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20.1 Review of colonial and
post independence laws
All laws and
procedural manuals promulgated prior to independence, designed
to suit the needs of the colonial rulers, are not suited for the
needs of democracy. Most laws and procedural manuals made after
independence have been drafted in a similar manner based on the
colonial idiom that the state is best, knows best, and the
people, being unreliable and irresponsible, need to be ruled.
The national and state sovereign rights commissions shall review
all laws and procedural manuals made prior to and after
independence and get them redrafted to suit the needs of
democratic governance. If the concerned parliament does not
approve the redrafted laws prior to an election, the concerned
commission can seek approval for them through referendum. Such
reforms shall be appropriately phased so as to cause minimum
dislocation in public management.
20.2 Amending the
Constitution
The sovereign
people alone can hereafter make amendments in this Constitution
through referendums. If a local, state or national government
desires any amendment, it can approach the concerned sovereign
rights commission to direct referendum on it along with the next
election.
20.3 Einstein,
Gandhi and the third millennium
Einstein has been
declared the man of the second millennium in physical sciences
and Gandhi in social sciences. Einstein and Gandhi were
complementing each other in the search of truth. Einstein
unraveled some vital truths about the physical world that have
led to further remarkable discoveries in the twentieth century.
Many more are expected in the coming years. Gandhi simply
reiterated the truth that was discovered in the villages of
India four thousand years ago and independently evolved in many
other cultures as well. These basic truths tend to get
frequently forgotten or deliberately ignored.
Einstein is thus the man of the second millennium, Gandhi the
apostle of the third. The global society should realise that a
sustainable world order cannot be nurtured on the foundations of
exploitation — social, economic or political. The socially and
politically exploitative system of the third and second worlds,
and the business and consumerism driven exploitative system of
the rich nations, need to be urgently reviewed to realise a
self-reliant sustainable world order. If this is not done soon,
India and many other nations will drift into anarchy and
balkanisation within the coming decades and the earth and its
life support systems will not be able to sustain life forms much
longer.
Article 20.4 Year of
Repentance
We, the people of India,
request the global community to declare 2001, the first year of
the third millennium, as the "Year of Repentance".
Repentance by the leaders of rich nations for, in the name of
democracy, colonising half the world, enslaving a continent, and
fostering an unsustainable consumerism-driven economic system.
Repentance by the leaders of erstwhile socialist nations for, in
the name of socialism, imposing exploitative totalitarian rule
stifling the spirit of their own people. Repentance by the
leaders of third world nations for ignoring social thinkers such
as Gandhi and, in the name of democracy, perpetuating
exploitative colonial systems, thus impoverishing their own
people.
Article 20.5 Decade of
Isolation
We, the people of India,
further request the global society to declare the first decade
of the twenty-first century as the "Decade of
Isolation" of non-democracies, through social and economic
isolation.
Article 20.6 Century of Rejuvenation
Finally, we request the
global society to declare the twenty-first century as the
"Century of Rejuvenation" by true democratisation in
all nations through an institutional mechanism for directing
referendums. The objective will be to make in the twenty-first
century the world a confederation of peace-loving local
governments.
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