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Bill: Head of State Title
Details
Submitted by[?]: Monarchist Party
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: October 3567
Description[?]:
| Elected Emperor, Head of the Military and only Ceremonial Political powers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The formal title of the Head of State.
Old value:: not recorded
Current: President of the Commonwealth
Proposed: His Imperial Majesty, Emperor
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:07:37, October 27, 2013 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Head of State Title |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Lodamun is not an empire. In the last "royalist" era, it was a principality and its sovereign was a Prince. What would be the sense of having a directly-elected Emperor? What would be the sense of having any directly-elected office that only has ceremonial political powers? It is a waste of money to hold elections for an office that serves no purpose. We're paying an extra person to do nothing. We would have both an Emperor and a President, which makes no sense. This directly-elected head would also head the military, while having no other political powers, and there would be no guarantee that the military or government would support him. Why would he be head of the military when, for all we know, there is the large possibility of an uneducated populist fool winning elections? This will weaken the Presidium's grip on the head of state. Currently, with the President as head of state and head of government, the Presidium has more control of the executive. There was also no election arranged in conjunction with the bill, i.e. as a part of the bill to ensure that elections are held immediately after. If this bill passes, it will result in the Head of State being called "His Imperial Majesty, Emperor The President" - which would look silly and turn us into the joke of the world. -- Paul Fertig, Chairman of the NRG, Deputy Opposition Leader |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 419 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 180 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not implement nation renaming requests where the proposed name does not comply with the requirements set out in the Nation Renaming Guide: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6364 |
| Random quote: "Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |