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Bill: Local Empowerment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist 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: October 2622
Description[?]:
| Local governments should have the right to draft legislation inappropriate at the national level which deals with significant ethnic issues on local levels. There is widespread popular support for both of these changes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: Hiring policies are regulated by local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning racial segregation in educational institutions.
Old value:: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Current: Segregation is illegal in all educational institutions.
Proposed: Segregation policy is set by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:23:48, August 16, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Local Empowerment |
| Message | There are small pluralities for these, that does not translate to widespread. Beyond that freedom is more important then democracy in this case. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 190 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 255 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 155 |
| Random fact: Real-life places should not be referenced in Particracy. |
| Random quote: "Soldiers are not the enemies of the movement. They're potential allies. They're more than that. Soldiers are the only people in America who are paying a stiff price for this war. Everybody else profits. Soldiers are the ones losing their lives, losing friends, having their lives disrupted. The real victims of American imperialism are its soldiers." - Fred Gardner |