How to Take Part in Writing the Founding Documents
A people that creates itself must adopt its own rules. The authors of the Earthlings corpus did not want to write a finished set of rules and then invite people to agree to them. They wanted the founding itself to be collective. That is why, before anything is put to a vote, every document is open to change by anyone.
What is open
The whole corpus: the Declaration, the Charter, and the documents that describe how the people is built and how it stands in law. All of them are published in nine languages, and a proposal may be made in any of those languages to any of those documents.
The documents differ in force. The Declaration is the founding text and the only one adopted by vote; its unamendable core protects every person from the power of the people itself. The Charter sets out the institutions. The rest explain, justify and describe. A proposal to any of them is welcome, and the reply will say what consequence it has.
Who may take part
Anyone. You need not join, confirm your identity, hold any view of the project, or sign anything. A proposal may be anonymous. A proposal may be a single sentence, and it may be a plain objection without an alternative: "this is wrong, and here is why" is complete.
Notes on translation are asked for in particular. A person reading in their own language sees what the authors, working in two languages, cannot.
What happens to a proposal
Every proposal is published together with its reply, whether it is accepted or rejected, and a rejection states its reason. The replies are public, so that whoever later votes on the Declaration can see every decision that shaped it and every ground on which it was taken. The full record is published before the vote.
This is how a draft written by two authors becomes something other than theirs.
What cannot be proposed away
The principles of the unamendable core can be reworded but not removed: no power of some over others, one person, one vote, money separated from the vote, free exit and no expulsion, the word instead of compulsion. They are what is being founded. If you think one of them is wrong, say so; the objection is published and answered, and the vote is where it is finally decided, because a Declaration nobody adopts founds nothing.
Why this is worth your time
Most people have never been asked to write the rules of anything they belong to. Here the rules are open, the replies are public, and the vote is by real people counted once each. The addresses, deadlines and rules of the founding period are in the document The Founding Period.
Questions
Do I have to read everything first?
No. Read the document you want to change. The Declaration alone is enough to object to the whole idea.
Will my name be published?
Only if you put it in the proposal.
Can I propose that the project should not exist?
Yes. That is a proposal to the Declaration, and it is answered as one. The strongest objections the authors already know are collected in Objections and Answers and the Legal Basis.
What if I have a question rather than a proposal?
Ask it the same way. Questions are answered, and the answers that matter to others go into the FAQ.
Addresses and deadlines
The document The Founding Period gives the address for proposals, the deadlines, and the rules by which every proposal is answered and published.