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SORA Governance
SORA governance is still in development. The current version uses Polkadot v1 Governance.
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To vote in SORA governance proposals, follow the SORA Governance Tutorial.
The SORA Parliament is the governance system for the SORA network, its main task is to allocate newly minted XOR to productive projects. By combining decentralized governance and capital allocation, the SORA Parliament can create a digital government that can work to make our world, and other worlds better, without intruding on individual liberties.
The SORA Parliament utilizes Supranational Global Governance. This method has clear separation between propositioning, decision making, and rule making. There is no president or prime minister in this system, rather the rules of the system itself are the leader and all participants collaborate together as equal peers, making and reviewing proposals. It will have multiple bodies with a clear separation of powers and where the members (Citizens) are chosen randomly. It is built around these three main concepts, the same that grounded democracy in Athens:
- Isonomia: the principle that everyone who is a citizen has political equality
- Isegoria: the right of all citizens to speak and contribute
- Sortition: randomly choosing groups of citizens to make decisions
Check out this Medium article to find more about the Parliament and the governance bodies.
Creating a Motion in Governance
As mentioned above, the Polkadot v1 Governance is used and the current SORA Council uses the Polkadot.JS interface. This section will cover what the different governance features are and how to create a motion in SORA v2.
SORA Council
The SORA council can be found in the Council section of the Governace drop down menu in Polkadot.js. The main council interface will have the names of current members as well as runner-up candidates.
SORA Council Motions
Governance proposals in SORA begin as council motions. There are two ways to make a motion, by proposing the motion directly or proposing an external, by using a preimage hash that has been created already. This tutorial will show you how to make both.
Propose Motion
This button allows you to create any governance motion from all the available options.
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Only an account within the Council members can create a Council motion
In this case, the motion to be proposed is to mint an amount of tokens to a given address. To do that;
Click on propose motion, then in the proposal section select
assetsand from the option section chooseupdateBalancethis will add the option to add an address from your address book or you can input the address manually.Then add the currency ID (you can find this in Polkaswap within the Explore Tokens section.
Finally, add the amount in 10^18 precision of tokens to be sent (the number of tokens followed by 18 zeroes).
After you click propose, and confirm the transaction, it will generate a preimage. You need this to create your motion.
Preimages
These are proposal drafts that have not been requested to governance. After following the above steps, you will find your proposal among the list within the Preimage section of the Governance drop dowm menu in Polkadot.js
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Anyone can create a preimage from the preimage section, but you cannot propose it in the Council.
Propose External
Now that you have your preimage, copy the hash and back in the Motions subsection of the Council option in the Governance dropdown in Polkadot.js select Propose External.
The pop up will ask you for the preimage hash and length. Paste the hash and the length will populate automatically. Click propose and confirm the transaction. Congratulations, you have created a Council Motion.
All that is left is for the Council to vote on it, then, if approved it will become a Democracy Referenda that the entire community can vote on. This is the first step to governance!