Dear fellow Citizens, turns out I am conservative when it comes to changes to the constitution. I would be grateful if you would take the time to explain to me what you want to change re Constitution Art. IV and give your reasons for that changes. I strongly recommend to avoid trashing the whole thing out of diffuse gut feelings and enter a time consuming episode of reinventing the wheel! Instead it would make most sense to analyze the possible weaknesses of the current constitutional regulations and make specific, limited changes to improve realism and feasability. Thank you!
Article IV – Factions
Section 1 – Requirements
Citizens, including RA members and candidates, may choose to organize and identify themselves with a specific CDS political faction. All factions must provide platforms which state their general philosophy and list of goals for the current and next term. Factions exist to promote the discussion of issues. Faction platforms cannot violate or seek to violate the Constitution. Constitutional amendments may be advocated.
Section 2 – The Faction Body
All faction members must be citizens of CDS, and their membership in the faction must be evidenced by joining a special Second Life group created for that purpose . No citizen is required to be part of a faction. No citizen can be a member of more than one faction at the same time. A faction who meets these requirements and notifies the Dean of the SC will be granted its own designated Forum, or similar official discussion area for posting comments, in the CDS official website for community and government communications.
Section 3 – The Faction Leader
Factions are lead by the faction leader (SL group officer) who vouches for all members in public proceedings and is responsible for their proper ethical conduct. Faction leaders are selected by the members of a faction and notified to the Dean of the SC.
Section 4 – Campaigning
Campaigning for election in CDS can be done in-world only by means of unscripted items or simple notecard givers that are placed in traditional, predetermined central CDS locations, or by discourse between two avatars directly. No spamming of any kind is allowed, including the dropping of items on avatars without permission, sending messages by Second Life group IM (other than one’s own faction group), or by shouting messages to large groups. Only two emails are allowed in a given election by any faction or representative of a faction.