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Freeper Island Constitution:

1: All distribution of information shall remain within the hands of private citizens.

2: All households shall be equiped with arms for defense, and all peaceful citizens shall carry a weapon at all times.

3: All unborn children shall receive the same protections as all other persons.

4: A family shall be defined as a household consisting of a mother and a father.

5: All elected government officials shall serve no more than two consecutive terms in office.

6: The rule of law shall adhere to eye-for-eye doctrine.

7: The nation of Freeper Island shall remain sovereign and shall not fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations.

8: The rate of taxation shall not rise above the level where all basic essential services are fulfilled.

9: All persons who seek immigration to Freeper Island shall account for the nation from whence they came.

10: Any person who seeks to change or reverse these amendments shall be banished to Antarctica.

In the jungles of your Republic hides a little known revolutionary known as Fidel Lowbridge. Riling up the poor and downtrodden masses against his Excellency Hammach.

"Free bread! Freedom! Milk for the babies!" cried Fidel.

The uneducated, illiterate farmhands, knowing nothing about international geo-politics, screamed their approval.

Fidel then picks up a gun and proceeds to carry on a civil war. At first his Excellency his quite sure that his troops will put down this rebellion within a matter of days, even hours. But within months, there is no sign of the letup. His troops are close to exhaustion, underfed, underequipped, morale is at an all time low.

Fidel Lowbridge, in the meantime, has gotten stronger. He has found support amongst the peasants who are tired of hard work for little money and not being educated by their government. The peasants in greater numbers, join this funny looking revolutionary.

Three years later his Excellency flees the Republic before he could be captured and shot. Fidel takes over and rules the former Republic of Hammach (now renamed the People's Republic of Lowbridge),

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8: The rate of taxation shall not rise above the level where all basic essential services are fulfilled.

That's what they said at the beginning of the USA. What are "all basic essential services"? That depends on your opinion doesn't it? Let's say instead "The rate of taxation shall not rise above 5%" or better yet, "There shall be no taxation whatsoever." The government can beg the people for money instead of the other way around.

I like that. We could write limitations on government spending into the constitution. They could collect the revenues from the previous year and that would be all they could spend -no budget projections from idiot politicians. Maybe a national retail sales tax to generate cash for government. The lowest tax in the world of course and it couldn't be raised.