this paragraph
should be included within the contemporary democratic-capitalist
constitution (but we know that our current ruling class would
never allow us this opportunity to slip away so easily).
If Egalitarianism receives less than
40%
of the vote in any constitutional election
(and no other constitutional philosophy wins more than 70% of the
vote), the Head of State (and the Department of the Head of State)
will undertake social research to determine why this is so. The
results of this research can lead to several different courses of
action, depending upon what the reason(s) is/are for this drop in
support. This action can range from doing nothing (if for example, public
disapproval is associated with something that the AEM believes is
fundamental to Egalitarianism) to the other extreme of changing
laws or policies, or allowing the citizens to vote on one or more
issues that they are concerned about. And if the government
ignores this public dissatisfaction, it risks losing the next
constitutional election.
Amendments to the Egalitarian
Constitution
Should a government, a Leader of
Government, a Head of State, or anybody else wish to make
amendments to the Egalitarian constitution in the future
(including the re-introduction of the contemporary democratic
system), this will require a
separate election and 70% of the vote to be passed.
You should remember that the public has
never voted for our democratic-capitalist constitution, and even
if they did, all of those people who were born into the democratic-capitalist
society (which is all of you) have never been, and would never
have been given the chance to decide for yourselves (which
doesn't sound like the upholders of the democratic-capitalist
constitution have much faith in your loyalty to this
constitution). Should the AEM manage to become a political party, you
will be able to vote to stay with the democratic-capitalist
constitution for the first time in history, or you can start saving
yourselves, your descendants, your environment, and the world by voting for the AEM. Because of this, you will no longer be able to claim that
you are helpless or blameless in regard to the course that our nation
follows. If you vote to stay with the contemporary
democratic-capitalist constitution, you will be just as much to blame as those
bad men in power for our social and environmental disasters
(e.g. homelessness,
land clearing, addictions, long-term unemployment, property crimes,
the over consumption of non-renewable resources, corruption, black markets, etc, etc, etc).
