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Bill: Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2083
Description[?]:
| Considering the power that is placed in the hands of our political representatives and the direct employees of the government it is essential that these individuals be and are shown to be honest and reliable. For this reason it is proposed that certain of the rights to privacy and rights of employment of individuals shall be suspended with regards to these individuals for the period of time in which they serve the nation. For the puposes of this law a senior civil servant is one that has the power to take decisions that affect the use of public resources. 1. Exclusivity of Interests No employee of the government or elected representative of the people shall hold any position, paid or othewrwise with any private company for the duration of their term of office or public employment. 2. Criminal History Disclosure Whilst past criminal convictions shall not disqualify individuals from public service unless specifically so disqualified in law, all past criminal convictions of public servants shall be a matter of public record. 3. Financial Record Disclosure All elected representatives and senior public officials shall disclose all of their financial records covering a period starting ten (10) years prior to their election through to the present day to the public auditors. Failure to so disclose or to fully disclose shall be considered treasonable and is subject to the penalties for treason. 4. Patrimony Disclosure All elected representatives and senior public servants shall make an annual declaration of their patrimony. If there is any increase in patrimony that is inconsistant with their financial disclosure audit this shall be considered evidence of deceit and lack of full disclosure. 5. Gifts Elected representativces and senior public servants are not permitted to accept gifts with a value of grerater than 50 Lodamun dollars from any source that is not connected personally with them as an individual rather than as a public employee. Gifts of greater value received from family or friends have to be declared in their financial records. (The value need not be declared, but the item must be to allow the cross checking of patrimony to finance.) 6. Remuneration No law varying the compensation for the services of the elected representatives shall take effect until an election of these representatives shall have intervened. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The lyrics of the national anthem.
Old value:: None
Current:
| O, Lodamun Rejoice, brothers and sisters Children of our glorious land May we restrain our resistors Their resistance we disband No foe I fear, no friend I force We propagate wholeheartedly No single feeling of Remorse affects our fraternity All the weapons of this earth Could not temper our pride Lodamun, for what it's worth Your sacred grounds we abide O, Republic that is ours Our lives are in your hands We shall maintain with all our powers Your glory, with proud stance. |
Proposed: Probably none
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:21:58, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal |
| Message | This has already been debated here: http://aiglesrv.no-ip.info:8085/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=9802 It is being reproposed as various parties were unable to vote due to the game being down. |
| Date | 15:58:34, July 20, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal |
| Message | The national anthem proposal, as attached, is irrelevant. The anti-corruption bill without it is quite sufficient. By attaching the proposal it suggests there is unanimous support for a constitutional amendment, which is not the case. There is unanimous support for an anti-corruption bill, nothing more. |
| Date | 20:07:52, July 20, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal |
| Message | The ammendment to the national anthem was made specifically to write this anti corruption measure into our constitution. There appears to be almost unanimous support for this as a constitutional measure. ((I believe that the same strategy has been used previously to enshrine items as constitutional which the game mechanics do not hold as such. In fact I fell foul of this as you may remember, although that was corrected.)) |
| Date | 23:27:54, July 20, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal |
| Message | We understand the purpose of attaching the proposal but disagree with the need to protect the principles of the bill by enshrining it in the constitution. No one is likely to move a pro-corruption bill so this sets a dangerous precedent. Under the same pretext it would be valid to move an "Abolition of Deep-frying Newborn Babies Bill" and attach a meaningless constitutional amendment to it. The content of the bill is a no-brainer - but the power lies in the approval the proposing party gets in achieving a constitutional bill with unanimous support. |
| Date | 23:43:15, July 20, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Anti-Corruption Bill reproposal |
| Message | This bill was motivated by the attacks made on the libertarian parties by certain of the left wing parties duribng the Government Expense Reduction Bill debate. As such it is not equivalent of you moving an "Abolition of Deep-frying Newborn Babies Bill" unless some party has accused you of Deep-frying newborn babies. If they had, then you would be justified in moving such a bill. There is a perception here, and in many places, that the libertarian cause is tied to the pockets of business. This bill is intended to explicitly break that perception here. It is also a preemptive measure for handling corruption when the economy is added. If you would like a suggestion, we will need some kind of ruling on party funding when the economy comes into play. If we have a pre-agreed position, then this will make the transition a little smoother. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 363 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 74 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 13 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood." - Augusto Pinochet |