I would like mention my goals for a constitution is for it to be flexibly interpreted so as to change with the times. The Mandalores and the senate. To me a loose system of checks and balances must be made so as to allow the most change in the least amount of time without absolute control. Any entity that takes absolute control would be consider Dar'Manda and thus loose citizenship. I would also like this constitution to define citizenship based on our traditions towards education. As Follows:

To be Mando'ad one must be educated as such that meet the requirements of our nation. As such one must be enrolled in an institute of education that is follows the basic guidelines of education set out be the General government and under the guidance of a publicly recognized clan. The current guide line will be that youths must be enrolled from age 7-20 in military and general education.

To be of voting age one must first pass the trails of verd'goten for which most of our youth will be recognized as warriors and can share in combat in an emergency.

To be eligible for a seat in the senate one must either have proved themselves through combat (In the case of a youth brought to fight) Or must have passed schooling with the Final Trail at their last year (in this case 20) and must have served at least 4 years active duty in the military.

Citizen must serve at least 2 years in the military to own property and vote. (The current requirements places males in the military until age 30 in which they become part of active reserves until age 56, and women until age 25 where they can choose to have children.)*

To be Mandalore one must have been proved in combat. If times are of peace then the Mandalore must be proved in the battle circle at least five times and in simulated combat at least 5 times.

These requirements will make sure our culture does not become corrupt with civilian type ideals where all remain timid and belly ache over how much they are not being served to when they do not serve their country.

These are my current thoughts. I will deliberate more as i have more time to think.

*(I have realized the folly in requiring women to serve until 25 as most of our people marry not much after the age of 13 including myself. So I'm willing to conceit that to this assembly)

I will break down what I agree with and that which I do not.

The position of Mand'alor should not be an officially elect position ever. In this place tradition overrides all reform for this. Mand'alor has long been a position either handed down by the Mand'alor themselves or elect from the best warriors. Any official democratic process to the selection of Mandalore without ANY requirements of this position would allow for the corruption of our culture and the dying of our way of life into the corruption which faces the Republic AND the Empire in which their warriors are not honored like we honor ours. And given that you mention that only the Resol'nare should be the law for which one must conduct oneself to become Mando'ad then any flipping Cyar'tomade of ours can make their own clan and join us even though they are as fat and as useful as a Hutt. The loose standard of the Resol'nare leaves our culture open for corruption as it once did during the Mandalorian Wars.

Ordo I have great respect for you and the Clan for which you serve. Why I remember the tales of the great Canderous Ordo bringing the Clan spirit back to the Mandalorian people. But without standards for the population our society can crumble and fall apart. At least standards for our Mand'alor must exist for how are we to know that we become a shadow of our former self and that the credit creates a warrior rather then his deeds down the line.

Granted having such loose standards can give us a huge pool of soldiers to work with. However I believe that we must have a standard training program in place for all Mando'ade so that we may look to being all Mando'ade as opposed to being to a clan. Absolute autonomy fosters no cooperation which before has distinguished us from all other cultures up until modern times where only a few clans such as Skirata, Ordo, and Bralor show a emphasis on cooperation. Instead what we see now is a corruption where many supposed Mando'ade go about hunting as they wish and preying on people for money with little regard for clan and no regard for Mandalore. As well as clans fighting against each other.

Law and only strong law will bring these people in line and in order. But our law should reflect the Resol'nare as well as the as the tenets of Manda.

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For this the Mand'alor should have sole power in. Clan dominance should not exist in law. For what if these clans change. (Granted the Bralor and Ordo clans haven't really change in the last 4,000 years, we are still some of the best) however the Assembly can override the Mandalore by a 2/3 Majority.

I would like to add one step to the process. I believe that only citizens invited to speak in the assembly may speak. But I believe that the assembly is their to create laws and vote on laws. However the law must first go through the Mand'alor's approval or indifference then it is passed to the people to vote on whether it is to become actual law. This step will make sure that no one clan has power over the other since clans have different population and therefore the larger groups may be unfavorable represented to the smaller clans who would have the same vote as the larger clans do.

This is why I prefer the one planet one vote policy. To think a clan of 24 could have one vote on the assembly over a clan of 200,000 that would be atrocious. I believe though we need a better system which will reflect the power of the clan based off of their population.

That is all I have to say at this point. Other then the election of Mandalore and the one representative per clan this proposal is fit enough to act as a constitution. If Ordo has any suggestions that would fulfill my desire as Mand'alor then I would like to here from them and only then will I support this proposal.

I would like to add that it is a nice touch that each clan must maintain an army.

I see your concerns for Clan autonomy. So long as everyone follows the rule of Resol'nare then we would have at least a structured society. Granted I would prefer a stronger order. But the ability to raise war and lead I guess is good enough as Mand'alor. I hope you realize Ordo that you have done a good thing today and that was prevent the Mand'alor from ruling the people beyond the tenets of war. We will hold to tradition and enforce the old ways.

I will retract my proposal and allow people to speak on the assembly but I will continue my support in make sure that the people have the right to vote on acts of the assembly.

I must however continue to pursue public education. I have another suggestion and then perhaps I will be done with it. Since clans must maintain armies then perhaps those armies must go through a Mandalore sponsored military training for which they will be as mentioned before standard curriculum for which on top of that the clan may add their own training. As I have said before, a public education system would be headed by each clan to preserve clan Identity. But a military standard IS a necessity

This suggestion would not impact the clans nearly as much because not all clan members must attend. I would still like to provide voluntary public education so that way we can produce a standard but only if the Clan is willing to accept it.