Section I: Ratification
In order to take effect, this constitution must be ratified by all five (5) members of the Zetetic Council.
Section II: Amendment
After ratification, this constitution may only be altered by the process of amendment. A Zetetic Council member must put forward the change to the council. Following this, the change must be agreed upon by a four fifths majority.
In extension to what Parsifal said, you'd normally define that something as important as a constitution to be passed by the society members, or at least give them the ability to do it. Otherwise you could end up with a situation a few years down the line that in which a crazy ZC decides to give themselves autocratic powers, and there'd be pretty much nothing anyone could do about it (other than succeeding... again)
I was going to add a clause for public amendment similar to the cause for public impeachment, but forgot to. Thanks for pointing that out.
Council holds the right to veto nominations for any reason
lol wot
As discussed before. An active Flat Earth Society is, at any given point, completely overrun with extremely angry globularists. Most of whom are 12 years old. There need to be systems in place to easily handle any attempts by them to derail the society. As said earlier in this thread, abusing that power would be grounds for impeachment.
An 80% majority of official members vote in favor of the act
80% is pretty high, even for a super majority. Especially if this is for all members, which are notoriously difficult to get everyone to vote in...
It's not for all members. That would never work on a forum. If 80% is too high I can lower it, but bandwagons around here can surpass that number pretty easily. If it's too low a bunch of dissatisfied idiots (read: Thork) could impeach someone for no particular reason. If the society as a whole wants someone gone, I don't think 80% majority is much of a barrier.
Up to two council members may be impeached at one time.
What counts as "at one time"? Per council session? Per day?
Per impeachment. As in, starting a thread called "Vote to Impeach Supertails and Tausami" would be okay, but "Vote to Impeach Supertails, Tom Bishop, and Tausami" would not be okay
The Zetetic Council may not be allowed to, at any time, have fewer than three members.
It's not entirely clear what happens if this is the case - you've said that interim elections can take place, but you've also said that ZC can decide against that from happening. So if there are less than 3 members do we just not have a ZC? Do the 1 or 2 elected members have power to prevent an election in this case? What if noone runs in the byelection - do we just not have a ZC?
Well, the idea is that there's no way for the to be less than three members. The way it's designed there will always be between 3 and 5 members, which at least allows the council to be operational. If there are three members and one of them wants to resign, they'll have to ask for an election to replace somebody first.
Moderators will be in charge of managing discussion and enforcing rules.
You haven't defined what these rules are (unless these are defined elsewhere. Soz for my noobiness)
The rules are defined by the admins
here.
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Thanks for contributing. Don't worry about your noobishness- we all start somewhere