Article I : Purpose

   The Free Group is a practical activist group for the restoration,
   preservation, and advancement of civil liberties, especially those
   relating to software and technology.

   With a focus on the MIT community, we:

     - Educate people about the tenets of freedom.

     - Provide free solutions for problems encountered by members of
       the community.

     - Organize demonstrations to promote freedom.

     - Petition for offical polices that promote freedom.

Article III : Membership

   We follow the ASA rules for group membership, available at
   http://web.mit.edu/asa/rules/pdf/ASA-Operating-Guidelines.pdf, as
   amended below:

   Amendments:

     - A person who attends at least one meeting in a semester
       shall be an "Active Member".

     - A person who attends three consecutive meetings shall be
       a "Voting Member".

     - Quorum shall be determined from the number of Voting Members.

     - A person shall cease to be a Voting Member if for each of three
       consecutive meetings, that person fails to attend.

     - Any member may attend any meeting by proxy, by informing an
       officer of the designated proxy via e-mail within seven days of
       the meeting date.

     - Members may attend meetings by proxy. A person may attend by
       proxy by informing an officer via email within seven days
       preceeding the meeting.
   
Article IV : Officers

    This organization shall have at a minimum three officers:

        Patron Saint 
 
            Richard Matthew Stallman

        President 

            The president shall be the official representative of the
            group to any other organization and to MIT. The president
            shall preside over all meetings. The president is required
            to determine when meetings are held and to publicize the
            times of these meetings to the group.

        Treasurer

            The treasurer shall be responsible for the finances of the
            group. The treasurer must sign all cheques and vouchers of
            the group.

    All officers of this organization must be distinct current MIT
    students.

    Elections:

        Elections of officers shall occur the penultimate meeting of
        the academic term. The meeting must be announced seven days in
        advance. Any member of this organization may run for any
        office. Quorum for elections is two-thirds of the voting
        membership of the group. Any member is elected if that member
        wins a majority of the voting members. If more than two people
        are running and no one wins a majority, then the person with
        the fewest votes shall be dropped from the ballot and votes
        shall be recast. The term of office runs from one election to
        the subsequent election. Voting members that can not attend
        the election meeting may vote by low-latency electronic
        communication.

        Removal: Officers may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the
        members.

Article V : Meetings

    Meetings shall be held at least every 28 days. Meetings shall be
    presided over by the president, unless the president is absent,
    and in that case the treasurer shall preside. If the treasurer is
    also absent, then the Patron Saint shall preside. If no officers
    can preside, then the meeting must not be held. All decisions
    shall be made by a majority vote of all voting members
    present. Quorum for a meeting shall be one-quarter of the voting
    members of the organization. Voting members may vote by proxy at
    meetings, but may not at elections.

Article VI : Amendments

    Amendments shall be presented by any member of the organization
    during a meeting. Amendments shall be passed by a two-thirds vote
    of the voting members present. Quorum for amending this
    constitution shall be two-thirds of all voting members of the
    organization.

Article VII : ASA Governance Clause

    The Free Group agrees to abide by the rules and regulations of the
    Association of Student Activities, and its executive board. This
    constitution, amendments to it, and the by-laws of this
    organization shall be subject to review by the ASA Executive Board
    to ensure that they are in accordance with the aforementioned
    rules and regulations.

Article 0 :

   This document is Copyright (C) 2013, Robert Louis McIntyre.

   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
   document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
   Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
   Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no
   Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license can be obtained at
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.txt .

Article II : Definitions

   The key words "must", "must not", "required", "shall", "shall not",
   "should", "should not", "recommended", "may", and "optional" in
   this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119,
   published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and
   available at: http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.html.