"Power Without Knowledge...": President Haig and the Era of Bad Feelings

[Born in the USSA]

I also thought of one more note on Cosmicist historical progression that in my headcanon is actually brought up in the Manifesto, namely the Eurocentricity of the Leviathan, even factoring in the incredibly loose definition for Feudalism as a stage of development. This is acknowledged in the text— China is brought up specifically as an example of a divergent offshoot of the Feudal stage that manages to stifle/suppress the twin developments of merchant-driven capitalism and political Liberalism while still incorporating a fierce and ideologically motivated meritocracy that characterizes the latter. Cosmicism squares the circle by arguing that even though the specific transition from the broad and all-inclusive Feudal stage to the narrowly defined Liberal one was specific to the European context, the Age of Imperialism had the effect of imposing the Cosmicist pattern of history globally, while growing interconnection and linked technological/social developments have maintained that framework and ensured that every competing model was reacting to it and incorporated as a new stage rather than an independent competing system.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's some notes on "modern" Antarctic historiography! The period from discovery to the Heroic Age is a long lull, so it doesn't get much focus outside of Discovery Day, but the rest tend to form the rubric for Antarctic History classes in schools.

• Discovery (11820 HE)- Independent discovery of the continent by Fabian Bellingshausen (Russia), Edward Bransfield (Britain) and Nathanial Palmer (America), the former within three days of one another and the latter ten months later.
• Heroic Age (11897-11922)- The initial period of serious exploration, characterized by extended time on the ice and the discovery of the South Pole.
• Mechanical Age (11923-11949)- The second major period, characterized by advances in technology such as the first use of the airplane on the continent.
• Efflorescent Age (11950-12103)
  • Early Period (11950-11983)- The beginning of international cooperation on the continent in the postwar period, leading to the International Geophysical Year and the Antarctic Treaty System.
  • Middle Period (11984-12083)- Began with the Anglo-Argentine War, the Soviet Antarctic naming controversy and the gradual erosion of the ATS and its eventual replacement by the Macondo-administered Antarctic Economic Territories.
  • Late Period (12084-12102)- Dated to the publication of City on a Hill, characterized by the growth of the underground Cosmicist movement and culminated in the Antarctic Revolution.
• Crystal Age (12103-Present)
  • First Cycle (12103-12132)- The era of the First Basic Law and the containment of the Zeitgeist to Antarctica proper.
  • Second Cycle (12133-12162)- The era of the Second Basic Law and the formation of Cosmicist Commonwealths throughout the global south.
  • Third Cycle (12163-12192)- The era of the Third Basic Law and the escalation of the Second Cold War.
  • Fourth Cycle (12193)- Narrative present.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Any worldbuilding questions? Current or future history are both fair game, I'm crazy bored but also feeling too low energy to pull an actual update together 😅

 

[Sir William Jol]

Any worldbuilding questions? Current or future history are both fair game, I'm crazy bored but also feeling too low energy to pull an actual update together 😅

List of Presidents of the United States?

 

[Born in the USSA]

List of Presidents of the United States?

Why not? Read the spoilered bits at your own discretion, though the present portion of my novel would conclude before the actual election and it's more of a bildungsroman for Sutter anyway so some foreshadowing doesn't hurt anything. Anything past 2020 would be fictional people so I don't really have names for them but:

• Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-84)*
  • 1980- w/ Alexander Haig, def.
    • Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (Democratic)
    • Ed Clark/David Koch (Libertarian)
    • Barry Commoner/Harvey Milk (Citizens)
    • John B. Anderson/Patrick Lucey (Independent)
• Alexander Haig (Republican, 1984-93)
  • 1984- def.
    • Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro (Democratic)
    • David Bergland/James A. Lewis (Libertarian)
    • Sonia Johnson/Richard Walton (Citizens)
  • 1988- w/ Pete du Pont, def.
    • Geraldine Ferraro/Tip O'Neill (Democratic)
    • Ron Paul/Andre Marrou (Libertarian)
    • Jesse Jackson/Harvey Milk (Citizens)
• Ross Perot (Reform, 1993-2001)**
  • 1992- w/ James Stockdale, def.
    • Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic)
    • George H.W. Bush/Bob Dole (Republican)
    • Andre Marrou/Nancy Lord (Libertarian)
    • Ron Dellums/Winona LeDuke (Citizens)
  • 1996- w/ James Stockdale, def.
    • Al Gore/Paul Tsongas (Democratic)
    • John McCain/Pat Robertson (Republican)
    • Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian)
    • Winona LeDuke/David Bonior
• Colin Powell (Republican, 2001-09)
  • 2000***- w/ Donald Rumsfeld, def.
    • Al Gore/Richard Shelby (Democratic)
    • Ralph Nader/John Hagelin (Reform)
    • Harry Browne/Art Olivier (Libertarian)
  • 2004- w/ Richard Shelby, def.
    • Howard Dean/Al Sharpton (Democratic)
    • Ralph Nader/John Hagelin (Reform)
    • Michael Badnarik/Richard Campagna (Libertarian)
• Carol Moseley-Braun (Democratic, 2009-17)
  • 2008- w/ Joe Lieberman, def.
    • Donald Rumsfeld/Bo Gritz (Republican)
    • Ron Paul/Ross Perot Jr. (Reform)
    • Cynthia McKinney/Major Owens (Citizens)
  • 2012- w/ Joe Lieberman, def.
    • Rick Santorum/Newt Gingrich (Republican)
    • Ron Paul/Darrell Castle (Reform)
    • Major Owens/Cheri Honkala (Citizens)
• Pat Buchanan (Reform, 2017-21)**
  • 2016***- w/ Rush Limbaugh, def.
    
    • John Edwards/Martin O'Malley (Democratic)
    • John Huntsman/Andre Barnett (Republican)
    • Jim Gray/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian)
    • Mike Gravel/James Cameron (Citizens)
• Thomas Friedman (New Federalist), 2021-Present)
  • 2020- w/ David Brooks, def.
    
    • Pat Buchanan/Rush Limbaugh (America First)
    • Elizabeth Holmes/Nicholas Sarwark (Freedom)
    • Letitia James/Stephen Colbert (Equal Rights)
    • Mike Gravel/Margaret Elisabeth (Citizens)

*Died in office
**Censured by a chamber of Congress
***Contingent election

 

[Sir William Jol]

Why not? Read the spoilered bits at your own discretion, though the present portion of my novel would conclude before the actual election and it's more of a bildungsroman for Sutter anyway so some foreshadowing doesn't hurt anything. Anything past 2020 would be fictional people so I don't really have names for them but:

• Ronald Reagan (Republican, 1981-84)*
  • 1980- w/ Alexander Haig, def.
    • Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (Democratic)
    • John B. Anderson/Patrick Lucey (Independent)
• Alexander Haig (Republican, 1984-93)
  • 1984- def. Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro (Democratic)
  • 1988- w/ Pete du Pont, def. Geraldine Ferraro/Tip O'Neill (Democratic)
• Ross Perot (Reform, 1993-2001)**
  • 1992- w/ James Stockdale, def.
    • Bill Clinton/Al Gore (Democratic)
    • George H.W. Bush/Bob Dole (Republican)
  • 1996- w/ James Stockdale, def.
    • Al Gore/Paul Tsongas (Democratic)
    • John McCain/Pat Robertson (Republican)
• Colin Powell (Republican, 2001-09)
  • 2000***- w/ Donald Rumsfeld, def.
    • Al Gore/Richard Shelby (Democratic)
    • Ralph Nader/John Hagelin (Reform)
  • 2004- w/ Richard Shelby, def.
    • Howard Dean/Al Sharpton (Democratic)
    • Ralph Nader/John Hagelin (Reform)
• Carol Moseley-Braun (Democratic, 2009-17)
  • 2008- w/ Joe Lieberman, def.
    • Donald Rumsfeld/Bo Gritz (Republican)
    • Ron Paul/Ross Perot Jr. (Reform)
  • 2012- w/ Joe Lieberman, def.
    • Rick Santorum/Newt Gingrich (Republican)
    • Ron Paul/Darrell Castle (Reform)
• Pat Buchanan (Reform, 2017-21)**
  • 2016***- w/ Andre Barnett, def.
    
    • John Edwards/Martin O'Malley (Democratic)
    • John Huntsman/Rush Limbaugh (Republican)
• Thomas Friedman (New Federalist), 2021-Present)
  • 2020- w/ David Brooks, def.
    
    • Pat Buchanan/Rush Limbaugh (America First)
    • Elizabeth Holmes/Nicholas Sarwark (Freedom)
    • Letitia James/Stephen Colbert (Equal Rights)
    • Mike Gravel/Margaret Elisabeth (Citizens)

*Died in office
**Censured by a chamber of Congress
***Contingent election

Interesting, very interesting.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Ideology, like religion, is seldom kind to its schismatics. The history of mass politics in the modern age is riddled with examples from every corner of the political compass of doctrinal differences coming to blows, from the classical and positivist liberals* to the revisionists and anti-revisionists of Marxism to the divide between the classical fascists* of Italy and Austria and the National Socialists of Germany. It is an open academic question why the Cosmicist movement has (so far) avoided such a fracture, though in all likelihood the three most credible theories created a perfect storm, a set of ties that have bound the world's Cosmicists into the present day.

1. There is no alternative- "Cosmicism is the last offramp from apocalypse, ergo hang together or hang separately."
2. Renewal as a feature, not a bug- "The Manifesto outlines specific shifts for the movement but no definite timetable, ergo regular reevaluation of conditions is baked into the system."
3. Politics as policy- "The Antarctic branch of the movement codified many of its specifics and succeeded first, ergo the Antarctic system of vanguard pluralism absent any cult of personality or paramount leader produces the best outcome."

Whatever the dominant cause of the amicability of the Cosmicist big tent, the usual synthesis of the three positions goes something like this: "Cosmicism is the last offramp from apocalypse and must mature as real world conditions dictate, while collective vanguard pluralism provides the most stable and democratic process to manage and express this maturation."

Under the aegis of this synthesis, historians and ideologues quickly came to define First Wave Cosmicism as the stewards of the Zeitgeist. Having become what the times demanded of them, the First Wave was typically dated from the publication of The Cosmicist Manifesto, through the rise and fall of the Commonwealthers and Kanaloa, the era of Antarctic transportation and revolution, and the brief period of Cosmicist containment and subsequent flowering during the first century of the ARC. Flash forward to the (narrative) present of the Fourth Antarctic Constitutional Convention. Wheels within wheels turning, moving forward the engine of Geist and history. A new generation uncontented with the slow progress of their forebears**. A Cosmintern in control of a massive swath of the world's population***, landmass and resources.

Enter Second Wave Cosmicism. Just as the First Wave shaped and was shaped by the late Volksgeist and the Zeitgeist that followed, the Second Wave consciously defined itself as the force needed to immanentize the eschaton of the next stage, to bring on the Weltgeist and drag the Kyriarchs and their running dogs kicking and screaming into a better day. This ambition could be seen at the geopolitical level, where Final Victory was seen as a foregone conclusion and a policy of confrontation and rollback was the needed palliative to the degenerate powers to the north. It could also be seen in the astropolitical sphere, emphasizing a massive expansion of the Cosmintern space programs. More space elevators, more colonies, more Porphyrios-class Orion ships.

These two goals were often seen as complementary. After all, a definitive Cosmicist victory in the Third Space Race would not only provide a propaganda coup and realize goals that had been advocated since the literal founding of the movement, it would also deprive the Kyriarchs of the last possible source of resources to buy off their oppressed Precariat and hold back the revolutionary wave. The fact that the Porphyrios ships would hold unquestionable orbital supremacy would simply be a bonus if, in their desperation, the slavers and exploiters turned to war to save themselves. While a minority considered the willingness to declare the Weltgeist early and tacitly abandon (or at least very flexibly interpret) the Doctrine of the Last Throw to be much too rash, it remains to be seen if this fraction will have the institutional strength to resist the gravity of the Second Wave or whether they too will be swept along.


*Note the small "l"/"f".

**Many of which are still around and vigorous in their nineties. One of the major benefits of the Antarctic obsession with medicine and genetics is that its citizens experience a much longer plateau in their old age. Macondo was perfectly willing to use its captive labor pool for medical testing, but it did mean the new state had a robust medical capacity from the word go.

***A consequence of the massive Antarctic population boom, enormous population stresses and collapse in the tropics and subsequent strain on the squabbling powers of the Northern Kyriarchy.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Just got the idea for the Porphyrios-class today, I promise it'll get a more in depth look when I eventually cover the Second and Third Space Races!

 

[Ed of the Pueblos Libres]

Just got the idea for the Porphyrios-class today, I promise it'll get a more in depth look when I eventually cover the Second and Third Space Races!

For those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrios_(whale)

 

[Ed of the Pueblos Libres]

Arising out of the increased environmental degradation of the Haig years, the religious movement known as "Steward Theology" would revolve around the responsibility of the faithful to build up, protect, and preserve the environment as the central call of their ministry. Growing through the latter decades of the twentieth century, Steward Theology would see growth in two important directions. The major development would be the spread of the environmental Steward emphasis to a broad array of faith traditions, an interfaith alliance that has grown and thrived to the modern day.

During the Regressive Roundup, however, the noticable handful of Regressive groups dabbling in religious fundamentalism would be used by those opposed to Stewardship to tar the movement with a rather dark brush. Although the movement would be absolved of any ties to Regressivism after the fact, the damage in the short term was done, though the backlash to Perot's suppression of civil liberties would ironically cause elements of Steward Theology to enter the mainstream of American religious thought by 1999. Whatever else it was, however, Heaven's Gate would be drastically outside of the mainstream.

Originally founded in 1974 by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles (who would later die in 1985), the group that would later be called Heaven's Gate relied on a syncretic belief system blending belief in extraterrestrials, science fiction, Christian eschatology, and left-wing counterculture. Although they were not a part of the Steward school of theology (or even of the Regressive movement), the intense scrutiny isolated religious groups were exposed to in the second Perot term would nonetheless provoke the Heaven's Gate group into fleeing the country, reportedly with an FBI investigation in their wake.

For his part Applewhite claimed in 1995 to have had a vision of aliens telling them to abandon America in search of a new chosen people in preparation for an event of astronomical significance. Given the investigation and the left leaning orientation of the group it should come as no surprise that Heaven's Gate would wash up in Cuba seeking asylum from the United States. Even their strange religious beliefs could be tolerated under a new policy of vanguard pluralism, even if Applewhite was seriously discouraged from proselytizing. It would be in Cuba that Applewhite would discover Posadism.

With a focus on aliens and nuclear war, the unusual Trotskyist variant known as Posadism had been making an interesting resurgence in Cuba under the newly pluralistic party line, and the comingling of Applewhite's theology and J. Posadas' theories would allow him to spread his message without technically proselytizing his faith. The group would begin to attract a large number of skilled and educated Cuban members, among them several doctors and researchers at the nation's hospitals and universities.

When the time was right and the group had grown strong Applewhite revealed the true extent of the vision the aliens had shown him: on March 22, 1997 the comet Hale-Bopp would pass closest to the Earth. Actually an alien spacecraft belonging to an advanced race, the comet would take the group and other specially prepared souls on a journey to experience the true realization of Marxist-Posadist communism out among the cosmos.

They had six months to prepare. Of special note was the method of purification: using radiation to cleanse the spirit for its long journey. How best to prepare? How best to ensure that as many good comrades as possible could come with them? The answer seemed so simple. In the lead up to the promised day members of the group worked feverishly to gain access to the the chemicals they would need, along with the more exotic ingredients. By the time they had enough, the time had come. Using radioactive materials carefully skimmed from the radiology wards of Havana's hospitals, the members of Heaven's Gate would all commit suicide on the promised day, many at the hands of radioisotope laced punch. As for Applewhite and his inner circle, they would die in more spectacular fashion...

...by setting off a dirty bomb in the heart of Havana.

I am just reading the TL so I don't know yet what happens later.
But, just as curious bit - My country, Uruguay, has a Posadist party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR/Revolutionary Workers' Party - the only functional one in Latin America and the World right now if I am not wrong )
Weird dudes, technically in the Frente Amplio (important party) but they don't have parliament members themselves

Their "five heads" lol

 

[Ed of the Pueblos Libres]

Crazy and beautiful TL, very nice, good luck in the future Born in the USSA

 

[Born in the USSA]

I am just reading the TL so I don't know yet what happens later.
But, just as curious bit - My country, Uruguay, has a Posadist party (Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR/Revolutionary Workers' Party - the only functional one in Latin America and the World right now if I am not wrong )
Weird dudes, technically in the Frente Amplio (important party) but they don't have parliament members themselves

Their "five heads" lol

Heaven's Gate is basically TTL's Aum Shinrikyo so Posadism is basically a dead letter by the 21st century. A deader letter than it is here at any rate 😂

Crazy and beautiful TL, very nice, good luck in the future Born in the USSA

So glad you've been enjoying it!

 

[Born in the USSA]

Crazy and beautiful TL, very nice, good luck in the future Born in the USSA

Any setting questions since it's all fresh?

 

[Born in the USSA]

In the spirit of the season I just want to tell all my readers how much I appreciate every one of you! This thread has been really helpful working out the details of my setting and watching it evolve organically has been amazing. In that vein, since Second Wave Cosmicism is a very recent idea I'm contemplating a shift in the party system of the ARC centered around it, essentially the formation of a new Maximalist fraction bringing together significant chunks of the Stewards and Populists and straight up absorbing the Globalists, CosCom and Novuterans and shifting the balance of power just in time for the Fourth Constitutional Convention. The result would be more militant overall and focused on pumping dump trucks of money into the already pretty well-funded space and genetic engineering programs. I don't think it would become dominant after one election or anything but managing to net twenty percent or more of the Continental Congress would be a massive shift given how responsive the government is. What do you all think?

 

[Born in the USSA]

I'm in the final stages of setting up a permanent job in my chosen field for next year, and since I'll be in a pretty isolated area I should have plenty of time to write! As such I'll lay out the general outline for my novel Oubliette. It would involve jumping back and forth between two distinct stories: Alienation (focused on the gestation of Cosmicism, with Daniel Sutter as the protagonist and the 2020 election season as the setting) and Antarktos (dealing with a threat to the system and the rise of the Maximalist Fraction, following an officer of the Continental Constabulary named for Fabian Palmer* and revolving around the buildup to the sixteenth Festival/Fourth Constitutional Convention).

In a vein similar to The Mirage chapters would be preceded by relevant worldbuilding snippets from in-universe documents— at this stage wiki articles (as in that novel) for Antarktos chapters and Mortons Fork posts for Alienation ones, with supplemental material at the back (including, but likely not limited to, the ARC Basic Law). Given my love of disjointed and somewhat disconcerting storytelling it would functionally be closer to some middle ground between a short story cycle alternating between two recurring protagonists and a fix-up where two thematically resonant but otherwise unconnected novels from different genres had chunks of connective tissue removed and were then stitched together:

1. Foreword- This is a new idea, with the conceit that the book is published in the future, complete with a glowing anonymous introduction and a scholarly postscript critiquing "the many slanders and inaccuracies of the author".
   • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Antarctic Revolutionary Commonwealths
2. New Nantucket (November 102193)- Inciting incident: terrorist attack
   • MortonsFork.us- "AHC: Split Frémont into two (or more) states"**
3. The Swamp- Inciting incident: strange dream
   • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Macondo Technologies
4. Caprona (December 102193)
   • MortonsFork.us- "Gray Lung came out of a lab, change my mind"
5. Red Meat (June 2020)- America First rally
   • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- City on a Hill
6. Dakkar (January 102194)
   • MortonsFork.us- "A more realistic Probability Broach?"
7. Copperhead (July 2020)- Freedomite digital town hall
   • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Internal Completion
8. Xanadu (February 102194)
   • MortonsFork.us- "Emerald Isle!: From Land War to Civil War"
9. Bread and Roses (August 2020)- Citizens oil pipeline protest
   • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Zoranism
10. Leng (March 102194)
    • MortonsFork.us- "The Corwin Compromise"
11. Reservations (September 2020)- Manifest Destiny! conference
    • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Kanaloa
12. New Swabia (April 102194)
    • MortonsFork.us- "Final Victory: A Double V timeline"
13. Blue Wave (October 2020)- Equalist police brutality protest
    • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- Vanguard Pluralism
14. Riallero (May 102194)
    • MortonsFork.us- "Create Your Own Ideology!"
15. Leviathan (November 2020)- NeoFed lecture
    • The Ultimate Encyclopedia- The Land (Cosmicist)
16. Karnak (June 102194)
    • MortonsFork.us- "Create Your Own Ideology!", Threadmark: COSMICISM
17. Afterword
    • Appendix I- The Antarctic Basic Law

It'll be a lot of work for it to live up to my own ridiculously high self-standards but I figure if I don't at least make a serious effort this year I'll never get to it and hate myself for it.


*The author of City on a Hill, who basically lent their name to the Antarctic equivalent of "John Smith".

**Literally the only conceit preceding the main late-70s POD. I know it's exceedingly unlikely to have the combination of Kansas and Nebraska create no butterflies of any kind but given the fractured electoral landscape (and a lifetime of living in the Midwest) I wanted a single state that could conceivably serve as a battleground and host to events from every party for Sutter to wander through.

 

[ZeSteel]

Good luck with your new job and the novel writing!

 

[Born in the USSA]

Good luck with your new job and the novel writing!

Thank you so much! I'm excited for both

 

[Born in the USSA]

I was thinking over possible ideas for a flag for the ill-fated Kanaloa (aside from straightforward bisected burgundy/black banners) but I decided I liked the flag I made for the Nusantaran Commonwealth, so as of now that's the canon Kanaloa flag and was adopted by the Continental Commonwealth now governing the South Pacific as a deliberate homage and symbol of the long-delayed fulfillment of their vision.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Went through and updated the outline, since I finally settled on the expository documents to go between chapters. With the combination of the inter-chapter sections and maybe occasional footnotes in the 21st century section* from the cantankerous Antarctic scholar responsible for the afterword I might only need one appendix afterall 😂 It's a lot of new details so I'll open the floor for questions.

*Since it's obviously so distant "modern" Antarctic readers might need details of the minutia of early 21st century American society/politics

 

[Born in the USSA]

Since I've only been able to work on it in fits and starts I figured I'd give you all a taste of the structure and rough content of the Basic Law! I have the Preamble and Sections 1-6, 9 and 10 basically perfect, I'm just having a bit of writer's block on 7 and 8.

Preamble- Fairly self-explanatory, laying out the broad doctrine and ideological commitments of the new Antarctic Revolutionary Commonwealths.

Articles:

1. The Universal Rights of Personhood and of the Citizen- Defines the ARC list of universal human rights, their only legal exceptions*, and the specific obligations of the Antarctic citizen. This is the first article because the citizen is the basis of political legitimacy and therefore always the first consideration.
2. The Continental Congress- Defines the process for passing laws through the Continental Congress, the six constituent chambers and their respective methods of election/selection and specific responsibilities and realms of authority.
3. The Quorum- Defines the makeup of the Directorate (executive council) and the Council of Ministers, which itself is divided into a set list of portfolios divided among the chambers of the Congress based on their areas of authority.
4. The Bicameral Tribunal- Defines the powers and limits of the Bicameral Supreme Court (one Constitutional and the other Ecological), term limits and selection rules for justices, the process for settling contested areas between them, and the selection process for the Security Juries that oversee the security apparatus.
5. Fractionalism- Establishes the structure, powers and responsibilities of the Antarctic Cosmicist Party and the Cosmicist International.
6. Regionalism- Defines the authority, powers and limitations of the government at the continental, regional and territorial level, as well as the process for electoral districting and the census.
7. A Social Ecology- Establishes the ARC goals and metrics for environmental preservation and engineering, to be enforced by the Ecological Supreme Court.
8. A Popular Economy- Establishes the Antarctic Continental Bank, defines the structure of its board and the powers over fiscal and monetary policy. Codifies directives for achieving a (mostly) circular economy focused on cooperatives and worker ownership.
9. Language and Symbology- Sets the rules for the Antarctic flag, crest, national anthem, and official language (Antarctic colloquial English).
10. Ratification and Amendment- Lays out the methods for popular referendums and the makeup and timing of the generational Constitutional Convention.

*Nothing too major. The right to privacy can be trumped by a compelling government interest as certified by a judge or a security jury, the right to bodily autonomy can be trumped by a legally defined public health emergency, the right to personal choice in sexuality and family structure is trumped by hard limits regarding informed consent and legal adulthood, etc. Politicians, peace officers and soldiers are also forbidden from the otherwise universal mandate to unionize and are the only groups who can legally receive the death penalty for crimes.