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Bill: Maximum devolution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2103
Description[?]:
| In those areas where it is practical, state governments may devolve powers to the urban or rural municalipty level, in order to ensure that governemt is as close to the grassroots as possible. The law currently assigns decisions on sports clubs, fireworks, gambling and libraries to local governments, and defines this as the state government level. This bill would allow "local governments" to be defined as a lower level of government than the state. This bill would allow state governments to devolve policy in these areas to a lower level of government, where approved in a locality-wide referendum. Any city, town, village, or rural municipality may hold a referendum on devolving any of these powers. If approved by a 60% majority, the powers are to be devolved. For instance, if Golavia wishes to ban gambling, the citizens of Jorka may still, by means of a local referendum, authorize a casino for their city. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:12:54, August 29, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | We already assumed that 'Power to the States' was just a catchy title and actual power was devolved to the most local government possible, but will support this anyway. |
| Date | 02:51:41, August 30, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | There is a forum thread specifiying that this thread is unnecessary... |
| Date | 04:49:55, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | What about the head of a household. Can they propose the laws that they want for their house? As close to the grassroots as possible is to return to a non political system. As such we oppose this. There is a great benefit in having common standards and common behaviour requirements over a meaningful area. We accept that in some issues the states are better equipped to deal with the law making than the union, however it should not be devolved further than that. |
| Date | 05:44:54, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | This only affects laws already devolved to local governments. |
| Date | 21:56:41, August 30, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | The "head" of household? No, because that would be an authoritarian measure. However, the intent is certainly to move decision-making pwer, step by step, to smaller and smaller community groups, in the intersts of makign government as small as possible. |
| Date | 03:26:36, August 31, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Maximum devolution |
| Message | Making national government as small as possible you mean. GA often supports actions that would give local governments powers not currently existing within any branch of the government. For example: Allowing local governments to regulate farm size and hiring when no government was permitted to do so before. That makes the local government larger, but doesnt affect national government at all. It is an authoritarian action. The head of household, being the father or mother usually, being in charge of their own household? How can that possibly be considered authoritarian? Would you consider a person governing themselves and no one else to be authoritarian? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 168 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 132 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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