Giovanni Greco

Usenet

The Constitution of Big Eight

La costituzione originale, pubblicata su Usenet il 15 luglio 2003, per un parlamento eletto dagli utenti delle gerarchie Big Eight. Il testo è riportato in inglese, così come fu pubblicato.The original constitution, posted to Usenet on 15 July 2003, for a parliament elected by the users of the Big Eight hierarchies.

  1. International Big Eight hierarchies (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.* and talk.*) are democratic hierarchies; sovereignty belongs to users who shall exercise it in the forms and within the limits written in the Constitution.
  2. All Big Eight users have the same rights without distinction of sex, race, nationality, religious creed, political ideologies or personal and social status.
  3. In Big Eight hierarchies every citizen of the world is free to express his or her opinions while respecting the freedom and ideas of others.
  4. Each year Big Eight users shall elect the members of the parliament.
  5. The parliament of Big Eight shall be comprised of sixty-five members divided into four committees of sixteen members (plus three reserves for each committee); the committee members shall elect their own spokesperson and the president of the parliament.

    Committees:

    1. CREATION (naming, charters, deletion, old charters, renaming, reorganization, splits, votetakers, voting)
    2. INFORMATION (announcements, archives, FAQs, guidelines, help, ISPs, netiquette, news servers, RFCs, statistics)
    3. MODERATION (demoderation, moderators, policies, replacements, retromoderation, robomoderation)
    4. NET-ABUSE (censorship, copyrights, licenses, privacy, publicity, security, spam, UDPs)
  6. Each user may stand for one single committee and vote for one single member. Candidatures shall be received by the votetaker for official posting seven days prior to the start of voting. The voting period to elect the members shall last for seven days.
  7. In the case of a tie for the last seats or for reserves in a committee, three days after the results have been posted the already elected members of the parliament shall vote, over a period of three days, to assign these places.
  8. Seven days after assignment of the seats the members shall elect the president of the parliament and the spokespersons of the committees, with a simple majority vote. Candidatures shall be received by the votetaker for official posting three days prior to the start of voting. The voting period to elect the president and spokespersons shall last for three days.
  9. Should a quorum not be reached for the election of the president and spokespersons, three days after the results have been posted a ballot shall be held, to last for a period of three days, between the two most voted candidates; the one who receives most votes shall be elected. In the event of a tie between the two candidates, the candidate who obtained the greater number of votes in the election for membership shall be elected.
  10. Should the president also be elected as a spokesperson, the candidate who came second shall become a spokesperson and the seat left vacant by the president shall be occupied by the first of the reserves.
  11. A two-thirds majority of the parliament/committee is required to substitute the president/spokesperson.
  12. A motion of no confidence in the president/spokesperson may be submitted by any member (of the same committee in the case of a spokesperson) no earlier than three months from any previous motion or from the date of the elections.
  13. The outgoing president, spokespersons and members may stand for re-election.
  14. Any user may propose that a new rule be discussed. Should the spokesperson note interest among the committee members, he may propose to the president that it be put to the vote.
  15. The president is empowered to decide whether a new rule should be voted by a single committee or by the whole parliament.
  16. A new rule shall pass with a simple majority vote of the parliament/committee. The voting period for the approval of a new rule shall last fourteen days.
  17. The president and spokespersons shall not be entitled to vote.
  18. The spokespersons must always indicate how the members have voted.
  19. If in a committee, on account of resignations, it were not possible to reach the legal number (sixteen members), the voting procedures regarding that committee shall be handled by the entire parliament.
  20. A two-thirds majority of the parliament may change, eliminate or write new rules for the Constitution.

Proponent: Giovanni Greco

Il messaggio originale su Google GroupsThe original post on Google Groups

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