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Bill: Anti-Conscription Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Party
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2578
Description[?]:
| Conscription is anathema to liberty; no man should ever be called upon to unwillingly die for their government: politics is not so important as the life of man. Leave the military to those that opt into it. Fieren Goldmark Finance Minister Leader of the Radical Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:42:36, May 17, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Anti-Conscription Act |
| Message | We have always been open to a number of solutions concerning conscription, and the proposed law is one of them. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 236 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 202 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: Wait a min was we tricked into voting for absolute monarchy (Jamie Jamesson, Chancellor of Luthori 4269-4310) |