Constitution Of Dunbar
Purpose of Project
My goal is to lay out and explore the constitution and functioning of a Global State set up to run on human scales. This is the source of the title Dunbar, in reference to Dunbar's number. I will lay out some principles and goals guiding this project, and then a Constitution laying out an attempt to implement those principles.
Both the principles and Constitution are intended to be updated as discussion hopefully progresses. May this be an interesting learning experience.
Principles
1) Personal: Where possible, it is preferable for something to be done personally by a sovereign individual, rather than an impersonal bureaucrat.
2) Subsidiarity: Ideally, an issue is handled as locally as possible.
3) By Dunbar's numbers and other supporting empirical work I've seen, 5 can be close, 15 can be friends, 50 acquaintances, and you can know 150. Thus, where close cooperation is necessary groupings of 5-15 should be maintained where possible, and a group should not go above 50-150 individuals is it can be helped. 500 may be a max for a single grouping if no personal relations can be maintained.
4) Promote Humanity: The States goal is to promote a fundamentally physical human society, and thus should er on a human rather than in human organization if at all possible. Human Scale, human needs.
5) Labor Theory of Property: builds on Lockian philosophy of property where ownership is tied in some way to mixing your labor with the property.
Government Name | Land | People | Tax Owed Income/Land | Boarder Walk Time | Max Boarder (km) | Elector Per Representative | Total Pop Per Elector | Min Number of Reps People's Assembly | Min Pop | Max Number of Preps Per Assembly | Max Population |
1 | Manor | Family | 7%/7% | 1 Hour | 5 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 91 | 450 | 3,150 |
2 | County | Clan | 6%/6% | 1 Day | 50 | 13 | 91 | 18 | 1,638 | 375 | 34,125 |
3 | Region | Tribe | 5%/5% | 1 Week | 200 | 18 | 1,638 | 22 | 36,036 | 300 | 491,400 |
4 | State | nation | 4%/4% | 50 Days | 1,000 | 22 | 36,036 | 25 | 900,900 | 225 | 8.1 million |
5 | Commonwealth | Ethnic | 3%/3% | 1 Year | 5,000 | 25 | 900,900 | 27 | 24 million | 150 | 135 million |
6 | Land | Race | 2%/2% | 7 Year | 25,000 | 27 | 24 million | 28 | 681 million | 75 | 1.8 billion |
7 | Federation | Humanity | 1%/1% | 49 Years | 100,000 | 28 | 681 million | Any | Any | Any | Any |
Constitution of Dunbar
Preamble
We the people, in order to secure for ourselves, our children, and the human race liberty and family, property and community, elect to form and pledge our loyalty, property, and lives to the formation, growth, and life of the Dunbar Imperium, and the subsidiary governments that form it.
The Individual
The individual is endowed with rights and obligations, depending upon their status as a citizen or subject.
A citizen is a human of age and mental competency who has recited the oaths of citizenships.
Rights:
a) A citizen has a right to own land.
b)
Obligations:
a) A citizen is responsible to pay a 28% tax on all income, paid to the level of government the income is earned on.
b) A citizen is responsible to pay a 28% tax on all land owned, based upon the value of the land.
The Family
Governments
Manor: A manor is the lowest level of Government. Its boarder must be walkable within 1 hour for the initial drawing of the boarder, to be no more than 5 km long. To the degree the boarder is not walkable, the equivalent of the boarder length must be walked. Human powered boats may count for walking when practible.
All who wish to run for a Manorial government must also complete a walk of the boarder within 1 hour. Such a walk is qualifying for 7 years.
To be continued. . .
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