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Bill: A Modern Legal System
Details
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: June 2426
Description[?]:
| Tome to modernize our system |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is applied to most minor and all major criminal offences.
Current: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation is never paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Proposed: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:01:27, July 09, 2007 CET | From |  Party of Deltarian Democrats | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | Instead of having an entire laundry list of atricles in a bill instead you should create each bill seperately so that it can all be debated accordingly |
| Date | 00:05:08, July 09, 2007 CET | From | PJC Party | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | I was trying for an omnibus bill, changing a whole lot of things, as part of my bid for justice minister. how about if I break this down into two or three seperate bills? |
| Date | 00:47:33, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Party of Deltarian Democrats | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | Really it would be a lot easier to have every proposal have one bill that way you could debate each one seperately because there is always something that one agrees to and another dosen't. |
| Date | 00:53:30, July 09, 2007 CET | From | PJC Party | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | OK, I have shortened the bill to the basic modern legal system issues. |
| Date | 00:55:53, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Party of Deltarian Democrats | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | Ok cool its a lot easier to read now. |
| Date | 00:56:57, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Party of Deltarian Democrats | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | I think that all forms of torture should be illegal, its proven in most cases of torture that if you are torturing a wrongly accused suspect then they will tell you anything to end the pain. |
| Date | 01:07:48, July 09, 2007 CET | From | PJC Party | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | I may agree with you on torture but right now I am just rying to modernize the system-get this bill passed. |
| Date | 01:10:46, July 09, 2007 CET | From | Party of Deltarian Democrats | To | Debating the A Modern Legal System |
| Message | That violates peoples right; torture does; and so we will vote against this bill if the stance on torture isn't changed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 3 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 97 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting that vote." - Unknown |