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Bill: Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Surprise Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2653
Description[?]:
| In honor of the O!O!P, this bill is hereby named. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The title of the head of government, who chairs the cabinet.
Old value:: Premier
Current: Staatskanzler/Staatskanselier (State Chancellor)
Proposed: Prime Minister
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The official title of the legislative assembly.
Old value:: People's Assembly
Current: Nationalrat (National Council)
Proposed: House of Delegates
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The national motto.
Old value:: For the Republic!
Current: Eine Nation, Viele Kulturen
Proposed: Non est ad astra mollis e terris via - There is no easy road from the Earth to the stars.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The official title of subnational entities, also known as regions.
Old value:: State
Current: Province
Proposed: Province
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The length of a legislative and executive term, in months. Should be between 24 and 72.
Old value:: 72
Current: 48
Proposed: 50
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 301
Current: 150
Proposed: 599
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:56:42, October 13, 2008 CET | From | Peoples Choise Union | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | PCU can agree on almost every article in this bill. Although we would like to change the name of the premier to prime minister in stead of speaker and we don't see the sense of enlarging the number of seats in the assembly. But we could vote yes on this topics because we don't find them very important. But on what we can't agree is article 5 because if every 50 months we have an elections, it takes us only a |
| Date | 22:58:15, October 13, 2008 CET | From | Peoples Choise Union | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | little more than a week and i think we will have to many elections. Elections every 12 days is the best i think. If you amend article 5 and drop it from this law, PCU will approve this bill after the next elections. |
| Date | 23:58:56, October 13, 2008 CET | From | Surprise Party | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | I don't have any objection to "Prime Minister." I'll submit that to majority decision. The increase in seats, I prefer just under 600 seats, because that way it's easy to tell if something passed or not: 300 votes exactly passes a bill under a 599 seat legislature (300 to 299), and 400 votes exactly passes a 2/3 amendment (400-199). 301 is a little trickier; you need 151 to pass a normal bill, and 201 to pass something by 2/3s. As for the election schedule, each month in-game takes 4 hours of real time. So a 50 hour term length would result in elections every 8.3 days. A little faster than now, yes. Willing to comprimise at 65 months - I'd like to make it NOT be divisible by 12, because most other countries are, and that makes us have the same elections as many other countries (slowing the game and results for everyone). That'd make elections about every 10.8 days, longer than I'd like, though. |
| Date | 09:21:34, October 14, 2008 CET | From | Peoples Choise Union | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | We can agree on 65 months. And the argument about the seats makes sense, therefore we are willing to support this bill. |
| Date | 16:13:04, October 14, 2008 CET | From | Peoples Choise Union | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | At our party congress today, PCU decided it can agree to have elections every 50 months. In return, PCU would like to see the formation of a new cabinet as soon as possible after the comming elections, no mather what parties are in it. It is true that the cabinet doesn't have much powers, but it is a simulation game and in real life a new government is formed after every election and it is one of the purposes of this game. Having a government consisting of 2 inactive parties is a shame for darnussia. |
| Date | 16:32:54, October 14, 2008 CET | From | Loyalistische Partei | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | We storngly diasagree with Article 5. The amount of seats has been 301 (and 300 before it) for centuries and should not be changed, especially when there is only 4 parties. Everything else is more than acceptable. |
| Date | 21:43:00, October 14, 2008 CET | From | Surprise Party | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | Suggestion: Would the change in seat number be acceptable if this bill was accompanied by a restoration to the Blue and Gold eagle flag? |
| Date | 00:11:40, October 16, 2008 CET | From | Surprise Party | To | Debating the Law honoring the lifetime accomplishments of Porky Pig. |
| Message | Sorry, I forgot to change the 50 to 65 (bah!). I'll put the term to 65 months in a seperate bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 220 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 81 |
| Random fact: In Culturally Protected nations, special care must be taken to ensure realism is maintained when role-playing a government controlled by an ethnic and/or religious minority. If it is to be supposed that this government is supported by a majority of the population, then this should be plausibly and sufficiently role-played. The burden of proof is on the player or players role-playing such a regime to demonstrate that it is being done realistically |
| Random quote: "You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight." - Barry Goldwater |