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Bill: Freedom to Be Neutral Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Freedom 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: October 4199
Description[?]:
| This bill will allow for conscientious objector to be exempt from military service, while requiring those who do not conscientiously object to serve a full year in the military after completion of education so that they be prepared with the knowledge and skills necessary to survive any invasion or to participate in wartime combat should a draft ever be necessary. However, should the conscientiously object, they may forgo this requirement, of course, for a year of civilian National Service, in which they may work in areas such as soil conservation, forestry, fire fighting or agriculture, to better their nation and serve the people while remaining neutral to any possible conflict that may arise. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards civilians who conscientiously object to being required to perform military service (if applicable).
Old value:: Conscientious objectors can be exempted from combatant roles, but not from non-combatant roles.
Current: Conscientious objectors are exempted.
Proposed: Conscientious objectors are exempted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Current: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Proposed: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve either a term in the military or a lesser paid term of civilian national service, at their option.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 264 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 235 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 251 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: "There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi |