Author
Thomas Gangale
Recent research
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The Charter of the United Martian States: A Proposed Constitution for the Future Settlements on Mars
Abstract This document presents a complete constitutional framework for a future human society on Mars. The Charter of the United Martian States is a confederative instrument designed for a small, dispersed, high-risk frontier environment in which sovereign constituent polities v...
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Numbers 60–65 of The Martian Federalist articulate the philosophical and legal foundations of the Charter of the United Martian States and the complementary Martian Accords. They defend a deliberately minimalist constitutional design that fixes only essential principles—fundament...
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Series 10 of The Martian Federalist (Numbers 74–83) advances a post-Westphalian constitutional vision for the United Martian States, arguing that the territorial nation-state model—forged in 1648—is structurally mismatched to planetary-scale, multi-generational challenges such as...
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The Martian Federalist Series 9: Contingency, Triage, and the Limits of Emergency Power
Certain high-consequence failure modes on Mars are sufficiently foreseeable, and their physical consequences sufficiently rapid and severe, that they must be treated as design cases. In a closed, lethal environment the difference between a community that has written, drilled, and...
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Numbers 60–65 of The Martian Federalist articulate the philosophical and legal foundations of the Charter of the United Martian States and the complementary Martian Accords. They defend a deliberately minimalist constitutional design that fixes only essential principles—fundament...
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The Martian Accords set forth non-binding political commitments to guide the orderly transition of human settlements on Mars from terrestrial-dependent outposts and colonies to sovereign city-states within a voluntary confederal framework. Reaffirming the Outer Space Treaty and c...
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The Martian Federalist Series 13: Comparative Reflections on Founding Documents
This series of eight essays undertakes a systematic comparative examination of the Martian Accords and the Charter of the United Martian States against a range of influential imaginative, academic, and manifesto proposals for the political ordering of Mars. Beginning with a well-...
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The Martian Federalist Series 11: Martian Political Economy
This series develops an evolutionary political economy for permanent human settlement on Mars under the Charter of the United Martian States. It begins from the legal baseline of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the political commitments of the Artemis Accords, which prohibit nati...
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The Martian Federalist Series 11: Martian Political Economy
This series develops an evolutionary political economy for permanent human settlement on Mars under the Charter of the United Martian States. It begins from the legal baseline of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the political commitments of the Artemis Accords, which prohibit nati...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Numbers 60–65 of The Martian Federalist articulate the philosophical and legal foundations of the Charter of the United Martian States and the complementary Martian Accords. They defend a deliberately minimalist constitutional design that fixes only essential principles—fundament...