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Bill: Freedom of Opinion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pragmatist 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: January 2448
Description[?]:
| It is foolish that one citizen may be sued for expressing an unflattering opinion of another. Slander lawsuits should be limited to those actually involving falsehoods. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over falsehoods and defamatory opinions spoken about them, if judged to be malicious.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:40:46, August 25, 2007 CET | From | Partie Légitimisme | To | Debating the Freedom of Opinion Act |
| Message | We support this, there is no reason why non-malicious slander should be punished in such a harsh way. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 172 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 204 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| 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. |