Re: a Constitutional interpretation question

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 02:14:47PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I add that more Developers should be thinking about questions of
> Constitutional interpretation more often, if they want to preserve the
> democratic governance structures that we have, including ones that
> haven't been weakened by failures to oversee Delegates.

Funny enough, given that we now have more delegates than ever - actually
codifying what the responsibilities of the delegates are. In the past we
instead ran off cabals with undefined responsibilities.

There's never a dull moment I guess.

> To some Developers, such practice may feel awkward, and the muscles of
> parsing legalistic language may require unaccustomed exercise.  But it's
> worth doing.

We actually have a person for this. Who can do it when it's actually
necessary.

> ...if we want to keep our democratic form of government.
> 
> If we don't, we can expect to be governed by personal cliques, fear, and
> intimidation.
> 
> Citizenship, whatever the polity, is incompatible with passivity.

Luckily Debian is not a country. There are other values that'd generally
apply in that case.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2025-04-10 14:00 +0200
  Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-04-10 20:10 +0200
    Re: a Constitutional interpretation question "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2025-04-10 21:30 +0200
      Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> - 2025-04-11 13:20 +0200
    Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 14:00 +0200
      Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2025-04-14 21:10 +0200
        Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-04-15 17:50 +0200
          Re: a Constitutional interpretation question "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2025-04-15 18:00 +0200
          Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-04-16 01:00 +0200
            Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> - 2025-04-17 00:20 +0200
          Re: a Constitutional interpretation question Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-04-16 03:20 +0200

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