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Bill: Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act

Details

Submitted by^[?]: Judicial Union Party

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: July 2611

Description^[?]:

An act to devolve to local authorities responsibility for regulating farm size.

Proposals

Article 1

Proposal^[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.

Old value:: Farm size is not regulated.

Current: Farm size is not regulated.

Proposed: Farm size regulations are determined by local governments.

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date	13:59:50, July 22, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Farm size should not be regulated, however, that is not a question for us in the national government. We have no authority over matters of land, for that belongs in the hands of the local governments.

Date	14:14:17, July 22, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Farming is a staple of our nation. As such it is very much a question for us to decide. Opposed.

Date	14:24:42, July 22, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Land is a matter for the local governments. It belongs to the tribes, not to the national government.

Date	14:37:24, July 22, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Except for schools, hospitals, police, roads, national parks, etc. Wait...I just realized something. All land belongs to the government. They gave up their rights to the land when they formed the United Tribes of Tukarali.

Date	23:17:03, July 22, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	No, the tribes retain their sovereignty within the union.

Date	01:56:46, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	They have? So they have their own currency and can declare war on eachother?

Date	04:28:05, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	No, nor can we freely declare war on whoever we like. They are bound by the union they assented to, just as we are bound by treaties we assent to.

Date	04:38:23, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Well we can freely do so but it will not do us any good if we do so we do not. Despite the fact that it would violate the Tukarali Neutrality Treaty unless we were directly attacked.

Date	04:41:10, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	No, we can't. We are bound by customary international law, which includes the prohibition on the use of force, as well as our treaty commitments (like the mentioned Tukarali Neutrality Treaty, which is rubbish and should be replaced with a better one).

Date	04:44:24, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	It makes the statement quite clear that we will not attack any nation unless our nation is directly attacked and that we will offer our services to mediate peace. In all of our recorded history, we have never had a war.

Date	04:48:16, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Nor should we engage in war. That treaty is only relatively recent, written by an incompetent party who tried to ruin Tukarali, much as you are doing. Our neutrality does not really relate to this bill though.

Date	04:58:19, July 23, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Did your mother ever tell you that if you have nothing nice to say, do not say it at all?

Date	13:37:06, July 24, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Nope.

Date	14:57:59, July 24, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Did not think so.

Date	15:01:05, July 24, 2008 CET
From	Judicial Union Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	It is not the job of a politician to be "nice".

Date	15:38:51, July 24, 2008 CET
From	Liberty Party
To	Debating the Agriculture (Farm Size) Devolution Act
Message	Be that as it may but insulting your opponet at every turn will just get it ignored.

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Voting

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Seats

yes

Judicial Union Party (169)

Total Seats: 169

Tuatha D� Danann (123)
Liberty Party (94)
Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists (64)
Tukarali Graenix Party (50)
Hello Kitty Party (0)

Total Seats: 331

abstain

Food Industry Union's Party (0)

Total Seats: 0

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