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Bill: Rejection of Eminent Domain
Details
Submitted by[?]: Citizen's Communist Council
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: April 2604
Description[?]:
| The people should not fear theft from the government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Current: The policy regarding eminent domain is left to local governments.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:33:46, July 09, 2008 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | Property (land) is not something people have any inherent right to horde. |
| Date | 21:46:39, July 09, 2008 CET | From | Citizen's Communist Council | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | Property (Possession) is not hording, especially if it's being used. |
| Date | 23:09:10, July 09, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | It is within our opinion that the ownership of land is not an inherent right, though limited ownership of it should'nt necessarily be forbidden, overall land is a collective resource. |
| Date | 23:20:13, July 09, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | We support! Sekowo needs to leave feudalism behind! |
| Date | 06:54:58, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Sekowan Independent Party | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | Citizens are fairly compensated by an independent committee, it is not "theft". |
| Date | 07:08:16, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | But it is still feudalistic and oppressive. |
| Date | 08:01:41, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Anti-Federalists of Free Sekowo | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | Eminent domain is government theft. Perhaps you can deny a right to property, but forcing someone's hand is a theft of free will. We support. |
| Date | 11:59:47, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | OOC: This is quite interesting as it relates to why there is no beltway around Montreal, Canada. Because the government can not 'force' through monetary means for the people of those lands to relocate, all traffic from southern Quebec to northern or eastern Quebec have to travelled through the city of Montreal. One heck of a mess. It really sucks getting stuck in traffic on a 10-lane autoroute at 2 a.m. Lots of pollution because of traffic too, if you want to look at the environmental effect. That is what I would consider a 'vital' government project. The government have been negotiating since before 1967 and still no break through. Althought this problem is not related to Sekowo, still one reason why this law is good. |
| Date | 16:17:34, July 10, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Rejection of Eminent Domain |
| Message | [[Canada doesn't have eminent domain?]] |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 154 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 446 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky |