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Bill: Federalism Bill
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 2462
Description[?]:
| It is imperative to devolve certain funcitonalities to the local level so that the governance reflects not the Conceptions of Life from the View of a Bureacrat fat cat, with their odious utilitarian measures that aim to restrict their rights arbitrarily as if this Being sits above the Almighty Christ in Heaven Himself, or the Ghost, or the Holy Father, or Saintly Persons, or Even the Immaculate Mary. That is the Infallibility that is thus Percieved by the Misguided Politician who Does not Wish to Allow the People to Choose and As Such, We must remedy this problem and give the Local Governments the Rights to Choose Its Own Policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The legality of divorces (if marriages are recognised).
Old value:: Divorces are legal, be it mutual consent, grounded cause or if one partner wants it.
Current: The legality of divorces is left up to the local governments.
Proposed: Divorces are prohibited.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Current: Civil marriages are defined by local governments.
Proposed: Civil marriages are defined by local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on sexual relations.
Old value:: Sexual relations of all types are legal for consenting adults.
Current: Sexual relation laws are set by local governments.
Proposed: Sexual relation laws are set by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:20:23, September 26, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Federalism Bill |
| Message | UCC stands for local control of policy and decentralization in most policy areas. However these three issues: sexual relations, marriage, and divorce are so universal in scope that we believe it makes sense for the entire nation of Jelbania to have a uniform policy for each of these issues. Therefore, we do not support these changes. |
| Date | 20:40:10, September 26, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Jelbanian Party-D.L.J.-D.L.F | To | Debating the Federalism Bill |
| Message | we strongly oppose |
| Date | 22:10:19, September 26, 2007 CET | From | Lib-Gov Party-part of W.A-S.U | To | Debating the Federalism Bill |
| Message | We agree to a reasonable level of devolution. Frankly we don't understand your proposals |
| Date | 22:30:46, September 26, 2007 CET | From | Bloc Militaire pour Restauration | To | Debating the Federalism Bill |
| Message | we can somewhat agree with art. 2 this is a controversial issue and not an essential human right; but we strongly oppose the other two articles; these concern fundamental human rights |
| Date | 00:06:55, September 27, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Constit'nal United Front | To | Debating the Federalism Bill |
| Message | We believe that a community has the right to self-regulate their private behavior, and everything that has to do with marriages. As far as moral standards go, the CUF believes in the right of small communities to self-segregate and maintain some religious or moral codes. Those who do not support a particular local legislation can easily move to another township that would be more accomadating to that citizen. We understand that this bill is unlikely to pass in the current political climate, nevertheless we would like to bring it to vote so that it would reflect CUF's platform. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 40 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 46 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
| 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". |
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