Introduction to the 2018 Virgin Constitutional Convention Briefly, what is the Virgin Constitutional Convention? A real convention is a closeted affair with local delegates protecting their accidental borders, ancient customs and power centers. Our Virgin model posits a fictional nation (Franklin21) which has tasked the world’s top minds to create a model fit for modern concepts of rational, popular government. Designed to spur public dialogue, it’s hoped that international media will follow along as on-line delegates debate subjects like to how to choose and limit representatives, how to maximize substantive discourse while minimizing pandering and methods for preventing control of government by the rich. It’s hoped that concepts of new institutions and customs will help today’s struggling nations. Why does the world need a successor to Western or liberal democracy? When the Soviet Union fell, there was hope that Russia would assume a nurturing popular system. When
2018 World Experiment to promote sustainable democracy.