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Bill: Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963
Details
Submitted by[?]: Bailonese Council Communist Party (BCCP)
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 3964
Description[?]:
| Local governments should be able to determine parental qualification based on their own standards and beliefs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning parental qualifications.
Old value:: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Current: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Proposed: Parental qualifications are left to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:09:08, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Green Party | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | I cannot decide how to vote here. On one hand, local governments would be responsible for making sure that only responsible people became parents and that children would grow up in a stable home. At the same time, I am unsure as to if the government should have a hand in this much of people's lives. |
| Date | 02:02:15, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Bailonese Council Communist Party (BCCP) | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | Then let the local people decide this for themselves if they want government intervention or not. |
| Date | 02:20:25, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Party for Practical Progress | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | The Confederates rail against the government interfering with peoples rights or how they live their lives, and yet they propose allowing the bureaucracy the ability to deny people the most basic and extraordinary of their rights. They are hypocrites who have become blinded by their ideology, and by their idolatry of the "local governments". |
| Date | 02:31:23, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Bailonese Council Communist Party (BCCP) | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | Hypocrites? We are not against local governments interfering with the lives of the locals they govern, that is after all what a government is for - intervention. How is being a parent an extraordinary right? Our studies have shown childhood to be both a struggle for the child and whoever is parenting them. Our studies have also shown that the Party for Practical Progress should agree to all our bills and those that don't - won't likely be a party for long anyway. Nothing is more resilient than the cry for self-determination, absolutely nothing. |
| Date | 03:06:06, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Party for Practical Progress | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | Aha! So you do understand what a government is after all, Confederates! Quoting you: "That is what a government is for after all-intervention." Why you believe that its okay for a 'local' government to have all the power to intervene in peoples lives while the national government, which was created by the states to rule over the NATION, is powerless is beyond me. Our studies (and our coalition's continued majority in parliament) show that youre slowly becoming disconnected with the Beluzian people. Parenthood IS an extraordinary privilege, and the most amazing that any of us can posess, and allowing the government to dictate such an intimate part of our lives, even on the state level, is setting us down a dark path. You talk a big game Confederates, but if the Beluzian people feel so oppressed, why do they continually vote against you? When was the last time you actually had the votes to get a significant part of your agenda through parliament? It's worth noting that in your old stronghold of Bailon, 33% of people voted for the Party for Practical Progress in the last election, compared to your 27% |
| Date | 13:45:57, January 05, 2016 CET | From | Bailonese Council Communist Party (BCCP) | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | Yet we received 22,787,827 votes, enough to make a sizable country. |
| Date | 11:32:11, January 06, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Beluzia and Bailon | To | Debating the Local Parental Qualification Bill of January 3963 |
| Message | Parenting is something that comes natural, not only to humans but to animals too. Any form of government should not play a role in this domain. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 170 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 477 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 103 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "We cannot acknowledge allegiance to any human government... Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind." - William Lloyd Garrison |