We aim to create a flexible legal constitution for Thought Garden which enables us to accomplish a number of goals.
We can break the goals down into: - Short Term Constitutional Goals - Long Term Constitutional Goals
Our general aims is to be able to create: - Decentralised Governance - Low Cost Automated Accounting - Massively Scaleable Governance - Diverse Funding Streams
Our assertion is that this is possible to achieve using a combination of existing UK based legal structures, Informal Legal Agreements, and existing Constitutional Software projects.
Providing we can do this in a low cost, manageable way we maintain that we can develop increasingly automated agreement and accounting processes using simple, but effective and legally binding voting, combined with emerging blockchain based solutions that enable us to move payments and votes (binding decisions) around the network.
# Benefits
Thought Garden aims to minimise outlay of time/money on fundamental resources like bank accounts, legal identity, server space for projects which are not likely to use these resources to the extent that they need sole access/control.
All members have equal control as one member/one vote. Members are Individuals, or Organisations, by choice. One Member, one vote.
Each voting right is earned by a contribution of one subscription. A Project may have one or more Individuals with votes attached to it, but Members only ever get one vote, even if as Individuals they are contributing Subscriptions for more than one Project.
# Starting Point
To kick things off we are proposing setting up a Limited Liability Wrapper around a number of Voluntary Associations and Multi-Stakeholder Coops