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This started out as a toot thread here but it was going to take a few edits.
What is attempted here is a "reboot" of the American constitution, based on what's changed over the past 200+ years and also on concerns that would have been unthinkable, or at least unmentionable, to that sausage party of Enlightenment gentry that gave us our current version.
The only restrictions I'm trying to stick to are to make sure each numbered amendment roughly corresponds in spirit with the interests addressed by the original, and to make each one of them a single long sentence without numbered lists. Everything else is subject to radical alteration - especially the ones where I only replaced a word or two.
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The rights protected in this bill are subject to the interests of the Crown in combatting actual threats to either human life or its own capacity to enable human flourishing, which onus shall at all times be on the Crown to establish beyond a reasonable doubt: provided that, at all times, the rights shall be read broadly and purposively in full and proper account for the environmental and socioeconomic context that may apply at the time and place, and any arrangement by the Crown or agent or contractor thereof to avoid these protections shall be of no effect.
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What is attempted here is a "reboot" of the American constitution, based on what's changed over the past 200+ years and also on concerns that would have been unthinkable, or at least unmentionable, to that sausage party of Enlightenment gentry that gave us our current version.
The only restrictions I'm trying to stick to are to make sure each numbered amendment roughly corresponds in spirit with the interests addressed by the original, and to make each one of them a single long sentence without numbered lists. Everything else is subject to radical alteration - especially the ones where I only replaced a word or two.
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The rights protected in this bill are subject to the interests of the Crown in combatting actual threats to either human life or its own capacity to enable human flourishing, which onus shall at all times be on the Crown to establish beyond a reasonable doubt: provided that, at all times, the rights shall be read broadly and purposively in full and proper account for the environmental and socioeconomic context that may apply at the time and place, and any arrangement by the Crown or agent or contractor thereof to avoid these protections shall be of no effect.
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