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Bill: Nationality Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonese Cultural Alliance
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: August 2447
Description[?]:
| A Telamonese is a Telamonese. People cannot claim Telamonese-ness merely by virtue of being born somewhere in Telamon, but must be raised in a Telamonese household by Telamonese parents. We aim to change the law to reflect this. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting citizenship.
Old value:: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Current: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Proposed: Citizenship is gained by passing a qualifying exam.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Current: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Proposed: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:22:05, August 24, 2007 CET | From | Secular Humanist party | To | Debating the Nationality Reform Act |
| Message | What's next ? Closing our borders to non nationals ? Relocating all foreigners? Your racism sickens me. |
| Date | 21:21:18, August 25, 2007 CET | From | United Labour Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Nationality Reform Act |
| Message | I was once a player here in Telamon quite a while ago. We agreed that Telamon was a tropical version of Canada. |
| Date | 09:04:36, August 26, 2007 CET | From | Telamonese Cultural Alliance | To | Debating the Nationality Reform Act |
| Message | I always figured it was like its namesake, a near-eastern country. |
| Date | 09:04:37, August 26, 2007 CET | From | Telamonese Cultural Alliance | To | Debating the Nationality Reform Act |
| Message | I always figured it was like its namesake, a near-eastern country. |
| Date | 09:09:30, August 26, 2007 CET | From | Telamonese Cultural Alliance | To | Debating the Nationality Reform Act |
| Message | I always figured it was like its namesake, a Mediterranean country. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 8 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 67 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: All role-play must respect the established cultural background in Culturally Protected nations. |
| Random quote: "Men who have greatness in them don't go in for politics." - Albert Camus |