The Triumvirate city-state of the Apolyton Imperium! 3150BC

[cavebear]

Yeah, "common law" works here.

[cavebear]

Originally posted by Dre of Compton
hmm, well if u ever need help with creating an unusual constitution, im ur man(no self flattery intended, im just stating a fact)

I suspect that anyone writing "im ur man" isn't going to be someone producing a good constitution or deathless inspiration for the ages.

[CannonFodder]

UK style of "constitution," meaning hardly any at all

De facto rules have worked well enough so why bother messing with the system?

[atawa]

The discussions on it were nice though

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by obiwan18
Actually, we run on the UK style of constitution.

If it works, use it again.

Otherwise we don't bother with a written, fixed constitution.

The US "written" constitution is not all that different. The supreme court over the years has shown itself to be adept at "interpreting" what the writing means.

RJM at Sleepers

[Dre of Compton]

Originally posted by cavebear
I suspect that anyone writing "im ur man" isn't going to be someone producing a good constitution or deathless inspiration for the ages.

well u suspected wrong didnt u, or, it could be that im the only good(or close to good...)15 year old constitution maker where i live but....

anyway, i have no idea how common law works in the way of law changing works, so could someone inform me

[Ben Kenobi]

A quick summary is in my post.

If it works, use it again.

If we run into a new situation, then we discuss about possible options.

That's pretty much all you need to know for this game. This way we don't have any judges 'intepreting' the constitution to find lots of new stuff not there before.

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by obiwan18
A quick summary is in my post.

If it works, use it again.

If we run into a new situation, then we discuss about possible options.

That's pretty much all you need to know for this game. This way we don't have any judges 'intepreting' the constitution to find lots of new stuff not there before.

It may be worth adding that we don't have to be slaves to precedent. If the circumstances are different, we don't have to do what we did the last couple of times.

But these sort of situations are pretty rare.

RJM at Sleepers

[Ben Kenobi]

Saves time.

Who wants to spend time arguing over a constitution when one could be playing the game?

[BruceTheStupid]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
There's something to be said of having one final authority, even if I do say so myself.

[Dre of Compton]

Ahh, cood point obiwan, nothing other than that statment could sway me from the path to constitutionalism(i hope i spelled it right....)