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Bill: Civil Liberties Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Party
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: October 2438
Description[?]:
| An act to secure civil liberties for the people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National policy regarding the desecration of the national flag.
Old value:: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Current: The national flag may not be desecrated or used for commercial purposes.
Proposed: There are no regulations regarding the desecration or use of the national flag.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:59:19, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Party | To | Debating the Civil Liberties Act |
| Message | Although flag desecration is bad, we believe that property owners should enjoy their possesions. This act applies only to privately-owned flags not to public or government flags. |
| Date | 21:11:51, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Kafuristani National Socialist Party | To | Debating the Civil Liberties Act |
| Message | We fail to see why anyone should be allowed to call on the downfall of the Kafurstani government, nation, and people, which is what burning the flag represents. |
| Date | 23:01:25, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Party | To | Debating the Civil Liberties Act |
| Message | But freedom of speech always trumps the government. People must be allowed to make moral desicions on their own and make their views heard. If we ban flag burning, they may use more drastic measures. |
| Date | 23:33:10, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Monarchistic Party | To | Debating the Civil Liberties Act |
| Message | Burning the flag isn't the sign of disapproval with the gov. it's attacking whole nation and country as it is. We can't have it allowed at our own country! |
| Date | 00:36:27, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Social Justice Party | To | Debating the Civil Liberties Act |
| Message | The SJP finds flag desecration utterly disgusting, however, a flag stands for freedom and it would be hypocrisy to vote against. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 136 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 369 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a cheque. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Martin Luther King Jr. |