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Bill: Repeal the Exotic Animals Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
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: October 2105
Description[?]:
| A proposal to repeal a previous act that restricts free trade. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:41:09, September 03, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | yes, of course... because people should be allowed to have a seven foot python loose in their backyard without having to keep it away from their neighbors. just a question: the ban on slavery restricts free trade. are you planning on repealing that? |
| Date | 02:50:18, September 03, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | We have no such plans at this time. |
| Date | 04:25:36, September 03, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | Yeah, at this time. ; ) |
| Date | 18:14:12, September 03, 2005 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | You do know the exotic animals act was unanimous when it passed apart from you abstaining don't you? It won't pass. |
| Date | 01:44:12, September 04, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | So? |
| Date | 02:29:57, September 04, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Repeal the Exotic Animals Act |
| Message | We have the ecology of the Fatherland to worry about. If we introduce new species willy-nilly, we will ruin the ecology, which will in turn ruin the economy, which will in turn ruin the nation. There must be regulation, or else we will face a major crisis. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 287 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 311 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 2 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
| Random quote: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson |