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Bill: National Motto
Details
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2039
Description[?]:
| Henceforth, the national motto shall be: Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The national motto.
Old value:: No Motto Yet
Current: missing
Proposed: Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Translation? (Latin motto is fine, but would like to know what it means.) |
| Date | not recorded | From | Lodamun Centre-Left Coalition | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Agreed, could a translation be provided? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Translation, please. ( I don't entirely trust you. :D ) |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | It translates as "I have a catapult. Give me all of your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head." |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | This seems like a reasonable proposal. It is well delivered and respectable. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | ... If the other parties do not wish to take a more serious motto, then what the hell :D |
| Date | not recorded | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Um, OK. The CCF will propose the motto "An Injury to One is an Injury to All." |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | The motto should be uplifting and inspirational -- it should not be talking about injuring our entire nation. It should be evocative of good feelings, rather than focusing on the negative. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Which is well encapsulated by threatening to throw rocks? Our alternative suggestion, then, is: "Walk together." |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Not just any rock. An -enormous- rock. It encapsulates the strength of our nation. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Perhaps, given our shocking illiteracy rates, it should be "Ugh, throw big rock." |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the National Motto |
| Message | Only if you translate that into Latin. After all, then it'll give children a goal to work towards -- to be able to understand what the motto says. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 33 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 33 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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