Charter

of the

Constitution Email Listservice

Purposes

This moderated listservice is for the following:

  1. Exposition of the principles of constitutional republican government.
  2. Explanation of the provisions of current national and state/provincial constitutions, including restatement of those provisions.
  3. Development of proposed constitutions and constitutional amendments, including model national and state/provincial constitutions.
  4. Review of the constitutionality of official acts.
  5. Development of strategies and tactics for achieving constitutional compliance.
  6. Organizing constitutional compliance activities.
  7. Collection of documentation useful for constitutional development and compliance.

Acceptable Topics

The following are acceptable topics for this list:

  1. Legal briefs on constitutional issues, or contributions thereto.
  2. Constitutional law review articles, or contributions thereto.
  3. Constitutions and constitutional clauses, actual or proposed.
  4. Actual or proposed constitutional implementation acts.
  5. Constitutional educational materials. including guides, essays, and examinations.
  6. Investigations of constitutional usurpations and abuses, and of the individuals, organizations, and official acts involved.
  7. Suggestions and directions for achieving constitutional compliance.
  8. Constitutional activist organizing efforts.
  9. Reports of constitutional activists and their activities and situations, and actions that may be required of other activists.
  10. Discussions on how to better conduct this list.

Unacceptable Topics

The following topics are important, but better confined to other lists and newsgroups:

  1. Discussions and reports of nonconstitutional policy issues, events, and personalities.
  2. Discussions of abuses that are already illegal under existing statutes, but where those statutes are not being enforced.
  3. Reports of personalities, organizations or current events with little or no constitutional relevance.

Unacceptable Content

  1. Unkind or discourteous personal remarks.
  2. Bigoted, hateful or racist remarks.
  3. Unconfirmed rumors.
  4. Unconstructive criticism — if you disagree, submit a better alternative.
  5. Idle chat between subscribers better taken to private email.
  6. Copyright violations.
  7. Proposals for illegal or unethical actions.
  8. Divisive or provocative messages.

Instructions