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Bill: Bill of Rights
Details
Submitted by[?]: Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2613
Description[?]:
| The purpose of this JOINT Resolution is to amend the national constitution, thus 2/3 majority will be required to ratify it. The following shall be known as the Bill of Rights: Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition The Parliament shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Right to Bear Arms A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, shall be maintained by the People. While, unless having a recorded felony or other lesser criminal charge, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Search and Seizure The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The right to privacy is also secured, when there is no probable cause and no Warrant issued. Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, or any crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. Trial by Jury in Civil Cases In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. Powers of the Duchies and People The powers not delegated to the Parliament by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the Duchies, are reserved to the Duchies respectively, or to the People. CONCLUSION it is the purpose of this amendment to protect the inherent freedoms that come with the many rights and advantages of a free nation. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:23:57, July 28, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Bill of Rights |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Here is the Nationalist Party once again, attempting to usurp the rights of the citizens of this Great and Holy Empire. How dare they take what is deserved to the people of this great land? I yield. |
| Date | 00:29:42, July 29, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Bill of Rights |
| Message | Mr Speaker, This so called compromise bill still includes the obscene concept of armed civilians. |
| Date | 16:44:32, July 29, 2008 CET | From | Neo-Imperial Peoples Vanguard Party (IA) | To | Debating the Bill of Rights |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, What is the Covenanters afraid of that I and the People's Party are not of? A militia is a modern concept, an army is as well, is it not the people who must maintain it through their pocket and children? |
| Date | 19:32:22, July 29, 2008 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Bill of Rights |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Organised militias are one thing: firearms in the hands of untrained civilians is another. No school/college in this Holy Empire, thank you very much! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 65 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 110 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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| Random quote: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower |