Four score minus 78 years ago, Asa was struck by a particularly insightful thought--movies are fun to watch. So he started a movie club with Gordon for the purpose of watching movies. It occurred to the two of them that they could multiply the amount of fun being had in the movie club if they added more people1. So they added more people. Then the people wrote down movies they wanted to watch and week after week, the group watched them (they made it through 2 films that year). After its initial iteration, the movie club has respawneded in many forms. It is currently active in its current form. Anyway, that's the long and short of it. We the serious film critics of this esteemed movie club do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United Movie Club of America and Other Countries that Want to Participate.
As any real film bufftm could tell you, a movie club needs a very strong and active government. That's why the first article of this constitution is about government and not movies. The political realities of mankind (i.e. that some movie club members are tyrranical) make it necessary.
At this point in time, the movie club decides all governing issues by majority vote. All active members get a single vote except for supermembers who get a super vote that is precisely eqivalent to one normal vote. One member shall be designated as the club sudoot (an amalgam of 'sudo' and 'root') and will take care of administrative tasks for the club (like sending out invites & movie requests, rolling random numbers to select movies, making edits to this constitution, etc). We can probably trust that person to always be honest because they're the sudoot and a requirement for being sudoot is being honest. Actually, even so, it's probably best to roll the number publicly (on a twitch stream or something).
Using an almost unrecognizable version of Robert's (Bob's) Rules of Order, any member can raise a motion which, if seconded, must then be voted on and swiftly enacted unless it can't be because it's impossible or sort of hard to enact. In that case the members will hodl a vote to establish a sub-committee to study the motion and render an opinion on how best to move forward with it. Sub-committees are well known to be pretty quick and good at that sort of thing, so it should go swimmingly. Oh, also the subcommittees must vote to approve their report. If the vote passes by majority, it will be presented to the main body of the movie club for consideration. Body members will vote on whether or not they think the report ought to be acted on. If the vote fails, the subcommittee must apologize to everyone for wasting time that could have been better spent watching movies (remember, that's the point of this club).
Every now and then the movie club will decide to start a new season. Active members will agree upon how many movies each of them should submit into a selection pot and then submit them by clicking the submit button on the form that lets them submit movies. Members should select movies that they have not previously seen (although it doesn't matter if other people have seen the films).
When everyone (or even an undefined quorum of the club) decides they'd like to watch a movie, the sudoot will roll a number between 1 and n, the number of movies in the pot. The sudoot can raise a motion to instead roll a number between 1 and n-1 if they have a serious and documented objection to non-zero based indexing. Once the sudoot has a number, they will match it up to the list of movies in the pot and the corresponding movie shall be watched and enjoyed (mandatory) by the club.
There comes a point in many members' tenure in the club that they realize that they're unhappy. Their stomach is upset, their job isn't very fun, and their washing has an odd smell. Fortunately, there is a path for recourse. They can try to grab a snatch of schadenfreude by vetoing a movie selection. Vetos shall be submitted as normal motions, but they CANNOT BE SENT TO COMMITTEE!!. If a veto motion passes, the sudoot shall pick a new movie for the club to watch as outlined in Article II.
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