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Bill: Senate Enlargement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: War is Peace Party
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: December 2457
Description[?]:
| To make the Senate more representative of the will of the people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 425
Current: 200
Proposed: 500
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:05:08, September 16, 2007 CET | From |  Freedom Party | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | The Freedom Party supports this movement. |
| Date | 03:32:14, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | I typo as much as anyone hence not a criticism just to save you a little embarassment before you submit it to a vote. It's enlargement. |
| Date | 15:07:56, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | Tombstone Action are against the principle of the Orchestra But will consider support of this bill as a means to an end. |
| Date | 05:09:20, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | Proportional representation will not be significantly effected, there will simply be more useless politicians draining the national coffers. A reduction to 75 would be both more economical and more logical. |
| Date | 05:19:41, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Action | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | The large the house the more unstable the party government. |
| Date | 08:49:51, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Senate Enlargement Act |
| Message | Correct me if I'm incorrect. Right now seats are apportioned by canton. With the five cantons having between 74 and 105 seats with that statistical average being 85. Under the new law each canton would have an average of 100 seats to apportion with between 85 and 125. 500 is a nice number because unlike 425 you don't need to round up or down. The regional percentage can give you the exact number of theoretical seats. Though because of our preference of "a proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions" maybe Gilzon might get an extra seat (though from what I can tell with 425 things actually end up working in the opposite direction). I'd say 500 is a good round number and a very good one to use. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 122 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 129 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 160 |
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| Random quote: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken |