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Bill: Justice Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Constitutional Monarchy Party
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: August 2467
Description[?]:
| The Justice Reform Act |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: No curfew policies may be established.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: Minors may not use streets or public property beyond the curfew time.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: Religious doctrine determines the death penalty.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Proposed: Legal representation is never paid for by the state.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Torture is never allowed.
Current: Torture is never allowed.
Proposed: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:28:05, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Justice Act |
| Message | Fight the bourgeois police state! The Communist Party opposes every single article of this vile bill. |
| Date | 01:37:00, September 28, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Justice Act |
| Message | The People oppose article 3, the expulsion of migrants |
| Date | 10:40:19, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Justice Act |
| Message | Removed article 3 for the benefit of our friends in the PPP. |
| Date | 15:54:32, September 28, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Justice Act |
| Message | The Liberals also oppose, for obvious reasons. |
| Date | 15:57:44, October 07, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Justice Act |
| Message | If your reasoning were obvious it might have convinced someone by now... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 222 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 313 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 215 |
| Random fact: Hundreds of vessels were lost while traversing the cold waters of the Sea of Lost Souls. It is located between Seleya and Majatra. |
| Random quote: "A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception." - George Bernard Shaw |