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Bill: OOC: Supreme Court
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Alliance
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 4345
Description[?]:
| The current members of the Supreme Court are: 1. Ahmadi Front: Ghssan Kadirov, who shall retire at the next election 2. Conservative Alliance: Enricus Oppenheimer, who shall retire at the 2nd election 3. Conservative Alliance: Henricus Helabyan, who shall retire at the 3rd election 4. Conservative Alliance: Julius Lucas, who shall retire at the 4th election 5. Conservative Alliance: James Witliyan, who shall retire at the 5th election The rules of the court are as follows: 1. There shall be a SUPREME COURT OF PONTESI 2. It shall be the role of the court to interpret the law of the land. The court may not make new law or seek to overturn existing laws. The Parliament remains absolutely sovereign. 3. The court shall have FIVE members who shall be titled Supreme Court Justices 4. Voting on the court shall be by majority vote. Where the vote is indecisive due to a seat being empty or a justice abstaining the Justice Minister shall have the decisive vote. 5. Justices shall serve a fixed term of five parliamentary terms. Immediately following each parliamentary election the longest serving justice shall resign. 6. If a party which appointed a Justice ceases to exist then that Justice shall resign. Justices shall not otherwise be permitted to resign. 7. When a vacancy in the court arises (either due to retirement or the party which nominated them ceasing to exist) the President of the Country shall appoint a replacement. 8. Justices may remain members of the party which nominated them and remain answerable to (OOC: voting controlled by) that party, but they are expected to exercise their powers and interpret the law in good faith. Source: - The Supreme Court Act was passed by the legislature in December 4330 (http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=553020) |
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Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 49 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: "Nation raiding" or a malevolent coordinated effort by a single user or group of users to interrupt the gameplay, significantly alter the culture or direction of a nation is strictly prohibited. Players interacting in nation raiding will be sanctioned. |
| Random quote: "Those who are responsible for the national security must be the sole judges of what the national security requires. It would be obviously undesirable that such matters should be made the subject of evidence in a court of law or otherwise discussed in public." - Unattributed member of the the House of Lords on the removal of trade union rights |