Purple State and Marokai's BIG IDEA

[Fritz]

Purple State and Marokai, I can get behind your ideas on revising the constitution to make it more concise and manageable.  However, I STRONGLY OPPOSE this "re-boot" proposal.  Sorry, but Atlasia does have history, we can't just wipe that all away and start over.  Your logic appears to be something along the lines of: we've already legislated all of the fun stuff, so let's start over so we can do it all again!  Do you not see the silliness here?  Do we plan to keep starting over every 4-5 years or so?

Atlasia must move forwards, not backwards!  Any proposal to wipe clean the slate should be taken as seriously as a RL proposal to re-write history (it can't be done).

We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it.  We will comprehend the word serenity, and we will know peace.  (Oops, sorry, got sidetracked into 12-step stuff... )

NO RE-BOOT!!!

[Fritz]

I did not say don't do anything, I said don't do this.  And I think I explained why.  Our history and all that has transpired over the past six years are fundamentally part of the game, and cannot be idly discarded.

The Senate in this game is, was, and always will be driven by current events in the real world.  We passed health care reform at a time when the US Congress was doing the same.  Currently there is a clean energy bill being debated, and by some coincidence, there is one in the US Senate.

I do not oppose changes- I merely oppose bad changes.  No change is preferable to a bad change.  Your constitution re-write is a good idea that I support.

[Fritz]

Fritz's BIG IDEA

Marokai and PS, since you are open to suggestion, here is mine.  Rather than a legislative "re-boot", what we need is a consolidation/re-organization of federal statute, similar to your constitution re-write.  The original must be kept as a matter of record, however.

Perhaps this could be done as an index on the wiki, with links to statutes by subject matter (no links to repealed laws).

Just some thoughts.

[Fritz]

I just had to dig this up:

Fritz's BIG IDEA

Marokai and PS, since you are open to suggestion, here is mine.  Rather than a legislative "re-boot", what we need is a consolidation/re-organization of federal statute, similar to your constitution re-write.  The original must be kept as a matter of record, however.

Perhaps this could be done as an index on the wiki, with links to statutes by subject matter (no links to repealed laws).

Just some thoughts.

What I am proposing here would be  monumental task, and I am not volunteering for it.  But I do think we have sombody, somewhere who would be willing to take this on.  I urge the incoming administration to direct its energy in this direction, rather than a re-boot.