By the end of 21HY, it was clear that option 3 had won. The newspaper seemed to think so, the community as a whole seemed to think so, and no one truly opposed it beyond ‘It won’t ever get off the ground’.
What was needed was a way to get it off the ground.
Enter Catherine Fuller. She was a lawyer, and she’d been trying to operate in the total dysfunctional legal system for the past year. Not criminal, that worked mostly okay if only because there were not a huge amount of crimes, but the civil one.
There were no marriage laws, so no joint property or division of assets on divorce. No business partners legally existed. No tort law so if you damaged something someone could be made whole. Not any really any estate laws. The Project Zero hearings seemed to not even want to deal with anything beyond criminal activity, and the few times she forced the issue, they couldn’t decide on any actual law and just randomly came to whatever conclusion seemed ‘fair’.
And so, as she told everyone when she showed up, she had realized that Haven needed an actual government and an actual system of laws, and understood this Tuesday Group to be working towards that?
And then she learned the status of things and told them they need a Constituent Assembly. Properly run.
Very quickly, Catherine Fuller ended up the chairwoman of the group, which was renamed to the Haven Constituent Assembly. Mostly because she seemed to be literally the only person who seemed to understand the legal process of forming a government. Questions that the Tuesday Group would have floundered on for several meetings were immediately answered, with historic documentation.
Her practical legal experience and frank explanation of how the laws worked clashed with a few member of the group at first, but eventually they got used it, with them understanding she was describing history and her realizing that Haven offered the possibility of a new start with a lot of assumptions being thrown out. And as the Chairwoman and a lawyer, she was there to guide them to write things that did what they wanted them to do.
A constitution was drafted over the next year, in two parts. The first part set up the actual core government, and the second part had various removable sections about different authority that they were not sure Project Zero would hand over to them. The plan was to hand the first part over to Project Zero, then work on the second part and the exact details with them.