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Bill: Youth Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Radical Libertarians
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: April 2429
Description[?]:
| To reasonably lower the age of adulthood from 18 to 16. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age until which students, if education were to be compulsary, are required to be educated (limited between 16 and 21).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 18
Current: 18
Proposed: 16
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:44:53, July 11, 2007 CET | From |  Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Youth Rights Act |
| Message | FRUIT sees both positives and negatives from this bill. On the one hand, we believe that trying sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds as adults would be a mistake. On the other hand, we believe that these citizens deserve the same rights as anyone else. After consideration, we lean in favor, but are definitely interested in hearing more debate. |
| Date | 05:48:31, July 12, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian-Communist Party | To | Debating the Youth Rights Act |
| Message | The LCP leans in favor. Agreeing with FRUIT, the LCP ses many positives and negatives, and would like to hear more debates on the bill. |
| Date | 19:32:57, July 12, 2007 CET | From | Union of Radical Libertarians | To | Debating the Youth Rights Act |
| Message | Well, the reason we support this bill is that we think people are plenty responsible at age 16 and 17. Ultimately, the best way to prevent them from getting adult sentences is giving more control into the hands of juries for consideration of sentencing in special cases, but that is another bill for another day. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 191 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 101 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 307 |
| Random fact: In cases where players have failed to clearly and accurately reference their nation's RP laws in the "Bills under debate" section, Moderation will rule them invalid if a challenge is made to their validity. |
| Random quote: "Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience." - Ernest Dimnet |