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Bill: Evolution Through Devolution
Details
Submitted by[?]: Northern Lights
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: May 2198
Description[?]:
Power to the local communities! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: No new buildings may be constructed unless they feature provisions for civil defence.
Current: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Proposed: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Article 2
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 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards fireworks.
Old value:: The sale of fireworks is unregulated, anyone may buy them.
Current: Professionals may run licensed fireworks shows, small fireworks are legal to the general public.
Proposed: Local governments determine fireworks laws.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: All wild animals may be kept as pets, without any restrictions or precautions whatsoever.
Current: The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 21:31:17, March 10, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Evolution Through Devolution |
Message | Northern Lights proposed a bill! No need to read just vote no! Centrist party? Hah! You wouldnt even be centrist in Delaria! |
Date | 20:04:08, March 11, 2006 CET | From | Northern Lights | To | Debating the Evolution Through Devolution |
Message | actually we are centrists. weren't you be so far out on the extremes, you would see it. |
Date | 20:06:18, March 11, 2006 CET | From | Northern Lights | To | Debating the Evolution Through Devolution |
Message | "Northern Lights proposed a bill! No need to read just vote no!" Bravo! What an intellect. |
Date | 21:12:59, March 11, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Evolution Through Devolution |
Message | It would appear the rest of the parties agreed on this one! |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 27 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 213 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 90 |
Random fact: Bill descriptions must be in English, or at least include a full English translation. Bill titles may appear in a language that is appropriate to the nation and are not required to be translated into English. |
Random quote: "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems, the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion." - John Maynard Keynes |