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Bill: Rights of Criminals Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fronte Nazionale
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: April 3654
Description[?]:
| Someone who commits a crime which is serious enough to land them in prison ought not to be allowed to vote as soon as they come out of a jail. For a period - say 10 years - they should be denied the right to participate in elections. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote.
Current: Criminals released from jail are not allowed to vote.
Proposed: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote after a certain period of time.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:29:59, April 19, 2014 CET | From | Partito Popolar-Democratico di Quanzar | To | Debating the Rights of Criminals Act |
| Message | Ridiculous. Prison is rehabilitative: once a term is served and the person freed, they should be rehabilitated. |
| Date | 20:16:06, April 19, 2014 CET | From | Fronte Nazionale | To | Debating the Rights of Criminals Act |
| Message | Prison should be rehabilitative, but it should be retributive too. Those who have committed crimes against society need to be made an example of, to act as a deterrent against future law-breaking. |
| Date | 22:49:05, April 19, 2014 CET | From | Partito Popolar-Democratico di Quanzar | To | Debating the Rights of Criminals Act |
| Message | The retribution is their period of imprisonment. It is assumed that when a person is freed, they are freed in every sense of the word. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 279 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 320 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real-life religions should not be referenced in Particracy. Terra has its own religions, many of which mirror real-life ones. See: http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Illustrated_Catalogue_of_Religion |
| Random quote: "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein |