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Multi Layer Representation

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Author: Standards of LIFE
 
Publisher: Standards of LIFE
 
Contact Person: Andrew Percy(aapercy)
 
Key Website: www.standardsoflife.com/repres...
 
Date Published: 2008-12-08
 
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Keywords: democracy
 
Language: English
 

Problem

Government is the organizing instrument of society and to make sure that it is acting in the best interests of its citizens, it is managed and controlled by representatives of the citizens who are directly accountable for their performance to the citizens: Representative Government.
How to create and structure such a representative government hasn't totally eluded people to date but it could do with some improving.Many of the existing structures carry burdens of historical trappings, most often in the form of weighting the system to support legacy fidelities or old power centers.

Action

Small groups in every constituency, in every nation, must organize now around a standard, new, simple platform and present themselves for election on that platform at every opportunity.The consistent platform will enable and speed the education of the citizenry of all nations, regions and communities. Those who do not wish to stand for office can be powerful in demanding that anyone they vote for adopt the Standards of LIFE as part of their own agenda and commit to promoting them in any way they can whenever they can - Yes We Can

Results

A system that gives citizens a direct say in their government and represents citizens directly, in all their glorious diversity. A structure that reflects the many layers of the world we live in from our local community to the world population. Hey, a little flexibility wouldn't go amiss; a structure that allows for and embraces the many regions, cultures, languages and differences that exist, while at the same time providing every citizen with a uniformly weighted say in the affairs that affect them.

The LIFE structure for representative government has been created with all the above in mind. It is a simple system with universal applicability. Elegant in its flexibility, yet firm in its stance because it is founded on, and grows out of, the core principles of LIFE.

Limitations

There are three interrelated elements to the LIFE structure for representative government and they work together to create a new framework for the organization of societies. So the limitation is that they must be implemented in tandem.

 

  • Multi layer constituencies - Imagined as a series of excentric rings emanating out from the core of every individual until the last ring encompasses the whole world.Those rings are simplified and consolidated into the following:
    • Personal
    • Household
    • Community
    • Region
    • State
    • Transterritory
    • World
  • Proportional representation - A voting process that allows for and accommodates the variety of peoples' perspectives whilst providing for effective decision making and action.
  • Variable Law - A legal system that works with multi layered constituencies to give voice and power to the appropriate place in the structure, where it can be most effective, whilst allowing for that place to change when people want it to.

Working together, these elements create a harmonious structure of representative government and, through its very nature, it contains the solutions to the vast majority of problems around the world stemming from issues of self determination.



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