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Bill: Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Country Labor Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes the withdrawal from a treaty. It will require half of the legislature to vote in favor[?]. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2170
Description[?]:
| 1) This treaty limits our legislative choices in 8 different policy areas. 2) We have no objections to the standards enforced by this treaty, but we also highly value our national sovereignty. 2) The negative of giving up some of that sovereignty should be balanced against the positive of being part of a larger international effort to establish broadly popular standards with which we agree. 3) This treaty has existed for more than 40 years, and only two other countries have ratified it, thereby failing to establish a broad international consensus. 4) Therefore we feel it is time to acknowledge that this treaty has failed, the negatives of this treaty outweigh the positives, and we should withdraw from it. |
Proposals
Article 1
Withdraw from the Animal Rights.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:04:09, January 11, 2006 CET | From | The Mordusian Green Party | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | The HPP supports the aims, goals, and principles of the animal rights agenda. Therefore, we believe that this nation should not withdraw from this treaty. |
| Date | 07:31:48, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | Animals do not have rights. If they did, the first right would probably be the right not to be eaten. |
| Date | 07:40:17, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | Withdrawing from this treaty would not change any current Mordusian law. What it would do would be to restore to this legislature the power to form majorities to pass laws for this country, without having to worry about what New Endralon and the Endralonian Empire (the other two countries that have ratified this treaty) think about it. |
| Date | 03:30:30, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Federalist Party | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | Looking at the global situation, and the arguments for and against, the Federalists have come to the conclusion that while the aims of the treaty are noble, the treaty itself violates Mordusian sovereignty. We will back Country Labor in repealing this treaty. |
| Date | 06:57:14, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Socialist Front of Mordusia | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | While the SFM supports global treaties, this certain one has proven uneffective through its low number of members. We support repealing it. |
| Date | 22:23:36, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Country Labor Party | To | Debating the Withdrawal From The Animal Rights Treaty Bill |
| Message | We think the most effective treaties are the ones that cover a small or specific set of policy areas. Trying to do too much in a single treaty, like with a single bill, makes it that much more difficult to achieve a consensus. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 392 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 124 |
| Random fact: Large scale RP planning (such as wars, regional/continental conflicts, economic collapse, etc.) should be planned (as best as it can be) and should have consent of a majority of players involved. |
| Random quote: "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato |