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Bill: Militia Act of 2043
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Centrist Party
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2045
Description[?]:
| Should this bill be passed, an official, voluntary, and purely defensive militia will be recognized among the citizenry. Those who wish to apply must own guns and either have or be willing to undertake thorough training in their usage as well as periodic reinforcement of said training. Irregular units are, while little use offensively, quite effective in blunting invasions as well as cheaper to maintain than a full standing army. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:36:43, April 28, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | A professional army is preferable. Since it can be smaller it is more cost effective and avoids the need for any sort of draft. It can still be set up to be purely defensive. For example aircraft carriers are an offensive weapon and could be done without. |
| Date | 08:59:30, April 29, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | Ah, a reservist force? |
| Date | 16:20:35, April 29, 2005 CET |
From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | It's either this or we find non-military uses for military personel - a permanent standing army is a drain on the economy. The Romans used their army to build things, Switzerland keeps a well-trained militia, and either way works. |
| Date | 18:04:35, April 29, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | Since another bill is proposing the military should be used as emergency backup for key services, does one bill not preclude the other? Switzerland is also a mountainous terrain, rich and surrounded by friends. We may not be rich but I notice we are an island far from the mainland so this would be a good idea in principle. As long as we have a professional and effective navy. |
| Date | 18:05:29, April 29, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | I take that back, the map has been changed and I can't find us anymore... |
| Date | 23:14:29, April 29, 2005 CET |
From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | We're the north-west nation of the eastern continent. And Switzerland has never been surrounded by friends - every war in Europe's history has gone -around- Switzerland. In any case, no, I shouldn't think one bill would preclude the other. If anything, they'd be more effective together than apart - it gives what army we will maintain a good peacetime use. |
| Date | 01:24:13, April 30, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | If you could add a clause stating that the militia will never be used outside our nation we would be 100% in favour. What do you think? |
| Date | 05:13:23, April 30, 2005 CET |
From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | Certainly. We're intending to use these people in defense of their own homes, not in fighting wars over ground they'll have no claim to. |
| Date | 13:25:35, April 30, 2005 CET |
From | | To | Debating the Militia Act of 2043 | | Message | A defensive force seems a good idea, as long as it stays that way. |
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| yes | Total Seats: 167 |
| no | Total Seats: 0 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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