In the aughts I thought it was such an obvious thing to do to make a wiki meant to feature all national (and regional) constitutional documents, cross-translated, ideally, with a place to put in suppositional sections and clauses (like changing the US federal elections from FPTP and a two party system. How would we word that in the Constitution of the United States so that it was ironclad?)

I assumed someone would make this wiki somewhere, especially since there are ongoing regime changes, and we want to help those factions that side with the public to figure out what they want. Right?

Nope. Legal think tanks are usually formed by billionaires to circumvent or subvert public-serving law. In laywer culture, helping the public is regarded as an altruistic sacrifice or a sign you're not good enough to defend white-collar criminals.

I'd think some university might want to host a wiki like this, so they could get big donations to shut it down a year at a time.

[–] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

That actually sounds like an awesome idea. You could probably get a vps and set up mediawiki to run it yourself. The problem would be hosting cost depending bandwidth usage.