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Bill: Legislative Quotas Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Human Extinction Project
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: September 2591
Description[?]:
| We feel 12 proposals a year is a more reasonable legislative allowance. The current restrictive policy, one of the tightest in Terra, makes it difficult for new parties to establish themselves. Professor Horace Werckle (Director of the Human Extinction Project) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The maximum proposal quota a party can accumulate.
Old value:: 6
Current: 50
Proposed: 12
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:19:08, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | We have had such a low number since the 2460s, and it has not affected the development of any new parties. Indeed, it encourages parties to come on more often, as the HEP has been doing, rather than submitting a dozen bills at once. It discourages having multiple proposals in a single bill, which was the reason it was originally reduced. |
| Date | 14:33:06, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Human Extinction Project | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | Bills with multiple proposals can be an important part of the game, forcing parties to say "yay" or "nay" to a political package instead of a single-proposal bill. When the proposals are irrelevant to each other, or when they are introduced too often, they become annoying, but they are justifiable every now and then. |
| Date | 14:35:14, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | No, they are not justifiable except in the case of finance bills, when a tax increase is required to fund spending increases, or something of that sort. It is unacceptable for proposals to be put together when a party could conceivably oppose one and support another. They are nothing but an abuse of legislative procedure, which should be censured. |
| Date | 14:41:08, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Human Extinction Project | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | In the real world, once a Bill has come to the final stage of the legislative process, legislators often have to choose whether to vote for a Bill which includes clauses they diapprove of or vote against a Bill even though it includes some clauses they support. |
| Date | 14:44:41, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | Yes, and in the real world we are not limited to a short list of possibilities for a short number of laws. In the real world, most legislators don't draft legislation at all. In the real world, debates are important to the public. In the real world, crazy parties like yours don't get any votes. This is not the real world. |
| Date | 14:47:49, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Human Extinction Project | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | Welcome to Tukarali :-) |
| Date | 17:53:10, June 12, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Legislative Quotas Act |
| Message | We're leaning to support |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 170 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 234 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 96 |
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