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Bill: Child Labour Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Egalitarian Movement
Status[?]: passed
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: September 2462
Description[?]:
| This is not Victorian Britain. No more child labour |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning child labour.
Old value:: Child labour is regulated by local governments.
Current: Child labour is forbidden.
Proposed: Child labour is forbidden.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:01:23, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Proletarian Relief Party | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | It appears the Redemption party wishes to torture the children it keeps working in the basement. Probably the same children who write the Redemption Party's manifesto. |
| Date | 03:32:22, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Economic Liberty Party | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | I think you'll find it was the ELP who wrote the Redemption Party's manifesto - they just had the children draw a line through The Economic Liberty Party and crudely write "TEH REDMPTION PRTY" in biro above it. |
| Date | 16:50:49, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Monarchism Démocratique et Fédéral | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | Does your wit know no bounds? Ah ha! Yes, I get it, because this law has to do with child labor! It doesn't matter that it's one of about twenty that passed (with the ELP's vote, by the way) as part of a decentralization program aimed at leaving all laws unrelated to the military and education up to local governments. But when a socialist party actually threatens to kill the children of its political enemies, that's nothing to worry about. No no, let's unite across party lines to childishly deride the party in Lourenne with the best history of dedicated service to democracy. I disagree with your insinuations that any of our local governments would legalize child labor if this law remained on the books; they haven't yet. But which region is it? Which of our five great Provinces do you believe would practice child labor? What kind of unpatriotic fools are you that you're unable to trust the people of Lourenne with their own government? Senator Stefan Tepeu |
| Date | 19:32:43, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Egalitarian Movement | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | "What kind of unpatriotic fools are you that you're unable to trust the people of Lourenne with their own government?" Good point. In fact, why don't we do away with the concept of law altogether? |
| Date | 19:53:14, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Monarchism Démocratique et Fédéral | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | The Redemption Party believes that there is a middle ground between tyranny and anarchy: namely, democracy. It is not a radical notion to suggest that most laws should be relegated to local governments in order to eliminate the tyrannical tendencies inherent to a powerful government. Please, senators, your exaggeration and even fabrication of our views is dishonest to the voters and is highly unproductive. Senator Jacques Xbalanque |
| Date | 23:40:28, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Egalitarian Movement | To | Debating the Child Labour Bill |
| Message | Perhaps it isn't a radical notion, but it is naive to expect every one of our local authorities to conform of their own volition to the federal government's attitude towards things like child labour. I respect your views on decentralization, but I have to question the wisdom of your indiscriminate devolution of the majority of the legislature. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 70 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 17 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 13 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "The great economic, social and political scientist, Karlstein Metz, accurately predicted over 2,500 years ago that capitalism is doomed to destruction by its inherent weaknesses and contradictions, and must inevitably be replaced by a communist form of social, political and economic organisation." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |