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Bill: Age of becoming an adult
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republic of Aloria 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 2096
Description[?]:
| The age of becoming a adult should be raised people are not emotionally mature enough at the age of only sixteen. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 16
Current: 18
Proposed: 17
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:50:28, August 15, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Age of becoming an adult |
| Message | OOC: In the past, the age of adulthood has been treated as the voting age. IC: The Freedom Party opposes this bill as it will restrict the rights of the Alorian citizenry. |
| Date | 01:43:16, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Aloria Peace Party | To | Debating the Age of becoming an adult |
| Message | IC : The youngest members of society are traditionally the least listened to and represented. We need to ensure that the youth of an already apathetic nation as seen with the deeply distressing voter turn out in the last election of 34.45%, are not further alienated and marginalised. Our ears should fully be open to radical new ideas and we should be open to a fresh perspective on our way of life in order to ensure we do not stagnate as a nation. We need to be constantly evaluating ourselves and reforming our ideals and, as some of the best suggestions are from the youth, voting at a young age should be encouraged. We cannot support this proposal but, thank the Republic of Aloria Party for striving to reform our electoral system and encourage debates of this nature, seeing them of the greatest importance. OOC : Thank you for background info, extremely useful was unsure as to what it meant. |
| Date | 03:40:07, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Republic of Aloria Party | To | Debating the Age of becoming an adult |
| Message | Again I say people under the age of 17 are not mature, and I don't think our country wants unstable people participating in elections. When people are 16 there brain hasnt completely developed and should not be allowed to buy alcohal or cigaretts. |
| Date | 23:42:34, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Alorian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Age of becoming an adult |
| Message | I oppose this, when I was 16 my political opinions were perfectly formed and I could vote intelligently! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 2 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 398 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "Real politics is the possession and distribution of power." - Benjamin Disraeli |