fcSolar@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?English
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1 year agoI actually started writing up a a new constitution a while ago as a sort of thought experiment. It’s not finished yet but some of the highlights thus far include:
- A unicameral congress, with uncapped membership
- A right to privacy, free education, internet, and government transparency
- Freedom from religion clauses
- Constitutionally limited intellectual property: Copyright is 15 years for corporations, life for individuals.
- Uncapped supreme court, 2 appointments per presidential term
- Score voting for the president
- Proportional representation for congress
- No term limits
Right, patents are a whole separate thing. I added a clarification above that the 15 years/life is for copyright. The way I did patents is that corporations are ineligible for patents, and individuals get them for 5 years.
As long as labor is necessary, some form of market economy is likely to crop up, and as long as there’s some form of market economy I’m hesitant to limit the ability for individual creators to make a living in said market economy, so I’m not sure I’d personally go for such a large carve-out from patent protections.