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Bill: National Defence
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Malivia
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: November 2434
Description[?]:
| In order to further protect the people who live within the borders of Malivia it is believed that we must ammend our current defence laws. We propose the following, but it is up for debate: |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Current: Every public building is required to feature provisions for civil defence and at least 50% of spaces must be allocated to private citizens.
Proposed: Every public building is required to feature provisions for civil defence and at least 50% of spaces must be allocated to private citizens.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns all defence industries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:20:23, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Radical Labor Confederation | To | Debating the National Defence |
| Message | The RSM agrees with article 2, but we feel article 1 is going a bit overboard. |
| Date | 01:20:42, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Supporters of Science in Design (IP) | To | Debating the National Defence |
| Message | Private industries help keep our military innovative. |
| Date | 03:36:51, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Malivian National Unity Front | To | Debating the National Defence |
| Message | I am glad to see that the S.S.D. has seen the wisdom in private enterprise as opposed to government monopolies that stifle innovation. |
| Date | 04:22:15, July 26, 2007 CET | From | National Anti-Communist Front | To | Debating the National Defence |
| Message | We agree with article one but as already stated we must allow private defense industries. |
| Date | 04:45:36, July 26, 2007 CET | From | United Malivia | To | Debating the National Defence |
| Message | If private companies make our naitons defense weaponry then what is to say they will not sell the plans, and thus the possibility of weaknesses, to other nations which could then be used against Malivia? We need security with our defense. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 102 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 348 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Zardugal is a nation based on the old Byzantine Empire, with a modern twist and the Esperanto language. Zardugal is located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "Politics have no relation to morals." - Niccolo Machiavelli |