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Bill: Federal District Government

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Sekowan Liberation Front

Status^[?]: defeated

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: August 2576

Description^[?]:

The Federal Districts of the Federal Commonwealth of Sekowo shall be administered in accordance with the following:

1. Each Federal District shall have a District Folkst�mma and a District Tenno. Elections for District Folkst�mmas and District Tennos shall be held at the same time as elections for the Federal Folkst�mma and Federal Tenno. (For simplicity, the election results in District Folkst�mmas shall be the same as the election results for members of the Federal Folkst�mmas from that region.) The District Tenno shall be the party that received the most votes in the district. The District Folkst�mma shall have the power to change how the District Tenno is elected, with a 2/3 vote.
2. Each Federal District shall have a Cabinet, a motto, a flag, an anthem, a Constitution, a sport, an animal, and a number of Polises as may be created by the District Folkst�mma.
3. District Folkst�mmas shall have the power to make laws in the above areas, and to make laws in all areas that the Federal Folkst�mma has delegated to the local governments. Laws that require a 2/3 vote on the federal level shall require a 2/3 vote on the District level.
4. The Federal Folkst�mma shall elect a Clerk, to keep track of all of this. The Clerk shall create a bill for each District Folkst�mma, and discussion and voting shall be done in there.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	04:32:54, May 12, 2008 CET
From	帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	So long as the Federal districts are free and democratic we don't much care if they use the presidential, parliamentary or mixed systems.

Date	04:37:45, May 12, 2008 CET
From	Normand Pluralist Party
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	We support, and are somewhat surprised that the Revolutionaries proposed this. We would require, in order to support, a simple clause noting that "local governments" does not necessarily imply "district governments", but that, where appropriate, district governments may determine the issues.

Date	05:13:39, May 12, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Communist Party
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	We support wholeheartedly.

Date	14:10:51, May 12, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	If the NPP would put that in the form of an amendment to this proposal, I'll add it.

Date	01:49:53, May 13, 2008 CET
From	帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	Sekowo is a single entity, and is not even a Federation. That is priamrily why we oppose this. OOC: Plus the terms Federal Tenno and Federal Folkst�mma sound stupid.

Date	08:42:14, May 13, 2008 CET
From	Normand Pluralist Party
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	Amendment: 5. Relegations relegated to "local governments" are not automatically delegated to a district level, but are assumed to be handled by smaller regional and municipal governments unless otherwise determined by District Folkst�mmas. No District Folkst�mma may pass any District-wide legislation without the support of an absolute majority.

Date	03:31:02, May 14, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	To the DSP: We are aware of that. However, there are several functions delegated to local governments, but the local governments currently have no way of carrying them out. Therefore, this proposal is needed. To the NPP: This amendment would render this bill completely ineffective, as District Folkst�mmas would be unable to find an absolute majority for most bills.

Date	04:24:49, May 14, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	So the DSP doesn't want local governments to be able to do anything?

Date	06:55:24, May 14, 2008 CET
From	帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	1. We/I don't like the terms. 2. The Districts already can do most of these things thus making this useless. 3. We feel this gives local government to much power, as we beleive in an equal mix of powers.

Date	07:05:43, May 14, 2008 CET
From	Normand Pluralist Party
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	Revolutionaries: If Districts can't muster a 50% vote, they shouldn't be imposing their wills upon local governments. If that provision were included, we would support this bill. Without that provision, we oppose.

Date	00:14:29, May 15, 2008 CET
From	Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	We second the Normands. We cannot oppress the local governments, as they are closest to the people.

Date	00:57:50, May 15, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	DSP: If you don't want local governments to have power, then don't delegate powers to local governments. NPP: There are no other local governments yet. If somebody proposes a bill to create them, we will modify this bill to accommodate that. AFFS: The Federal Districts are the local governments.

Date	02:08:29, May 15, 2008 CET
From	帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	The local governments have the powers we feel they should have as it is. Also, the Federal Districts are only a level of government. It goes National, State (Sekowo, Tropica etc), Federal District, Poli, Municipal.

Date	02:21:37, May 15, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	We propose to change this bill to add this clause: "5. District governments will only have powers that the Federal Folkst�mma has delegated to district governments. If the Federal Folkst�mma has delegated power to local governments without specifying which level of government, district governments shall have those powers unless the Federal Folkst�mma passes a bill delegating it to another level of local government. A District Folkst�mma may also delegate power granted to it to another level of local government." In other words, district governments would have the powers that are delegated to local governments by default, but the Federal Folkst�mma may change it, and district governments can delegate their power to other local governments. Would this be an acceptable compromise?

Date	02:53:50, May 15, 2008 CET
From	Sekowan Liberation Front
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	We withdraw this bill from consideration.

Date	16:25:12, May 15, 2008 CET
From	Normand Pluralist Party
To	Debating the Federal District Government
Message	No, that "compromise" is the exact OPPOSITE of what we wish.

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Voting

Vote

Seats

yes

Total Seats: 0

Total Seats: 191

abstain

Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo (122)
Imperial Pluralism Party (87)
Revolutionary State Socialist Party (80)
Conservative Party (76)
Sekowan Communist Party (44)

Total Seats: 409

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