The important difference between what MWIA posted and a constitution is that what he did was just summarize what was understood about how it worked. We never sat down and made a constitution, but we understood it well enough that, as you see, we could write it out with our rules if we wanted too!
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Fellow AAAC member(s) - I maintain that the above is just a collection of rules - there are no set penalties for their violation at the Civ2 game, we have dealt with non-appearance of Ministers as it happened, for example.
Perhaps the ppl here want a penalty to be incurred upon violators of the rules, and that does not constitute a strict Constitution, merely an enforcement of the rules.
The rule is what is decided by polling - it can be "bent", but only if the ppl do not object (maybe the circumstances during play favoured a different course of action than what the ppl decided), and the Ministers/President would be responsible for the outcomes of not following the ppl.
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NO IT IS NOT A CONSTITUTION *collects self* I'll explain why...
1)It was made as we went along, Comrade MrWIA was nice enough to just start collecting all of the rules made and made them into a list.
2)It is still under construction as rules are made or changed, we add or remove them.
3)A constitution would be created before a game, and before we experience anything. It would go like this; making the rules, debating them, changing them, debating some more, and than making it official. a very time consuming process, and the main reason so many oppose it.
It is NOT a constitution, merely a collection of rules.
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Originally posted by Space05us
NO IT IS NOT A CONSTITUTION *collects self* I'll explain why...
1)It was made as we went along, Comrade MrWIA was nice enough to just start collecting all of the rules made and made them into a list.
I don't see why the means of compilation is valid criteria
2)It is still under construction as rules are made or changed, we add or remove them.
3)A constitution would be created before a game, and before we experience anything. It would go like this; making the rules, debating them, changing them, debating some more, and than making it official. a very time consuming process, and the main reason so many oppose it.
What MWIA wrote already has been created, thus it has been created before the game. The debate can continue during the game. The constitution is malleable.
[b]It is NOT a constitution, merely a collection of rules."I used to be a Scotialist, and spent a brief period as a Royalist, but now I'm PC"
-me, discussing my banking history.
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