Article II –
Sovereignty of Self-Governed Cities and Abolition of National States and
Capitalism
2.A – An orderly
withdrawal from the national states
National borders are therefore abolished worldwide.
This constitution shall go into effect when a critical mass of cities
worldwide and in key countries shall have approved it by referendum of their
citizens, that is of all adults resident in the city for a period of more than
90 days.
Once this constitution has gone into effect, citizens of cities being
the vast majority of the world’s persons shall cease to pay taxes any longer to
national states.
2. B – A Communal
Economy and the delineation of territorial access to resources
Every city and township shall be the collective owner of all the natural
resources, land, water, and business enterprises within its territorial reach. That
territorial reach will be determined by the General Council of Cities and
Regions for its region, which will be constituted 2/3 by citizens of the member cities and townships
of that region and 1/3 by citizens of cities and townships from other regions
of the continent of which that region is part (North and Central America, South
America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania).
The members of General Councils shall be citizens of important standing
in ethics, ecology, science, religion, learning or medicine and other fields,
but shall not be persons with longstanding relationships to large scale
economic or political interests apart from those of their city as a whole.
These will periodically, as needed and appropriate, re-designate the boundaries
of cities, and a General Council of Regions and Continent shall do the same for
the regions making up a continent, with a General Planetary Council determining
the boundaries of continents (much more rarely but if and when needed). Council
members shall be nominated by citizens and elected city-wide.
Every city or township shall establish both a television station
available by satellite (see below), and an internet portal, as well as a social
media page, through which citizens,
schools, artistic, scientific, political, philosophical and other groups as
well as cooperatives may express their views, provide information to fellow
citizens and which are available for viewing by other cities worldwide and by
their citizens. The city shall be the owner of these media though their
management will be by a cooperative as with other public functions.
Every city and township shall establish a public finance institution
that shall create money and distribute it to the persons and organizations
making up the city.
Every citizen shall, at birth, or after 90 days of residency, be
provided with an account in which a sum of money sufficient annually for them
to live comfortably shall be direct deposited. This money shall be the local
currency, utilizable only within the boundaries of the city itself.
Every city and township shall establish a currency which shall circulate
only within its own boundaries, and shall create this money through direct
grants to the accounts of cooperative organizations such as business
enterprises of all types, schools, universities and other learning or research
institutions, health care, transport and all service organizations, and into
the accounts of each individual citizen of the city. No other form of money
creation public or private shall be permitted nor legal within city limits per
se.
A Universal money shall also exist, which shall be provided, in
proportions of no greater however, roughly 1/5 with regard to the local monies,
by the global public authority (see below) through an agency that shall provide
these funds (the 1/5 quantity with respect to the volume of money creation in
that city of its local money) directly to the municipal authority to be
distributed as determined by the citizens assembled of that city or township.
Additionally, an amount which shall be the same for all persons on Earth shall
be distributed directly to the personal accounts of each of individual citizen
of each city and each opting out individual person. In initial stages of this
constitution’s adoption, sums of Universal money shall include extraordinary
grants to poorer areas of the world so that they may obtain the technology,
means of production, goods, resources and training to enable them to quickly
establish a renewable energy base, sustainable and easily accessible
transportation and up to date communications, as well as sufficient housing,
appropriate medical care and food production for their citizens’ needs.
The Universal money shall be the only money allowed to be used for all
transactions between cities, between organizations and enterprises established
in different cities, townships, or
regions or continents, between individuals residing in and holding citizenship
of different cities or townships, or involving any opted out persons.
At some point when and if the general and sustainable productivity,
abundance or wealth of human beings collectively reaches the point where money
is determined to be redundant, a global referendum shall be held on whether to
retire all money in favor of direct appropriation of all goods and services and
on what basis and it what detail such a system shall be established.
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