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Bill: Citizen Equality Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Union for Upturn and Openness
Status[?]: defeated
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: December 2921
Description[?]:
| In the current political system, a vote of a citizen from Khodor is considered to be more important than those from other regions. The PUUO demands that this inequality is abolished as soon as possible. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The method used to determine the number of seats each region receives in the national legislature.
Old value:: Equal representation, regardless of region population.
Current: A pseudo-proportional algorithm that gives considerable advantage to smaller regions.
Proposed: A proportional algorithm that gives a very small advantage to larger regions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:31:11, April 09, 2010 CET | From |  Alliance for a New Rutania | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | You state that the vote from a citizen from Khodor is considered more important than those of other regions. How is this even possible as the current system gives equal representation to all regions. Under your proposed system you would disrupt the regional equality of representation by giving advantage to Bozarland and Delvar, the two most populous regions. Then Khodor and Kragusrov would be left as the lesser represented regions as they are the two least populous regions. |
| Date | 15:48:33, April 10, 2010 CET | From | People's Union for Upturn and Openness | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | Khodor has a lot less inhabitants than other regions, but the same amount of seats in the Parliament. Therefore, you don't have to be a mathematical genius to see that a vote in Khodor has more weight than a vote in another region. |
| Date | 17:15:03, April 10, 2010 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | We agree with the ANR. Under the current system of commonwealths we strive to offer equal representation to all regions. This is the purpose of our extremely decentralized system, in which many decisions are made at the local level. On the federal level we make decisions regarding all the regions. For this reason each region should be represented equally. We oppose this piece of legislation. |
| Date | 11:40:08, April 11, 2010 CET | From | People's Union for Upturn and Openness | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | How can you speak of equality if a seat in 1 region represents less voters than in another region? |
| Date | 14:25:00, April 11, 2010 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | Well there are several types of equality e.g. simple individual-based equality, bloc-equality etc. Equality among the regions means in fact bloc-equality, i.e. equality is realized among different groups and not within them. This types is perfectly legitimate in the same way as the definition understood by the PUUO. |
| Date | 08:51:48, April 12, 2010 CET | From | People's Union for Upturn and Openness | To | Debating the Citizen Equality Bill |
| Message | So if we would make a new region with let's say 1,000 inhabitants and give them 200 seats as well, that would be the REP definition of equality? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 297 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 203 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." - Ralph W. Sockman |