We the people of the former USA, in order to improve our union do hereby enact this constitution. We acknowledge that it won't last forever but that it is another draft on top of the one that the "founding fathers" made.

Our government will be composed of a set of commitments that we make as a society and the mechanisms that we will make to uphold those commitments and to make new commitments.

We are committed to:

1. Generally allowing every individual to do as they please, so long as that action does not interfere with the desired actions of others. In situations where the desires of one overlaps with the desires of another;

2. Maintaining a set of laws, guidelines, and mechanisms that maintain speedy and fair decision-making and the binding mediation of conflict.

3. Listening to the pleas and the desires of the marginalized in our society even if we don't believe we can address their concerns. Further, making a good-faith effort to address their concerns and finding win-win solutions.

4. Allowing every individual a chance and access to the opportunities that everyone else has, which includes;

5. Empowering disempowered groups.

6. Generally staying out of the business of other countries unless explicitly asked to. If there are currently in place means of preventing that asking from taking place, and we have reason to believe that we would be asked if those means were not in place, we can intervene but only by removing, circumventing, or disabling those means. Our actions in other countries should only be what we are asked to do. In the case of allies or national friendships, lots of activity ought to be maintained as long as it continues to provide net benefit to both societies.

7. Being responsible for our actions as a nation and the consequences of our actions including: acknowledging past and current wrongs, thoroughly examining our own actions for negative consequences to others, and righting our wrongs to the best of our ability.

8. Maintaining a sense of humor for cryin' out loud! :).

9. Allowing for flexibility in our legal system and the understanding that it has limitations and may at times contradict itself. At times when our laws contradict each other, the most important principle to take into account is the spirits of our laws especially as they relate to these commitments.
10. Allowing for the modification of these commitments over a long period of time, but preventing them from being modified on a whim.
11. Trusting in our system and lodging complaints and seeking routes within our system to make change rather than violent means.
12. Maintaining transparency and the free-flow of information and ideas from, through, and throughout government and society.

there is no such thing as a linear relationship

Linear relationships only exist as simplifications of non-linear relationships or simplifications of portions of non-linear relationships. Even our own representations of lines themselves are in fact non-linear. however, thinking of things in terms of lines is helpful. Apparently it's useful to mathematicians, so lets leave them with their lines. But in general we come into problems when we try to apply linear models to anything in reality because nothing is linear. One possibility for a truly completely strait line is the edge of a crystal. but who's to say that the atoms line up exactly, and further, the edges of an atom are not definite but flexible, a line is not flexible, nor rigid, it is imaginary and only exists as a tool that can be used properly or improperly in explaining or simplifying the universe.

why should you care and what new information is this:
Well, in economics and in any quantifiable study graphs are usually employed to represent the data visually. Students are taught from a young age the idea of lines and that definition is regularly redefined for them. In the context of graphs, lines are no longer used but curves are substituted. Unfortunately, similar definitions of lines remain on curves, such as zero width. Because of this simplistic model of reality we have to employ cumbersome and outmoded tools such as error bars. Whenever a simplification is to take place, it is important that the students know that such simplification is taking place and that they see the limits of the lens you've given them rather than believing the image they currently see is the be all and end all description of reality.