Q.Enact a classroom thought-experiment: discuss and decide rules applying to the whole class/session (how reps are chosen, what decisions reps can take, what needs full-class consultation, kitty/picnic/resource-sharing rules, past-conflict subjects, how to revise decisions). Write decisions on paper, post on notice board. What problems arose? How were differences resolved? Did the class gain from this?

This activity is a hands-on way to experience why groups need a constitution: the whole class agrees on binding basic rules for itself, exactly mirroring section 1.1's coordination-and-assurance idea. …

The activity re-enacts the chapter's own thought experiment from "Constitution allows coordination and assurance": a diverse group of people (here, the class) needs agreed basic rules to live and work together, and those rules only function if they are publicly known and genuinely followed, not merely proposed and forgotten. To carry this out, the entire class should discuss and decide, together, how class representatives will be chosen; which decisions the representative(s) can take on the whole class's behalf without further consultation, and which decisions require consulting the entire class first; rules for handling shared resources such as a common class kitty, or organising a picnic or trip; and, importantly, rules covering any subjects that have caused disagreement among students in the past, since those are exactly the areas where clear rules matter most. The class should also agree on a procedure for revising these decisions later, since a workable set of rules, like a real constitution, needs to be adaptable rather than fixed forever. …