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Bill: DI: Federalist Agenda
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Industrialists
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: May 2421
Description[?]:
| "Local leaders have always had more respect for local customs, religion, culture, and people. Let's move toward a more localized government!" --Lisa Goldwater |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the initiation of divorces (if allowed).
Old value:: Either partner may initiate a divorce.
Current: Either partner may initiate a divorce.
Proposed: Local governments decide who can initiate a divorce.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Current: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Proposed: The government devolves park policy to local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Remuneration of ministers of religion.
Old value:: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Current: The state does not intervene in the remuneration of ministers of religion.
Proposed: The remuneration of ministers of religion shall be left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:26:24, June 27, 2007 CET | From |  Free socialists party of the people | To | Debating the DI: Federalist Agenda |
| Message | "Local governmenting is generally a good idea. But allowing them to pick destroying parks, or pick creating religious governing, is not a good option. Opposed. " Many Nothingham. |
| Date | 17:06:41, June 27, 2007 CET | From | Christian Democrats | To | Debating the DI: Federalist Agenda |
| Message | "Our party has no stand on this issue." -- Lain Keymon |
| Date | 20:42:18, June 27, 2007 CET | From | The Liberty Organization | To | Debating the DI: Federalist Agenda |
| Message | "What you call federalism is actually robbing individuals of their freedoms. We have no strong stance on the relative importance of local versus national government, but we will not stand for limiting the freedoms of the people." Phil Harding |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 35 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 76 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of fascism." - Benito Mussolini |