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Bill: Changing the Legislative Bodies Name
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2456
Description[?]:
| The DSP feels that it is time that we bring this up again, since it has been a decade since the previous time we have done so. The DSP believes the term Apella harkons to a time when Sekowo was more a Confederation of sovereign states. Sekowo today is a Federation in which the regions are subservient, and therefore we believe a new term is needed. Therefore the DSP proposes that it be changed from Apella to Senate. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The official title of the legislative assembly.
Old value:: Apella
Current:
| 国会 - Kokkai (Imperial Diet) |
Proposed: Senate
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:02:33, September 15, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | This bill is also meant as a place of discussion of other terms to be used as well. Some of the terms we chose from; Senatoria Federal Assembly Senatus Forum Federal Council |
| Date | 09:16:07, September 15, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | Senate is such an overused term. We do not restrict our representatives to the aged and elderly, but simply the adept and capable. We would like something unique, which is why we propose the term "Populis Tyrannoi" |
| Date | 09:25:15, September 15, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | What would that translate to? It sounds like Popular Tyranny, which is a disturbing term for use. OOC: Actually few nations actually use Senate on Terra, and in RL only a about 30% have anything called Senate. |
| Date | 09:58:23, September 15, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | Anyways, this is to get everyones ideas on a new name for it, but since bills up to vote get more attention in general, I'm doing it this way. |
| Date | 10:53:33, September 15, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | Popular Tyrants, actually, and since it's Greek I'd anticipate it would have the Greek connotation, which is to say a good one rather than the modern perception of a "tyrant." In Greece Tyrants would be elected democratically, after all. |
| Date | 16:01:54, September 15, 2007 CET | From | Saiken Renmei | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | Well, the Wikipedia says 'In ancient Greece, tyrants were influential opportunists that came to power by securing the support of different factions of a deme. The word "tyrant" carried no ethical censure; it simply referred to anyone who illegally seized executive power in a polis to engage in autocratic government.' Besides, 'Populis' is in Latin, the Greek word would be 'Demou'. I'd stick for Apella. |
| Date | 22:18:44, September 15, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | For a nation with no discernible real-world equivalent culture we sure do like to keep our linguistics accurate. I just thought it was a unique and interesting-sounding term to use for the legislative body. |
| Date | 23:11:00, September 15, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | The real problem is that with the Greek thing, which is completely the AUP's doing, is only taking cues from a small portion of Sekowan history. |
| Date | 03:45:41, September 17, 2007 CET | From |  Imperial Pluralism Party | To | Debating the Changing the Legislative Bodies Name |
| Message | We were Spanish before I came here! By god, what a terrible, tacky naming system that was! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 187 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 284 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 128 |
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