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= The Constitution of the United Peoples = The Constitution of the United Peoples is the supreme law of the United Peoples. Replacing the Constitution of the United States of 1789, it was written at the Second Constitutional Convention in 2078, and ratified and went into effect in 2080. The United Peoples’ Constitution outlines 4 branches of government, the legislative, executive, digital, and judicial branches. The Constitution protects a multitude of basic rights and freedoms of citizens of the United Peoples, including the freedom of speech, thought, the right to information and the right to privacy.

The Constitution is modeled after the Second Constitution of the European Union, embracing ideals of distributed sovereignty, a digital version of popular sovereignty outlined by Neo-Enlightenment thinkers. The UP Constitution draws heavily on the previous Constitution, but many key principles are replaced, most notably geographic federalism, State governments were dissolved replaced by Virtual Federalism, where virtual communities are allowed to set their own contracts for behavior without being restricted by geographic boundaries.

Background
Following the Crisis of 2072 and a year long government shutdown due to a Constitutional Crisis with a number of Congressmen obstructing the ability of Congress to function, inability and incompetence to handle the sinking of Florida and New Orleans, and the breakout of the Great African War in 2075, it was clear that the Constitution of the United States was anachronistic and insufficient to deal with issues of the late 21st century. Many calls for the Constitution to be revised to fit the Experience age were raised due to these concerns. On January 13th, 2078 the threshold to call an Article V Convention were reached, instituting the Second Constitutional Convention starting on May 1st, 2078. Initially, the convention merely wanted to add amendments to the existing Constitution. However, the general consensus between delegates a month into the convention was to replace the US Constitution completely.

Content
The UP constitution continues to draw heavily on the original US Constitution and previous US government practices, most evident in the executive, and judicial branches.

Article I
Article I outlines the legislative branch of the government, consisting of the people directly through virtual participation. The site UPgovernment.gov was the forum where all laws, rules and resolutions were approved to go into full effect. Many sub-forums were present for more specific topics which are also available to all members of the public, most laws would have to go through the sub-forums to be approved before going to the main forum to be approved by the entire people. People who do not vote do not count in the result of the decisions. Article I also prohibits the usage of ex-post facto laws, and bills of attainder.

Article II
Article II outlines the executive branch of the government. The executive consists of the Decider for the People, which is elected by the people directly. The Decider makes sure that laws are well executed and enforced. The executive includes a bureaucracy to enforce rules and regulations. The Decider is also responsible for relations with foreign nations, however, most diplomatic agreements are still subject to popular approval. The Decider is also allowed to appoint members of the cabinet that meet requirements decreed by the people.

Article III
Article III outlines the digital branch of the government. Private technology companies were blamed for many problems inciting and leading up to the Crisis of 2072, including misinformation, misuse of content promotion algorithms, and corruption. Leading to the the nationalization of some aspects of the industry to form the digital branch. The digital branch of the UP regulates, provides, and verifies Internet access for all citizens of the UP, including providing an algorithm to sort and recommend posts, ideas and criticism of the government. Every action of the digital branch, including its algorithm, leadership and decisions are subject to constitutionally mandated due process, transparency and oversight by the people.

Article IV
Article IV outlines the judicial branch of the government. The judiciary consists of four levels of courts, consisting of one Supreme Court, 5 High Courts, 18 Appellate Courts, and 157 District Courts. Requirements to serve on these courts as judges are outlined in this article, the judges are selected by the Decider and serve for life unless impeached by the People.

Article V
Article V outlines the rights guaranteed by the UP Constitution, including the right to speech, healthcare, unionize, to choose not to vote, equality under the laws, non-discrimination, and many others.

Article VI
Article VI outlines how the UP constitution can be amended, amendments must be approved by two thirds of the people, and approved by the Decider.

Article VII
Article VII outlines how the UP constitution goes into effect. The Constitution goes into effect when three fourths of the previous US states ratify.

Amendments
Only one Amendment has been passed to the UP Constitution in 2081, enshrining the concepts of Contracts and the abilities of independent virtual town halls to make rules for its participants. This establishes the concept of Virtual Federalism.

Criticism
A framer of the UP Constitution, Ailuk Inlough stated in an interview in 2101 that the principle of distributed sovereignty in the Constitution was not only from John Locke, it also drew from Founding Father James Madison’s Federalist No.10. Of which he and other framers interpreted that a direct democracy would work even better to moderate factions of fringe beliefs. However, many later scholars and historians would counter this view, pointing out the ultimate failure of the UP Constitution and the advent of mass propaganda and instant communication of those fringe beliefs.

Historians in 2106 have mostly regarded the UP Constitution as a spectacular failure. With celebrity historian Greene John saying, “ The [UP Constitution] is a remarkable failure, failing to foresee problems even the original founders had seen, like the problems of mob rule."

Failure
The United Peoples’ Constitution preceded the collapse of the United People’s nation, through a cyber-attack on the facilities of the digital branch of the UP, and subsequent attempted coup by the National Accelerationist League.

= Ninth Party System (United Peoples) =

The Ninth Party System is the era of United Peoples’ politics (formerly the United States) marked by the ratification of the Constitution of the United Peoples, and subsequent full transition from a representative democracy to a digital direct democracy.

Due to the lack of need for representation in a direct democracy and without the need for two party system. The major political parties of the Eighth Party System, the Vanguard Party and the Future Party , fractured into many smaller groups.

Almost all political battles during the Ninth Party System were online, deciding on laws to pass. Laws governing the entire nation were difficult to be passed due to the lack of a consolidated majority, and devolved rules within different “virtual town halls” or agreement of rules between “town halls”. These rules and agreements are named "Contracts" and hold the weight of laws under the Amendment of the UP Constitution.

Many fringe political ideologies grew to prominence despite the Digital Branch of the Government providing consistent and accurate information, such as Third Wave National Socialism rose in prominence in major cities, Egoist Anarchism in rural areas, and Accelerationism. This rise of Accelerationism gives way to the end of the United Peoples Nation.