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Bill: Landowners Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ducal Delegation
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: November 2115
Description[?]:
| The rights of landowners have been repeatedly undermined in modern Aldegarian history, and it is time to reassert the values of liberty and freedom. (i) Only landowners should be citizens because landowners are the only people who have a real stake in the country and therefore a long-term interest in its future. People like the Grand Duke think centuries ahead, whilst peasants only think about what's on television tonight. (ii) Government should stop stealing landowners land for government projects and public parks. This practice is scandalous, and MUST be stopped. His Grace would like Aldegar's government to know that his family saw off Aldegar's last absolute monarch, Florence the Terrible, and that they will see off this government too if they carry on taking liberties in the way they have been doing in recent years. (iii) Landowners have the absolute right to hunt animals on their own land. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting citizenship.
Old value:: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Current: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Proposed: Citizenship is granted only to landowners.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works and for corporate use.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: The government enforces no regulations.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Current: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Proposed: Hunting and fishing is not regulated.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Current: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Proposed: The government outlaws designation of property for public parks.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:35:33, September 22, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Landowners Rights Act |
| Message | What? Is this serious? We vote "NO", obviously!!!!! |
| Date | 18:26:28, September 22, 2005 CET | From | Junker Party | To | Debating the Landowners Rights Act |
| Message | The follies of the attitudes presented here are as follows. Placing power in the hands of landowners would reverse social progress since two thousand years before. Doing so would make sure that power will always remain in the hands of the landowners, and those who aren't landowners have an even smaller chance to become landowners, and this would most likely lead to indentured serverntude, and then slavery, which the Junker party does not support. The Junker Party, in no way, shape, or form will support something that would throw out the window policies made up during the Roman Social Wars two thousand years ago. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 64 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 257 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "Unlike the world of free-markets, in political government when some individuals win, other individuals lose." - Robert Klassen |