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Bill: Equal Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kirlawa Green Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2084
Description[?]:
| anyone who wishes so should be able to become Kirlawan. They should however be screened first by state security. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Only those born in this country or to nationals receive nationality.
Current: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Proposed: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:51:05, July 20, 2005 CET | From |  Theofascist Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | And a very strict test it should be, too. (Btw, how come you're always the first to propose bills about these new policy options?) |
| Date | 12:17:54, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | I'm not always the first: see food safety,... but if no one ever proposes them... |
| Date | 12:20:48, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | also: medical research, ... I left those for 2 or more days for others to propose... |
| Date | 16:35:14, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Freedom Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | In order to acquire citizenship, a person has to live here for 5 years legally, be able to speak our language, have a clean criminal record, and obey our customs and norms. When our citizenship is granted, the person loses old citizenship. |
| Date | 17:08:29, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Theofascist Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | This bill isn't about citizenship, it is about nationality, which in terms of this game is entirely separate from citizenship. According to the current law, citizenship is automatically given to all nationals, so the provisoes have to be made for the question of nationality rather than citizenship. Am I still making sense? :) |
| Date | 17:14:09, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Theofascist Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | But incidentally I agree with your conditions for nationality/citizenship, although the part about obeying customs and norms seems a bit vague; after all, when has one or hasn't one obeyed "customs and norms"? |
| Date | 08:22:13, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | Can we vote on this? You could make a proposal for citizenship PLP... |
| Date | 09:06:53, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Freedom Party | To | Debating the Equal Rights Act |
| Message | the proposal as is would get our support... everyone born in Kirlawa is Kirlawan, those immigrants passing a test can get our nationality |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 147 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 35 |
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