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Bill: Government Reversal Bill of 4410
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jiyū Party of Sekouo (自由党)
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: December 4411
Description[?]:
| This would reverse legislation made which has resulted in negative results on the Sekowo people |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Current: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Current: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Proposed: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Current: There is a free public education system and a small number of private schools, which are heavily regulated to ensure they teach adequate skills and information.
Proposed: Education is private, but the government issues vouchers to pay for the schooling of disadvantaged children.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Voting rights of criminals.
Old value:: Criminals released from jail are allowed to vote.
Current: Criminals are always allowed to vote, regardless of whether they are in jail or not.
Proposed: The decision is left to the local governments.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Slander laws.
Old value:: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Current: Individuals may sue over malicious falsehoods spoken about them.
Proposed: The nation has no laws regarding slander.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Current: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Proposed: The government does not involve itself in marriage or civil unions.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the ability to change the legal definition of one's gender
Old value:: The government allows the individual to decide on gender identity.
Current: The government allows the individual to decide on gender identity.
Proposed: Local governments decide whether individuals can change their legal gender identity.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Only couples may adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:59:15, June 18, 2018 CET | From |  Jiyū Party of Sekouo (自由党) | To | Debating the Government Reversal Bill of 4410 |
| Message | Government should not be involved in marriage. Slander laws violate the natural right to freedom of speech. As per our membership of LGBT protection treaties thanks to our party we oppose the involvement of government in relation to LGBT issues as many of them result from government and believe in devolving the gender identity issue to local governments. Our education system in the private sphere provides higher quality education to our people than public sector schooling and we have a voucher program which allows all Sekowoans to afford this higher quality private education and gives parents the choice to send their kids to the schools of their choice. The voting 'rights' of criminals should be left to local governments as according to our party primarily believes this issue should be left there. And lastly the issue of adoption, adoption should be left to couples as statistics have shown the effects of a single parent household on children and one of the best determinants of the success of children is a two parent household. The two parent household is the foundational unit of our society especially here in Sekowo |
| Date | 23:30:43, June 18, 2018 CET | From | 変化する (Change) | To | Debating the Government Reversal Bill of 4410 |
| Message | This is the reversal of progress. Governments should be involved in marriage because if it's not, then there can only be religious marriage and people should have the option to marry through the state or through the church. Slander laws don't violate the natural right to freedom of speech. When someone tells false things about you, then you should have the right to sue that person. It's part of your own freedom to do it, the freedom of the other to tell false things about you is interfering with your right to be yourself and to be treated by others as you really are, not as some try to make others think of you. Gender identity should stay with the individual, that's why it is identity, it's how a person identifies himself/herself/themselves. No one should decide that for him/her/them. No one should profit off the right of all to be given education. People despite all those voucher programs still find difficulties to go to school and then to university and have to work multiple jobs to pay debts and afford that type of education. Criminals shouldn't have their right to vote disrespected just because they did something bad and went to prison. People make mistakes, many of those have had difficult pasts, have been victims of violence, of discrimination, of exclusion and pursued the life of crime because they felt lost. They shouldn't have that guilt for what they did in the past all their lives, they should have the right to vote as every other citizen. Finally, single parents shouldn't be discriminated against. There's many single parents who take care of their kids way better than many married couples. Working people are the foundational unit of our society, not two parent households. Single parents should be valued for their work and their efforts and shouldn't have their right to adopt children restricted just because it's just one person. Saki Hamasaki, Spokesperson of Change |
| Date | 21:03:31, June 19, 2018 CET | From | Jiyū Party of Sekouo (自由党) | To | Debating the Government Reversal Bill of 4410 |
| Message | Identity and Reputation are social contracts, not owned the by individuals themselves. They didn't just do something bad, they violated the rights of other people. |
| Date | 22:09:16, June 19, 2018 CET | From | 変化する (Change) | To | Debating the Government Reversal Bill of 4410 |
| Message | They may have violated the rights of other people but many of them have realized what they did and are sorry for that. Their past shouldn't deprive them of the rights every other citizen has, in the end, they are still citizens of this nation and should have the right to vote. In your opinion, they are social contracts but if you go talk to people who don't idenfity with any of the two recognized genders, then you'll learn to respect more the rights of that individual to identiy himself/herself/themselves instead of government imposing some sort of identification on that person. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 45 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 132 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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