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Bill: Raising the age of becoming an adult
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Socialist Imperialist League
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: March 2485
Description[?]:
| That a citizen not be considered an adult untill they are 18. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The age at which a person is considered an adult (limited between 12 and 24).
Old value:: 12
Current: 18
Proposed: 18
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:57:26, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Constitutional Monarchy Party | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | Too extreme... 18 would be my limit. |
| Date | 23:43:11, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | We agree with the Whig Party. 24 seems too high an age. |
| Date | 02:00:11, November 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | ooc: I say 25, IRL. Until adolescence has completed, kids are dumber than a box of bullocks. |
| Date | 16:59:41, November 09, 2007 CET | From | National Socialist Imperialist League | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | Oh, I thought that it was either 12 or 24. I shall change it to 18, then move onto voting. |
| Date | 17:00:42, November 09, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | ooc: I'm not sure it really matters. Kids never stop being stupid - they just import it into adulthood. |
| Date | 17:14:34, November 09, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | ooc: biologically/hormonally there is a big change in brain chemistry during adolescence, which begins at puberty and ends at about age 25. |
| Date | 22:30:40, November 09, 2007 CET | From | Communist Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Raising the age of becoming an adult |
| Message | We'd prefer 16, but this is fine. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 556 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 194 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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