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Bill: Private Property Protection Bill
Details
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: June 2120
Description[?]:
| Every citizen has a right to keep their own property, which they have worked for. Eminent domain must be outlawed. |
Proposals
Article 1
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.
Proposed: The government may not seize private property.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:27:38, September 28, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | Opposed as well. |
| Date | 22:05:00, September 28, 2005 CET | From | Inactive | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | Why? The people wok so hard, noly to to have it taen way because the government didn't recognise the plot of land before? |
| Date | 23:18:13, September 28, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | You would take away the government's ability to establish hospitals, schools, police stations, fire departments? |
| Date | 23:53:47, September 28, 2005 CET | From | Inactive | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | I am sure there are other places. Childrens playgrounds and fields to play on aren't needed. We have a park system, what about those? I am sure some land can be sacrificed. |
| Date | 00:33:51, September 29, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | Children Playgrounds and fields are necessary to proper human developement. However, we have an obligation to the people of our fair nation to provide adequite services. Why should we put a hospital in the middle of nowhere when we can get the land where the hospitol is most needed? |
| Date | 00:50:00, September 29, 2005 CET | From | Social Dynamist Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | "The people wok so hard, noly to to have it taen way because the government didn't recognise the plot of land before?" The people are justly compensated. The land is bought, not simply taken. Eminent domain is only to be used when necessary. It's no good putting a city's emergency fire services in a nature reserve fifty miles away. |
| Date | 01:32:29, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | I see a decrease in public buildings if this passed. |
| Date | 15:19:01, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Poultry Party | To | Debating the Private Property Protection Bill |
| Message | We cannot reach agreement on this issue. On the one hand, we despise private property, and therefore reject the notion of individual ownership (or ownership at all) of land. We therefore do not wish to shore up land ownership rights. On the other hand, we are opposed to government. The rights of the individual must be protected from persons in power, and accepting that the likelyhood of abandoning the current system of property ownership is small to say the least, we feel that this Bill would safeguard the individual from authoritarian governance. On a side note, some of our members were deeply involved in the anti-roads movement of 2109, where the authorities used compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) to order the people off their land to build new bypasses. Introducing this Bill would be a boon to the anti-road and airport expansion activists within our ranks, and we feel that this may well be the deciding factor. Tentative support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 73 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 135 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 91 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life fictional references (eg. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker). |
| Random quote: "The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." - Henry Kissinger |