{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/49","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/49/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/49/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/49/events","html_url":"https://github.com/liberland/constitution/issues/49","id":72551661,"number":49,"title":"Maybe we should simplify the preamble, and emphasize liberty more ?","user":{"login":"liberty90","id":12191190,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12191190?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90","html_url":"https://github.com/liberty90","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/liberty90/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-05-02T00:06:16Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T00:03:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Current preamble is almost directly, with very small changes, copied from the US constitution. We all know how US constitution is currently interpreted... for example, \"justice\" is very relative and can be easily hijacked by interventionist agenda.\r\n\r\nWhat do you think about shorter and simpler version ?\r\n\r\nFor example:\r\n\"We, the Citizens of the Free Republic of Liberland, hereinafter, \"the Citizens\", in order to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and future generations, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the Free Republic of Liberland, hereinafter “the Constitution”, as its supreme law. Hereby, the Free Republic of Liberland shall be governed by the Public Administration exercising the legislative, executive and judicial powers restricted by the Bill of Rights.\"\r\n\r\nAs you can see I only deleted a \"few\" words.\r\nIMHO it's quite obvious that common defense or justice system are required, all states have them, even socialist hellholes; so (in my opinion) the preamble should talk only about the most important (and rare!) thing above all - liberty. Different emphasis, much more difference from the US constitution, much more original philosophy.\r\n\r\nPS. I did not submitted this as an pull request, because this is somewhat matter of philosophy. Are we more Republican or Libertarian ? ; ) Do we want to emphasize liberty above all other things ? I would, but this is only my opinion. "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/comments/98558262","html_url":"https://github.com/liberland/constitution/issues/49#issuecomment-98558262","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/liberland/constitution/issues/49","id":98558262,"user":{"login":"tinkyholloway","id":12114047,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12114047?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway","html_url":"https://github.com/tinkyholloway","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tinkyholloway/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-04T00:03:10Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T00:03:10Z","body":"@liberty90: \"general population\" understands \"justice\" somewhat different...\"social justice\"\r\n\r\nYou're right. Socialists have an established record of redefining language to trojan horse their ideas into established and accepted canon. I agree it's right to avoid ambiguous terms or ones that can obviously be subverted because they are known to be attack points. However, it may be weak to relay on the accepted definitions of key terms since there is nothing to say that tomorrow \"liberty\" won't be subverted a la \"social liberty\" to mean all types of things such as \"liberty from hunger\" and \"liberty from a lack of high speed internet\"."}}