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Bill: Military Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Left Socialist Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: October 2391
Description[?]:
| We must reform our system of defense, beginning from the conception of professional army and preventive defense. To diminish the number of NBC ìs armiess the first step. We cannot believe that the single possibility of being able to answer to an attack NBC of defends and us it renders surer. In truth we must be engaged because the State directly acts in the industries of the defense developing technology and professinality. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Proposed: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Current: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Proposed: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:53:14, April 18, 2007 CET | From | Darnussian Liberal Democrat Party | To | Debating the Military Act |
| Message | No to 5, and change 4 to say "We can use it if they are used against us". Appart from that, we like it. |
| Date | 00:11:24, April 19, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Military Act |
| Message | Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare. is unacceptable. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 133 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 148 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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