constitutions promoting consensus

12.13: pol/constitution/promoting consensus:

[. we should divide states not only by the constitution one prefers,

but also by issues, so that the states that want a war on

{drugs, christians supporting israel} can themselves pay for such wars;

. this would be a virtual tax state,

whereas the constitutional state would require city-wide approval,

and gated communities would esp'ly be constitution-specific

while cities could have charters that define the range of permitted constitutions .

. the fed constitution would basically say how states define constitution;

with no laws at all .

. what did become fed law -- without constitutional backing --

would simply be the things people could obviously alll agree on,

like the infrastructure projects:

roads, phone, net, finance, and homeland(only) defense .

. that still leaves open

bizarre diff's like slavery and abortion .

. if the fed was designed around negotiation rather than majority

we could have pulled a plan for actually

paying for the slaves we freed .

. abortion is much more subtle and difficult:

there's also a lot of confusion about privacy

the root of most evils -- which both sides cling to .

. we could admit that doctors are not juries,

and every baby deserves a trial by jury;

women deserve a right to health,

and babies deserve euthanasias free from pain .

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