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I like both of these! Tho I'd make the central star a touch smaller maybe.
Easy enough to do:


(I think I'm going to stick with the Chicago colors. They're red white and blue so there's that symbolic continuity but the different shades from the old flag signify that this isn't just a repeat of the old system.)

Make the central star a phoenix instead?
... Sure, we can do that. Used a simple phoenix swiped off the Phoenix AZ flag for this one, it's the only one I have at the moment that looks like something you'd put on a flag and not somebody's back:
 
Easy enough to do:


(I think I'm going to stick with the Chicago colors. They're red white and blue so there's that symbolic continuity but the different shades from the old flag signify that this isn't just a repeat of the old system.)


... Sure, we can do that. Used a simple phoenix swiped off the Phoenix AZ flag for this one, it's the only one I have at the moment that looks like something you'd put on a flag and not somebody's back:


Oh, I love both of these!
 
I must say, I'm not a fan of baby blue. I'd prefer darker blue hues.

Also, if we do star circles, do they need to have something in the centre? That to me has a sort of symbolism, of well... everything revolving around the centre. It's a rather centralist message, in a way. Especially the "small stars around a big star" design.

So I'd rather see an empty star circle a la EU, or just a single star (or phoenix).
 



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Adhoc vote count started by Flectarn on Mar 15, 2019 at 8:23 PM, finished with 2066 posts and 93 votes.
 
So I'd rather see an empty star circle a la EU, or just a single star (or phoenix).
Admittedly I like the lighter shade just because it's sufficiently different from the US flag, but there's a lot of colors between there and Old Glory. So try these on for size:




For the star flag I honestly think @Artificial Girl's original five-star design with the large primary and the four smaller stars flanking it works better than the single star, but that's just me.
 
On the topic of flags...
We need something that a barely-educated private could recognize and reproduce.

So, something distinct, with no small details. Like the very last flag before this post - and even then, I think it would be better to replace white&red stripes at the top&bottom of it.
 
I express some mild irritation at the casual disregard and dismissive attitudes of American tradition displayed here at times and I fear it making finding some potential allies a bit harder. I do find the idea of people calling the New Capitalism the radical option quite amusing when many here are voting communist. It is good in my opinion that we are not entrenching economic philosophy and policies into a constitution. Economic policies are not the domain of constitutions and the voters should be free to change economic policies in elections to match the times. What is good economic policy today may not be good policy ten years from now.

We may end up writing a new constitution if and once the country is reunited to allow the much larger population to express their views instead of using the constitution we are about write that was written by the left wing dominant Chicago area. This constitution is not the end, it is the beginning after all.

My thoughts on flags, No ideological symbols or party icons on the flags. So no red stars, black cats, donkeys or elephants. I dislike the ROC's flag for that reason. It should be simple enough for a child to have some hope of drawing it. If we use red, white, or blue, it should be in the shade used in the Stars and Stripes. The Stars and Bars design is too Confederate for my tastes. No words on the flag. Remember we are planning to represent a worthy American successor and not the Chicago commune or Chicago state.
 
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I do find the idea of people calling the New Capitalism the radical option quite amusing when many here are voting communist. It is good in my opinion that we are not entrenching economic philosophy and policies into a constitution. Economic policies are not the domain of constitutions and the voters should be free to change economic policies in elections to match the times. What is good economic policy today may not be good policy ten years from now.
Mate, if you arguing for the Centre then argue for Social Democracy mate.
 
[X][IDEALS] Social Democrat

[X][CRUSH] None

[X][POWER] You are a centralized federal state along the lines of the later United States.

[X][TEXT] The Constitution serves as a broad guide for the structure of this document, and many legal concepts integral to it carry through, but it is rewritten from the ground up to serve its new situation rather than simply amending it until it fits.

[X][REVIEW] The new Constitution will serve just fine with a standardized system for proposing amendments.
 
[X][IDEALS] Socialist
[X][TEXT] The Constitution was utterly bereft of any kind of legal, political, or ethical merit and shall be cast into the trash heap of history where it belongs. We shall start anew from a blank slate.

Shoring up the options I favor in those areas where the vote is at all close.
 
Mate, if you arguing for the Centre then argue for Social Democracy mate.
In fairness, the fact that it's the middle of the options available says more about the quest voter base than it does about whether it is objectively the center choice by the standards of the NPCs we're going to meet in the game.

I express some mild irritation at the casual disregard and dismissive attitudes of American tradition displayed here at times and I fear it making finding some potential allies a bit harder. I do find the idea of people calling the New Capitalism the radical option quite amusing when many here are voting communist. It is good in my opinion that we are not entrenching economic philosophy and policies into a constitution. Economic policies are not the domain of constitutions and the voters should be free to change economic policies in elections to match the times. What is good economic policy today may not be good policy ten years from now.

We may end up writing a new constitution if and once the country is reunited to allow the much larger population to express their views instead of using the constitution we are about write that was written by the left wing dominant Chicago area. This constitution is not the end, it is the beginning after all.

My thoughts on flags, No ideological symbols or party icons on the flags. So no red stars, black cats, donkeys or elephants. I dislike the ROC's flag for that reason. It should be simple enough for a child to have some hope of drawing it. If we use red, white, or blue, it should be in the shade used in the Stars and Stripes. The Stars and Bars design is too Confederate for my tastes. No words on the flag. Remember we are planning to represent a worthy American successor and not the Chicago commune or Chicago state.
What do you think about the phoenix designs? A stylized phoenix isn't that hard to draw.
 
In fairness, the fact that it's the middle of the options available says more about the quest voter base than it does about whether it is objectively the center choice by the standards of the NPCs we're going to meet in the game.

I mean, if Poptart uses the vote totals a guide, then it will be the center of the political spectrum for our polity.
 
Keep in mind that every item on a flag has to have a symbolic meaning, so we need a reason for every star on the flag. Maybe each star represents one of the original signatories of the Chicago Accords, with a big one - or a phoenix- to represent the entire Union? That way we don't need to redesign the flag in the future.
 
Guys and gals. How about a flag that doesn't need a redesign every few years as new states join in. A more permanent flag. Make it so that with each Constitutional Convention we have every 30 years we get a chance to make a new flag.
 
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