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Bill: Cultural Devolution Act of 2180
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mouvement des Conservateurs
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: February 2181
Description[?]:
| Honorable Colleagues, Cultural policies are far more then only operating museums, libraries and monuments, its about strengthing a local community by organizing cultural & social activities. Local governments have the best intelligence and overiew to determine that cultural policy, thats why 23CC proposes to give them the possibility to develop it acc. to the needs of their citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Current: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Current: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Proposed: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Current: The government gives monetary grants to organizations which have established or are looking to establish museums.
Proposed: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:57:48, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Devout Ecologists Party | To | Debating the Cultural Devolution Act of 2180 |
| Message | The what? Perhaps cultural policies are more them musea, libraries and historical sites, but these articles are not more then that! If you allow this we would be giving the oppertunity to lose art, history, culture. It would be able to spread in the hands of men, untrackable for the greater good of culture. You are leaving the oppertunity open for regions where there are no libraries anywhere! You are actually allowing local governments, if they so chose, to -destroy- historical monuments! How do you dare!? I can not believe the bill, you are actually proposing to free up a well funded, structured and protected culture so that it is vulnerable to destruction and decrease. The people currently have available a system of great cultural value, where they can go to without worries. Culture and history are protected, so that many generations after us can enjoy the splendors of what was. Learned can be from the history, museums and libraries. With these bills we are the peak of cultural development as far as our influence reaches through articles and law. And the proposal is to actually destroy it? To get rid of it? To forsake our heritage, our cultural value, the educational value? So that by the time of the 23rd century important knowledge of the history, physical and immaterial, is gone? We can not agree. |
| Date | 23:04:17, February 03, 2006 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Cultural Devolution Act of 2180 |
| Message | Monuments destroyed? Such a lack of fate in our own local communities and their governments, we're all a part of the same country, the same voters who vote for you vote for their local representatives and governments as well, there will be nothing destroyed. Of course those articles are way more then 'that', if two local institutions - for example library and the local authority for monuments - work together they have a 'horizontal' initiative to strengthen the cultural coherence inside a local community, why is your opinion limited by approaching everything as they are single individual sections. The term 'culture' is not only about art, books and paintings, its about the social & cultural engagement a local community enters into, when we keep the current regulation it can result into obsolescence and lack of decent management, while local governments must have the power to revive that cultural spirit and social engagement. |
| Date | 00:41:58, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Cultural Devolution Act of 2180 |
| Message | We have an excellent cultural and educational network in this country as it is. These policies would scrap such a system. We can not stand by and let that happen. We second the objections by the DEP, and would like to inquire how they can, in good conscience, form a cabinet with parties that have displayed such a disdain for the achievements of the past century? |
| Date | 03:22:08, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Cultural Devolution Act of 2180 |
| Message | your counter argumentation is ironic. |
| Date | 03:39:05, February 04, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Cultural Devolution Act of 2180 |
| Message | Thanks...........wait, what??? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 189 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 264 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 47 |
| Random fact: Did you know you can change the official name of your nation? All you need to do is draw up a new name that is in accordance with the Nation Renaming Guide, pass a bill proposing the name change with a two-thirds majority and then post a request to Moderation on the "Renaming Requests" thread. You can change city and region names in this way too. |
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