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Quick progress was made following the third and final Kristnes Conference, with agreements regarding the need to facilitate a collaborative approach to setting up a new constitution, and the organising of another conference designed purely to facilitate the writing of the new constitution coming soon afterwards. | Quick progress was made following the third and final Kristnes Conference, with agreements regarding the need to facilitate a collaborative approach to setting up a new constitution, and the organising of another conference designed purely to facilitate the writing of the new constitution coming soon afterwards. | ||
At the Ekdahl conference X months later, a drafting body was approved to begin writing up the constitution, a provisional ratification process was proposed. Under the agreements 25 so called "major signatories" were selected from heads and representatives of various groups, including the former colony government and leading independence movements, with a range of traditional and modernist views. A further 135 individuals were selected as "minor signatories", largely from more fringe or extreme independence movements on both sides of the political spectrum. Provisionally, it was agreed that the constitution would require 80% support from major signatories (20/25), and 2/3rds, or 66.7% support from the minor signatories (91/135). | At the Ekdahl conference X months later, a drafting body was approved to begin writing up the constitution, a provisional ratification process was proposed. Under the agreements 25 so called "major signatories" were selected from heads and representatives of various groups, including the former colony government and leading independence movements, with a range of traditional and modernist views. A further 135 individuals were selected as "minor signatories", largely from more fringe or extreme independence movements on both sides of the political spectrum. Provisionally, it was agreed that the constitution would require 80% support from major signatories (20/25), and 2/3rds, or 66.7% support from the minor signatories (91/135). This later changed as discussions developed, as can be seen in Chapter 3, Article VIII of the constitution regarding ratification. | ||
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==== Article VIII - Ratification ==== | ==== Article VIII - Ratification ==== | ||
Article VIII outlines the process for ratification at the time of the constitutions initial adoption. The article no longer holds any significance to the constitution, but remains in the document. It stipulated that for ratification of the constitution 20/25 (or 80%) of major signatories (as designated at the Ekdahl Conference, see above), and a simple majority of 51% minor signatories would be required to sign the constitution into Olmerian law. | |||
== Interpretations == | == Interpretations == | ||