[governance] Call and Charter for a Free Parliament

Thu Nov 3 05:03:31 EDT 2011

Please, note that there is already a quite advanced initiative in this
direction. See http://www.facebook.com/unpacampaign

Kind regards

Wolfgang Benedek

Am 03.11.11 09:10 schrieb "Norbert Bollow" unter <nb at bollow.ch>:

>I've thought a bit more about the idea of a parliament that could
>take over, among other topics, the current role of the US government
>in oversight over some key aspects of the Internet, as well as part
>of the role of ICANN for "bottom-up" policy decisions.
>
>Greetings,
>Norbert
>
>
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>
>                     Call and Charter
>
>                          for a
>
>                      Free Parliament
>
>      on Human Rights and Other World-Wide Concerns
>
>
>
>           Version 0.1, 2011-11-03, nb at bollow.ch
>
>
>
>The free societies of the world shall each democratically elect
>representatives who will be members of a Free Parliament that
>debates and decides resolutions on matters of human rights and
>other world-wide concerns.
>
>A free society is what emerges and self-organizes in every
>country that has a democratic government which respects freedom
>of opinion and freedom of communication, and which protects the
>human rights of minorities.
>
>The residents of each country whose government fulfils these
>conditions shall elect a number of representatives as members of
>the Free Parliament, where the number of these representatives
>shall be equal to the square root of the one millionth part of the
>number of residents of the country, rounded up to the smallest
>integer not exceeding this square root value. So for example
>when a country with a population in the range from 4000001 to
>9000000 people has a government that protects the fundamental
>values of a free society, the residents of that country shall
>elect three members of the Free Parliament.
>
>The members of the Free Parliament shall each take an oath of
>office in which they solemnly swear to be and remain in this
>work free from any commitment to political or economic particular
>interests, to seek what is good for humanity as a whole, and to
>participate in the debates and votes of the Free Parliamanet
>according to the perspective of their own understanding and
>conscience. The term of office of members of the Free Parliament
>shall be four years, with the possibility of re-election.
>
>On each issue that the Free Parliament chooses (by means of a
>majority vote in response to a motion from any member) to consider
>for the purpose of passing a resolution, a public call for draft
>resolutions shall be published between fourteen and fifteen
>months before the scheduled start of the debate, and draft
>resolutions for consideration shall be received from any source
>until one month before the scheduled start of the debate. No
>debate shall start before it is scheduled to start.
>
>On each such issue where more than two proposed draft resolutions
>have been submitted, the decision-making process of the Free
>Parliament shall proceed in these three steps: First there shall
>be a debate. Then there shall be a first vote during which each
>member of the Free Parliament votes "yes" or "no" to each of the
>proposals. Seven days after the results of this vote have been
>announced, there shall be a second vote in which the members of
>the Free Parliament choose between the following three options:
>The two proposals that had received the greatest number of "yes"
>votes in the first vote, and "disagree with both of these proposals"
>as the third option. If one of the proposals achieves an absolute
>majority of votes in this second vote, it shall be deemed to have
>been passed as a resolution of the Free Parliament. On issues where
>less than three proposed draft resolutions have been submitted, the
>first of these two votes is skipped.
>
>If this process has ended without resulting in the passing of a
>resolution, members of the Free Parliament are of course free to
>move again for adding the issue to the agenda of the Free Parliamant.
>If that motion passes, it shall result in another public call for
>draft resolutions.
>
>The debates and votes of the Free Parliament shall be openly
>published on the Internet, with each statement and vote attributed
>by name to the corresponding member of the Free Parliament.
>
>The Free Parliament may decide changes to this Charter by means of
>the process for adopting resolutions. All other procedural matters
>shall be decided by the Free Parliament by means of a majority vote
>in response to a motion from any member.
>
>--snap---------------------------------------------------------------
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