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Main rule changes:

The council no longer has legislative ability. New supplementary laws must pass direct popular vote every 10 years. They still cannot violate the constitution. Inspired from Elon Musk's direct democracy and talks with our own citizens. (rule 55)

Judges can punish crimes where a specific law does not apply or does not apply well, but must stay within the punishment ranges of existing laws and rule 6 must have been broken in the first place. (rule 39)

Mutual arbitration language made stronger. (rules 8, 10 and 49)

The government is banned from loaning or issuing money, but may still save and invest. (rule 16)

Added right to remain silent, not being coerced to confess and/or to use a lawyer if you can afford one. (rule 51)

Added specification in start of chapter 4 that specific laws take precedence over general ones.

Changes:

Due to rule changes and additions some rules have new numbers.

"Mutually agreed arbitration takes precedence over public judges always" instead of "Mutual arbitration always allowed" (#49)

Legislative ability removed from council (#55)

Included treaties and alliances as subservient to constitution (#56)

Split rule 53 into two. One rule about new laws and another about constitutional supremacy. (#55 and #56)

Removed last sentence of rule 6 as it was covered under new rule 10 and 51.

Included "will of the people" as subservient to constitution - constitutional republic, not democracy. (#56)

No national debts are allowed. Investments and saving is. (#16)

Added burglary to 33.

Allow judges to derive sentences for crimes without specific applying laws. (#39)

"Should correspond" -> "Shall correspond" in rule 6.

Specify ANY weapons instead of "up to and including nuclear weapons" (#4)

"Pointing guns" -> "Threats with lethal weapons". Rule was also moved from #41 to #38. (#38)

"No holdouts inside seceding territory may become isolated." (#60)

Minor text addition about holding the values of freedom to start of chapter 4.

Added specification in start of chapter 4 that specific laws take precedence over general ones.

State backed "experts" added to rule 57.

Rule 10 was missing arbitration text which was added. (#10)

Minor loophole closed in rule #43.

Added right to remain silent, not being coerced to confess and/or to use a lawyer if you can afford one. (rule 51)

Added "and organize" to rule #7.

Also banned "eminent domain" in rule #21.

Heinlein -> Robert A. Heinlein.

Very few and very minor grammar fixes.

Section on "first forum" in chapter 5 updated somewhat.

Comment:

Some changes were requested, some I thought about because of debates in our subverse and some I thought about during the update process. The spirit of the document and the main parts remain unchanged and the general focus (as always) was to reduce the power of the government to a minimum.

The largest change is probably removing direct legislative power from the council. However making judges a bit more flexible may be the most controversial (#39). This was done to avoid adding too many laws now or in the future or criminals getting away with violent crimes we/I didn't think about. Indeed with the new legislative process adding new laws at all will be somewhat difficult so giving judges some leeway in exchange made sense to me.

However this "leeway" is limited to cases where someone has been hurt and rule 6 broken, judges can't make up entirely new rules and their punishments must still fall within the existing spectrum as well.