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Bill: 1 Seat for every 250,000 People
Details
Submitted by[?]: Peasant Party Of Sekowo
Status[?]: defeated
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: February 2540
Description[?]:
| I think we should enact a ratio of 1 seat for every 250,000 people. It seems fair. If we were to maintain this Ratio on current population census numbers we are looking at 631.783224 seats. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 600
Current: 450
Proposed: 632
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:56:25, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | discuss |
| Date | 21:48:18, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Where does 250,000 people as a way of apportioning seats come from? We prefer 600 seats. |
| Date | 21:53:11, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | The first idea PPS has had that I approve of x.x |
| Date | 22:56:28, February 27, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | We do not like uneven amounts. |
| Date | 23:38:15, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Wait.....632 is an even number isn't it? Or am I missing something? The DSP's problems with numbers continues.... |
| Date | 02:20:32, February 28, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | We prefer keeping the Folkstamma to a size which is easy to make calculations with. Also, We prefer 600 as a mathimatically ideal number, as it divides quite well by both 2 and 3. Additionally, an ever-increasing Folkstmma means ever-increasing government costs. Finally, we are already moderately close to the maximum size the Folkstmma could be, and it is possible that this bill would require it to exceed that size at some point. Though, we do admit that the idea has merit. |
| Date | 02:21:06, February 28, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Hrm. Sorry about that. |
| Date | 06:27:36, February 28, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | hmm ... it would cap out at 187,500,000 in population. That's still a long time from now. A guess would be several Sekowan decades. I would prefer seeing a 1 per 300,000. That would make more long-term sense. 225,000,000 population. Nevertheless, we are leaning towards agreeing however, we want the PPS to propose how often we will update this seat count and the procedures to be included in this bill BEFORE voting. (e.g. every 10 years, re-seat) |
| Date | 06:41:59, February 28, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Not even as in 2,4, 6, 8 etc, like 600 or 650, that kind of even. |
| Date | 17:34:00, February 28, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | We would see a threshold to updating when the ratio becomes 1 seat for every 260,000 people |
| Date | 23:04:54, February 28, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | DSP, its an even number... get over it x.x |
| Date | 02:49:38, February 29, 2008 CET | From | Independence Coalition | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | I'm certain the representative from the DSP meant a round number, not an even number. |
| Date | 02:52:50, February 29, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | I believe you are right. They said "even", they meant "round". |
| Date | 04:56:35, February 29, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Yes, that's what I meant.. It was late.. |
| Date | 18:36:44, February 29, 2008 CET | From | Peasant Party Of Sekowo | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | The people's Representation should not be undermind by their numbers not being round. |
| Date | 19:04:04, February 29, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Their representation really does not relate to the number of people per seat. |
| Date | 13:12:50, March 01, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the 1 Seat for every 250,000 People |
| Message | Our vote could pass this but in reality, we oppose it. 600 is a nice number for coalition and supermajority purposes while still providing adequate representation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 352 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 248 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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