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Bill: Free Speech Expansion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front
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: May 2458
Description[?]:
| Since as such all words have been uttered in all sorts of manners and mannerisms in the old days of the Golden Age of the Jelbanian Federal Republic, and as with the Founding Fathers the spoken, written and otherwise communictated word was allowed to be stated and said, it is imperative that we remove the Iron Heel of Socialism and Paternalism from the Spine of Our Beloved Nation and as such say to the Dictators who claim to be Democrats that they deserve a Pox on their un-Christian Cockatrice hides. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Libel laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over falsehoods printed on them.
Current: Individuals may sue over all defamatory remarks printed on them, even truthful ones.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding libel.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:34:11, September 18, 2007 CET | From |  Bloc Militaire pour Restauration | To | Debating the Free Speech Expansion Act |
| Message | we oppose; there should be limits on free speech when it damages other people |
| Date | 15:11:18, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Free Speech Expansion Act |
| Message | we oppose |
| Date | 22:29:41, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Lib-Gov Party-part of W.A-S.U | To | Debating the Free Speech Expansion Act |
| Message | You have forgot to add an article like this: The nation has free to punch the men who do those proposals |
| Date | 00:18:39, September 19, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Free Speech Expansion Act |
| Message | Lib-Gov Party: we are sorry that you feel it necessary to support censorship and sarcastically lambast this proposal from your high-horse of sarcasm and bigotry. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 18 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 70 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 12 |
| Random fact: Particracy has been running since 2005. Dorvik was Particracy's first nation, the Dorvik Social Democrats the first party and the International Greens the first Party Organisation. |
| Random quote: "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward." - John Maynard Keynes |