We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Nationality Act of 2737 (NA)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federalist Minarcho-Capitalist 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: August 2740
Description[?]:
| The FMCP finds it unacceptable that nationality is granted to everyone, regardless of merit. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Current: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Proposed: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:10:19, April 07, 2009 CET | From |  Modern Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the Nationality Act of 2737 (NA) |
| Message | What merit? We find your current crop of bills very worrying. |
| Date | 12:37:11, April 09, 2009 CET | From | Roccato Anarcho-Syndicalist Union | To | Debating the Nationality Act of 2737 (NA) |
| Message | The RASU would support. |
| Date | 15:30:01, April 09, 2009 CET | From | Saiserist League | To | Debating the Nationality Act of 2737 (NA) |
| Message | "A positive step, a praiseworthy step, a wonderful step, a progressive step, a wise step, a Saiserist step. The Saiserist League applauds the wisdom the FMCP demonstrates in this bill." ~Serik Belyaev, Official Spokesman for the Saiserist League |
| Date | 13:42:39, April 12, 2009 CET | From | Modern Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the Nationality Act of 2737 (NA) |
| Message | This will merely be used to exclude people from the country a particular government does not like. |
| Date | 00:03:06, April 13, 2009 CET | From | League of Dyspeptic Veterans | To | Debating the Nationality Act of 2737 (NA) |
| Message | The League supports a citizenship test for immigrants, but sees no need for an additional nationality test. |
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribe
Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 202 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 247 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 301 |
| Random fact: In your Message Centre there is a really useful feature which allows you to subscribe to all of the bill debates in your nation. If you use that, then the "Watched Discussions" section will show you every time a new message has been posted on a bill. You can also subscribe to other pages you want to follow, such as your nation message-board, party organisations or bills outside your nation which you are interested in. |
| Random quote: "Casting a vote shouldn't make you sick." - Ronnie Dugger |