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Bill: Law for the total liberty of Speech
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vox Popularis Imperator
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 2437
Description[?]:
| We propose the legalization of slander and insults, surely we are all adult and capable of handling mere words. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:35:20, August 01, 2007 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Law for the total liberty of Speech |
| Message | Yes, I am a VIGOROUS proponent of the inalienable right to Freedom of Speech. However, that does not give people license to deliberate LIE and tarnish a fellow citizen's reputation. Nevertheless, we would be willing to support legislation that immunes PUBLIC OFFICIALS (politicians) from said lawsuits. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 670 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." - Havelock Ellis |