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Bill: Simplicity, for those who need it
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Coalition of the Willing
Status[?]: defeated
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: February 2373
Description[?]:
| In order that the Likaton people, and the parties of the Convocation, can easily understand majorities and support for Bills, we propose reducing the Convocation to an exact 100 members. In order to better legislate, we also propose increasing the number of proposals available per party annually by 50%, and the number that a party can 'store up' by 25% |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The number of proposals a party can introduce per year (will be handed out as a monthly quota).
Old value:: 12
Current: 20
Proposed: 18
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The maximum proposal quota a party can accumulate.
Old value:: 12
Current: 50
Proposed: 15
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 199
Current: 75
Proposed: 100
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:07:39, March 11, 2007 CET | From | Democratic National Party | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | We only agree with article 3 so on balance we will vote against this bill. However we do appreciate the Eastern Likaton Independence Party's position change on article 3. |
| Date | 12:12:35, March 11, 2007 CET | From |  Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | We felt that it was the will of the people, so we adapted. We would like the Clibs to re-consider the benefits of being able to propose more of those fantastic Clib economic policies, which we often support, even as we frown upon the excesses of their social legistlation. |
| Date | 13:01:52, March 11, 2007 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | We are willing to support. We are not entirely convinced that calculations are really made any easier by only having 100 seats... and it also seems to us that the fewer representatives, the less actually 'representative' each elected official becomes. |
| Date | 14:31:49, March 11, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | We oppose, as we were actually considering reducing the amount that could be stored, as there really isn't a problem with not having enough proposals to vote on, a tribute to how active parties currently are, and we think that the size of bills is generally too big right now. |
| Date | 14:35:48, March 11, 2007 CET | From | Likaton Coalition of the Willing | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | WEll, as this Bill is seemingly destined to fall, perhaps the AMPSD might wish to propose such a Bill. We would support redcutions in storage, if there was an increase in monthly allocation. |
| Date | 14:53:16, March 11, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the Simplicity, for those who need it |
| Message | We will propose something that does exactly that, we suppose, plus a 399 seat Convocation, as the "Convocation hugeness proposal" appears destined to pass. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 50 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 149 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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