Building a Party Constitution

One of the biggest challenge on the road to meritocracy will be building a sustainable organisation/ political party to support this change. Making a rough back of the envelope calculation, I would say the party would need 1 active volunteer for every 100 people in the population, and 1 leader/active participant for every 10 volunteers. Therefore, the core group would be ideally around 1% of the target population. That may appear small, but translates to around 10K active volunteers for a population of 1 million. Based on this, the approximate number of active volunteers & leaders needed to take the movement to a national level for some countries would be as follows:

China:  17.7M volunteers, 2M leaders

India: 12.7M volunteers, 1M leaders

USA:    3.2M volunteers, 300k leaders

Brazil: 2M volunteers, 200k leaders

Russia: 1.5M volunteers, 150k leaders

Japan: 1.3M volunteers, 130k leaders

Germany: 810k volunteers, 80k leaders

France: 660k volunteers, 66k leaders

UK:       640k volunteers, 64k leaders

South Africa: 540k volunteers, 54k leaders

Canada: 360k volunteers, 36k leaders

UAE:      100k volunteers, 10k leaders

Luxembourg: 6K volunteers, 600 leaders

United States Department of Defense, the largest employer in the world, employs 3.2 million people. 

The key point that I am trying to make is that the project would involve building an extremely large organisation, and will be harder for bigger countries. To be sustainable, at the minimum it would need a cohesive ideology that appeals to its members (both emotionally and logically), a suitable organisation structure, an effective fund-raising strategy, an effective succession mechanism, a party constitution, and an effective marketing strategy. 

With this view, I hereby begin the first draft for a sample consitution for a party whose sole motto is the progress of the nation based on the principles of meritocracy. The constitution is a work in progress and I will share it with you once it is in a respectable shape. Please feel free to pitch in your suggestions in the comments below, or just email me.