It may be possible that You can choose to be governed by the ISS and then exempted from being governed by your present government, and authorities would respect this choice. By doing so, authorities would be ceasing the sustained periods of denial of your fundamental constitutional right to vote in democratic elections.
In Canada, for instance, “the supreme law of Canada” states that each citizen has these constitutionally guaranteed, democratic rights despite modern governments denying these rights for several years at a time.
If the choice of being governed by the ISS instead of your present government is indeed yours to make, then you’d need to compare your present government’s laws to ISS laws and decide which ones you prefer to be governed by. So here are the ISS’s laws. Please feel free to recommend how you would prefer to see them changed to better suit your satisfaction.
The ISS Constitution is the supreme law of the society. There are two other documents defined in the ISS Constitution: 1. the ISS Summation of Principles, essentially the list of laws that the members of the society agree to abide by, and 2. the ISS Charter, the limits on the powers of the society as a whole over its individual members.
A summary of the eight general agreements that the Summation of Principles requires members to abide by as conditions of membership are:
- personal responsibility for self-wellness
- perpetuating or sustaining a cycle of wellness
- enfranchising marginalized people
- pursuing excellence in abilities
- not giving false information or withholding information except in certain circumstances
- respecting property
- showing respect for laws even when claiming not to be lawfully responsible to them
- engaging the judicial process in good faith when alleged to be acting inconsistently with the above principles
A summary of the thirteen general requirements by the Charter of the society’s representatives and authorities are:
- working with members on desired changes to ISS laws
- making sure each voice is heard
- respecting rights and freedoms of all people
- consulting present members regarding acceptance of new members
- providing due process for termination of membership
- providing suitable notice of changes to ISS laws
- assuring that all minorities’ interests are included in every decision
- maintaining a stable and communicative electoral process
- giving membership suitable notice of change of representation
- preventing monetary or material influence from enabling advantage in the electoral process
- limiting term durations for representatives not living in marginalized circumstances
- providing concise decisions regarding the consistency of laws of governments external to the ISS with ISS principles; also, for laws inconsistent with ISS principles, protecting members from being imposed upon for contravening those laws
- participating in the maintenance of a balance between socialism and free enterprise to the most common satisfaction of all members of society
The Summation of Principles and Charter both refer to three further documents, Inter-sovereign Relations , the External Legislation Registry, and Property & Contributions.
Inter-sovereign Relations is the society’s judicial process, by which any member who is alleged to act in contravention of the Summation of Principles, or any society representative or authority alleged to act in contravention of the Charter, can be adjudicated and, if found guilty of contravention, appropriately sanctioned.
The External Legislation Registry (ELR) is a list of laws of governments external to the ISS that have been designated as inconsistent with ISS principles and thus not required conduct for ISS members. Any member who wishes to receive a definitive answer on whether she or he will receive the protection of the society for contravening a law of an external government may request the External Legislation Committee for a ruling on that law, and if the committee finds the law inconsistent with ISS principles, then the law will be added to the ELR along with the extent of exemption from that law for ISS members.
An additional official document of the ISS is the Advocacy Registry, which is a list of political agendas for which the ISS has resolved to advocate in favour. Society representatives may claim to be speaking on behalf of the society when advocating for these agendas. A society representative who speaks about an agenda not presented in this registry must make it clear to listeners that the agenda is of personal interest and not necessarily representative of the ISS.