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Bill: Curfews
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Social Democratic Party
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: April 2182
Description[?]:
| We just accepted legislation that would give local government the right to impose curfews (when a state of emergency has been declared). We voted for the bill because it contained other pieces of valuable legislation. However we see that giving local governments the right to impose curfews is wrong way to go, because we believe that the legitimate and controlled use of curfews is much more difficult to control when they are imposed by the local government than if the curfews were imposed by the national government. There is much more public scrutiny and public oversight of national decisions than of local ones and thus decision making in local level on limitation of basic freedoms is very problematic. Furthermore we do not accept the reasoning of PPT as legitimate when PPT states that "Different areas can impose diffent curfews to fit their problems." and draws the conclusion that those different areas should be responsible for the decision making relating to curfews. There is simply no reason why different levels of government should impose curfew on their entire area and not some portion of it. The national government is perfectly capable of imposiong a curfew in a specific area, city or bloc, to fit their specific problems. As imposing curfew is a limitation of basic freedoms we should not give power over them to a varied group of local governments especially as the criteria for imposing curfews will be much more varied when the decisions are made by the local governments (and we do not see it as reasonable to let the basic freedoms of telamonians differ according to their areas of residence). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Curfew policy (curfew time to be determined in the bill description).
Old value:: Local governments may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Current: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Proposed: The national government may impose curfews, but only if a state of emergency has been declared.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 185 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 151 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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