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Bill: Treaty Withdrawl Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Creonite Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2503
Description[?]:
| We propose that our nation withdraw from the following treaties - all of which overide national authority. Should we so soon give away our national sovereignty to foreign powers. If we feel the bill will best serve our nation, then let us pass it. Let us not however, enter an agreement that creates an authority higher than that of the federal government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Article 2
Withdraw from the Greater Hulstria Free Trade Agreement.
Article 3
Withdraw from the Against Torture Treaty.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:07:02, December 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Treaty Withdrawl Act |
| Message | Are you insane? |
| Date | 00:33:43, December 18, 2007 CET | From | Creonite Party | To | Debating the Treaty Withdrawl Act |
| Message | OOC : Perhaps I am, perhaps I am not. It stands however, that treaties are counteractive to the idea of national sovereignty. |
| Date | 07:18:46, December 18, 2007 CET | From | SocLib '82 | To | Debating the Treaty Withdrawl Act |
| Message | Sometimes, as royalist forces have shown, treaties are necessary to entrench the ideals that we hold dear and sometimes take for granted.. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 104 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 113 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 84 |
| Random fact: Players who deliberately attempt to present a misleading picture of the nation's current RP laws will be subject to sanction. |
| Random quote: "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." - Charles Darwin |