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Bill: Pacifist Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: 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: October 2688
Description[?]:
| A bill to reform our nation, to begin the march towards peace. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Nation's policy with regards to an intelligence agency.
Old value:: The nation has an intelligence agency that is permitted by law to undertake all types of covert operations in other countries.
Current: The nation has an intelligence agency that is permitted by law to undertake all types of covert operations in other countries.
Proposed: The nation maintains no intelligence agency.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The Government leaves this to the army to decide upon.
Current: The Government leaves this to the army to decide upon.
Proposed: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare unless another nation uses them first.
Proposed: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, produce or store nuclear weaponry.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.
Old value:: Prisoners of war are treated according to the national laws of the captor power.
Current: Prisoners of war must be treated well, according to internationally-accepted standards.
Proposed: Prisoners of war are immediately returned to their own government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:28:21, December 29, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Pacifist Reform |
| Message | This is not a march towards peace. if Mordusia is seen as peace, its ennemies will slaughter it. |
| Date | 16:08:51, December 29, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Pacifist Reform |
| Message | OOC: if Mordusia is seen as defenseless, not "as peace" |
| Date | 18:36:15, December 29, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Pacifist Reform |
| Message | They did not do that when these reforms passed last time. |
| Date | 17:54:49, December 30, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party (UCF) | To | Debating the Pacifist Reform |
| Message | these reforms were adopted de jure but as the federal government had no way of enforcing them, the states maintaind their own militaries and militias formed to defend the country. |
| Date | 19:08:28, December 30, 2008 CET | From | Union Party | To | Debating the Pacifist Reform |
| Message | We enforced them by disbanding the federal army. There was no budget allotted. OOC: Game mechanics is over RP. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 83 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 132 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 50 |
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