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Bill: More Seats
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Democratic 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: March 3828
Description[?]:
| "We feel there needs to be a lot more seats in the Senate." ~Amy Smith, Secondary Chairman of the LPS |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The total number of seats in the legislative assembly. Should be between 75 and 750.
Old value:: 525
Current: 75
Proposed: 750
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:13:51, April 08, 2015 CET | From | Liberty Dawn | To | Debating the More Seats |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We absolutely disagree. Solentia needs less political fat cats who have politics as a profession as opposed to a real job. I thought that a libertarian party would realise that. From my point of view, the ideal composition is 99 senators. That would create a natural threshold of just 1.1%, so political representation would not be an issue. Rosalie de Fay, Tribune of the Liberty Dawn |
| Date | 02:47:45, April 08, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the More Seats |
| Message | "There is a slice of pie in the government. That represents the power. If we shrink the pie, obviously each politician will have less power. Doing so requires making less laws and regulations. Another way to limit the power of politicians is to cut the pie into more pieces. It makes the government weaker if the power is divided up more because each vote is worth less. The cats will be smaller and weaker, and that is what we want." ~Ted Johnson, Head Chairman of the LPS and Prime minister |
| Date | 05:40:22, April 08, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the More Seats |
| Message | The reason we support this is obvious to us. This would mean that each Solentian has a greater say in the political process. There is more representation for every Solentian citizen. Why would we not want to have greater representative governance in our nation? Each individual would have more power and a greater say in their nation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 150 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 106 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 227 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." - Howard Zinn |