Appendix B The Parliamentary Model and the Standard Model (excerpts)
The Parliamentary Model
Segment One:
agents are conjured to inhabit an environment which is prepared for their activity
The 15 pre-commitments which political society makes to a mature assembly; it supplies:
Corporate Body
Fixed Number of Delegates
Delegates Credentialed
Fixed Minimum Number for Meeting; Quorum Requirement
Fixed Date to Meet
Setting Time to Meet
Fixed Location
Noticing Meeting
Venue Module Invoked
Fixed Minimum Number to Act: Action Requirement
Leadership Requirement
Merit Rule-Making; Merit Decision-Making
Written Procedures; Patterns in Practice
Procedural Rules in Inventory; Rules Made Just in Time
Making Better Rules Better Faster
Segment One/Transition:
the ‘go’/‘start over’ buttons for agent activity are called into existence Text totaliter (by the whole) Must be Proposed to Assembly Text gradatim (passage by passage) Must be Resolved by Assembly
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Segment Two: Energy Out
Schema for Well-Formed Formulas Consumption of Energy
[Commons in the 18 th c.
is used as the Assembly]agents consume energy
(a) There are seven Canonical Demands on the Time, Energy and Attention of members of the House
First Reading Second Reading
Third Reading
Committal/Re-Committal Petitions/Motions for Leave to Bring in a Bill
Adjournment Orders of the Day
(b) There are three Canonical expressions of will:
Individual
Collective
Corporate
(c) There is one body and one actor outside Commons of which the CanÂons take account:
Lords
King
(d) There are two Canonical Outcomes from the foregoing, as reflected in Journal entries
Ordered
Resolved
(e) Any well-formed formula of the Canons must contain one element of
(a), (b) and (c) to produce one outcome expressed as an element of (d).
[Discussion of Heuristics/Performance Standards Omitted]
Segment Two: Energy In
Six Drivers of Agent’s/Agents’ Behaviour Generation of Energy
agents gain energy by interacting with each other via
Debate-and-ballot
Endowed Mission/Secondment to Committee
Tribunal
Lottery
Acclamation
Auction-and-bargaining
Segment Three:
Post-Mechanics; Votarian Mechanics
agent activity is scored after each discrete event state
Transforming collective to corporate will through acclamation Resolving for fairness, accuracy, legitimacy in casting or counting ballots via
(a) challenge to count
(b) corrupt practices in balloting or counting
(c) lack of quorum
Deploying thresholds
Supermajority requirements
Deploying tie-breaking regimes
The Standard Model
Segment One:
Considered as a contrivance within civil or bourgeois society, the three goals of political society are: (1) promoting private wealth (and its equivalent: avoiding wealth destruction); (2) enabling coalition-building, that is, setting thresholds by which political, social and economic minorities (in coalition) may block or promote organic change; (3) disabling hostility to religious and racial minorities identified as such.
Segment Two:
There are four baseline activities of the national agenda:
The national agenda
• articulates
• advances
• funds
• evolves
legislated programs to fulfil the canonical service missions listed below.
Segment Three:
The Forty-Three National Service Missions
The canonical listing of service missions follows:
1 enhancing public knowledge
2 preserving/certificating official acts services in aid of religious welfare promoting science and technology transportation communication language arts substantive criminal law managing civil peace intelligence services national defense/security military procurement censorship titles of nobility, honours international diplomacy citizenship professional welfare guild/ trade oversight post office services higher education/K-12 legal services judicial services (quality control) public utilities/monopolies surface resource management coinage/paper money national banking revenue purchasing /government wide procurement property acquisition and disposal programs adjunct government services import/export control public lands/resources management of minority relations public health public sanitation poor law NGOs claims against public officials, management of marketplace welfare business/specialty courts insurance programs, direct or indirect animal control/protection capital city founding, adornment, government (NB: The Governance Model, the Model of Democratic Accountability and the Model of Trust, Commodity and Information Management are omitted.)