On Jan 29, 2008 5:57 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A more interesting case, which came up in my earlier era of playerhood > when we first considered recognising Canada as a nomic, is the > German constitution. It has rules providing for amendment to the > constitution, but an explicit prohibition on amending certain articles > of it. The question was raised of whether it was disqualified from > being a nomic by virtue of those protected articles being unamendable. > However, it emerged that the protecting clause did not prohibit amendment > of itself, so in the end the constitution on its face does not make any > clause entirely unamendable.
Nevertheless, a standard Nomic game that made one rule completely unamendable still deserves to be called a nomic.
