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To name a few:
No official decision may be made without the entire process towards that decision being recorded, documented, and these records be made available to the general public with minimal restrictions. With a specific exception if revealing that information would put more people in danger than concealing it.
All natural resources, be it harvested (e.g. ores, oil) or otherwise (e.g. land, air), are property of everyone. If any individual is to monopolise and/or utilise some of these resources, they are to compensate everyone else for doing so.
Resources for the public good are to be taken from each according to their ability, and redistributed to each according to their needs.
Any supreme office must exist with a hard maximum time an incumbent is allowed to serve.
It must be possible for any person holding an official position, including any supreme offices, to be held accountable for their actions in power.
All official decisions must strive to be made to materially benefit the greatest number of individual people.
It may not be the duty and/or responsibility of government to impose opinions on the general public.
In an election, any vote must hold the same weight as any other vote to the greater outcome.
Any income and/or net worth for individuals in excess of approximately 1 Billion EUR-equivalent is to be taxed 100% and redistributed among the public, to each according to their needs.
Lawmakers are to be compensated an amount directly proportional to the median income of all citizens, and any benefits they receive must be equal to the legal minimum.
No wage may be paid that is insufficient for a person to afford a decent existence.
No corporation may exist where the compensation of its highest paid member exceeds 500 times the lowest. Any shortfall will be taxed upon the company at 200% the excess, and redistributed across its staff according to their needs.
I wanted to include something that makes the government responsible for some standard of public transit, but I can't seem to get the words right...
I like your ideas, but have you considered that this one:
All natural resources, be it harvested (e.g. ores, oil) or otherwise (e.g. land, air), are property of everyone. If any individual is to monopolise and/or utilise some of these resources, they are to compensate everyone else for doing so.
Effectively makes literally everything free? Not that this would be a bad thing. It just makes so many of the other things irrelevant.
I was actually hoping to use that clause to incorporate a land value tax.