Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations by Bell, Tom W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Half title Title page Imprints page Dedication Contents Figures Preface

What Will You Choose for Your Next Government?

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Facts

1.1 The Most Valuable Thing in the World?

1 Introduction: Awake? 2 The Rule of Law … Rules 3 Which Rule of Law? 4 From Law, to Wealth, to Life 5 Conclusion: Choose Your Rules

1.2 Revolution, Inside Out, Bottom Up, Worldwide

1 Introduction: Revolution, with a Twist 2 Revolution from the Inside Out 3 Revolution from Bottom Up 4 Revolution Worldwide 5 Conclusion: White Water Ahead

1.3 Special Jurisdictions in the United States

1 Introduction 2 Precursors to SEZs in the United States 3 Empowerment Zones and Similar Regulatory Zones 4 Foreign Trade Zones 5 Conclusion

1.4 Case Study 1: Fordlandia

1 Introduction: Heroic Failure 2 Model Workers for Model T 3 Fordlandia Flops 4 Conclusion: Lessons from an Edsel Government

1.5 Case Study 2: Honduran REDs and ZEDEs

1 Introduction: Ups and Downs and Ups 2 Honduras, from Afar 3 Honduran REDs 4 Honduran ZEDEs 5 Conclusion: Progress … for Whom?

1.6 Case Study 3: Seasteads

1 Introduction: Seasteads and Unicorns 2 Proto-Seasteads 3 Governance on Seasteads 4 Seasteads’ Standing in International Relations 5 Special Jurisdictions for Seasteading: SeaZones 6 Conclusion: Like Herding Unicorns

Part II Theory

2.1 The Center of the Law

1 Introduction: _____-centric Law? 2 Monocentric versus Polycentric Law 3 Conclusion: For Autocentric Law

2.2 Why Consent to Consent?

1 Introduction: The Easy Case for Consent 2 The Legal Value of Consent 3 The Moral Value of Consent 4 The Economic Value of Consent 5 Conclusion: How Could You Not?

2.3 Up the Ladder of Consent

1 Introduction: From Binary Consent to Analog 2 Steps in the Ladder of Consent 3 Up, to Justification 4 The Problem with Justifying Nation states 5 How to Make Nation states More Consent-Rich 6 Conclusion: Can the Nation state Be Saved?

2.4 Forget It Is a Constitution

1 Introduction: Constitutional Law? Forget About It 2 The Contractarian Alternative 3 Contractarian Constitutional Theory versus Originalism 4 Contractarian Constitutional Theory versus Living Constitutionalists 5 Conclusion: Remember the Now

Part III Practice

3.1 Best Practices in Governing Services

1 Introduction: Thomas Paine’s Science 2 Observations of Best Practices for Governance Services

2.1 Maximize Consent 2.2 Protect Persons, Property, and Promises 2.3 Provide Independent Adjudication 2.4 Follow Clear and Fair Interpretative Rules 2.5 Enforce Laws via Exile and Bonding 2.6 Keep Exits Open

3 A Meta-Best Practice: Jurisdictional Competition 4 Objections and Answers

4.1 Imperfect Consent 4.2 Judicial Independence 4.3 Voting 4.4 Tragedy of the Anti-Commons 4.5 Backward Feudalism?

5 Conclusion: A Program for Field Testing

3.2 Abolish Governmental Immunity

1 Introduction: Are You Kidding? 2 Governmental Immunity in the United States Today 3 The Origin and Growth of Governmental Immunity in U.S. Law 4 Commentary on Governmental Immunity, Pro and (Mostly) Con 5 Policy Arguments for Governmental Immunity 6 Conclusion: The Punchline

3.3 Citizen Courts

1 Introduction: Guns versus Gavels 2 The Judgment against Self-Judging 3 How to Create Citizen Courts 4 Conclusion: Standing against a Standing Judiciary

3.4 From Orphaned Cities to Shared Communities

1 Introduction: The Orphan City 2 Nobody Owns a City 3 The Problem with Not Being Owned 4 How to Own a City 5 From Orphaned to Owned to …

3.5 Double Democracy

1 Introduction: Doubling Down on Democracy 2 Why One-Share/One-Vote? 3 Why One-Person/One-Vote? 4 Corrective Voting 5 Democracy Plus Democracy 6 Conclusion: Toward Less Worst Government

3.6 United States Special Economic Zones (USSEZs)

1 Introduction: A New Old Favorite 2 What Makes a USSEZ “Special”? 3 Where to Locate USSEZs

3.1 Administration of the USSEZ System

4 Revenue Flow and Political Economy of USSEZs 5 Protection of Civil Liberties in USSEZs 6 Legal and Market Protections of Civil Liberties in USSEZS 7 Conclusion: From Ideation to Action

3.7 Ulex: An Open-Source Legal System

1 Two Revolutions of 1969 2 In the History of Computer Science: The Future of Law 3 Overview of Ulex 4 A Quick Tour of Ulex 1.1

4.1 Procedural Rules of Ulex 1.1 4.2 Substantive Rules of Ulex 1.1 4.3 Meta-Rules of Ulex 1.1 4.4 Optional Criminal Law Module

5 Programmer Notes for Ulex

5.1 Copyright Status of Ulex 5.2 Proof of Existence for Ulex 1.1 5.3 Running Ulex in the Real World 5.4 Future Versions, Alternative Systems, and Open Source Development

6 Conclusion: From Nation state to Stateless Association?

3.8 Stories of the Sort Ordinarily Recounted over Drinks

1 Introduction: “Pull Up a Chair!” 2 “So, How Did You Get Started In … ?” 3 Honduras, from a Fan

3.1 Tegus 3.2 Roatan

4 Liberland 5 The Seasteading Institute’s Floating Island Project 6 Conclusion: Not Practicing; Programming

Conclusion

1 The Start (If You Read Backwards) 2 The Book, in Miniature 3 Bigger Brains; More Consent-Rich Communities 4 The Gold Swan Takes Flight

Appendices

Appendix A Economics of Monopolies in Governing Services Appendix B Ulex Open-Source Legal Operating System Version 1.1 (2017)

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