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Bill: Democratization
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rationalist 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: April 2098
Description[?]:
| This bill will result in a more democratic Telamon. Since the two extremes cannot be agreed upon, we feel that this would be a good split |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Current: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Proposed: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:52:26, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Marxist Party | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | What? Take away from the masses and hand the votes to the smaller regions! No, absolurtely not. |
| Date | 02:08:15, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | Nope, it's not going to give the small regions as big of an advantage as they currently enjoy. We still have equal representation |
| Date | 06:00:49, August 18, 2005 CET | From |  Federation Under Crazy Killers -- United | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | Nah, I'm enjoying my seats.... |
| Date | 10:51:14, August 18, 2005 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | No thank you, I would rather that we went back to the old system with the larger regions having more representation |
| Date | 16:25:12, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | I agree, but we tried that several times, this is halfway between what we have now and equal representation |
| Date | 19:36:03, August 18, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Democratization |
| Message | I have no idea where the logic is in this... I prefer just equal seats. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 25 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 230 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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