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Bill: Respect for the National Flag
Details
Submitted by[?]: Solentia National Congress (SNC)
Status[?]: passed
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: September 3959
Description[?]:
The Solentia National Congress (SNC) believes that citizens must show high respect for all national symbols of our country, including the national flag. The SNC is therefore saying that the national flag may not be desecrated or used for commercial purposes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National policy regarding the desecration of the national flag.
Old value:: There are no regulations regarding the desecration or use of the national flag.
Current: The national flag may not be desecrated or dishonoured.
Proposed: The national flag may not be desecrated or used for commercial purposes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 07:13:09, December 27, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Respect for the National Flag |
Message | Our national flag is merely a piece of cloth. It does not need to be protected. |
Date | 21:54:29, December 27, 2015 CET | From | Solentia National Congress (SNC) | To | Debating the Respect for the National Flag |
Message | This flag is more then a piece of cloth. This flag is a symbol of our great nation. Disrespect for the flag is a clear disrespect for our nation. |
Date | 22:52:51, December 27, 2015 CET | From | New Solution | To | Debating the Respect for the National Flag |
Message | It's a piece of cloth that does indeed represent our nation, but there should be no laws that infringe freedom of expression. |
Date | 23:19:23, December 27, 2015 CET | From | RISE Movement | To | Debating the Respect for the National Flag |
Message | This law (call it what you want) is needed. We cannot expect our nation to be respected if we do not respect it ourselves. |
Date | 06:03:16, December 28, 2015 CET | From | Revolutionary Zennyist Party | To | Debating the Respect for the National Flag |
Message | We do not respect the bourgeois capitalist symbols of this nation and support the rights of citizens to burn the flag as apart of political speech against their constant systematic oppression and suffering. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 182 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 172 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 71 |
Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
Random quote: "Let's not forget that we belong to history, that history that men and women who fought before did, that history that men and women who are fighting now will do." - Tera Pisthis, former Selucian politician |