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Bill: Sensible Parliament Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom 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: November 2154
Description[?]:
| This act seeks to bring about an orderly and debate filled parliament instead of one where parties compete on how many bills they can propose. As can be seen recently, with the large limits on proposals, parties will introduce lots of bills and not debate at all. This bill seeks to make sure bills are restricted so that debate is ensured, parties have to choose which bills to propose and that consensus can be reached. Smaller government is better government, lots of frivolous bills distract legislators and mean we cannot concentrate on bills that matter as our time is wasted with lots and lots of bills. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The maximum proposal quota a party can accumulate.
Old value:: 30
Current: 20
Proposed: 21
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:24:45, December 10, 2005 CET | From |   Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | Unlike the RSDP, we will leave this in debate and allow the chance for debate to occur |
| Date | 17:32:58, December 10, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | We have left our Parliamentary Freedom Act in debate for a very long time, besides the kinds of things I proposed now are either at the request of other parties, hence you've already had the chance to debate, or things you either favour or oppose, hence no debate is necessary. |
| Date | 17:34:15, December 10, 2005 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | And this is just another petty "libertarian" attempt to limit the powers and abilities of the Federal Parliament and to put the democratic opposition at a disadvantage by not allowing them the full opportunity to propose alternative policies. A vote for this is a vote against democracy. |
| Date | 19:14:05, December 10, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | No it is not. The RSDP is lying once again, we seek this to promote better debate, to promote good Parliamentary discussion and i do not see how reducing how many bills you have at once from 30 to 21 puts the opposition at a disadvantage. You get 48 proposals a term under this proposal, that is per party. |
| Date | 20:46:19, December 10, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | Keep the monthly dole the same but decrease the amount that can be stored? That way, everyone gets more proposals, but they can't make gigantic omnibuses... |
| Date | 23:27:52, December 10, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | 12 a year gives one a month, better than 15 a year which gives 1 a month apart from every four months where you get two. |
| Date | 10:46:54, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | No, let's leave it as it is. RSDP STOP BLOODY SPAMMING! |
| Date | 10:57:17, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | why 21 may i ask? But yep, support from the Nationalist. Sound minded Bill. |
| Date | 13:32:24, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | Would the Conservatives support? LAP? |
| Date | 18:53:58, December 11, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Sensible Parliament Act |
| Message | Bump the monthly dole back up to 15 and you have our support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 462 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 137 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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