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15.10.2009 // by Guy AitchisonGuy Aitchison: Power2010 is delighted to be supporting the release this week of Democratic Audit's Unspoken Constitution, a satirical pamphlet that sets out to describe how our constitution would look if actually put to paper. Beginning with the phrase "We, the elites" (rather than "We the people") the document brilliantly captures the undemocratic absurdities of our present system.
As Helena Kennedy chair of Power2010 put it, the unspoken Constitution "exposes all the glaring faults and the silent assumptions that deform the system, preventing it from ever functioning in a way that we, the people, deserve". Article 3 on The Rule of Law, for example, reads: "Government, like every subject, shall be free to do whatever is not unlawful. The government shall decide what is unlawful."
The full document is available online for free here (pdf). And you can read an introduction by the authors here.
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