Fifth Midwest Region Constitutional Convention (for the Fourth Constitution)

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I've always thought a leaning center would be a cool place to hang out at.  Lots of posts and bars and such.  Everybody smoking, drinking strong drink and wearing cool old hats.

Seriously though, I like most of that...the only issue I can see I might have is where the line is drawn between the first of the rights of the people (free expression) with the seventh right of the state (make sure the sensitive aren't offended).

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Anyway, I'm going to make that adjustment I mentioned since dead0man hasn't posted anything else. xD

Sorry, didn't know you were waiting for me...I guess there was a question aimed in my direction...

Yeah, I was mulling over that a bit myself. A lot of countries use incitement of group hate as the cutoff point for their freedom of speech, but transplanting that to our culture may not be the best of ideas. If you'd prefer I'd be perfectly willing to either water down that provision or to remove it from the document entirely - though I would like to keep the list in question at ten items in length.

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I suppose.  We certainly should have those things and I guess a class required for graduation from secondary school would be acceptable.

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Hey, I smoke, drink and wear a cap...I propose the Leaning Haberdashery Lounge as a place for casual conversation and the making fun of the other regions.

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Hawkeye, after putting a lot of time into scheming up the Native name and it turning out to be a flop I decided to be lazy and snag Kharovóy, which I completely fabricated several years back to be the name of a country I've administered in various other government fantasy games over the years, to transplant right into this context to be a regional name. If you don't like it we can try to figure out an alternative. Otherwise, I figured it was an easy way out of the naming problem.

Sounds a little "russiany" for me.  We don't have a lot of Russians in the region.  If we are scared of a native name for whatever reason, maybe something Norse or German?  German has a lot of cool words for things we don't have (eg Schadenfreude)....do they have something for "fly over country"?

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I'm fine with either of those.